The Roaring PJ - A Social Media Blog
The Roaring PJ - A Social Media Blog
Posted on November 7, 2014 by
Following a video SEO strategy can boost your YouTube ranking and increase your chances of reaching your target audience. With 100 hours of videos uploaded every minute, each video you post is instantly competing with hundreds or even thousands of others. How can you give your video an edge over the competition? The answer is by optimizing your video SEO to achieve maximum results when interested viewers search for content like yours.
For those of you who don’t know the basics, familiarize yourself with 3 important content elements to quickly make a difference in the success of your YouTube videos: keywords, descriptions and tags.
Keywords are Key
Keywords should be used in your video’s title, description, video script and “About Us” section. Effective keywords sound natural and should not be obnoxiously over used in your video or in your text. Also, prior to uploading a video, change the filename to include your main keyword or keyword phrase (e.g. keyword.mpv).
Create Relevant Readable Descriptions
YouTube better ranks a video and understands content with a well-written description. One easy way to improve YouTube ranking is to upload a transcript directly into the description field. An even more effective method is to write a description including your keywords and other on-topic words in a natural way. Incorporate just enough detail to increase YouTube ranking without discouraging your audience from actually needing to watch your video.
Tags Help Searchers and Search Engines
Tags are not seen on the published video page but are instrumental in helping users find your content. Keep in mind YouTube does not like unclear tags, so stick with 10-20 specific and relevant tags for the best results. Adding your channel name into your tags is incredibly helpful to getting videos seen. This will allow the search engines to collect all your related videos within your channel together giving them all a boost in the rankings when searched.
Additional Video SEO Strategies
After the basics, follow these tips to further improve your YouTube ranking:
If you optimize your videos in the ways mentioned above, you are giving them a better chance of reaching your target audience and achieving success. Once you have carried out these video SEO strategies, remember to share your videos via social networks for maximum overall impact.
Do you have any additional video SEO methods you use to improve your YouTube ranking? Share your tips below.
Melanie Yunk says:Your welcome yaznas. Thank you for reading the article. Please let us know what works for you on YouTube.
I am regular reader of your blog and no doubt it all stuff is awesome. The best thing about your sharing and posting is that you always provide content that is helpful for both the newbie and experts. Looking for more stuff and tutorials.
Melanie Yunk says:Thank you so much!
Founder Melanie Yunk cooks up the perfect recipe for building customer engagement using her fresh take on digital marketing strategies as the key ingredient. Melanie launched Yunk Consulting in January 2009 and began creating social marketing campaigns and optimizing sites for clients. Today, Melanie’s successful business grows under the Roaring Pajamas name. As social media and search engine optimization change rapidly, Melanie and her team are available to provide creative digital solutions for your business.
thanks for the guide… i will use them