Google+ and youTube
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Hi everyone,
Question regarding Google+ and youTube - 2 things I'm not massively au fait with these days.
We have a number of branches all of whom have a Google+ account (with GoogleMyBusiness).
All of these branches will soon be setup with a Communications Manager login only (for GoogleMyBusiness) as we need to restrict them from changing branch details.The powers that be in my company, have decided that we need to have 2 youtube channels for each branch.
One for news and the other for advertising properties.Having researched this, we understand that if we setup a new youTube channel, that will create another Google+ page - which we don't want, and could cause no end of trouble with duplicate Google+ pages.
We are obviously going to try and persuade management to use only one youTube channel per branch, but in the event of being overridden does anyone have any advice on how to achieve 1 Google+ page with 2 youTube channels?
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Hello LoonyToons!
Yes, unfortunately there is a one to one relationship between YouTube and Google+ accounts. I have a few tricks that might work; however, I'm not certain that these will work for a business page. I'd recommend looking to see if these options are also available for your pages. Links go to relevant Google documentation.
You can hide a personal Google Profile in the settings menu under the 'Profile' heading. You can also hide a Google Profile by adjusting 'Target Audience' under the settings menu of G+ under the Audience heading. Select Custom under the drop-down menu and change the global setting to No one. The previous link also explains what 'hidden' means.
Google states in their documentation that these setting changes do not change the way in which spiders behave so they will still crawl your content and it can be found in search. These just help to minimize exposure. To my knowledge there is no way to get around this issue.
That being said, if I were fighting for a single YouTube channel here are some questions that I'd want answered:
- Will these YouTube channels have different, unique content?
- Which channel will be the 'Primary' channel that is tied to the 'Primary' Google+ Page?
- Will the channel that is only used for advertising purposes attract subscribers? If not, why not leverage the news subscribers? (I don't think they do, but if they mean AdWords advertising, I'd be curious as to why they want a dedicated channel.)
Obviously I do not know that the details of your exact situation, but I hope this helps out a bit. Try this out and let me know if it works for you! If not, reply to this comment and I'll see if I can help anymore.
Best of luck,
Trenton
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uhmmm.. I would disagree. There is always a problem with duplicate anything. At least from user perspective. Would you hate to "have choice", but there is actually no choice?
Also, google goes use G+ pages for creating knowledge graphs. So, if there is a duplicate, it might not know which one to use for grabbing that data.
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As far as I know, there is no way to do that.
Here is my understanding: if you guys expect a lot of views and subscribers to each channel and they are so much different in terms of content - then it would make sense to have separate G+ pages, since they would represent separate entities. Otherwise (if content is about the same,or expected amount of visitors is low), merge them together - this way you'll save pain of managing and marketing two different channels.
Hope this helps
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