Sometimes, I really run dry of nice articles to post, so one blogger friend suggests that I post some videos once in a while. He even says it's good for my blog's SEO. So I started posting youtube videos on my blog, but I am worried on what its effect will be on my blog, in terms of SEO and Pagerank. Is it true that embedded videos such as youtube and veoh can help in improving the blog's SEO? Or is it actually the other way around?
It will have no effect. It won't improve anything as its not searchable content like an article. I can't see it having and negative effects either.
@ mikey1090: Oh I see. But will posting video be considered a good alternate to posting a regular article, just in case you don't have anything (a written article) nice to be posted. Will it also be acknowledged by the, what do you call that, robots that determine if your blogs are regularly updated and therefore have positive effect on your blog's seo, pagerank or whatever?
I mean if it is a video with a short introductory paragraph before it, can this be considered a good substitute for a full 300 to 500 word article?
I was under the impression that videos generate user comments. Would it be this content that benefits the SEO? It would give the bots more to index.
The videos themselves wouldn't do anything for the SEO of the site, but a brief summary/transcript of the video would. Not to mention the fact that videos tend to be viral in nature and can draw in traffic that would otherwise not care about your site to begin with. And if the rest of the content on your site is good (and relevant, or otherwise interesting), they just might be inclined to stick around.
Yes, they do own YouTube, but aside from providing listings for YouTube videos in their search results pages, they haven't done anything to give YouTube an "unfair Internet advantage" over the other media sharing sites.
the best i would hope for are people organically linking to your blog with the video post. the video itself won't do anything, because the crawlers can't do anything with the file. same goes for flash stuff.
I think that it actually might appear useful AND good for SEO. Has anyone noticed the links under the youtube videos? Below every video there are 5 links to sites which embedded that particular video and generate most clicks to it. So if a video at youtube gets a nice PR and your link is included in the list, isn't that considered as a backlink to your site?
One concern that i have regarding embedding youtube videos is the sheer amount that can be removed, ive often visited blogs where most of the youtube vids have been removed, resulting in a lot of dead content within a blog or other site. Unless you can upload the video to your own server yourself it seems using youtube videos for content means often temporary content and a bit of a mess left on your site, plus disappointed visitors. Notice how stage6 recently had to close, some sites were based around stage6, suddenly the smaller sites had dead sites on their hands.