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(Entry was posted by Girish Kapoor on this post in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 10/09/2014).

YouTube vs Self Hosting for Videos

What are SEO advantages and disadvanages of publishing videos in sites like YouTube vs. hosting them on company website?
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  • Girish Kapoor: What are SEO advantages and disadvanages of publishing videos in sites like YouTube vs. hosting them on company website?
  • Collin Davis: Advantages - Youtube videos are much more easier to rank because its a more authoritative medium

    Youtube is the 3rd most visited site after Google and Facebook. So the likelihood of people finding you is much more than when hosted on your site.

    Disadvantages - As compared to other mediums, studies show that traffic drawn as referral traffic from Youtube is lesser compared to other social platforms

    You are hosting it on youtube, so you end up having to promoting the youtube link Rather if you hosted it on your own site, the links would be pointing back to your site.
  • Dave Elliott: Disagree with the last point. There is nothing stopping you embedding the youtube video into a page on your site as well, so you can still promote it via your site.
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