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Got to give this guy some credit. It's ridiculous that videos showing StackOverflow questions and answers are more discoverable via YouTube than the underlying
by ssl232 4y ago
Got to give this guy some credit. It's ridiculous that videos showing StackOverflow questions and answers are more discoverable via YouTube than the underlying content via direct search. Not sure if it's Google or users to blame, probably both, but this guy is making a mockery of it and probably profiting in the process.
- ZephyrBlu 4y agoStackOverflow is not searchable on YouTube... There is no comparison here between the SEO/search performance of these YT videos vs SO text posts.
- ssl232 4y agoBoth YouTube and StackOverflow are searchable in places other than YouTube.
- ZephyrBlu 4y agoYes, but where is the comparison of their SEO performance on Google search? There is none. His YouTube channel also only has 20M views in total. It seems very likely the SO posts he used would have more than 20M page views.
- ojosilva 4y agoQuick search of one of this guy's videos "ubuntu blank screen blinking cursor" on Google (English, on a Private tab) gets me his result as the 3rd video in the main Google Search page, before I get to the original Stackoverflow answer which is 2 search results below the video.
- ZephyrBlu 4y agoI just did the same search and the first result is askubuntu.com, his video is the 3rd video in the "Videos" section (Not visible from initial search page, have to click on "View all") and then the second search result is SO.
- Mountain_Skies 4y agoA few months back I searched YouTube for PostGIS videos on a particular issue I was having. A couple of his videos came up, which were quite disappointing once I saw the format. But they gave me enough context to be able to find the actual Stack Overflow posts the videos were generated from, which I hadn't found in my previous searches due to not understanding the topic well enough to have the right keywords for good results to bubble above all the irrelevant results.