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As you probably know, the shared sites are set up as sub folders within the main site.  You need to make sure that Google sees these sub folders only through their respective domain names, and does not see them as sub folders within the main domain.  Otherwise, Google will think the pages are duplicates.  You can control this in your robots.txt file of the main domain (i.e. instruct Google not to look at those sub folders when crawling the main site).

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Christopher

Yes, I misread your post.

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Have you considered using Google Tag Manager?  It's much cleaner, and the scripts run asynchronously to speed up page load times.

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What is 2000?  Do you mean 2000 visitors in one audience list, or 2000 separate audience lists?

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I noticed that the SEOmoz bar was particularly slow yesterday to populate the PA/DA numbers.  In addition, the fields are not left empty until it can populate the final numbers; sometimes the numbers will update a couple of times until the final numbers are written.  So, when it's really slow, the intermediate numbers could be interpreted as the final answer. On the occasion the numbers look odd to me, I will refresh the page and that often resolves the issue.  This is rare, however.  Most of the time it works just fine.

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Christopher

When you say "search", do you want people to find and view your videos, or do you want people to find and view your videos on your website?  Youtube will outrank your website, so if you put the video on both youtube and embed the youtube video on your webpage, Google will return the youtube version.  If your goal is to get people to watch your videos, then youtube is fine.  If you want people to watch the videos on your website, then one of the fee-based solutions is a better solution for you.

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The Wistia heat map provides insight into how much of each video is viewed and replayed.  It's more expensive than Youtube (free) and Vimeo Pro if you have more than several videos to host.

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I'm not familiar with the A1 Sitemap generator, but regarding the sitemap protocol, there is a limit on the size of a single sitemap.xml file, so for large sites, the sitemap must be split into multiple sitemap.xml files.  And, the protocol has a method for indexing these multiple sitemap.xml files.  It's sort of like an index to an index.  None of my sites exceed the sitemap file limit, so I don't know which sitemap generators use this approach, but I would guess many of them do.

Sitemap generators I have used include DMXZone which is a Dreamweaver plugin, and xml-sitemaps.com which includes a video sitemap generator.

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Christopher

EDIT: PS: Your current sitemap looks fine to me.

There is a limit on the size of a sitemap and to allow for large sitemaps to be split into smaller sitemaps, the sitemap protocol includes a sitemapindex.  See "Using Sitemap index files (to group multiple sitemap files)" here http://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.html.  Of course, it's also possible to include the multiple sitemaps in the robot.txt file, but automated sitemap generators will likely use the sitemapindex feature so that the robots.txt file does not have to be modified as the size of the site changes.

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"If Google took action against your YouTube account, they may have taken action against your website for the same reason."

My thoughts exactly.  Someone may have reported or Google may have discovered something on the site, and the YouTube account may have just been a tentacle.  As Ryan suggestions, can you provide more information?

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It is my understanding the search volume and keyword competition are independent.  For example, many people purchase socks, but the potential for profit is relatively low which limits the pricing competition.  In contrast, awards for medical malpractice could be quite high, but the search volume for a rare medical procedure could be very low.

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You're right, the codes are unique.  They are so small (4 characters) I did not recognize them as unique IDs.

Thanks for the info on the hostname filter as well.

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I recently discovered the Google Tag Manager and I am in the process of updating many of my websites with this feature.  I am using Tag Manager to mange Google Analytics, Google Remarketing, Alive Chat, Woopra, etc.  I have one question about how Tag Manager actually works.

As best I can tell, the Tag Manager code snippet that I insert into my web pages is the same for all my websites and does not include a unique ID.  If that is the case, then Tag Manager must search all the URLs in the TM database to find a match.  What is to stop someone else from adding some rules for my URLs to their containers?  I expect Google has a method to ensure proper matching, but I'm not clear on how that is enforced.

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Christopher

Is the code snippet for a Google Remarketing Tag specific to one domain, or will it collect the audience list for any webpage(s) of any domain?

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Thanks, Andy, that was my thinking too.  I wanted to confirm before responding to Volusion technical support.  Much appreciated.

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Affiliate links for the Volusion ecommerce shops are of the form mydomain.com/?Click=XX where XX is the affiliate ID.  Volusion uses rel=canonical to redirect the affiliate links to mydomain.com.  Is this a good solution?  I used iDevAffiliate for another online store, and their solution was to use 301 redirects to trip off the ? string.  Comments?

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Thanks.  I purchased the xml-sitemap generator with video option and it seems to do the trick.

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Do you have a favorite tool for generating video sitemaps?

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You should only seek links from quality sites.  Quality sites typically wont link to your site for money, but they do want quality content, and you can pay a well-known expert in that field to write quality content for that site and the article can include a link to your site.  Everything should be relevant to your site (e.g. both the other site and the article).  So, if you find a site you would like to link to your site, rather than asking them for a link, ask them if they would post an article written by an expert in that field.

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Christopher

Thanks for the quick response.  I'm not sure I worded my question well.  I'm not asking about follow versus no follow or any other attribute that can be determine by crawling the web.  I'm asking about user behavior.  Does Google monitor user behavior to help determine page and domain rank?

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Christopher