Monday, August 16, 2010 at 10:06 PM
Webmaster Level: AllYou can now check your Video Sitemap for even more errors right in Webmaster Tools! It’s a new Labs feature to signal issues in your Video Sitemap such as:
- URLs disallowed by robots.txt
- Thumbnail size errors (160x120px is ideal. Anything smaller than 90x50 will be rejected.)
Video Sitemaps help us to better crawl and extract information about your videos, so we can appropriately feature them in search results.
Totally new to Video Sitemaps? Check out the Video Sitemaps center for more information. Otherwise, take a look at this new Labs feature in Webmaster Tools.
9 comments:
I have submitted video sitemap inwebmaster tools and I am getting the error "Video blocked by robots.txt" and suggestion "Allow Googlebot to access your URLs by changing your robots.txt. You can test whether we will be able to access your urls or not by using the "Fetch as Googlebot" feature.". No URL is blocked via robots.txt, then why this error is being displayed. What is the solution to this?
This is great news! Look forward to trying it out.
Hi Alice,
Could you share your Sitemap or domain with me to take a look and see if I can help you out?
Keep in mind you need to make sure your playpage, video content and thumbnail are all not blocked.
amymac
Sounds neat, now I can make a video sitemap so I have an excuse to shoot a video... :)
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Hmm... I'm also getting the same error message. What can I do to fix this?
I am Rajnish Kumar from India and running a blog http://fillsout.blogspot.com/ from a year and yesterday I have published a post 10 Top Antivirus Software : Must See at http://fillsout.blogspot.com/2010/08/10-top-antivirus-softwares-must-see.html and within an hour it started showing in Google on 3rd page but after 5 hours when i checked again for that post in Google it was not there !
And after that when I tried to fetch that post form webmaster central I got an error saying "Missing robots.txt"
Can You please help me in solving this problem ?
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Rajnish K.
Can you please helpme, I have a problem saying "Sitemap contains urls which are blocked by robots.txt", but I am not blocking anything in robots.txt ...
my site is http://www.swtordominance.com/ and my video sitemap is http://swtordominance.com/sitemap-video.xml ... can you help me?
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