Someone mentioned closed captions as useful in SEO.

Ross

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This video was pretty helpful I think. It's actually really easy to caption videos now. The way I do it is go into the captions tab in the info and settings of the video. And after clicking on the 'machine transcript' you can edit all the mistakes. It means you don't have to enter in lots of start and end times in a text document and the machine usually gets the beginning time and end of sentences accurately.

Just something to share, you might have seen it - if so what are you thoughts on closed captions and SEO?
 

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making your all of your topic content on a link made a forum staff angry :L
anyways , good tips , tweaks , tutorial , information , etc
 

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I think I fixed it. I wrote that post and didn't proof it - thanks.
 

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I have recently started using CaptionTube to create CC for all of my videos. I don't know if it helps SEO or not, but I thought it was worth a try and a good cause either way.
 
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I caption all my videos for this reason. I make sure I fill the caption with keywords.
 

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Hi Ross,

I'm writing my thesis at university about the closed captions as ranking factor and I will do a test.

Why are you interessted in this topic? Do you have more experience about the influence of CCs for the ranking?

Looking forward to hearing from you :)

best regards
Stefan
 

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Might start working on my captions soon, then. Just took a look at them and had to literally facepalm. Youtube has the strangest word detection for their captioning system.