Embedded Video Sharing Count As Links?
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I am considering using Wistia as a video platform to host video content I don't want listed on YouTube. One of the features they have (I bet they all do) is to allow other webmasters to embed the video on their site as well.
If a webmaster embed's one of my Wistia videos on their site, do I get link juice? ...or is this only helpful to help spread branding?
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That's what I thought, but was wondering if I was missing something. I suppose I'll avoid the embed button since my content should be the best informational videos int he industry (by far).
Thanks!
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When someone embeds your video it should not pass link juice because the code doesn't include HTML for a link. I checked the embed code for one of SEOMOz's whiteboard friday videos since they use Wista and all I found was a link to Wistia.com in the code.
An alternative option is that you could turn off embedding on the video so that people would have to link to the page on your site where the video is located.
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