Looking to find a solid list of SEO benefits to using YouTube videos on my site vs. anything else? Clearly YouTube is owned by Google so that is a plus. YouTube is also a huge search engine in and of itself. Will using YouTube videos along with my content help my rankings/traffic?
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Unless the flash content is getting indexed i doubt adding video to your site will help very much. However if the content surrounding said video is rich and unique that could help your seo, but just adding video (regardless of what site it's from) probably won't help you that much. Having your youtube profile linking back to your site on the other can can prob do a little bit to help you with your back links.
dstarh
2010-09-28 20:33:02
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I don't expect Youtube content on you're page to give you any benefit in the search rankings. You need unique and relevant textual content on you're site and incomming links. They only way I see that video content can help you, is by other people linking to you're webpages that include those video links. In that case you don't want to use Youtube, as it offers the content also on it's own pages...
A good general text on SEO is:
Kdeveloper
2010-09-28 20:48:16