Getting your Page One Google Ranking

Recently, iPlayerHD added an SEO feature that's guaranteed to dramatically increase your Video's visibility to Google and the other search engines.

Video SEO is the act of proactively submitting your content, through what's called a "Video Sitemap", so that it's easier for Google and other search engines to find it.

Once your video sitemap is submitted your videos can:

• Appear inline in universal search results
• Send people directly to your video page when clicked on in search results
• Boost overall placement for your page
• Appear in video specific search results, like http://video.google.com

• iPlayerHD will help you create, host, and submit your video sitemap.

Start Here:

Step one requires you to authorize iPlayerHD to host your video sitemap and reference pages on your site. This is done through the robots.txt file on your web server. The robots.txt is a website file that helps search engines know what content they can and cannot index. The robots.txt also has the ability to inform and authorize sitemaps for your website.

To get started, in your "Manage Account" find your "Video Sitemap" address. It should look like this: http://www.iplayerhd.com/video-sitemap/uniquenumber.aspx. You will also find this address in every Video you create below "Valid referrers". Add this address to the end of your robots.txt file like this:

Sitemap: http://www.iplayerhd.com/video-sitemap/uniquenumber.aspx

You are now ready to add entries to your video sitemap from iPlayerHD.

Once a video sitemap entry is made, it will be automatically picked up by Google and your content will be indexed according to Google's indexing queue.

Creating a video sitemap entry

This entry is made at the time you are creating a Video and it may be changed at any time simply by editing the Video. While in the create/edit mode of your Video, place a check mark in the box next to "Include in Video Sitemap". Next, enter your information in Title, Description and Tags, using commas in the Tags section to distinguish separate words and phrases. When done and after all other edits are completed in the Video, click Save. Your sitemap will then be automatically updated and we will inform Google that there are new changes that should be indexed.

It's that simple!