Closed Captioning help with search?

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offbeatbryce

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I have read on various sites that if you put Closed Captioning on your videos the words in the captions will be searchable in YouTube and help with views. Is there any truth to this?
 
Technomania said:
no no he has no idea what hes talking about, filtering is a way to spam the internet it has no relationship to CC. the best way to learn CC is by visiting this website

https://help.blackboard.com/en-us/L...bility/Best_Practice_Captioning_Video_Content
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Absolute drivel. YouTube offers filter options such as closed captioning, HD, length, license and more. These options let the searcher narrow down what the search results contain so that items more important to them are the only ones displayed.

Your post simply indicates that you have no idea what filtering is. Of course it can result in more views. People who are hearing impaired search for content with the closed captioned filter on so that they only see results with text overlay so they can actually read what is being said. By logical extension, if you caption your content, you stand a greater chance of receiving those views because your videos aren't being filtered out and the competition for closed caption content is much less than otherwise. Now, how many hearing impaired viewers there are and whether that pool of people is sufficient to offset the work in properly captioning content is another discussion entirely.

Filtering has nothing to do with spam.
 
Tarmack said:
Absolute drivel. YouTube offers filter options such as closed captioning, HD, length, license and more. These options let the searcher narrow down what the search results contain so that items more important to them are the only ones displayed.

Your post simply indicates that you have no idea what filtering is. Of course it can result in more views. People who are hearing impaired search for content with the closed captioned filter on so that they only see results with text overlay so they can actually read what is being said. By logical extension, if you caption your content, you stand a greater chance of receiving those views because your videos aren't being filtered out and the competition for closed caption content is much less than otherwise. Now, how many hearing impaired viewers there are and whether that pool of people is sufficient to offset the work in properly captioning content is another discussion entirely.

Filtering has nothing to do with spam.
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its a common mistake that people think filtering is somthing but it not really a thing. there is no definition for internet filtering its all made up. yes people can look for it but there no reason for people to add "cc" there are less people watching cc so its common sense to not waste time on cc. now understand that filtering has nothing to do with cc its completely different, it serves no useful information and filtering is a myth.
 
Technomania said:
its a common mistake that people think filtering is somthing but it not really a thing. there is no definition for internet filtering its all made up. yes people can look for it but there no reason for people to add "cc" there are less people watching cc so its common sense to not waste time on cc. now understand that filtering has nothing to do with cc its completely different, it serves no useful information and filtering is a myth.
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More indication that you have absolutely no clue about the topic.

http://i.imgur.com/WmFefx7.jpg

As you will note in the YouTube search, users can filter by certain content types. Feel free to give it a try. Note the "Subtitles/CC" option. I'd love to see some kind of data that you won't be able to supply to indicate that these filtering options are a "myth". I use them frequently and they work very well.
 
Tarmack said:
More indication that you have absolutely no clue about the topic.

http://i.imgur.com/WmFefx7.jpg

As you will note in the YouTube search, users can filter by certain content types. Feel free to give it a try. Note the "Subtitles/CC" option. I'd love to see some kind of data that you won't be able to supply to indicate that these filtering options are a "myth". I use them frequently and they work very well.
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thats just a way to limit the 1 zillion amount of videos, your saying that filtering is a thing that gains view which is not true thats just a myth like how gaming videos are easier to gain views its a myth that is never true.
 
Technomania said:
thats just a way to limit the 1 zillion amount of videos, your saying that filtering is a thing that gains view which is not true thats just a myth like how gaming videos are easier to gain views its a myth that is never true.
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No, the myth which still exists in the SEO circuit even now, is that YouTube and Google indexed the content within your Closed Caption file in the same way they index tags. This particular myth revolves around the idea that Closed Captioned text indexing could improve your search rank for ALL searched and has no evidence to support it.

There is not now, nor has there ever been a debate over whether Closed Captioned content could potentially reach more viewers. Of course it can. All of the people who don't caption their material are simply weeded out of the search, so any search results that aren't weeded out are competing against far fewer videos. The only debate has ever been how many viewers that includes. You may as well say that 1080p/720p video doesn't have the potential for more views. Of course it does.
 
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