Topic - Online Video & Matt Cutts
Google Gets Juiced up on Caffeine But Not Til 2010
Caffeine, what was once just a sandbox at Google for those who have too much time on their hands, take SEO as the word of god or write about this sort of thing is ready to stream into the veins of the internet after the holidays.
Google Confirms Meta Keyword Tag is Ignored for Ranking
This may be more straight-SEO news than particularly geared at video, but if you host your own videos or are aiming to rank pages where you’ve embedded a non-hosted video… this will impact your efforts.
Links Matter for Universal Search Video Rankings
One of the tips that I gave in my last post was to add video to pages that may already be ranked high in Google for a particular keyword (excluding your home page), and to then submit a video sitemap to Google. The reason for this, aside from the importance of adding engaging content to your site, is that by doing so, you may be able to gain a universal search ranking for that search term or a blended organic search result with a thumbnail. I mention this because I have seen it work. That being said, Google’s Matt Cutts confirms one piece of the puzzle as to why this can work.
Video Search Queries in The Google Caffeine Sandbox
I’ve been playing around with the just-announced Google Caffeine sandbox (www2.sandbox.google.com – which is down for “system maintenance” at the moment), trying to discover any subtle differences I can find between it and the current live engine. There aren’t many. A lot of people in the SEO realm have weighed in with their initial thoughts; I thought I’d add my own.
I stuck mostly to video-related queries, since that’s what we talk about here at ReelSEO.com, and the verdict is…
Reel Success with Video Thumbails in Google Universal Search
UPDATE – So, looks like Google is still playing with letting other sites show thumbnails in the SERPS. They have recently removed these thumbnails from appearing in an organic search. More to come on this as it appears they are being filtered for in google with the duplicate content filter for some reason.
We’ve posted lots in the past about Google’s universal search initiative and the promise that it has for website video SEO. We’ve also posted in the past about the fact that although Youtube video thumbnails are dominant throughout the universal search results pages, other video sites are successfully showing thumbnails in the SERPs as well including Metacafe, Videojug, Ted.com, 5min.com, and others. We have even tested our own video thumbnails in Google previously to see that they do appear in Google’s SERP pages, but we had not seen them appear yet in the Universal one-box results.
I am pleased to tell you that it is possible, if done properly – and We did it with our little site 
Video Thumbnail Images for Bloggers a “BUG” on Google SERPS – Problem Resolved
This past week I was in Toronto for Christmas and decided to do some Google keyword searches for my site. What I found was a bit odd in that there was a new thumbnail appearing for my site’s result (see below). I thought that perhaps this was a test going on at google.ca (google canada) but then I also received an email from a reader that was concerned because she publishes a site about Rob Pattinson and there was a thumbnail of an attractive female next to her site’s search result on Google. I then found that the same thing was happening to my site in the USA.
Video SEO Expert Mark Robertson Interview about ReelSEO
This is an interview with Me – Mark Robertson, founder of ReelSEO.com, a website focused on the online video industry, with a specific lean towards online video marketing and video search optimization, also known as Video SEO.
Video SEO or SEO Video?
If any of you have done a search for “video seo”, you will see that a fair majority of results are actually for videos tutorials about search engine optimization, NOT for video search engine optimization information. In fact, ReelSEO is now ranking for the phrase, “seo video” (not as ExactMatch). Although it does not rank well for this term, I figured I should take advantage of the viewers for the time being and provide some information on sources for videos about SEO. Hopefully latent semantic indexing will improve with more and more content being indexed about video search engine optimization and video marketing.
