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Maria Johnsen
2 min readDec 7, 2023

A Step-by-Step Guide on Creating a Video Sitemap

Creating a video sitemap for a multilingual website involves providing information about video content in multiple languages to search engines. Video sitemaps help search engines understand and index your video content better.

How to create a video sitemap

Understand Multilingual SEO:
Before creating a video sitemap, ensure that your multilingual website is set up correctly for SEO. Each language version of your site should have its own subdirectory (e.g., `/en/` for English, `/es/` for Spanish) or subdomain (e.g., `en.yourdomain.com`, `es.yourdomain.com`).

Create Video Content:
Have video content available in different languages. Each video should have a unique URL.

Generate Video Sitemap:
Use an XML sitemap generator tool or create the video sitemap manually. Here’s an example of what the XML structure might look like:

“`xml
<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?>
<urlset…

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Maria Johnsen
Maria Johnsen

Written by Maria Johnsen

Award Winning Multilingual Digital Marketing A.I Blockchain & Fintech Expert https://www.maria-johnsen.com

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