How to make a Vimeo profile and videos appear on search engines

This article explains how search engines index Vimeo content and offers tips to improve visibility. 

Search engines like Google and Bing use methods such as crawling and indexing to build search results. 

You can read about how search engines work at the following sites: 

• Google Developers - In-depth guide to how Google Search works
• Microsoft Support - How Bing delivers search results 

Unfortunately, we do not control how third-party search engines index our site. 

Here are some practices that may help your Vimeo page or videos display on third-party search engines. 

• Give your video an accurate and concise title, a detailed description, and an appropriate set of search tags containing only the most relevant keywords that pertain to your video. 
  • This helps ensure that it can be effectively indexed in Vimeo’s search engine as well as external search engines like Google or Bing.
• Link your content from any websites or social media accounts that you have to help boost viewer engagement. 
  • Read about how to share your videos at: 
    • How can I embed videos prominently on my site?
    • How to share a video

Please note that we cannot control the time it takes search engines to crawl and index our site. 

💡Tip: Accounts with a Business, Premium, Standard, Advanced, or Enterprise membership can utilize Vimeo’s SEO tools to help display Showcases. Read more at Search Engine Optimization (SEO) with showcases.