SERPs Articles

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.”

Porn Video In Google Universal Search Results?

Today I read an interesting post over at SEORoundTable about a video that is appearing within Google universal search results for the search "Rambha."  Rambha is a famous Indian actress and according to the post, the video result has already been reported to Google by ...

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 Thumbnails In Universal Search - Google Confirms They Work

Last week, on the official Google Blog, they revealed a new set of eye-tracking studies that confirm what many have concluded already.  In particular, that video results shown with thumbnails in Google's universal search results do do NOT distract significantly from the user's experience and ...

Videos Are 50 Times More Likely To Rank On The First Page of Google?

Last week, Nate Elliot at Forrester published an interesting blog post titled, "The Easiest Way to a First-Page Ranking on Google.” In his post, Nate discloses the results of a study/experiment that they conducted whereby a series of popular keyword searches were run on the ...

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 ...

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 ...

The President’s Weekly Address Video Is Search Engine Optimized

Ok, so he isn't President just yet, but that hasn't stopped US president-elect Barack Obama from starting change already.  Obama has changed the Democrats' national weekly address and has released it as an online video, search engine optimized and all. It seems that either Obama's ...

Video SEO and "Defensive Reputation Management"

In an extension from our original article on online reputation management with video, ReelSEO's Grant Crowell recently interviewed Jordan Glogau, speaker from the Search Marketing Expo East conference in New York earlier this month, on the panel "Search and Reputation Management." Jordan is the SEO ...

Video Thumbnail Optimization - Tips To Consider for Creating Compelling Thumbnails

So you've spent a small fortune and a large amount of time getting your video to be everything you wanted from beginning to end. You've uploaded it to multiple places to try and spread your word and it's still not getting the amount of views ...

New Google Universal Search Video Thumbnail Tests

Ever since Google launched it's Universal Search initiative, we have seen them test various formats for the display of universal search results in the search results pages (SERPS).  We have shown a you few examples in the past of some testing that Google has done ...

In Search of Online Video. The Case for Why Video SEO

Yesterday, I could not get out of my head a comment made by a panelist on the session, "Video Search Engine Optimization (VSEO)" at SES, namely Greg Jarboe.  Greg mentioned an example video whereby most users who watched the video, discovered the video primarily through ...