Best way to host video?

[Maximise]

I think that means that it won't recommend other videos after your video has finished playing. You will probably still have all the ads popping up during the video though which is not ideal.

[PhilNottingham]

No, it's actually the other way around. Check out http://www.youtube.com/distilledseo to see what i've done with Distilled's channel.

If you go into your YouTube account settings page http://www.youtube.com/account_manage then scroll down, there is an option to "allow adverts" or "do not allow adverts". choosing the second option will prevent pop-ups and other adsThe pop-ups are essentially PPC ads and only appear for accounts which have high enough views to be offered monetization. YouTube default settings do not have pop-up ads, you have to explicitly allow them.

[Maximise]

Great, thanks Phil

[RobertFisher]

Phil,

This is one of the most concise, well written docs on video streaming and the Internet I have seen. Frankly, I am sending it to several of my staff and I will re-read it several times as well. On the ads, the problem is not that they are there - it is that many clients freak out when they see a competitor show up at the end when they have placed the YouTube feed on their site to run their commercial. Frankly, If not for that, we would do more with it and some clients when informed ahead of time have no problem.

Thanks for a well written answer that went above and beyond.

Robert

[PhilNottingham]

Thanks Robert, Glad you found it useful!

If you want a bit more detail on some video stuff, I have written a couple of longer posts around the topic:

http://www.distilled.net/blog/social-media/youtube/creating-awesome-videos-for-seo/

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/getting-stuff-done-by-video

and Dave Sottimano put together a good guide for YouTube optimisation earlier in the year:

http://www.distilled.net/blog/social-media/youtube/youtube-seo/

Hopefully they might help your endeavours too.

[KeriMorgret]

Thanks for the great answer Phil! It'll serve as a great reference answer. We've had several questions come through along these lines over the past few months.

[PhilNottingham]

No problem Keri!

[xoffie]

Interesting, any update for June 2012? Just about to do this.

[PhilNottingham]

Update from April 2012 -but the content in this post stands http://www.seomoz.org/blog/hosting-and-embedding-for-video-seo

[Njnbiure45r4]

I think meaning that it may not endorse different films after your video has completed playing. You will possibly nevertheless have all the ads shooting up during the video though which is not ideal. like you can see here on the amazon gift card website.