The XML Video Sitemap will automatically detect your video, title/description taken from the page/posting, and will automatically detect the video thumbnail image.

Please Follow These Guidelines:

  • It is very important to make sure that there is a thumbnail image included with every video.
  • The Sitemap can accept most image sizes/types but Google recommends your thumbs are at least 160×120 pixels in .jpg, .png, or. gif formats.

How To Add A Thumbnail To Your Players Embed/Object Code

Adding a thumbnail to your video is very easy. The normal code is: image=”http://www.yourdomain.com/yourthumbnail.gif”

Here are some examples:

1. If you have a wordpress blog, and you are using a wp plugin, like the Flash Video Player, then you simply add the thumbnail image as follows:

[flashvideo file:http://yourdomain.com/video.mp4 image=http://mydomain.com/mythumbnail.gif /]

* with Flash Video Player wp plugin, make sure there is a “space” before the ending forward slash.

2. For Easy Video Player, your thumbnail would be inserted after -wrap” :

<div id="evp-8b020042f0c9edfa22488eb0d6ca4905-wrap" image="http://www.yourdomain.com/yourthumbnail.gif"></div><script type="text/javascript"src="http//www.yourdomain.com/evp/framework.php?div_id=evp-8b020042f0c9edfa22488eb0d6ca4905&id=c2VudWtlaW50cm8tMS5mbHY%3D&v=1257811971"></script><scripttype="text/javascript">_evpInit('c2VudWtlaW50cm8tMS5mbHY=');</script>

3. Long Tail Video SWFObject code looks like this:

<script type='text/javascript' src='http://www.yourdomain.com/
swfobject.js'></script>lt;div id='mediaspace'>This text will
be replaced</div>
<script type='text/javascript'>
 var so = new SWFObject('http://www.yourdomain.com/player.swf',
'mpl','480',
'360','9');
 so.addParam('allowfullscreen','true');
 so.addParam('allowscriptaccess','always');
 so.addParam('wmode','opaque');
 so.addVariable('file','http://www.yourdomain.com/yourvideo.flv');
 so.addVariable('image','http://www.yourdomain.com/yourthumbnail.gif');
 so.write('mediaspace');
</script>

4. If you are using the Traffic Geyser Player, then your thumbnail is placed after embed and before src:

<embed image="http://www.yourdomain.com/yourthumbnail.gif"
src="http://www.siteproweb.com/flash/player.swf?"
flashvars="f=http://www.siteproweb.com/
videoxml/16321" quality="high" bgcolor="#000000" width="480"
height="385" name="player" align="middle"allowScriptAccess=
"always" menu="true"allowFull
Screen="true" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage=
"http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" /></object>