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Do embedded YouTube videos on my website consume my bandwidth or not?

I would like to know if embedding YouTube videos on my website consumes my bandwidth when the videos are being viewed.
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What can be the consequences of using google webmaster tools for my youtube video downloader website?

Will it be blocked/spam-listed if google detects that it provides youtube-video downloading ?
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Embedding Other People's Content

I am a little confused about embedding other peoples' content. I understand the idea that people may not appreciate another person using their content without permission for monetary gain. Here is ...
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embeded video gallery and bounce rate

Just a quick one - I am considering adding a type of video gallery page to my website with embedded videos from youtube, my own vids from my own youtube channel, which leads me to my question... When ...
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youtube view count on embedded videos on wordpress?

Hoping someone can help us sort out this issue. It's clear that we had about 1000 visits to a post today that contains an embedded youtube video. Visitors spent an average of 3:35 minutes on the page, ...
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Add Google Account to YouTube Analytics Access

I work for an agency and I need to add the agency analytics google account to a client's YouTube channel so the agency account can see the YouTube channel and specifically access its analytics. How do ...
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Youtube tags that describe the videos description in a short video with a long description?

I have a short video on Youtube, with a long description thats like a story about the video. I want to put in a couple of dozen tags that describe/categorise the text in the description. This is not ...
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Is it illegal to monetize a Youtube video that contains parts of other YouTube Videos?

If, for example I was making a compilation of the most awesome videos about Yoga on YouTube where I take a small part of each video to make one video, can I monetize that?
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Does Google/YouTube allow downloads on embeded YouTube videos?

I have a music website where I embed music videos from YouTube. I plan to allow my website users to download these embeded videos using third party plugin for free. Does Google permit this or if I do ...
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Youtube video as page background

I'm creating a page for the customer, and I wanted to use youtube video as a page background. I don't know if it's legit (or prohibited) to use youtube like CDN server (cuz it uses their bandwidth ...
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Remove ads from embedded videos (uploaded by me)

I have created a youtube channel and uploaded several original videos to that channel, for the purpose of embedding them into my website. Problem is ads are being displayed like so: My embed code is:...
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How could Google identify if a video is duplicate? SEO duplicate content theme

A few days ago Google's John Mueller said this: We do try to understand when something is a duplicate and treat it appropriately. So we do that with textual content, webpages for example, we try to ...
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Embed YouTube playlist/video using high-res image placeholder

I am attempting to embed a YouTube video playlist using the following technique provided by YouTube itself: <iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/videoseries?list=PLCAVPALzt27-...
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How to make Youtube Video responsive? [closed]

I am creating a video site and want to make video responsive. I had created a class .video { float: left; width: 90% !important; margin-top: 1%; margin-bottom: 1%; margin-right: 5%...
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Youtube copyright violation acknowledge notification

In my youtube account i have uploaded many videos. After a few days of uploading a third party video i could see a link near the video saying acknowledge this video as it is copyrighted. I click and ...
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Stop Google from crawling my site (already blocked with robots.txt)

Annoyed of YouTube's music deletion in Germany, I started my own "YouTube clone" just for private use. It automatically downloads my subscriptions and some videos with special keywords or from special ...
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Link to Youtube video via middleman website - SEO perspective

It would be great to hear some opinions on my issue. I have WordPress website and YouTube channel. I would like to put links to my YouTube videos on some other websites. I am wondering if it is good (...
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How to find the traffic sources for a YouTube video?

My web site is mentioned very favorably in a third party video that was posted to YouTube. We have the video embedded on the website as "social proof" that you should use our site. In the last week ...
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How can I track (funnel) if someone from a particular banner campaign watched our demo video?

I'm setting up a banner on a website with the caption View our Demo Video. The Banner has the UTM campaign tracking code setup and working. On our website I've got an embedded iFrame YouTube video ...
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Can I ask viewers to "like/subscribe" my YouTube videos/channel with Google Adsense enabled?

My YouTube channel and videos have Google Adsense enabled. Can I ask viewers to "like/subscribe" on both ? Would it violate the Google Adsense Terms of Service?
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How to download the audio from my own YouTube videos that are on YouTube? [closed]

I have some YouTube videos on YouTube. Is there a way to just get the audio from them? I am able to get the mp4 format video download. If I can't get the audio directly, how could I get the audio-...
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Does YouTube videos embedded on my website consume my bandwidth?

I will like to know if embedding YouTube videos on my website consumes my bandwidth when the videos are being viewed.
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Do sites using YouTube video API get indexed by Google?

Suppose I design a small app that heavily depends on Google YouTube API to dynamically fetch hundreds of YouTube video data. My site will be able to respond to users' requests, and generate several ...
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Will changing site YouTube page affect SEO?

I have a site http://mytabletguru.com. Its current YouTube page is https://www.youtube.com/user/nishucse. Now I am planning to move it to https://www.youtube.com/user/MyTabletguru. As the second one ...
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YouTube AdSense stopped paying - what to do?

