Hi,

I've got a couple of questions here actually:

I'm running a small business producing streaming video for people's
websites. I've been using a third-party hosting solution for the
videos, although I do have the option now of hosting them on my own
website's server. Would the fact that my client's websites have links
to my videos positively impact on my search engine listing, in terms of
providing me with inbound links?

Along with this, does inbound links have to point to an actual webpage,
or can it just be a file (like a video or audio stream)? I am thinking
that should I host their videos, perhaps I should be placing them
inside html pages, so they end up linking to those from their site.

Does anyone have any thoughts on this? Also, if anyone knows of ways
you can optimise searches for video, or use video as a SEO tool, please
let me know!

"mfj" <mfjproductions@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Does anyone have any thoughts on this? Also, if anyone knows of ways
> you can optimise searches for video, or use video as a SEO tool, please
> let me know!

http://www.irongeek.com/i.php?page=v...gent-googlebot

Site gets a lot of hits, because people come for his clear videos (yup, I
am biased). I guess quite some people link to his HTML pages.

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John Bokma wrote:
> "mfj" <mfjproductions@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > Does anyone have any thoughts on this? Also, if anyone knows of ways
> > you can optimise searches for video, or use video as a SEO tool, please
> > let me know!
>
> http://www.irongeek.com/i.php?page=v...gent-googlebot
>
> Site gets a lot of hits, because people come for his clear videos (yup, I
> am biased). I guess quite some people link to his HTML pages.
>
> --
> John Need with SEO? Get started with a SEO report of your site:
>
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Well my question was around whether other people having links to my
VIDEOS would somehow lift my rankings, given that it might qualify as
inbound links. But I wondered if this was just applicable to html
pages, or whether ANY link would suffice (eg: say to a video or audio
file with a .wmv , mp3 , swf extension). If not, would it then be a
better idea to have the links to my videos on their sites go to a html
page with the video embedded within it?

"mfj" <mfjproductions@yahoo.com> wrote:

> John Bokma wrote:
>> "mfj" <mfjproductions@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Does anyone have any thoughts on this? Also, if anyone knows of
>> > ways you can optimise searches for video, or use video as a SEO
>> > tool, please let me know!
>>
>> http://www.irongeek.com/i.php?page=v...gent-googlebot
>>
>> Site gets a lot of hits, because people come for his clear videos
>> (yup, I am biased). I guess quite some people link to his HTML pages.
>
> Well my question was around whether other people having links to my
> VIDEOS would somehow lift my rankings, given that it might qualify as
> inbound links.

Doubtfull IMO. Why not do the same as the irongeek guy?

> But I wondered if this was just applicable to html
> pages, or whether ANY link would suffice (eg: say to a video or audio
> file with a .wmv , mp3 , swf extension). If not, would it then be a
> better idea to have the links to my videos on their sites go to a html
> page with the video embedded within it?

Always a good idea, because you can add content to that page.

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On 16 Nov 2006 20:23:25 -0800, "mfj" <mfjproductions@yahoo.com> wrote:

>
>John Bokma wrote:
>> "mfj" <mfjproductions@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Does anyone have any thoughts on this? Also, if anyone knows of ways
>> > you can optimise searches for video, or use video as a SEO tool, please
>> > let me know!
>>
>> http://www.irongeek.com/i.php?page=v...gent-googlebot
>>
>> Site gets a lot of hits, because people come for his clear videos (yup, I
>> am biased). I guess quite some people link to his HTML pages.
>>
>> --
>> John Need with SEO? Get started with a SEO report of your site:
>>
>> --> http://johnbokma.com/websitedesign/seo-expert-.html
>
>Well my question was around whether other people having links to my
>VIDEOS would somehow lift my rankings, given that it might qualify as
>inbound links. But I wondered if this was just applicable to html
>pages, or whether ANY link would suffice (eg: say to a video or audio
>file with a .wmv , mp3 , swf extension).

IBLs are IBLs, won't matter what's on the end of them. It's where they
come from that's important.

> If not, would it then be a
>better idea to have the links to my videos on their sites go to a html
>page with the video embedded within it?

Um. Dunno, how are they presented anyway if they're not embedded? I'm
just wondering if Google has any problems with returning a video in
response to a query as opposed to the environment it's displayed in. I
can't think of an example. Get a gazillion inbounds to individual
videos and see.

BB