Duplicate content on video pages
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Hi guys,
We have a video section on our site containing about 50 videos, grouped by category/difficulty. On each video page except for the embedded player, a sentence or two describing the video and a list of related video links, there's pretty much nothing else. All of those appear as duplicate content by category.
What should we do here? How long a description should be for those pages to appear unique for crawlers?
Thanks!
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If they are very technical, just write down the specs or steps that you are discussing at the side, kind of like a guide you can follow while seeing the video.
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The first thing would be to insure the meta data page titles and page descriptions are unique. It's hard to give you an example without knowing more about your site. But for example if you have a page that is "Subject 1" you could have the corresponding video page be "Video of Subject 1". Same for page description. If you make those unique that will help.
You can also consider some type of pagination. 'Video 1", "Video 2", etc. or "Video - pg 1", "Video - pg 2" etc.
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Transcribing the whole videos won't work in this case. Also, the videos are quite technical. I guess we'll give it a shot with longer descriptions and see what happens.
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A canned answer like "300 words" may be misleading. Why not transcribe the whole video (unless it's really long)?
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