Submitting Videos To Search Engines

We've long had all the tools for video search engine optimisation built into VidZapper.

Here's a quick guide on how to use them.

First of all, you will need to open an account at www.google.com/webmasters/tools and register and verify your account.

Next, you go to VidZapper and select Distribution > Export.

Select your Channel and Playlist, then the MRSS format and add your Player Base URL and DirectLink URL so that the resulting video in played in your website and not the video player directly.

Then click 'Generate'. You can then cut and past the resulting file on the right hand side into a notepad file. This is your MRSS sitemap for this playlist. You can repeat the exercise for any other playlist you wish to submit.

Finally, there's a detailed guide on how to submit your sitemap to Google here.

VidZapper Integrates With WordPress

We've been launching more and more channels using WordPress as the content management system, including Control TV, and have launched a demo site to show how easy it is to set up quite a comprehensive site in an hour or so without writing a line of code.

You can spend a lot of time replicating what is by today pretty basic functionality such as contact forms, forums, ecommerce and even more specialist functionality such as requiring logins, or use the vast array of freely available plugins and widgets for WordPress.

And since building players is now a cinch using VidZapper's Player Builder, you can be up and running in no time.

Simples!