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Hi Jerry,

What you suggest is just about achievable, but it's not very predictable and I wouldn't recommend it.

Firstly, It's quite hard to get rich snippets for embedded YouTube videos - and secondly, if you want the YouTube video to rank again, this video will almost certainly outrank you unless you have an incredibly strong site - as such, you can end up driving traffic that you could have driven to your own site to YouTube - and from there it is extremely hard to drive referrals.

Secondly, While Google may choose to rank both pages, they often will just preference one of the videos - likely the YouTube.com version - which means your site won't rank at all.

Thirdly - The kind of videos that you should be aiming to get your site ranking for, normally conversion related videos - are not the type of content that typically provide any value on YouTube, so you should really consider who the target audience are for your content and whether they're people on your site or people finding the content via YouTube.

However, all this aside, If you really do want to get both a YouTube listing and your own site ranking - then I recommend showing Google that it's two different videos both relevant to the keyword - by self hosting the content  on your own site (or using a paid third party platform) and submitting a video sitemap - then uploading the video to YouTube

However, I want to make absolutely clear that I don't really recommend the above solution from a strategic perspective, as the kind of content you should want your site to rank for is almost never also appropriate to put on YouTube.

Thanks,

Phil.

Hey,

Yes - this is a classic problem. It should be relatively easy to fix in the hosting platform settings.

What third party provider are you using?

Also - note the context of the two questions you referenced are different. One person wanted to scale the same video over multiple pages and get rich snippets for all those pages - This is doable but inadvisable.

The other context was someone asking if they can upload the same piece of content to two hosting platforms - which i generally don't advise as you can cannibalize your rankings.

Not entirely true. They do have the ability to pull out data from an encapsulated video file and work out where content is indentical. This isn't an issue, like you say, if the pages are different in other ways. But, Google can recognise when videos are unique vs duplicated

There isn't an issue with having the same video on two different pages, but there is an issue with uploading the same video twice and behaving as if it were different videos.

In your situation, I would recommend only having an XML video sitemap entry for the page where you want the rich snippet. Embedding the same video on two pages is not a problem

YouTube is the best place to put content if you're trying to build up your brand awareness with informational and useful (not sales or conversion focused) content.

If you care about rankings and driving traffic with your videos, then YouTube is definitely not the best place to start.

A bit more information for you here

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/building-a-video-seo-strategy

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

Sort of,but ultimately, I'd question what the real concern is.

If you have a massive audience base on Google+, just posting your YT videos on there will get them engaged.

I doubt having it all linked up will ultimately provide significant benefit - at least, certainly not to the degree that you need to take any action in the meantime such as duplicating your YouTube videos.

For want of a more eloquent phrase, I think Google have somewhat "screwed this up" for business owners, in the attempt to make YouTube and Google+ better integrated.

Currently (as far as i am aware), I don't think there's any solution past what I assume you have implemented if you've connected the G+ page to your YouTube Channel as I've done here http://www.youtube.com/distilledseo

One assumes a better integration is in the pipeline for Business G+ and YouTube channels, but it may take a while to get there.

This http://www.seomoz.org/blog/hosting-and-embedding-for-video-seo  should answer many of your questions fairly succinctly.