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Overview of the Truveo Director Accounts
The Truveo Director program is a FREE feature for site owners or content
publishers. It's a quick and easy way to get your content into our
video search index.
Upon successful registration, Directors will
receive the following benefits:
- Ability to upload RSS feeds of your content
- Instant validation of your RSS feed
- Near real-time indexing of your video assets in our search engine
- Exposure on API sites in the Truveo network.
Note: Truveo at all times reserves the option to exclude, reject, or
remove any or all of your videos from our search index.
(There, the lawyer made me say it.)
Director Account Requirements
There are few requirements for director accounts.
- A valid AOL or AIM Screen Name.
We need a way for you to log into your director account. Rather than
generating yet another login and password for you to remember, we
use the AOL Screen Name Service. Millions of people have an AOL or
AIM screen names. If you're not one of those lucky folks,
sign up
here for your free screen name. (Having a screen name also
allows you to rate videos and mark videos as favorites, but you don't
need a director account for that.)
- A publicly available web site with video content.
Your site should be a publicly available web site, otherwise there's
really no reason to have it in our search engine is there? You also
need to have video on your site. We only index video. If your site
doesn't have video, a Truveo Director account isn't
something you need.
- A publicly available Media RSS feed.
We need to be able to download your feed. This means our crawlers
must be able to reach the feed through a publicly available HTTP URL.
Your feed should describe the videos on your site using the standard
Media RSS format. The Media RSS tags we support are described
here.
- You must be authorized to submit feeds by the web site owner.
You must have permission of the site owner to submit the feed. You
can't submit a feed for someone else's site without their permission.
- Ability to verify you can control files on the site.
We need to make sure you really do have permission to submit feeds for
a site. We do this by asking you to put a special key file on the site.
This is a simple text file that we generate for you. Don't worry,
we'll lead you through this process. If you can't put the file on the
site right away, we'll still create your account but you'll need to
verify the site with the key file before we'll start taking your feeds.
Steps to Create a Director Account
If you meet the above requirements, you can follow these steps to
get going with your director account.
- Sign up for a director account here.
(You'll be asked to log into your Screen Name
account if you're not logged in already.) To sign up you need to
accept our director account agreement.
- Add a feed.
Your director account is created when you accept the
director account agreement.
The next step is to add a feed. If this is the first feed you're
submitting for a site, you'll need to verify the site by placing a key
file on your site.
- Wait for approval.
The first time you add a site we need to have one of our Video Search
Associates review your site. Once you've verified the site with the
key file, we'll review the application. We'll approve your account as
long as it meets the requirements described above regarding director
accounts. When your account is approved or denied we'll send you an
email to the email associated with your screen name. If you have a
screen name, you can check your email at
http://mail.aol.com/.
You can also log into your director account to check the status
of your account.
- Add more feeds.
Once your director account has been approved for a site, you can
immediately add new feeds for that domain at any time, without needing
to go through the verification and approval process. Those new feeds
will be automatically scheduled for crawling and should show up in our
search index within minutes. Of course it may take longer depending
on the load of our systems and any maintenance we may be doing when
you submit your feed.
That's all there is to it. See our
Director FAQ if you have any questions regarding director accounts.
Click here to get started.
Creating a Truveo Media RSS Feed
We support Media RSS feeds as the mechanism for submitting videos to
our index. We will only add videos to our index, not other kinds of
files like audio or images. We accept feeds based on the Media RSS
standard.
Click here for documentation
of our feeds process and details of all the Media RSS tags we support.
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