Duplicate Video within site
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My questions is about duplicate video content. I haven't been able to get a clear understanding from reading the previous threads.
We are hosting our videos with Vimeo and embedding into our site.
I want to embed them in 2 locations - on our features page with Java (Can be seen here http://simpletexting.com/features/). I also want to embed them in our resource section so that we can link to them directly.
I am wondering what the best way to do this for SEO and whether there is a chance that google will penalize us for duplicate content? If leave out the videos on the features page in the XML sitemap, does that address the problem?
There are 2 threads I saw on the topic and they have somewhat conflicting opinion from the same person.
http://www.seomoz.org/q/duplicate-video-content-question --Duplicate video on the same site is not a problem
http://www.seomoz.org/q/duplicate-video-onsite-how-do-you-treat-this-in-sitemap -- Duplicate videos are a problem as google can recognize them as such due to audio wave patterns, video length etc.
Thanks
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Thank you gentlemen.
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Phil,
Can you point to a link that explains how they can extract the content of a video? Or is it just meta data? I haven't done video specific work in a while and would appreciate having a source to read / refer to...
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Also - note the context of the two questions you referenced are different. One person wanted to scale the same video over multiple pages and get rich snippets for all those pages - This is doable but inadvisable.
The other context was someone asking if they can upload the same piece of content to two hosting platforms - which i generally don't advise as you can cannibalize your rankings.
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Not entirely true. They do have the ability to pull out data from an encapsulated video file and work out where content is indentical. This isn't an issue, like you say, if the pages are different in other ways. But, Google can recognise when videos are unique vs duplicated
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There isn't an issue with having the same video on two different pages, but there is an issue with uploading the same video twice and behaving as if it were different videos.
In your situation, I would recommend only having an XML video sitemap entry for the page where you want the rich snippet. Embedding the same video on two pages is not a problem
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Google doesn't "read" the contents of a video file so it's all about the content on the page that is readable and how unique that is from page to page. If you have two pages displaying the same video, but where the text on those two pages is sufficiently unique, there's no problem from an SEO perspective.
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