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Are multiple embeds of the same video considered content duplication?
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We are considering using Wistia to host our “new” video content on our website. Currently we use YouTube and find many people watch our technical videos (Eg. Fitting videos have10k + views, which is very high for our niche industry)
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We currently have “the same” YouTube videos embedded on several different blog posts on our website, as the video is still relevant to what the post talks about
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Question: Since Wistia updates our video Robot.Txt file, would multiple embeds of the “same video” be seen as content duplication on google & “be harmful” as a result?
Thanks
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You should be fine. I think Google is going to get smarter and smarter at recognizing the same video, but if it's relevant to the page and there is other supporting content, it is adding to the user experience and you'll be ok.
Another option to consider on certain videos is to create a 2nd video (in Wistia). Essentially it's the same upload, but a new file with unique title/description etc. YouTube doesn't let you do this, but you'll be fine in Wistia. This could come into play if there is the same video with a sightly different context that needs to be on 2 pages.
One question I'm pondering is the situation where a 'how to' video get's the attention of prominent bloggers. Let's say 15 big blogs in your industry all use the embed code (if you make it available) to post the video in a post of their own. This A) should benefit with by receiving a backlink, but B) does this complicate the waters from the Search Engine's perspective? I guess it's still on your video sitemap, and Google should know that you're the original source.
We just started on Wistia, after a few years on BrightCove and experience with a bunch of others. Pretty cool platform, plus I hear a new (and much more flexible) player is coming out in December. Exciting!
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I use Wistia...its great.
The XML site map points the video to one page...other instances of the video would not be duplicate content. Sometimes you want to allow others to embed your video for say a how to video.
House Painting Videos on this home page are embeds but are xml site mapped on their own pages.
Here is a video House Paint color tool that I may want to allow other sites to embed.
Good luck
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Repeating just a snippet of infromation is not considered to be duplicate content. So if you have a few lines of text appearing repeteadly somewhere on your site, or multiple occurances of a video taht is not a duplicate content as long as the page contains enough individual information.
The other thing is that engines can't really find out video content they just make conclusions based on the descriptions you give them. Vary descriptions and titles.
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