If I enbed the same video from my YouTube account on two different websites, will I get a duplicate content penalty?

[RoxBrock]

I have a YouTube video I want to show my B2B and B2C customers. But I have a different websites for each. If I embed the video will I get duplicate content strike against me?

[danatanseo]

No you won't get penalized for duplicate content because what you are doing is, in effect, syndicating content. YouTube owns the original content and will get credit for the original content. This is a similar scenario to say, a new story from Associated Press that gets picked up and published in newspapers across the country. They are syndicating, not duplicating the content. However, the credit for that content creation is retained by the original source.

Hope that helps!

Dana

[Madvertise]

Think of it as an "viral campaign". It's not your "fault" that your video is embedded on more then one websites.

On the other hand, at this time, the search engine can not read "information" in a video. So in any case there can be no duplicate content.

[lwebg]

The best thing to do would be to add contextual information around the video. On the B2B site, your introduction or summary of the video should target that demographic. And the same for the B2C.

[danatanseo]

Matt's suggestion of adding unique, valuable and interesting contextual info around the video is a very good approach.

[RoxBrock]

Thank you for the responses! Greatly appreciated. I'm just wondering if someday Google will see this as dup content...as it does written content.

Why is it that News sources can syndicate content, but if I put that content on my blog, it's duplicate content?