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No. Just the iframe will be fine, as long as you have set up the video sitemap properly.

I've detailed the exact process for vimeo fairly explicitly in this post  http://www.distilled.net/blog/video/creating-video-sitemaps-for-each-video-hosting-platform/

You need to find the Thumbnail and player details, then you can use the Googledoc

Vimeo Pro is not the same as vimeo. It's a cheap hosting platform, where vimeo is a video community website. The key regarding "keeping SEO benefit" is whether or not it's also visible on vimeo.com. If you have Vimeo PRO, then you can make it only visible on your site.

Whether it's hosted on a branded cname subdomain or not actually makes no difference at all.

iFrame isn't that bad, it just doesn't get indexed as easily as flash by Google. I've seen them get better at this recently though.

Makes no difference from an SEO perspective, so i suggest making the decision based on other factors such as resource and budget.

The key with SEO is to make your page look like the canonical, either by enabling domain restrictions on third party platforms, or hosting it yourself. It's pretty cheap to set up a cloudfront server or similar.

If you want to make things as simple and as easy as possible, Wistia have the best autogenerated video sitemap system available.

You're right about the first bit, but not about the second.

I assume you have a Vimeo Pro account? if so, you can enable domain restrictions once you "disable community pass".

Use the iframe embed, but reference the flash file (located within the old embed code) as the player_loc tag. in your video sitemap

1. You won't get punished for duplicate content, but it's still probably not a very good idea  (read here http://www.seomoz.org/blog/building-a-video-seo-strategy for a detailed explanation)

2. No.

More details on the topic:

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/hosting-and-embedding-for-video-seo

http://www.distilled.net/training/video-marketing-guide/

http://www.distilled.net/blog/video/creating-video-sitemaps-for-each-video-hosting-platform/

For a strong site (SEOmoz sort of size) you're looking at a week or two.

For weaker sites, it could be a anything up to a few months.

Almost certainly.

http://www.kurtzandblum.com/ did exactly this and saw a significant increase in conversions (and 14% increase in traffic).

Almost certainly.

http://www.kurtzandblum.com/ did exactly this and saw a significant increase in conversions (and 14% increase in traffic).

Yes. http://www.seomoz.org/blog/building-a-video-seo-strategy gives some detail on the possible issues.

You'll basically lessens the value you can get from both self hosting and putting the content on YouTube if you do both. For your situation, I'd advise against putting the content on YouTube at all, as it wont make sense outside of the context of the page with your product on.

You want this article http://www.distilled.net/blog/video/creating-video-sitemaps-for-each-video-hosting-platform/

Which explains your problem in detail.

Also, the old embed code is still there, it's just that it's harder to find.

Quite.

However, they don't use the machine generated transcriptions to rank your videos yet. i don't think it was the intention of Jeff to suggest that, but It's a bit of a misnomer. They currently onyl regularly index the one's you upload (because they're deemed as more accurate).

Hey Ryan,

I'm afraid there's no way you're going to get a rich snippet for that page on that site - certainly not without a video sitemap. For a video to be indexed on Mark-up alone (and even with a sitemap to some extent) the site does need to be relatively strong and the page clearly quite relevant. Unfortunately, this means testing on a WP blog like that won't be good enough.

If you have a stronger, bigger site you can play with - then i's recommend creating a random page on that and giving it a go.

Cheers,

Phil.

Yes.

If you use a collapsable div or CSS to hide the text, it should be absolutely fine. View the page with JS and CSS turned off. If you can then read all the text, then you've done it correctly.