Getting videos into search results can be tricky. Wordpress SEO expert, Joost de Valk, has blogged a technical guide to improving your SEO results for videos.

"It seems as though everyone is focusing on XML Sitemaps, while there's actually not 1 but 4 methods of getting Google to recognize your video content," Joost de Valk noted.

With the growth of video online - YouTube is the third most popular site online - being able to get your videos ranked well in the search engines is becoming an important part of anyone's marketing effort.

Joost said "I have been doing some testing myself and am amazed at how easy it is once you get the technicalities right."

The article outlines best practices for your sitemap, how to use Yahoo Searchmonkey, MediaRSS - another Yahoo product - and Facebook Share.

If you are working with video this article you might also want to checkout SEW's popular resources on Video SEO.