Embed youtube / vimeo pro videos and noframes tag
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Dear All,
I read somewhere that the use of the
<noframes>tag when embending videos using iframes could be seen as cloacking, because you are delivering something to the people, and something "different" to the search engines.</noframes>
For compatibility with IOs devices, iframe is the way to go with youtube videos, also with vimeo, but so far, any of my videos has been indexed by google.
So, in your experience, what advice would you give to embed videos using those services (youtube, vimeo pro)? Would google index them if you place the old embed code between the <iframe></iframe>tags, without using
<noframes>? Would you say that, without the use of noframes, one is doing cloacking?</noframes>
I want to get my videos indexed, but I do not want to be penalized by google. Technically the use of noframes could be taken as cloacking, but if the content of both videos is the same, then it is not. What do you think?
Thanks for your help,
Daniel
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It's unlikely to be harmful since you're not doing anything malicious or misleading.
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Takeshi,
Do you think I could hurt my site if I embed the old code between the <iframe>tags?</p> <p>So,</p> <p><iframe codetothevideo>oldembedcode</iframe>
Thanks again,
Daniel
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Vimeo Pro can work. Here are some good resources to make sure you are embedding the videos properly:
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/hosting-and-embedding-for-video-seo
http://www.distilled.net/blog/video/video-seo-tactics-to-get-ranked/
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Hi Takeshi,
Thanks again today for your answer.
This rule that google will not show video rich snippets for youtube/vimeo also applies for videos hosted in a vimeo pro account with community pass deactivated?
Best Regards,
Daniel
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What do you mean by getting your video indexed? If you mean showing up as a rich snippet, generally YouTube & Vimeo videos will not show up as rich snippets for your site, you need to host them on your own server. Occasionally, Google will display a video snippet even if the video is from YouTube, but this works with iframed videos as well.
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