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Re: Tutorial - Creating Subtitles and Closed Captions for Video SEO

ReelSurfer — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 16:42:41 -0000

Hey Mark, great article. At ReelSurfer, we have been helping organizations with their video SEO for a while now. Love to get your feedback on what we are doing. Perhaps we can add some insight.

Neil

Re: Tutorial - Creating Subtitles and Closed Captions for Video SEO

Erik — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 16:21:42 -0000

Do you mean that you are serving them within the player?

>> yes that is correct because Google indexed CC I heard

Have you found that the text within the closed captions file are being indexed....

>> No not yet. I must wait because this week I put the video on the site

Erik

Re: Tutorial - Creating Subtitles and Closed Captions for Video SEO

Mark Robertson — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 16:14:49 -0000

I know what CC are but you cant add them to an MP4 file. Do you mean that
you are serving them within the player? Correct in that you should have a
sitemap if you want Google to find the videos. However, have you found that
the text within the closed captions file are being indexed....

Re: Tutorial - Creating Subtitles and Closed Captions for Video SEO

Erik — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 16:11:03 -0000

CC means Close Captions. As you maybe know Google is recognising textfiles inside a flashplayer, so I made a flashplayer with invisible close Captions in it. You can see the player with video Advertising banners onto : http://www.visualsinmotion.nl

But i read that I don't need Close Captions to let Google index the video and I must use video sitemaps?

Erik

Re: Tutorial - Creating Subtitles and Closed Captions for Video SEO

Mark Robertson — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 14:21:36 -0000

Well, I dont understand what this means - "invisible CC inside a MP4 file"

Re: Tutorial - Creating Subtitles and Closed Captions for Video SEO

Erik — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 06:41:15 -0000

I read the Tutorial – Creating Subtitles & Captions for Video SEO, and you put the Captions text outside of the video, but I have a player which have invisible CC inside a MP4 file because Google crawls a textfile inside Flash.

Is this correct?

Re: Tutorial - Creating Subtitles and Closed Captions for Video SEO

Guest — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:53:22 -0000

There are various ways to caption, some are web-based (i.e. without downloading a software) if that's what some might prefer:

- http://www.webaim.org/techn...
- http://www.dcmp.org/ciy/

Re: Tutorial - Creating Subtitles and Closed Captions for Video SEO

Rose — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 09:46:40 -0000

Hello, I'm using subtitle workshop, but many file format are not supported. What kind of file formats do I need to have my original subtitle on? is there a way to import from a spreadsheet or do I have to redo the job? Is there any way I can view your demo video with the subtitle, they don't show up on my (old) computer. Thx.

Re: Tutorial - Creating Subtitles and Closed Captions for Video SEO

Christophor Rick — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 08:43:59 -0000

Actually, I had never done it before and followed these steps and was successful. It just looks intimidating. Really there is no easier way to do it unless you pay someone else and most of us can't. Now I do subtitles and captions using this on many videos. I suppose you could pay me to do it if you like :)

Re: Tutorial - Creating Subtitles and Closed Captions for Video SEO

Mark Robertson — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 12:09:01 -0000

none taken but sorry, I don't. It may be too advanced?

Re: Tutorial - Creating Subtitles and Closed Captions for Video SEO

overdue — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 09:36:54 -0000

No offense, but where can I find a tutorial that makes sense?
I'm sure that when you wrote this, it made sense to you, but for a novice like me it gets me nowhere.