I would use one account for the whole domain. In the reporting tools you can filter out data based on things like "URL contains France".

Of course you can do it the other way (many accounts using filters, later collate the data) but I prefer to have all my data in one place where I can then tease out the info I'm after.

Check out this video: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/whiteboard-friday-dealing-with-duplicate-content

It will give you a much more thorough answer than just a percentage of uniqueness. But if you want that kind of answer I mostly hear guesses between 20% - 40% unique content.

Thanks for the reply Jane!

It actually does have a fair amount of history, created in Oct 2008. I'm still on the fence having a hard time weighing the pros and cons. On the one hand you can set the H1 tag to be whatever you want, but the username changes your page title and the anchor tag text on all your site actions. I'm starting to lean towards 'create a new channel'.

My predecessor left me a gift of what is arguably the worst kind of Youtube channel name: Our company's name condensed to an acronym with some additional gibberish that may or may not have meant something to her.

In short: Our channel name will never be searched for, will never provide any ranking boost.

Now our Youtube success has been very marginal so far: 31 subscribers, 7,300 video views.

Given that situation, should I seriously consider scrapping my channel and starting  something new with a keyword targeted channel name? Or does channel name matter so little that I should hold on to my 7300 video views?

Unless you have a combination of great skill and lots of resources, you may be chasing the impossible. That being said, you should always optimize for the keywords that make sense. If you are running a business not in competition with wikipedia or a government service, then appearing in SERPs right behind them can be considered success.

I'd also suggest that you look into PPC (buying ads) independently of your SEO efforts, as both are important aspects of a comprehensive in-bound marketing plan.

Just to clarify my position, I do not think a plain text link will be counted towards your page or domain authority.

Also, I would be careful using a strategy that considers too many good links with high value as anything other than awesome. If your strategy only included such links, I think you would be doing very well.

It depends on the format. A plain text http://mysite.com will not be counted as a backlink, it must be in an anchor tag like http://mysite.com and the link must be followed, ie not include 'rel="nofollow"'.

Which Rank Tracker are you referring to? There are dozens of sites/tools that are using that name.

I'm more concerned with finding a ranking tool that can show me where my site ranks for large lists of keywords. Less so with general keyword strategies.

I'm trying to re-create the spreadsheets from the webinar yesterday about actionable keyword strategies. Unfortunately without a batch ranking tool I don't think its going to be worth the effort. Looking them up one by one in private mode isn't viable when you've only got 24 hours in a day, and the seogadget toolset is either behind a paywall I can't find or disabled temporarily.

I'm currently using the PRO campaigns to track my main keywords. However, I'm trying to do some research on KW opportunities, and having no luck finding a way to conveniently check rankings for new keywords.

What tool do you use to get ranking results for large keyword lists?