Videos affecting ranking?

[nomis5]

I have a few sites that I earn a good living from (ads) but one is not performing as it should. It is a .co.uk. I started it with pages about different types of widgets and they do OK, not good, but OK. They rank fairly well in Google

I then added a set of pages about a specific type of widget to the site. Top quality stuff, loads of pics because I Know about these widgets. Exactly the same format as my other sites and the pages on this widget site. Uniquely (for me) I added several videos to those new pages.

I wait and wait to get some ranking in Google for the new widget pages (9 months now) and I have almost zilch. Only visitors from other parts of the site. I rank nowhere for almost any term as far as the new widget pages are concerned.

My suspicion is that the videos (hosted on You Tube) are the problem. Any thoughts or advice?

[wrockca]

? what makes you think that YouTube has effected it?

Unless your video is tastless or has a bad profile then maybe I can see it being effected, most of them time if you have quality video that provides value you should be safe their. It sounds like you should look into your deep links or content within the site.

With out knowing the video it is hard to quess

[tedster]

If anything, hosting a video on YouTube can help rankings, rather than hurt them.

Do you have decent text content on the page, too? How about enough internal linking - are the pages far down a "click silo"?

[nomis5]

The pages with videos on them have the same format, text context and linking structure as the rest of the site. Page content is around 600 words per page, in line with the other pages. The site is simplicity itself as far as internal linking is concerned. Exactly the same as the other pages and my other sites.

I suggest the videos for two reasons. First, it is the obvious difference between the pages that are doing OK and those that are not. Second, unless the videos are manually reviewed by Google, then how does Google know what they contain? They are in fact totally clean, widget type videos, nothing controversial at all.

I'll take a look again at the pages, maybe I've been too fixed thinking the problem is with the videos.

[wrockca]

it almost sounds like a duplicate content issue