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Sitemap Refactor Research
[SEO-13] Spike: Create multimedia sitemap
From Ben Garves’s work at Udemy. Re-created from the original document, with people’s names, internal links and non-public numbers removed or generalized.
SpikeSEO-13
- Company
- Udemy
- Created
- Resolved
- Status
- Done
- Type
- Task (spike)
- Priority
- P1 - High
- Story points
- 3
- Project
- SEO Squad
- Sprint
- SEO Sprint 2
- Requirement source
- Engineering
A research spike toward a new sitemap for Udemy’s publicly available multimedia so crawlers can index it better: find where a list of videos lives, choose the best way to pull it, and write the tickets for the build.
- Technical SEO
- Sitemaps
- Video SEO
- Research spike
User story
As a crawler, I’d like Udemy’s publicly-available multimedia to be included in a new Udemy sitemap so that I can do a better job of indexing multimedia content.
Google standards for video sitemaps: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/sitemaps/video-sitemaps
Acceptance criteria
- Understand where we could access a list of videos
- Understand the best method for pulling the list
- Create tickets for doing the work
Notes from refinement
- Should sync with the Media team
- Because it’s a new page, it could be something outside of the monolith
- This can be a spike to make more spikes