Does a video transcript count as useful content by search engine?
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absolutely. do it. also shows you are catering towards handicapped on your site
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yes its better than useful, its awesome.
SEOmoz whiteboard friday do it, thus its good.
Plus, I don't have speakers on my work PC and if I've left my headphones at home, I'm scuppered!
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Thanks for the advice!
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I say yes it is usefull information, and if unique you will rank for it, even better mark it up as a schema.org object,
the video object has a property for transcript
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I would say yes. If someone wanted to watch the video on your page, but they were using an ipad for example, and the video is in flash, they'd be able to read the transcript.
Kinda like having an ALT img attribute I guess, to make ure people will know what is on the page, even if the actual image of video is broken.
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