Is a link inside a video player considered an inbound link from the domain the player is embedded in?
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Good afternoon...We just added a link to our homepage inside the menu of our video player. In the link below, if you click on the menu icon in the bottom right corner of the video player, you'll see a "Powered by WellcomeMat" link at the bottom of the menu.
My question for the community is would that link be considered an inbound link from any site that has the video player embedded? So hypothetically, the video player is embedded into www.abcd.com. If a user would click on that link and go to our homepage, would search engines recognize that as an inbound link from abcd.com, even though it sits within our video player? And most of the time, the player sits within an iframe. So that's why I'm not 100% sure.
Thanks for reading and for your help! It's much appreciated!!
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Thanks Peter...Greatly appreciate your help! Much appreciated!! Have a great holiday.
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- No. Now users insert only embed link into their sites. They can't see other links inside of your iframe.
- No. Iframes are only dofollow.
So i show on mine second example (PR9) how other do linkbuilding directly with dofollow link in other sites. Later they removed this link in page rendering anyway. So bots see it, users can't see it.
Anyway - your implementation is pure and look clean. But you know "Life begins at the end of your comfort zone". So you can inspect other embedding implementations like Disqus and get some ideas.
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Thanks for your quick response, Peter! I greatly appreciate it! I definitely see the link spam argument.
This is what our embed code looks like:
<iframe id="player" width="640" height="360" src="http://www.wellcomemat.com/embed/kt216e25172416n/" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="" webkitallowfullscreen=""></iframe>
A few followup questions:
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Since the 'powered by' link sits inside our player and not actually in the code snippet that would be added to an external site's source code, would adding the rel=nofollow even been seen by search engines? I'm guessing not.
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And to that point, would the rel=nofollow attribute help prevent penalties from embeds on low quality sites?
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Not really. Will explain this. Let site X embed your V video into page Y. You think that X/Y will give boost to WelcomeMat. What's happening:
X/Y linking WelcomeMat/V (as iframe) and there is link to WelcomeMat
As you can see site X already linking WelcomeMat. And link inside WelcomeMat about WelcomeMat is now internal linking betweek WelcomeMat.That's why IMHO from SEO point of view there isn't value. Just meaningless. But now let's see from user point of view. Site X/Y link some video and user want to learn more about real estate, offer or site. Then they can click on link and will go to your site. And there "magic" happen because you get new visitor from this video.
Anyway - if you need pure link from other sites then you can learn about Disqus way:
https://www.jitbit.com/alexblog/241-how-disquscom-got-their-google-pr9/
as you can see their linking/embedding code that you copy on your page comes with direct link to them. But you should be very carefully prepare this because this link can went you on troubles later:
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/66356?hl=en
http://searchengineland.com/official-googles-latest-official-stance-on-links-within-widgets-181475
since this is "widget linkbuilding". There is change in policy and you should evaluate them extremely carefully.Also please note that once people place this code on their sites this link to WelcomeMat is now out of your control. This mean that you can receive links from low-quality sites, penalized sites, overseas sites, etc. Later this can trigger Penguin algorithm. That's why you need to evaluate all pros and cons wisely.
Ah and BTW - house look AMAZING!
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