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Ben,

Thanks for the reply. Wistia is $239 a month for unlimited videos with 1TB bandwidth. That might be industry average (I have no idea) but certainly far more than it would be worth to us.

Also for us number of views is much more important than turning them into customers. Because our YouTube videos are mainly to build our brand online not to sell them anything.

Best of luck to you guys

Nima

EGOL, you're always super helpful man. Thank you.

I think I needed a little more convincing to use YouTube and just did.

We're in process of moving HookahLounge.net to Hookah.org. We're upgrading all the software packages, adding features, etc. One of the things we're going to do is gradually add a lot of video reviews to our site (400+). All the videos are going to be hookah/shisha related of course.

Should we host the videos on YouTube and put them on related pages in our website? (We have a hookah wiki section with a different page for every shisha flavors, hookah, etc).

or Should we host it on another platform or our own server?

1. SEO. I don't know how where we host the videos affects the ranking of those Wiki pages that the videos would be posted.

2. View count. I think YouTube has a large number of viewers which would mean a lot more people will see our videos. That being said will that be mainly good for brand building? Or will I actually be able to put links on those pages and drive traffic to our site too?

Thanks

Thank you guys. That answered my question.

I'm building a new website on Hookah.org. It will have a forum and blog.

Should I put them in Hookah.org/hookah-forum/ and Hookah.com/hookah-blog/ or Hookah.org/forum and Hookah.org/blog

I think /forum/ and /blog/ are easier for users but am not sure how much adding the word hookah helps with SEO.

Its actually phpLD and I'm trying to do it with .htaccess.

For some reason the code below didn't work for me

RedirectMatch 301 /folder_A/folder_B/(.*) /folder_A/index.php

I want to redirect all pages in /folder_A /folder_B to /folder_A/index.php.

Can I just write one or two lines of code to .htaccess to do that?

Thanks EGOL. Long time no talk. How have you been

We have a website that uses /us/,  /ca/,  /va/, etc for URLs of the different U.S. states.

How much better is it (or is it at all better) to use /california/ or /virginia/ instead in our URLs to rank for searches that include the name of those states?

Yea, I've already done that but its still loading too slow. Not impressed with them much.

Does anyone know how to improve Facebook script loading (for the FB Page Social Box). It seems to load on my site but Chrome takes for ever to finish the hour glass.

Thank you guys. This was great. I'm definitely going to roll it out to all my sites.

On the blog section (and most other pages of the site) there is a social badge on the right hand side of the page where it shows the number of followers on Twitter, FB fans, etc.

How does SEOMoz pull those numbers? It seems like its not using the normal Javascritps supplied by FB and Twitter, Feedburner.

Thanks