Uploading product videos to video sharing sites
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Is it a good idea to upload my product description videos to video sharing sites? What would be the benefit? Does it matter that my videos are in a foreign language?
Which sites do you recommend? How many should I target?
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Absolutely 100% not at all, no. Don't do it.
Also ignore all the advice you might read about this on sites like ReelSEO, because they're completely wrong.
Putting product videos on sites like YouTube, Vimeo etc is very bad idea for a couple of reasons.
Firstly, those videos can then outrank your actual product pages for branded keywords in organic search with the versions of the video on the social sharing sites. This can obviously mean you wont get as much traffic or as many conversions as you deserve
Secondly - they almost certainly wont provide any value on the social sharing sites. No-one goes to a social video site with commercial purchasing intent, or to really find out about specific products very often - meaning the audiences wont appreciate your content.
It's normally better to target social video sites with informational content rather than product videos.
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