YoutTube vs Vimeo

[itrogers]

I am just wondering if there are any SEO considerations when uploading a video to either YouTube or Vimeo? Should i choose one over the other or is it okay to upload to both? Haven't stepped into the video part of SEO waters before

[Dan-Petrovic]

Here's a dead obvious advantage of YouTube over Vimeo:

• YouTube profile page link is dofollow.
• Vimeo profile page link is nofollow.

Why is this important? Because PageRank flows to those pages internally and from other sources and in Vimeo's example it doesn't pass any love back to the author.

[itrogers]

I like that.

Now is there anything negative about uploading the same video to both services?

[ChrisMacNaughton]

Another thing to make sure to do is to embed the video on your own site and create a video sitemap.  Google will index the video as being on your site even if it is hosted and available on YouTube.

[Dan-Petrovic]

Nothing that can harm you as far as I know, however it's annoying when you want to track success of a single video across many channels as all counters are adding up to a general number of views/likes/shares/comments...etc. This can prevent a potentially viral video from reaching its critical mass, at the other hand however, it gives a wider number of entry points for different types of users.

[TSCADFX]

I know this post is a bit old, but for anyone who stumbles upon it I think that it should be noted that in late 2011 Google converted all of their YouTube dofollow profile links to nofollow.

Therefore, I think that the argument of back link building because of the follow is irrelevant between the two services.  From an SEO standpoint more merit should be given to the fact the YouTube is the #2 ranked search engine which could generate site traffic if your content doesn't get washed away by the 70 hours of video being uploaded every minute.  For integration purposes and customer satisfaction I prefer Vimeo as it doesn't have all the adds.

The best, and obvious answer, should be to self host them and use an HTML5 player if you can.  Here's some good reading for more on these services:

http://moz.com/blog/hosting-and-embedding-for-video-seo

[KempRugeLawGroup]

Actually, I just stumbled across this, and I'm very glad you updated it!

Thank you,

Ruben