Video SEO for Google, Youtube and Beyond
Online videos are 53 times more likely to appear on the front page of search results than regular pages, according to Business Week and a study of the front page rankings of 40 of the most popular keywords in Google (thanks to Monica Wright for this stat).
Google Universal loves videos, and not only from YouTube, but also from DailyMotion, Truveo and MetaCafe. So be sure to optimize your video files and upload them to different video sharing destinations.
First, when optimizing a video for keyterms, make sure relevant keyterms are used in the video titles, descriptions, tags, keyterms and even the video file name (something I like to throw in there).
Video Title : The video tile, like with web pages, is the most important aspect of search engine optimization because it defines the entire media and the page it is housed on. Links to the video page throughout YouTube will include thetitle text and inbound links, if they are built, should also represent the title.
Video Description : Think of the video description as an effective compliment to the title tags in video seo. Make sure that the description actually describes the video and also uses specific terms you want to rank for.
Video Tags : Think of the ability to tag videos when uploading to YouTube or other video sharing sites as a powerful version of the meta keyword tag in traditional SEO. However, like Flickr and Delicious, these tags serve as navigational and categorizing tools which define not only the video, but the groups it is related to.
Tags also help the videos appear under the related videos sections of other works on YouTube, so this even makes them more valuable as YouTube will suggest the video after and during the viewing of other related works.
Uploading Videos : For beginners, I highly recommend TubeMogul for uploading videos.
TubeMogul provides a quick access to quite a number of well known video hosting services, including MySpace, Yahoo!, Howcast, Viddler, Crackle, Revver, Dailymotion, YouTube and others. You’ll have to open an account with each individual site, then enter that login information into TubeMogul for easy access to video uploading.
Do you practice Video SEO? How well does it work for you? Any tips on expanding video SEO practices? Please feel free to share in the comments below.
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RT @the_gman: ?_? “Video SEO for Google, Youtube and Beyond | Daily SEO Tip” ( http://tinyurl.com/dfzxs2 )
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RT @the_gman: ?_? “Video SEO for Google, Youtube and Beyond | Daily SEO Tip” ( http://tinyurl.com/dfzxs2 ) <<< GREAT INFO!
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interessante o video SEO (artigo Daily SEO Tip): http://dailyseotip.com/video-se/55/ – vale a pena favoritar ou seguir o RSS
I touched on video SEO back in August of last year, after being in the video SEO session at SES San Jose. Some seriously great material in there.
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Thanks for the post. Really useful
Thanks for the useful information. This is definitely something that will help any companies that have videos on their sites and something I will have to consider.
Videos are very good in link baiting.I own a site with videos and the natural backlinks for them are growing fast.
Using keywords in links are useful for visitors to easily find and paste the links on forums,blogs….
We make video biographies and post a lot of videos to YouTube. Although, we have yet to create a dedicated promo video for the business (“the cobblers children are worst shod”, I suppose). This post is a good prompt for that. I sense a slight movement away from YouTube and toward Vimeo, for quality reasons among others (e.g. you can password protect a video on Vimeo).
very good!
Video SEO for Google,thanks for this great resources.
Videos are very good in link baiting.I own a site with videos and the natural backlinks for them are growing fast.Video SEO for Google,thanks for this great resources
Google is really too strong, But for search engine optimization will require something
Your site is 53x more likely to appear on googles front page if you have vide on it:
http://dailyseotip.com/video-se/55/
Your site is 53x more likely to appear on googles front page if you have video on it. FACT.
http://dailyseotip.com/video-se/55/
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