title: Creating a video sitemap for YouTube embedded videos
body: <p>So I have a website in which I have plenty of YouTube videos embedded using their default iframes. Now, I want to create a video sitemap for my website, but I can't seem to find a clear guide on how to do it with videos inside frames. <a href="https://moz.com/blog/video-sitemap-guide-for-vimeo-and-youtube" rel="nofollow noreferrer">This entry</a> from the Moz.com blog says that you need to use YouTube's old embed code (the one using <code>&lt;object&gt;</code> tags) in order for robots to be able to crawl them, as they don't crawl iframes. However, it's almost 5 years old (January 2012). So I looked at <a href="http://www.audiencebloom.com/google-known-crawl-iframes-website/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this other link</a> from AudienceBloom.com which claims that Google does crawl iframes now, as long as they're SEO-friendly(?). However, it adds that:</p>
  
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    <p>it is suspect that Google, unlike other major search engines, will ignore iFrames that point to a different domain, and not the top-level domain, or TDL.</p>
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  <p>but, again, this article isn't very recent. It's over 2 years old in fact. </p>
  
  <p>So my question is, what is the current situation of this matter? Would google now crawl videos inside YouTube iframes as long as they're properly included in the sitemap? Or would I have to use either the <code>&lt;noframes&gt;</code> tag or the old YouTube embed code?</p>
  
  <p>Any help would be widely appreciated! and I'm sure this will also be of help to a lot of other people, given how unclear this matter seems to be right now.</p>