Wednesday, December 21, 2011

The 5 Pillars Of YouTube Video Optimization

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You’ve spent time planning, shooting and editing your video; it’s been uploaded to YouTube and is looking great on your channel! Now – it’s time to sit back and watch the viewers flock to view it, right?

Not quite so fast! Video optimization is a key component of video marketing as you need to give your creations the maximum chance of appearing in YouTube search results.

Remember that YouTube is a “vertical” search engine, meaning a search engine that delivers results for one type of medium only– online video.

Therefore many of the rules of optimizing video are similar to the rules of on-page SEO for your website – much of the emphasis is on using the right keywords in the right places.

Here are five of the main guidelines to get your video ranking:

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Your keyword phrases may be the same as you have used for the on-page SEO of your

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1 comment:

  1. Online video marketing is really not easy and I think that it really need more attention and time. After releasing or making your video, your job doesn't end there. You have to do something to help your video make and receive traffic, have bloggers and writer, write something about it. Have an Arizona SEO company do the SEO for you and so many stuff to do. But pretty sure that as soon as you have ranked your website, you'll get the sales that you are targeting.

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