A few months go I placed AdSense ads for YouTube on the video that appears on this Android app landing page. For a while things went ok, but then suddenly any of the clicks and views stopped ...
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SEOing several videos effectively [closed]

I'm new at the field of search-engine optimizing - I'm making video content on Youtube for a very long time, but I'm just an amateur guy. I have a lot of videos, including several video series. Are ...
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No GUI on embedded video

I'm trying to find video hosting provider to embed a video (html5 preferred, with flash fallback would be boss), with enough settings to suit my needs : autoplay / loop / no gui. Just the raw video, ...
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Video Hosting for Customer Uploads

I am building a page for a client of mine for a video contest. He wants the users to upload the video directly to the site then the videos be viewable. While I can code this by hand for compatibility ...
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Prompting Facebook to embed Youtube videos from a site

On a website for a newspaper, some of our articles are video reports (embedded from Youtube) with small descriptions below. When these get shared on Facebook, perhaps when someone copies the URL into ...
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Picking non-blocked music for a Youtube video: how do others do it? [closed]

I might have to start curating a Youtube channel for my company. As part of my job, I need to tell my editors which music tracks they can use or not to avoid being blocked by Youtube's ContentID. (we ...
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Can Youtube URLs be a landing page for ads? [closed]

I'm trying to run ADs on Bing Ads with Youtube watch pages as the destination pages. I was previously doing it using AdWords video campaigns, but I got attracted by Bing Ads and figured I would give ...
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How to create a backlink in my youtube channel/video pages to promote my website?

I want to use my YouTube channel and video pages to promote my website. I have read a website that talks about backlinks and anchors which use something like: <a href="http://foo.com">foo</...
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Is it within YouTube's TOS to overlay static content on a video?

Given a YouTube video, is it within YouTube's terms of service to overlay some sort of static content on the video? For instance, if I'm using the embedded video player on my site, and I overlay a ...
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Can I hide an embedded YouTube video or is that against the terms of use?

I've been working on a music web application that so far always has a prominently displayed YouTube video that is the source of the music. Is there anything in the terms of service for YouTube that ...
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Hosting Video's on Youtube or a service like youtube with HTML5 / FLASH switching

We have 1000's of small product videos currently being played through a Flash player. We want to make this product videos work on apple devices. It's my understanding that Youtube auto switches ...
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Do videos bring more traffic than backlinks in general?

Yesterday, I had a conversion with a friend who was implementing SEO techniques on his websites a couple of years ago. He also stopped this activity since then. He claims that relevant YouTube ...
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Sharing password-protected videos on social media

We are developing a site where users will be able to watch and download videos that they've recorded of themselves in a public event. The videos will be password protected, and will be available only ...
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Dashboard to aggregate Google Analytics, Facebook, YouTube etc tracking data?

I'd like to see as much tracking data as possible about my online presence, in one single dashboard - so views/conversions from Google Analytics data, the performance of my Facebook campaigns via the ...
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Using audio from youtube videos without the player visible [duplicate]

I want to embed certain videos from youtube on my site but I only need the audio from them so I want to set the iframe to display:none and use the api to control the play and pause with custom buttons....
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When embedding a YouTube video with a playlist how can the next video not autoplay?

Is there a way to stop autoplay of the next playlist video upon completion of the currently embedded video? I just want to play the one that's embedded but nothing else.
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YouTube Copyright [closed]

I am interested in making a trailer channel, but I need to know if I can just take recently released movie trailers and upload the videos to my channel. It might sound like a dumb question, but I am ...
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youtube has changed the appearance after dec 2012 and how to revert to the old look [closed]

Youtube has changed the appearance. Now it looks like a junk blog created by a dummy designer. Every thing is looking like black ink blotted on a white paper. How do we revert it back to its classy ...
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Provide a YouTube videobar on my website

I want to embed a videobar (see image below) on my website. The video bar is for a playlist. I have come across a few articles outlining how to do this (such as this or this) but all point to a page ...
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Best practices for SEO of YouTube video content

What are best practices for search engine optimization of YouTube video content? By that I mean filling in descriptions, titles, tags and so on. I can't find good information about this on the ...
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Online tool to convert photos into youtube video slideshow

I'm looking for a free online tool that would allow creating photo slideshows and uploading them to youtube. Animoto.com is a good example but only has a 30sec free option.
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Minimize embedded youtube video to just listed to sound

Is it possible to embed a youtube video and hide video display and just show the player controls? That would be sufficient for playing songs. (I know, it would be a waste of bandwidth ;-) ...)
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How to find out if a soundtrack will be allowed by youtube or not?

Members on my site are uploading lots of videos to youtube. They usually add soundtracks to the videos and it's frustrating for them if the video gets rejected or blocked because of the soundtrack. ...
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Facebook Games on My Web Page

Is there a way to set any facebook game or application to my web page. Think like youtube videos. There is a link a simply we can set it to our blog or web page.
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How do sites like DeviantArt and Youtube protect against copyright infringement?

I'm thinking of creating a site where users are allowed to upload content that can then be purchased by other users. My question is how do I protect against someone uploading something that isn't ...
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XML Video Sitemap for embedded YouTube videos - anyone done this successfully and if so how?

This is poorly documented by Google and has been hotly debated by SEO's but has anyone actually done it? There is no info. on Google Webmaster Forums although they recommend that a person does ...
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