SEO Benefits of Google/YouTube’s Automatic Captions?

Hi, all!

We decided to put our latest SEO blog post on SEOmoz’s user generated SEO blog – so check it out over there!

Just to give a brief summary – recently Google announced that YouTube videos (and other videos from Google’s video partners) will be able to have automatic captioning.  Admittedly this is a big step for deaf accessibility, but some SEOs voiced the opinion that having all this new topic-rich text on the page would be of benefit to SEO as well.  When we investigated, however, we saw that in fact the text doesn’t seem to appear anywhere and doesn’t seem to help…

For more details, check out the full blog post (complete with lots of images!) on SEomoz.  Enjoy!

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