The ReelSEO YouTube Creator Playbook Index
The YouTube Creator Playbook is an awesome guide to follow when making your videos. Covering every section of it was enlightening and maddening all at once. The Playbook offers great information, and then forgets that not everyone can do some of the things they suggest (custom thumbnails are the bane of the Playbook's existence). Overall, ...
How To Optimize Your YouTube Channel Page--The YouTube Creator Playbook
Your channel page on YouTube is where you can brand your videos through attractive packaging. It creates an insular experience for your videos, one without all the distractions of suggested videos and that plain YouTube white background. A channel page is invitation into your home of creations, a living room with a screen that plays ...
How To Create YouTube Playlists To Curate Content & Leverage Your Video Catalog
At the point where you have made a lot of videos, there is a point where organizing select videos into playlists becomes a great way to entice new viewers and fans alike to watch multiple entries in one sitting. Playlists are another word for "Greatest Hits" or "Themes," or if you're older, "A Mix Tape." ...
Did Latest Google Panda Update Really Improve YouTube Ranking?
According to Searchmetrics, YouTube.com was the biggest winner of the recent Google Panda Update, dubbed Panda 2.5. Supposedly, this means the “SEO visibility of the domain” improved 10% on Sept. 28, 2011. But, before you do anything, you might want to take a look at the Discovery feature in YouTube Insight, which helps you understand ...
Popcorn Framework Brings Interactive Video To The People's Choice Awards
A few weeks ago, we discussed Mozilla's interactive video framework, Popcorn.js, an HTML5 application that will allow for content creators to provide context links and information to their videos. It was test-driven with documentary films. Now, with the support of content optimization company RAMP, and Mozilla's release of version 1.0 at the Mozilla Festival in ...
The Weekly Online Video News Round Up - Video + Social Edition
This week's round up of the online video news highlights includes a little extra dose of the social. Many video experts agree that social enhancements and integration could be the next great evolution for online video as a format. Of course, we also saved room for all the rest of the week's big video announcements ...
The Role Of Metadata In Video SEO, Part 2: The YouTube Creator Playbook
In Part 1 of our coverage of the YouTube Creator Playbook's metadata section, we discussed the general overview of how titles, tags, and descriptions help people find your video through YouTube's search engine. We also talked about how good metadata isn't the main way people are going to find a video, that it needs to ...
The Weekly Online Video News Round Up - The Future Of Online Video Edition
There's a lot of speculation on the future of online video in this week's round up, on everything from cable to Hollywood to advertising to TV. We also recap all the rest of the week's biggest stories in the world of online video, including news articles, opinion pieces, tips, and more. So if you're as ...
The Role Of Metadata In Video SEO, Part 1: The YouTube Creator Playbook
One of the great mysteries among those who don't work inside Google headquarters is how a search engine decides who the cool kids are on the Internet. The top few links you get from a search engine are also going to be the ones that are most likely to be clicked, so getting to the ...
How to Track Your Video With YouTube Insight Analytics: The YouTube Creator Playbook
In almost every section of YouTube Creator Playbook, they have provided a tip on using the audience tracking tool, YouTube Insight (YouTube Analytics). Insight is YouTube's massive test audience, everyone who uses YouTube is represented in these statistics. You can figure out the basic age of your audience, the reactions of your audience via likes, favorites, and ...
5 Video SEO Tips to Help Elizabeth Warren Beat Scott Brown
I liked Grant Crowell’s article, “5 Reasons the Latest Michele Bachmann Political YouTube Video Sucks!” And I want to get on the bandwagon by providing five video SEO tips to help consumer advocate Elizabeth Warren beat US Senator Scott Brown in Massachusetts next year.
Adobe Edge: Animated Web Content With HTML5, CSS3 & JavaScript
Adobe is all about Flash, or are they? While supporting their existing products, they are also taking on an approach to allow it [Flash] to co-exist with HTML5. Gaming, media and data-driven applications are all done in Flash already, so in HTML5 they want to facilitate that along with all sorts of interaction and animation, ...
PBS Picks RAMP for Expanded Video and Content Navigation
PBS, the Public Broadcasting Service, just chose RAMP as its service of choice for video navigation and search. I hope RAMP gave them a good deal since public broadcasting is likely to lose much of its Federal Funding if certain members of the US Government have their way. The new service allows users to search ...
Dear Google... I Love You BUT, You Could Do A Better Job With Video Search
Dear Google... I’ve had a crush on you since our very first encounter in 1998. You mesmerized me with your quick and efficient search results. It almost seemed like you were telepathic. I would never have to go beyond the first page of search results and usually, almost always, you’d return exactly what I was ...
The Definitive Video SEO Guide: SEO Tips & Tutorials for Video
The following is an index of our more popular video search engine optimization (Video SEO, VSEO, video search optimization - whatever you want to call it) tips, tutorials, guidelines, presentations, articles, etc.... Learn everything from distribution techniques for VSEO; to MRSS feeds and XML sitemaps for optimizing hosted video for universal search; to YouTube optimization ...
