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Google considering replacing webmaster videos with something else

mattcutts.com

12 pointslucumo4 comments

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.

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.

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...

"replace X with something else"

Are you the type of programmer who writes:

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

?

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