SEO for video content

Selected answers from the Dumb SEO Questions Facebook & G+ community.

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  Colin Donohue: How much SEO difference would there be in:
  1. Hosting videos on your site.(on your server)
  2. Hosting on Youtube
  3. Hosting on Vimeo.
  
  Vimeo has VOD, which has great appeal. ;
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  Juchel De Leon: +Colin Donohue ; are you trying to measure the SEO impact/effect of those 3? in what specific way your trying to look at?
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  Colin Donohue: Curious the tradeoffs. Vimeo best
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  Colin Donohue: For function but I suspect seo tradeoff as its not site content
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  Juchel De Leon: In this case, I strongly encourage you to read this 2 articles:
  
  http://www.varnmedia.co.uk/05/28/youtube-vs-vimeo/
  http://www.varnmedia.co.uk/05/13/pros-and-cons-of-self-hosted-videos/
  
  This will give you a quick headsup about your question.
  :)
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  Colin Donohue: Yeah not so much on seo correlations/weight for self hosted. 
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  Colin Donohue: My focus of inquiry is overall site authority/discoverability not videos in search results. 
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  Jon Tromans: Facebook give a small reach increase for hosted video's rather than just links to YouTube..... good for discoverability, exposure which is good for SEO....
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  Tony “Tiggerito” McCreath: YouTube currently has the advantage that it gets rich snippets.
  
  I personally self host my videos on the website as it lets me go higher quality and add interaction (Camtasia). The down side I guess is that video hosting services can provide faster streaming world wide. And my cheap shared hosting will have low limits.
  
  I also upload my videos to YouTube to get them in that index and social system.
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  Colin Donohue: Yeah, in terms of SEO benefit to general site (as content assets) it seems like self-hosting would be substantially better as it's original content of sorts.  ;
  
  Youtube can send signals if G+ is linked and site verified as linked with G+. ;
  
  Vimeo just seems like it would provide zero-ish benefit to the overall site. ;
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  Edwin Jonk: Keep in mind that the search on YT is huge. So I would go for YT and markup my page.
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  Colin Donohue: Videos would be private, not searchable.