A Quick Checklist For YouTube SEO Best Practices

youtube seoIn this article I will be covering YouTube SEO, what it is and why it is important to you and your network marketing efforts.

Posting a lot of content and optimizing that content, so it gets found in search engines,is an important part of network marketing, and videos are an important part of content. Seeing that YouTube is ranked #3 in the search engines and is the most popular video website, I would suggest that you should be posting videos there.

If your using YouTube video marketing for your network marketing business there are some search engine optimization techniques that need to be done, if you want higher rankings. The following YouTube SEO tips can help you to optimize your YouTube videos.

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Video File Naming – Manually rename your video file name to include the keywords that will be used throughout your video title, description and tags.

Title – The title should have the keywords or keyword phrases in it that you are trying to rank for. Be creative with your title. Have something that is eye catching and encourages them to click on your video.

Description – Write a relevant description of your video. Again, use your keywords or keyword phrases in the description. In the beginning of your description include a full URL link to your website or your landing page that you are making a call to action too.

Tags – When people search for a specific phrase in YouTube, the results include videos based on the tags that go along with the videos. Tags are keywords or keyword phrases that describe videos. Make sure your tags are relevant to your content. Include 8-10 tags in your tag description area. When using longer tag phrases, make sure to surround them with quotation marks, example .. “YouTube SEO Tips”. Tags help you label videos you upload so that other people can find them easily.

Video Syndication – Build links to your video. Link to your YouTube video with anchor text  being the keywords when writing a blog post or article, embed the video in a blog post on your website, post your videos to your Facebook channel. Place your video on bookmarking and video listing sites.

example:  How To Create More Leads With YouTube PPC

Website URL – Watermark your video with your website URL. The watermark is a simple way to drive the URL of your website deeper into the minds of your video viewers.

Include The Keyword “Video” – If you were searching for a video, wouldn’t you include “video” in your search? Include this keyword in your title, description and tags.

Encourage others to rank your video,leave comments and subscribe to you YouTube channel by asking them for it within your video and description. One can never have enough comments and likes. This will also help the rankings of your video.

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youtube seoIn, Summary – There are 5 important factors that YouTube uses to rank videos: title, description, tags, number
of views and ratings. Now you don’t have control over the number of views or ratings but you can control the title, description and tags. This is where you will need to concentrate your YouTube optimization.

Remember, your videos will be indexed by Yahoo, Bing, Google as well as YouTube’s search engines. So you will have many opportunities for you video to be found online.

Now that you have a YouTube SEO checklist to go by when creating your YouTube Videos, you will have a better chance to rank those videos in the search engines instead of just uploading them and hoping for the best.

Next, learn how to rake in more quality leads that other network marketers are passing up on by utilizing an untapped Lead Source known as YouTube Pay Per Click. This won’t last for long!

I hope that you have taken away some valuable information from today’s YouTube SEO blog post and by doing so that you start to see your videos get more traffic, generate more leads and an increase in rankings.

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