- A feller does a search on Google and the first 13 results are for YouTube videos
- The same feller does the search on every other search engine, and not a single one of them thinks 13 YouTube videos are the best results. Most think one or two, max, and not automatically top ranked.
Google is favoring YouTube in SERPs a little much, no? Why even have a videos tab when the main results ARE the videos tab for so many queries?
superclown2
10:05 am on Feb 11, 2023 (gmt 0)
YouTube is Google's only main success story outside of changing from a search engine to an advertising agency. Everything else, collectively, has lost megabucks and any other company, without their vast advertising income but producing so many failures, would have gone bust ages ago.
Google are just following the old military maxim; always reinforce success, never failure.
I always scroll right past videos. I don't want to watch an ad, then an introduction, then a long lecture on how I should subscribe to a channel before finding out whether or not the content is going to be any use to me (which it rarely is). Then again perhaps I'm not a typical searcher; I'm looking for facts not entertainment.
Kendo
9:19 pm on Feb 11, 2023 (gmt 0)
I do get a lot of people asking for a video instead of written instructions.
Beats me why when the written instructions are most specific and sit in your face until you have time to read and comprehend, whereas a video is fleeting and likely to be in an accent that can be annoying to others.
aristotle
11:09 pm on Feb 11, 2023 (gmt 0)
I never link to youtube videos from any of my sites. I reject (or ignore) requests for links to them without even trying to look at them.
I also very rarely click a link to a video I see in the search results or anywhere else.
mack
2:24 am on Feb 12, 2023 (gmt 0)
Clicks from Google serps to YouTube are not insignificant. Regarding video traffic, to my own YouTube videos, around 15% of my views come from Google searches. YouTube search is only slightly ahead.
Mack.
superclown2
10:39 am on Feb 12, 2023 (gmt 0)
Regarding video traffic, to my own YouTube videos, around 15% of my views come from Google searches. YouTube search is only slightly ahead.
Sure. I think a lot depends on your niche. For instance, if I want to learn how to put a new battery in my phone a video of someone doing just that is perfect. For information on which phone or battery to buy? No, I want to read unbiased reviews on specialist websites - If I can find them amongst the Googlespam.
tangor
12:50 pm on Feb 12, 2023 (gmt 0)
Two different aspects of web culture: Those who READ and those who VIEW.
Sadly, the latter seems to be more important among the "young" and "progressively educated".
Not much any of us can do to change that aspect. But we can attempt to adjust to or capitalize that change.
Me? No videos on my side. Video is not the method of sharing information.
