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    • VisualService
      VisualService last edited by

      I have a web with 90 vídeos hosted in my Youtube channel and each video have an description in single url, but Youtube videos have no description.

      If I copy description from my web and paste to Youtube description, this is duplicate content for Google ?

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      • StelinSEO
        StelinSEO last edited by

        Hi Alberto,

        Yes that will cause you duplicate content issues.

        I'm working with a client at the moment that has a similar situation. I've advised them to have a YouTube description that gives an overview of the video content and contains some relevant keywords.

        On your website you can embed your video on individual pages, add a brief summary and transcribe the video on the page. You could duplicate your YouTube description on this page, provided your transcription is lengthy enough so it's still unique content. I like to work on a ratio of 30% duplicate to 70% unique if it's necessary.

        Transcribing 90 videos could be time consuming though, so check out these tools that can do it for you: http://www.vagueware.com/top-10-free-transcription-software-that-are-essential-to-your-va-or-transcription-business/

        All the best,

        Stel (@StelinSEO)

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          EGOL @StelinSEO last edited by

          **If I copy description from my web and paste to Youtube description, this is duplicate content for Google **

          I agree with Stelios and am very pleased to see that Christy endorsed his answer.   Please don't do this!

          We have a few dozen youtube videos that demonstrate how some of our products are used.   We write a big article on our own site about each of these products with the video embeded.   On youtube we post a very short - no duplication description.

          Now when you search for these products on Google, our "demonstration" article ranks at the top of the SERPs... and our youtube video is lower on the page.   I am betting if we duplicated our own content on youtube that the article on our website would not rank in the SERPs because the page on our site and the page on youtube would have identical content.

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            • VisualService
              VisualService @StelinSEO last edited by

              • Thank you for your answer,

                I think that i have to made manually this work...

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