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Hi Ken,

This is a tricky question to answer without more visibility over your site, the video and the overall plans - but concretely I'd probably just recommend getting the video indexed on the main page you want to rank with that video. Having the same thumbnail appear across a number of pages can be a bit weird, and is ostensibly the same as having duplicate text across multiple pages - that is to say it can cannibalise rankings if done at scale.

Thanks,

Phil.

Ilcho,

It sounds like you probably have a technical issue which is preventing your content from being indexed. I'm afraid I can't really offer more advice on this point, other to suggest paying a specialist to take a look into your specific situation.

Thanks,

Phil.

Just on the "unlisted" question - the problem with doing this is that you then lose almost all of the value of having the videos on YouTube in the first place, yet still have to deal with sub-optimal analytics. Similarly, you can use the YouTube API with a third party player, but the only value you then get from YouTube is free hosting (but with sub-par tracking).

First things first - does the video deserve to rank for this chaps name?

If the content isn't getting watched and it's not a good reflection of the company, tweaking the meta information will only get you so far. Before you begin, it has to be a good video. Second, it's in no way guaranteed that Google will show any videos for the query of his name anyway. A search term has to pass Google's "query deserves video" test before something is likely to be shown - and while you can force this a bit by having a very popular video clearly relevant to the search term, you won't get anywhere unless the video is good.

Additionally, 2 weeks is far too short a period of time to be testing this. Your client will need to be patient and wait a couple of months.