Updating Youtube Videos
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My company has a popular Youtube channel. Some of the videos are old, and lower quality than the new HD videos we host on our site.
We'd like to get the new, better videos on Youtube, but we don't want to erase the viewcounts and comments of the old videos. We also don't want a duplicate content penalty, if that exists on Youtube.
What should we do? We could:
1. Overwrite our old videos with the new ones, and lose the view counts
2. Add the new videos, and leave the old videos untouched
3. Add the new videos, and add some kind of redirect from the old videos
4. Do nothing.
We want to embed the new videos on our site to increase our Youtube view counts, so options 1-3 are preferable. Has anyone faced a similar situation?
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They're new, improved versions of old videos. I looked back, my original post was ambiguous.
So a typical video would be on the same topic as the old video, but with refined presentation, different visuals, and in HD. So brand new, but covering exactly the same topic. Is your answer the same?
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Yes, we have a similar situation for our YouTube channels. In our case, some of the old videos are even for obsolete products. We leave them all, even when we do an updated video on the same product. That total view count for your YouTube channel overall can go a long way towards bulding credibility in a new viewers mind.
Hope that helps a little. Just my two cents
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It might be just me, but if these are brand new videos, it makes sense to just add them as new videos and do nothing to the old ones. Your #2. "Add the new videos, and leave the old videos untouched". I'd do that.
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