Start The Year Off Right With Treepodia's Product Video Best Practice Guide For 2012
If you dabble at all in product videos for any reason, and you have a list of New Year's Resolutions, you should consider adding one more. I know, I know... you're already struggling to keep the ones you have. But this one's easy, I promise, because Treepodia has already done all of the work for ...
Google Previews Video Within Search Results - Free Screening: Take II
Google has been giving users "instant previews" in the search engine results pages (SERPS) for some time allowing users to click a little blue magnifying glass symbol next to each result to see a cool little overlay that shows a preview of the resulting website content. Google has now rolled out this same functionality for ...
Google Adwords Launches Paid Search Video Advertising (Media Ads): What Does it Mean for You?
It's been quite some time since Google Adwords starting looking at new ad formats via their AdWords New Ad Formats Initiative, well it seems like it is paying off as just last Thursday they announced a whole new ad format called Media Ads. The initiative is working to bring all manner of new formats that ...
How To Get Your Videos Ranking In Universal Search Results: A Video SEO Study
Many of us here at ReelSEO are still settling back into our routines following the awesome SMX West convention in San Jose earlier this month. We shared some of our opinions and knowledge, made some new friends, and picked up a lot of great insight. One session in particular stood out as something we needed ...
What SEO Experts Advise for Those Penalized By Google's Farmer Update
Mark's down at SMX San Jose this week, rubbing elbows with some of the SEO industry's top authorities, and the most-discussed topic or theme is easily the recent Google algorithm update. Most of the industry has taken to calling it the "Farmer Update," a nod to the so-called "content farms" that were supposedly the target, ...
Does Uploading Videos To YouTube Cannibalize Website Video SEO?
To YouTube or NOT to YouTube, that is the question for e-retailers pushing e-commerce product videos. Is posting product videos on YouTube complimentary or counter-productive to e-commerce business goals? ReelSEO’s Mark Robertson shares his thoughts about the “YouTube cannibalization theory,” and offers some valuable tips for “hosted and posted” video strategies.
Vimeo SEO: How To Get Embedded Vimeo Videos Into Google
As I mentioned previously, Google is pushing hard to let people know that video sitemaps are the way to go when looking to get video into Google's search results. And I am happy to report to you that video sitemaps DO work for Vimeo videos.
E-Commerce Video SEO Snapshot Spells Huge Opportunity for Internet Retailers
We've seen a lot of research pointing to how effectively video helps increase conversion, sales and revenue for online retailers. But just how well are the online retailers doing from a search engine optimization viewpoint for that same video? Not well according to some recent research and that spells opportunity.
Google's Official Reference Guide for Video Sitemaps
Last month, I interviewed Matt Cutts, Principal Engineer at Google, on the subject of Google Video Sitemaps. Matt told us that Google was starting to take a much closer look at video sitemaps and he advised that all video publishers begin to explore video sitemaps. Today, Im excited to tell you that Google has announced a ...
Strange Google Search Results Spotted - Reminder To Add Video To Google Places
Some well-known SEO folks are seeing some drastic changes to local-result queries on Google, including Frank Reed over at Marketing Pilgrim. The results are clearly part of a testing phase, as not all users are seeing the same thing. But the changes are huge and could have rippling impact for all kinds of businesses. Apparently ...
Site Speed Now Affects Your Website’s Rank On Google
For years Google has been telling us how to present our content in a way that helps them understand what our websites are about. Now, they want us to do it faster. On Friday, Google announced something official that many in the SEO community were already expecting: that the search engine will now consider site ...
Video SEO Vs. Traditional SEO, Misconceptions and Opinion
A few weeks back, I was asked by Jeff Boudier, VP Business Development for Stupeflix, if I would be willing to answer a few questions about Video SEO for their blog. You can view the whole interview here, but I thought that I would like to provide a few of my thoughts to ReelSEO readers. Id love to know your ...
Video Hosting Platform Finds Success With Video SEO
Online video hosting platform provider Fliqz has tasted the sweet, sweet taste of video SEO and has launched a free whitepaper (see below) and a new service for it's customers. Fliqz is calling this new video SEO service "SearchSuccess", and it's aimed at helping drive more traffic to the customer's video landing pages instead of merely ...
Video Marketing Strategy: Hosted Versus Posted Video
When implementing video online, at any point in time, marketers face a decision: to host or post video? Short for: should we host video on our own servers (or use a propietary video platform) or post the content to video sharing sites? Although such a decision primarily depends on the chosen content strategy (generating views ...
What's Your Online Video SEO Reputation Worth?
http://www.reelseo.com/video-reputation-seo/ Grant Crowell, reporting for ReelSEO.com, discusses the Brand, Trademark and Reputation Management session at the Search Engine Strategies San Jose conference. The panel featured a mix of one search engine, SEM solutions providers, and attorneys discussing how online video abuse is a growing problem for businesses, how we can do proper monitor and management, and when it may be necessary to “go legal.”
