Best way to display/host video for SEO

[Soul_Survivor]

I asked this question in the IT section but only got technical answers so thought it best to try here with a different tact.

I have a lot of video content to go on my site, I operate in a small niche market but really want my videos to start coming up or at least have a chance of coming up in search engine results.

So how's the best way to get google etc to find your videos and display them in the results?

I have a you tube channel but want to start producing video content that can't be embedded onto other people sites and I'd also like the traffic coming to my site.

If I embedd flash video (using something like JW player) on my site, will Google find them and index them?

If I use something like Vimeo, I can disable the embedding on other sites, but will search engines still index them on my site or just as a entry on Vimeo?

I run a word press based site if that makes any difference.

Any help, ideas or suggestions would be great

Cheers
Dan

[fisicx]

Google and the other SE can't (in general) index the content of any movie. All they can do is index the supporting text such as the movie name, titles, headers, descriptions, anchor text and so on. You could post a video about wild flowers and call it the lumberjack song and the SE wouldn't know any different.

So in summary, it's not the video format or where is is hosted or whatever, it the content that supports the video that the SE will index.

BTW, saw a report the other day that showed videos falling down the SERPs in favour of content rich pages. This may be to do with the new google 'options'.

[Soul_Survivor]

Cheers for that, although it's going to make me have to rethink things :D

so I review radio controlled cars, have done for years and used to produce printed magazine, all my old reviews are text and key word heavy.

however I was thinking that I should do new reviews as video reviews. are you suggesting this isn't the best idea now?

Or should i just be doing both :eek:

[fisicx]

Just do both.

All you need to do is publish the review and add the video 'to see the car in action'

[TheSlackers]

Cheers for that, although it's going to make me have to rethink things :D

so I review radio controlled cars, have done for years and used to produce printed magazine, all my old reviews are text and key word heavy.

however I was thinking that I should do new reviews as video reviews. are you suggesting this isn't the best idea now?

Or should i just be doing both :eek:

You should be using your vid's to get links back to your site, that's the value in them. If you can get RC stores linking back to your review or even embedding your vids in their stores then your site will get a boost. I would maybe be looking at it that way rather than getting the videos indexed on there own.