Does video content affect SEO?
In 2011, Google launched their “Panda” update. The new update not only expanded the world’s most popular search engine’s capabilities beyond simple text into allowing users to search for video content.
According to SearchMetrics, a search engine industry analytics company, a larger fraction of users are searching for video content over text or photos. The report also shows that users stay on pages that have video content for longer periods of time, and that pages with video content have a lower “bounce rate” (i.e. rates of visitors leaving the page immediately upon visiting it) than pages without video.