How to get video content indexed (incl. example)?
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Hi,
I am currently working with my first client on SEO, and I've been asked (among other things) to help them get their video content indexed by Google. Since this is my first client, and I haven't worked much with videos, I hope I can get some tips.
An example of one of their "theme pages" is about studying in Australia. The site is in Norwegian and don't mind the pop-up:
http://www.studenttorget.no/australia
I would love to get some feedback to what I should do about this page in order to help them get their videos indexed.
By the way, they're considering hosting their own videos, and creating a system to keep everything local. Is this a better solution to seo than if the videos are hosting on YouTube/Vimeo or something else?
Thanks.
Jens P. Berget
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For the hosting question, see Phil Nottingham's post on SEOmoz at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/hosting-and-embedding-for-video-seo.
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