August 16th, 2010 | by Google Grants Team Member | published in Google Grants
If you are a Google Grant recipient providing relief to those affected by the floods in Pakistan, there are a few things you can do to make your Grants AdWords account more effective and get your message to the widest audience possible:Prioritize your …
August 16th, 2010 | by aidanchopra | published in Google SketchUp
In April, we announced that the Project Spectrum folks had teamed up with Easter Seals for a really inspiring design competition: Easter Seals’ Sketch-a-Space.The competition invites design professionals, people with autism and all other SketchUp use…
August 16th, 2010 | by AdWords API Team | published in Google Adwords API
One of the most critical and complicated aspects of using an API is error handling. To help address this, we’ve included detailed information about each type of error in the reference documentation and posted articles discussing general error handli…
August 16th, 2010 | by Inside AdWords crew | published in Google Adwords
We’re excited to announce the launch of Enhanced CPC, a new automated bidding feature that can help you improve your ROI on your campaigns with manual bidding. Enhanced CPC uses your campaign’s historical conversion tracking data to automatically adjus…
August 16th, 2010 | by Inside AdWords crew | published in Google Adwords
We’ve just added a new course to the AdWords Online Classroom all about mobile advertising and how you can start using it to reach more customers.Did you know that there are now 4 billion mobile phone owners globally? Half of all new internet connect…
August 16th, 2010 | by Deanna Yick | published in Google Earth
This past June, our Geo team finally outgrew our space, so it was time to move to a larger building on campus. To make sure our new building really felt like a home away from home, some of us got involved in the design planning and made it our mission …
August 16th, 2010 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
Last week I was given the opportunity to attend the Boston AdSense In Your City event. Though Boston technically isn’t my city (I’m a New Yorker by birth) I can see why so many of our fabulous publishers call it home.Despite our varied interests (r…
August 16th, 2010 | by Tim Bray | published in Google Android
And the answers to them, posted here and there by senior Android engineers.How much memory is my app using?Over at Stack Overflow, our own Dianne Hackborn takes this up in detail. There’s no simple answer, but Dianne does offer lots of useful informat…
August 16th, 2010 | by A Googler | published in Google Orkut
During the festival, you can see colorful fabrics in the streets and large bamboo poles decorated with paper ornaments symbolizing the stars. We made our own ornament just for orkut and wanted to share it with you:
Folkloric performances, like Taiko drumming, dancing and concerts are all a part of what makes the festival so special. We hope you enjoy (or have already enjoyed), the festivities this year!
Posted by Ariel, orkut operations team
August 16th, 2010 | by Maile Ohye | published in Google Webmaster Central
Webmaster Level: All
If you want to add video information to a Sitemap or mRSS feed you must specify the location of the video. This means you must include one of two tags, either the video:player_loc or video:content_loc. In the case of an mRSS feed, these equivalent tags are media:player or media:content, respectively. We need this information to verify that there is actually a live video on your landing page and to extract metadata and signals from the video bytes for ranking. If one of these tags is not included we will not be able to verify the video and your Sitemap/mRSS feed will not be crawled. To reduce confusion, here is some more detail about these elements.
Video Locations Defined
Player Location/URL: the player (e.g., .swf) URL with corresponding arguments that load and play the actual video.
Content Location/URL: the actual raw video bytes (e.g., .flv, .avi) containing the video content.
The Requirements
One of either the player video:player_loc or content video:content_loc location is required. However, we strongly suggest you provide both, as they each serve distinct purposes: player location is primarily used to help verify that a video exists on the page, and content location helps us extract more signals and metadata to accurately rank your videos.
URL extensions at a glance:
Sitemap: mRSS: Contents: The playpage URL (url attribute) The SWF URL (url attribute) The FLV or other raw video URL NOTE: All URLs should be unique (every URL in your entire Video Sitemap and mRSS feed should be unique)
If you would like to better ensure that only Googlebot accesses your content, you can perform a reverse DNS lookup.
For more information on Google Videos please visit our Help Center, and to post questions and search for answers check out our Help Forum.
Posted by Nelson Lee, Product Manager, Video Search