Embedded Video - Does Google Know the Source?
 

Does Google know the source of an embedded video that is on a different domain?

If so, does the source of the video get more SEO juice or does the domain embedding the video get the SEO juice?

That's a very good question. I know that when I embedded some videos from a sponsor that had the video url in the flashvars as being a relative url on their domain, Googlebot tried to locate it by appending the url to my domain and of course got a 404.

Interesting 404 ;)

the juice is loose

I think I am not asking the right questions because the answer is muli-fold.

There are a lot of sites that embed videos and they rank high for keywords in that particular niche.

Should the video that is embedded be the first result on the originator's domain name on Google?

If you're talking about video search, then if it's anything like image search I guess the answer would be no.

are you using video sitemaps?

I have been waiting for the makers of Google XML Sitemaps Generator to create a Google Video Sitemap Generator plugin for WordPress.

I?ve been seeing some very positive SEO improvements through the use of embedded videos on a couple of clients websites. This is possible, for first thing if you pair your embeds with a friendly Google Video Sitemap, and a few other things that would take a lot of time to explain. However you can actually outrank the original source (sponsor or tube) in the search results if you know what your doing. This works in a lot of different video platforms, not just in the embeds.

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do they know the source ? yes and no. They have the ability to check it in most cases , you also have the ability to hide it or trick google if you really want.

serp is like regular content, two sites can have the same content/video and both rank , and the "copy"site can outrank the content holder if it is more relevant , it could also get "duplicate content penalty" if done wrong.