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This quick-tip is about an extension to YouTube's captioning service. It's relevant to bloggers who focus strongly on videos as a complement to their blog content. In Septemeber 2012 , YouTube introduced a feature that let you or your friend translate the captions of videos (that you own) into additional languages. Now  they've partnered with some professional translation firms so you can get a quote, order, receive and pay for professional translation - all within YouTube / Google.    So you don't have to worry about whether your friend's high-school Spanish is really good enough for your international audience! The first step to doing this is uploading a transcript file for your video. Something to bear in mind if you do this:   If SEO matters for your blog , then you probably don't want to put the transcript into both YouTube and the blog, because that would create duplicate content.

This quick-tip is about subscribing to a YouTube channel using an RSS feed-reader, like Google Reader Most bloggers  know about other blogs and websites in their niche that they want to keep an eye on, to either know what's going on, or as inspiration for their own posts. Previously I've explained that RSS was invented to make this simpler : you can get a summary of changes on all interesting websites in the one place (called a feed-reader), rather than having to regularly visit each site individually. Video is increasingly popular: many bloggers are putting videos in their posts or their posts into videos, and some have even abandoned their blogs and are only publishing new content to a YouTube channel. I've just found that it's very easy to subscribe to a YouTube user or channel in RSS / Google reader, meaning you can see a list of new videos from you reader, without having to go to the channel in YouTube. Follow these steps: Find the channel or person you want t...