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title: Enable Video XML sitemap
url: "https://www.seopress.org/support/guides/enable-video-xml-sitemap/"
lang: en-US
updated: 2025-07-11
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# Enable Video XML sitemap

Go to **SEO**, **XML / HTML Sitemap**.

Check **Enable XML Video Sitemaps** and **Save changes**.

You can view your xml Video sitemap by clicking on the button **View your sitemap** from **XML sitemap page**, then click on the last link https://example.com/video1.xml/.

Or, by typing, **https://example.com/video1.xml/** in your browser.

[![XML & HTML Sitemap > General tab - SEOPress free](https://www.seopress.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/02-01-xml-html-sitemap-general-tab-seopress-free-scaled.png)](https://www.seopress.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/02-01-xml-html-sitemap-general-tab-seopress-free-scaled.png)

*XML & HTML Sitemap > General tab – SEOPress free*

## Manually add videos to your XML sitemap

Now, you have to **add videos to your sitemap**.

To do that, edit a **post, page or post type**.

In **SEO metabox**, **Video sitemap** tab, click on the first **Video accordion**.

Fill in **all the fields** to describe your video for Google.

**Video URL, Video title, Video description and Video thumbnail are required.**

Your video will **NOT** be added to your sitemap if:

- **Exclude this post from Video Sitemap?** is checked
- the post is set to **noindex** in Advanced tab
- the Video URL field is **empty**

You can unlimited number of videos per post, **BUT, don’t cheat with Google, it will know it!**

[![Universal SEO Metabox > Titles & Metas > Video sitemap - SEOPress free](https://www.seopress.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/00-01-05-universal-metabox-titles-metas-video-sitemap-seopress-pro-scaled.png)](https://www.seopress.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/00-01-05-universal-metabox-titles-metas-video-sitemap-seopress-pro-scaled.png)

*Universal SEO Metabox > Titles & Metas > Video sitemap – SEOPress free*

## Automatically add YouTube videos to your XML sitemap

YouTube videos are automatically added when you create / save a post, page or post type.

Go to **SEO**, **Tools**, **Video sitemap** tab to regenerate the video sitemap if some YouTube videos are missing.

By default, we use the `post_content` field to find new videos. If you want to [add other fields like custom fields](https://www.seopress.org/support/hooks/filter-content-used-to-find-new-video-for-xml-video-sitemap/) (ie post metas), we have a hook for that!

[![Tools > Video XML Sitemap tab - SEOPress PRO](https://www.seopress.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/07-05-tools-video-xml-sitemap-tab-seopress-pro-scaled.png)](https://www.seopress.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/07-05-tools-video-xml-sitemap-tab-seopress-pro-scaled.png)

*Tools > Video XML Sitemap tab – SEOPress PRO*