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Vanessa Fox over at Search Engine Land reported that Google Webmaster tools has added some additional diagnostic reporting as well as sitemap configuration specific to video. Below are some of the main items which Google Webmaster Tools now addresses.-
Missing Title Tags
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Long/Short Title Tags
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Non-informative Title Tags
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Short/Long Meta Descriptions
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Duplicate Meta Descriptions
The Content Analysis page shows you potential issues Google found when
crawling and indexing your site. We recommend that you review this report
regularly to identify changes that potentially increase your rankings in Google
search results pages while providing a better experience for your
readers.
These issues don’t prevent your site from being crawled or
indexed, but paying attention to them can improve the user experience and even
help drive traffic to your site. For example, title and meta description text
can appear in search results pages, and useful, descriptive text is more likely
to be clicked on by users.
Video Sitemaps
The Sitemaps protocol has been extended to support video. You can now include URLs to videos, as well as meta data about those URLs. Google uses Video Sitemaps for their Google Video index, although with universal search, those videos may appear in web search results as well.
