YouTube & Google + Pages
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Hello,
Has anyone had luck associating their Google + business page with their YouTube channel?
Our YouTube page is associated with our Google + profile (and we would like it to be associated with the Google + business page.)
There are numerous articles out there that Google is working on an update to allow the Channel/Google+ business page association but I am wondering if there is news we might have missed.
Or if there is a way to get around it?
We want to implement video on some site pages and would rather use YouTube code as opposed to customizing a solution.
Do most folks think Google will have an easy solution once it at arrives? Meaning if you upload videos to your channel that is currently associated with the profile page, do you think there will be a way to convert everything over to a Google + business page once they unveil an update.
Thank you!
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Just following up on this one. I've just gone through this process - http://youtubecreator.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/using-google-page-identity-on-youtube.html for Distilled, and It does work.
It's not perfectly elegant, but will do the job.
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Phil,
Thanks for all your responses. I will review both links and really appreciate the assistance/direction.
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YouTube is the best place to put content if you're trying to build up your brand awareness with informational and useful (not sales or conversion focused) content.
If you care about rankings and driving traffic with your videos, then YouTube is definitely not the best place to start.
A bit more information for you here
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/building-a-video-seo-strategy
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/hosting-and-embedding-for-video-seo
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Thank you.
We don't have any videos at all yet and a very small audience on Google +. In our industry, we have one or two competitors using video and we have some ideas to show off our capabilities.
We figured YouTube would be the best place to start.
We want to be able to use the videos added to YT to ultimately embed on a couple of site pages. And potentially capture some organic search traffic.
My concern is posting numerous videos to a YT page that might ultimately be permanently associated with the Google + profile page.
And potentially impacting some natural search results (if we see some.)
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Sort of,but ultimately, I'd question what the real concern is.
If you have a massive audience base on Google+, just posting your YT videos on there will get them engaged.
I doubt having it all linked up will ultimately provide significant benefit - at least, certainly not to the degree that you need to take any action in the meantime such as duplicating your YouTube videos.
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Thanks for the insight, Phil.
At this point, it sounds as if the only option (with You Tube anyway) would be to add video to the You Tube page associated with the Google + profile.
And hope the integration goes smoothly once Google rolls it out.
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For want of a more eloquent phrase, I think Google have somewhat "screwed this up" for business owners, in the attempt to make YouTube and Google+ better integrated.
Currently (as far as i am aware), I don't think there's any solution past what I assume you have implemented if you've connected the G+ page to your YouTube Channel as I've done here http://www.youtube.com/distilledseo
One assumes a better integration is in the pipeline for Business G+ and YouTube channels, but it may take a while to get there.
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Ha! Glad this is a good one for discussion!
Hopefully there will be a solution soon...
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I have no answer for you but I'm very interested in this subject! I'll be following this thread to see if anything new crops up to your answer. Great question!
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