Posting a video on your site and also on youtube
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Hi,
Quick question.
I have a content page which contains a youtube embedded video. I want to rank that page for a specific keyword phrases on google.
I also want to rank the video youtube url aswell for the exact same specific keywords.
Does anyone from experience know if this would be considered duplicate content (same video) or work?
Same video on both URLs but the video on my site has additional valuable content surrounding the video.
Regards,
Jerry
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Hi Jerry,
What you suggest is just about achievable, but it's not very predictable and I wouldn't recommend it.
Firstly, It's quite hard to get rich snippets for embedded YouTube videos - and secondly, if you want the YouTube video to rank again, this video will almost certainly outrank you unless you have an incredibly strong site - as such, you can end up driving traffic that you could have driven to your own site to YouTube - and from there it is extremely hard to drive referrals.
Secondly, While Google may choose to rank both pages, they often will just preference one of the videos - likely the YouTube.com version - which means your site won't rank at all.
Thirdly - The kind of videos that you should be aiming to get your site ranking for, normally conversion related videos - are not the type of content that typically provide any value on YouTube, so you should really consider who the target audience are for your content and whether they're people on your site or people finding the content via YouTube.
However, all this aside, If you really do want to get both a YouTube listing and your own site ranking - then I recommend showing Google that it's two different videos both relevant to the keyword - by self hosting the content on your own site (or using a paid third party platform) and submitting a video sitemap - then uploading the video to YouTube
However, I want to make absolutely clear that I don't really recommend the above solution from a strategic perspective, as the kind of content you should want your site to rank for is almost never also appropriate to put on YouTube.
Thanks,
Phil.
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Hi Jerry,
If you want video to rank on your site you need a video sitemap
No it would not be considered duplicate content (same video)
(Do NOT" Make sure build some links to your video URL on YouTube as well.")
Why you would only be making links for youtube.com not your domain.
You need to have links point to the video on your website or your webpage
I would keep you youtube video on youtube & use wistia to have the same video on your site with a sitemap at no cost.
Why Wistia? It is free for the frist three videos read in link
http://wistia.com/blog/learning-center-video-seo/#more-126507512
If you want youtube to rank on your site please read the 1st link
http://www.distilled.net/blog/video/creating-video-sitemaps-for-each-video-hosting-platform/
For Wistia
http://wistia.com/doc/video-seo
For Youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqR_ux1j3ng
http://byteflood.me/videositemap/
If Using WordPress
http://wistia.com/pricing Free
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/xml-sitemaps-for-videos/ cost $69 for one site
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/xml-sitemaps-for-videos/ cost free
Hope this helps,
Tom
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You can rank both, no problem. You can have both the video and the page on your website ranking for the same keyword together. Make sure build some links to your video URL on YouTube as well.
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