Google Video and Video Sitemaps

Google has just announced that it will be turning off the ability to upload video to Google Video in a few months time.

In a few months, we will discontinue support for uploads to Google Video. Don’t worry, we’re not removing any content hosted on Google Video — this just means you will no longer be able to upload new content to the service

Google Video will continue, but for webmasters who want their videos to appear on the site, they will have to host them elsewhere, either on their own sites or on YouTube or other similar video hosting sites. If you want the Google bot to find and index your video(s) a video XML sitemap should do the trick. A guide to the Google Sitemap Protocol can be found here