: When do videos appear in google's web search results? Sometimes videos appear in google's web search results (and not only in Google Videos). For a video to appear in the web search results,

@Kevin317

Use microformats to tell them it's a video ans what it's about.

UPDATE:

The results you see at the top of Google search results are from google video. They do the same thing for images. These results are separate from google search results. Basically you have to be a top search result in google video to be shown there.

I would assume that achieving high rankings in Google Video Search would be similar to regular Google Search. The context of the page (page title, headings, content) the video is on as well as link popularity etc, help them determine which videos are most relevant for a video search.

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