Video question
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If another company hosts our videos, but they are only found embedded on our site, do we get all of the SEO benefits from the video, or would we have to host it for that to happen?
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News sites frequently place their branding atop of the video.
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What do you mean, "place your URL in the video window"? Are you referring to the area for Google Ads in the lower third of the video? Or something else? Can you link to an example?
Best,
Christopher -
I believe that the presence of a video on your page makes the content "rich" and that is an onpage benefit.
If people link or like your video then you get an off-page benefit.
However, if you allow youtube to host your video and you have a youtube channel that is associated with your website then you have the opportunity to show google that your domain is the source of the video content.
Youtube also is the world's second largest search engine and that can result in a lot more people seeing your videos.
We have videos on youtube and you can get a lot of action from youtube search and related video clicks. If you place your URL in the video window and link to it in the first line of the video description that can bring a lot of traffic to your website.
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If hosting were really an issue, Youtube would be in serious trouble. Additionally, most hosting setups are not designed for video so it's very common to outsource the hosting (i.e. put it in something like Amazon CloudFront). Like images, video SEO relies primarily on the content surrounding your video.
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