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My YouTube videos are not getting indexed?

by dorian2786
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I noticed that some of my YouTube videos (even those that have been up for a couple months) have not been indexed yet. Now I haven't done any SEO for these videos yet but I would have thought that they would have been indexed by now.

I just searched the youtube URL address in Google and it says that it is not found. There are just a couple videos which have been found but not all of them. This is really strange because articles that I post of directories with a PR of 0 seem to get indexed faster than this.

Any suggestions or input?

Thanks.
#indexed #videos #youtube
  • Profile picture of the author bigcat1967
    Join the club. I just got one of my vids de-indexed by Google. When this video was indexed - I was ranked #7 on the first page of my niche. I was there for about three weeks, then today I found out it wasn't ranked in the top ten. Even worse, I found out that G de-indexed it for some reason.

    Not sure why you vids aren't being indexed. I just tried pinging mine to see if that works. I feel like not using Youtube since it's owned by G and trying another video platform.
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  • Profile picture of the author Charles Harper
    Hello Dorian;

    Have you bookmarked or Dugg the videos?

    Start there...


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  • Profile picture of the author dorian2786
    Hey guys,

    No I haven't bookmarked or dugg the video.

    @bigcat1967 - How many times have your videos been de-indexed? I guess this happens to only some videos as I see YouTube videos on the first page stay there for ages for a specific keyword.

    I would still focus on YouTube and just rank more videos to compensate for the ones that have been de-indexed. What type of SEO tactiques did you use to rank the video?

    Strange thing happened that before I posted this thread topic (about 40min ago) this video was not indexed when I searched for it in Google:


    Now I go back to it and it is indexed.

    May all of us warriors should plan to break into Google's headquarters and hold them hostage until they deliver us all of their reasons why pages get indexed and de-indexed....lol
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    • Profile picture of the author somebody113
      would suggest creating a video sitemap, that helps, question though, how many times should you bm a videO?
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    • Profile picture of the author paulgl
      Videos don't get indexed. YOU submit them to youtube.
      The vast majority of video searches are done from youtube.

      You can get a page indexed that has a video, or your youtube channel.

      A video showing up by itself via youtube is not an index. It's giving
      a result found on youtube. Notice the youtube.com below it? Google
      does give a little love to freshly submitted videos to youtube.

      Once you submit a video to youtube, and it does not require any login,
      it's there, ready to be included in results. But it's not indexed, is user
      submitted.

      Don't mix up a video on youtube and a webpage that embeds the video.
      You don't index a video, you just submit it. Bingo, it's there.

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  • Profile picture of the author dorian2786
    @paulgl - Hummm...am a little confusing why you mention that YouTube videos don't get indexed. I searched for my video title in YouTube and I saw it there in the results, not just in YouTube search results.

    Also, have no idea where you got the info that Google gives a "little" love to newly submitted videos. I have experienced it to be a well known fact that videos on YouTube are 50x times more likely to rank on the first page than text based search results. This stat was obtained by research done by a firm in 2009.

    I hear that the SEO world is moving towards optimizing and back-linking to videos as they get ranked faster and can compete with higher competition.
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