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Google Might Value Brand Over Keyword-Rich Domain Names

Google is always changing the various signals they look at to determine a site's relevance. This is typically done in reaction to the world of SEO (particularly the black-hat variety) attempting to game one or more signals. For instance, the meta-description and meta-keyword tags don't ...

Make Your Facebook Video Stand Out With Captions & Advanced Video Tags

More and more users are sharing video through Facebook, whether by dropping in links or uploading their own clips. Facebook is the fastest-growing referrer of video traffic, and users are beginning to upload videos to the site in higher numbers as well. And now a ...

Google Video Sitemaps Best Practices: Google Video SEO

How do you create and submit a Video Sitemap to Google for Video SEO?  How can you attempt to get your videos indexed into Google video, web, and universal search?  These questions and more were answered in ReelSEO's recent webinar: "Make Your Videos Discoverable – ...

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.

A Video SEO Case Study: Common Craft

Common Craft is a company specializing in creating "explanation" videos.  Most of their videos are pitched as an explanation of something "in plain English," and include simple-but-cute hand drawn cartoons alongside a charming narration.  Their website tag line reads: "Our product is explanation.” Never heard ...

Video + SEO = Best Practices for Video and E-Commerce

Last week, I had the honor of speaking at the first annual Liveclicker Video Commerce Summit in Seattle, WA.  I was asked to discuss and present video search engine optimization and to help educate the audience on best practices for publishing online video in a ...

Video SEO "Posers" Piss Me Off!

Online video has become incredibility opportunistic for many new businesses to enter the space, with more people claiming to be "experts" in Video SEO. But can anyone just say they're a video SEO specialist? What level of "expertise" is needed to distinguish ones self from those just ...

Google Claims No Bias for YouTube In Search Results – Do You Believe It?

ReelSEO earlier covered prominent search marketers' growing concern over what they perceive as Google's strong bias for YouTube in its universal search results. I recently posed that question to Google's CPG Industry Director, Kevin Kells, and ad tech's keynote speaker.

Video Search Engine Optimization - SEM Déjà Vu

The following post was written by our guest, Jamie Sterling. Jamie is a contributer to SearchEngineOptimization.com and recently started a video series dedicated to online video and search. Jamie is also a marketing coordinator at Impaqt, a well-known search engine marketing firm. Video search optimization ...

Video Search Monitoring and Clipping Service

Video Monitoring and Video Clipping Service New Video Monitoring Service Automatically Searches Consumer Video Sharing Sites Each Day for Video Clips about Companies or Brands; Free Trial Offered CyberAlert, Inc., the worldwide media monitoring and measurement service, today announced the launch of CyberAlert VDO, the ...