How To Optimize YouTube Videos For SEO

How to SEO Videos on Youtube....It's not strange to us but may be more people should know...Seem more people used to post videos to Youtube. You will loose a huge traffic if you only post videos normally without SEO. Follow some tips to help your videos get higher rankings in search engine and increase views

Some important factors you need to care like description, tags, views and comments

1. Analyze your competitors on Youtube
First, let research your competitors, what they are doing, find their links, activities, shares on social networks.
Things affected to determination of ranking on search engines for videos. It includes: Ratings, Favorites,Playlists, Comments, Views, Embedding.

The simplest way that you view "Statistics & Data" of competitors, know what helps their vidoes get high rankings than your videos.

2. Video Size
You should use 4:3 ratio because it's standard format of the target search engines and easy change. Do not focus on widescreen mode 16:9. It's not necessary.

3. Video Description
Description video maximum length should be 27 characters and contaning 1 URL in the first line of the description tag

4. Video Image
Video images are thumbnails and showing related videos .

5. Share, spread of your videos
Comment on video that has more viewers to get more visitors for your chanel.
Create 1 video similar to popular video(video has more viewers) but not copy the title , description..to appear as one related video .

6. Link Building
YouTube user "nofollow" to all video titles...except for videos in the "Recent Activity". If possible you should try SEO videos in this section.
Building links to videos on Youtube from the websites are more effective video marketing way.

7. Monitoring and evaluation
Check Insight for statistical data analysis for your videos daily or weekly
- View demographic information.
- Time viewed videos
- View sites linked to your videos
- Geography view.
- Chart statistics of views .

8. Optimize website to embed the video on youtube
Create a separate page optimized for each video on your website and embing them into it. Put description and links to your Youtube page with a good keyword density to get higer rankings for your youtube.

Just basic tips about How To Optimize YouTube Videos For SEO. Hope I can get more other tips from friends on this forum:rolleyes2:

Thanks Buddy! This is really a very informative post. Why do you think about optimizing it through YouTube channels?

First of all you need to make a really informative video having something for the viewers to watch. Then write a proper description for that video which defines perfectly about your then tag that video with the proper keywords you want by which that video gets searched.

Hi,
Quite impressive tips. I would like to add some other points:
1. Write proper title and description for your video.
2. Share your video in social media.

First and foremost thing while creating a video is content should be of high quality but easy to understand, length of the video should be under 3 min., appropriate keyword should be inserted in the title as well as in the description with hyperlinks. Finally we have to share our YouTube video on social n/w sites for getting likes and shares.