What is better for SEO - local video file or youtube video?
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Should I use a video player and upload the videos for my website or should I put my videos at youtube and use youtube player?
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Hey Naghirniac, I want to mentioned you that If you had submitted the video to you tube then it will plays a crucial role in ranking & overall the visibility of your website will increased because you tube is the largest search engine after Google.
If you are not getting then please carefully saw the example below.
Suppose a there is a company name abc.com who is in the field of mobile development field.If they want to advertise the company through a video or they make a video showing their working culture then it is not sufficient that they only put the video on their website only. But they have to put the video on the social networking websites or they upload the video on the you tube to increase their web presence in the field of software development or in order to promote themselves & we all know that the best measure to promote anything is the search engines & social media.
I hope that you will find the solution.
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Hi Miguel,
Essentially it depends what you are trying to achieve. If you're trying to get Google to crawl your videos and offer you a video result in the organic SERPs, then you should self-host the videos, or use a third party hosting company such as Vimeo Pro or Wistia. Youtube is great for seeding your content to a wider audience and there's nothing wrong with embedding YouTube videos on your site if you can provide valuable supporting content. YouTube videos also typically rank well in the SERPs - but obviously this wont help the SEO of your main site.
What sort of content do you have? - Hopefully i can help to offer some more specific advice.
Thanks,
Phil
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My question is more effective: should google give more importance for a video based in my website, or there is no problem to use youtube?
Is more in the side of the content. Putting the video inside my website, this is more content?
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Hi Naghirniac, Before investing in services from an SEO company you should be aware of the goals you are trying to attain and the audience you are trying to reach. Here are some quick pros and cons of both types of SEO.
Local SEO
Focused on your local cities, counties, statesPros
Less competitive
Less expensive
Quicker resultsCons
No national exposure
Less overall website traffic
Rank for fewer keyword phrasesNational SEO
Focused on your country and global searchesPros
Increased overall website traffic
Great for marketing a shopping cart of other ex-commerce related website
Rank for more keyword stringsCons
Long time for results
More expensive
Less quality leadsBy analyzing the all above you can proceed with video marketing too.
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A lot depends upon your goals and the level of competition. Do you want your best videos next to ads for competitors or your competitors' videos?
I plan to do some of both. I would not want YouTube to outrank my site for the more unique content which I believe will convert better. (Similar to Egol's reminders about not giving your best content to article hubs or even guest postings). I'll accept the traffic from the YouTube videos and try to steer viewers to the complete video library available only on wwwmysitecom.
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