Google considering replacing webmaster videos with something else

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/webmaster-videos/

by lucumo • 17 years ago

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lucumo• 17 years ago

In the poll you can see that the videos are very popular. I'm not sure why people like that so much, but I now understand why so many documentation is "video-ized".

To me it's a disease though. It takes longer to load the videos than it would to read the transcript (if it were provided). What I absolutely adore about the Google Webmaster Videos though, is that they offer bite-sized chunks of information, based on real-life questions.

onreact-com• 17 years ago

To be honest I rarely have the time to watch videos. Also I prefer text I can scan quickly. Matt Cutts' advice is mostly geared towards the average webmaster so as a SEO I often know already what he is talking about. With text I can skip that easily.

andyking• 17 years ago

I agree - why would I sit and watch a bloke talking for two minutes when I could skim-read a transcript of what he's saying in thirty seconds or so and have the info to quickly refer to later? It seems a bit like a gimmick for its own sake. It's not like the sample video shown in that post was showing us how to do anything - it was just talk.

Still, at least it's not as cringingly awful as those "video comments" that cropped up on blogs last year...

yycom• 17 years ago

"replace X with something else"

Are you the type of programmer who writes:

  if ((x == 0) == true)

?

Google considering replacing webmaster videos with something else

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