Did Google Forget About Video? New Personalized Search Doesn't Extend To Videos
So Google recently made a change to their search results that rolls in content from your Google Plus account and your Picasa account. The idea, to hear Google tell it, is to make the search results more personalized and more useful to each user... to help them find more meaningful and engaging content. There's only ...
Google+ Strategy For Taking On Twitter & Facebook: Choke The Life Out Of Them
You've probably seen the news that Google Search is now infused with more personalized content from your Google Plus and Picasa accounts--I say you've probably seen the news because it's everywhere. They're calling it Search Plus Your World. I'm not interested in rehashing the details you have probably already read about. Besides... the real news ...
New Google Universal Video Search Thumbnails Spotted = More Visibility
So, this morning while in my hotel at SES Chicago, I received a tweet from a good friend, Tim Cross, that at least in the UK, Google has rolled out, or is testing, new Universal Search video thumbnails... AND, it's good news in that they have increased the size of video thumbnails by 45%. It ...
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 ...
Why Social Video Marketing May Eclipse Video SEO
I interviewed Mark Robertson, ReelSEO publisher and featured speaker at the 2011 Video Commerce Summit August 1st-2nd in San Francisco, who will be presenting on “Why Video Marketing has Evolved Beyond SEO.” Mark shared with me his belief that social video marketing has become the huge driving force not just for video SEO, but 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Social Video Optimization Vs. Video Search Optimization: Which is Better?
With the heavy convergence of video in both search results and social media, do we now need to distinguish business strategies for optimizing video for search engines versus social media channels? Is social video optimizing just about placing videos for YouTube and social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn; or is it much more?
What Video Marketers Can Learn From Annual Lists of Top-Searched Keyword Terms
For many years in a row, the top search query was Britney Spears. When sharing this fact with clients and during seminars, I often joke that one would think we've learned everything there is to know about Miss Spears by now. And it seems as though that might finally be the case.
How To Get Your Videos On Google TV - One More Benefit of Video Sitemaps
I've certainly been a proponent of Google's Video Sitemaps for getting into Google Videos and Google Universal Search results... I've also eluded to the notion that one reason behind Google's push to educate publishers about video sitemaps had to do with their desire to increase the content available for Google TV. I recently got ...
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 Video Sitemaps Best Practices!” We had Google on-board to ...
The Sunday News Reel - Reel Edition - Week of 19-26 Sept, 2010
Here's the Reel Edition of the Sunday News Reel that highlights top read news here at ReelSEO. If you're looking for other top news this week see the External Edition which covers big news around the Web, most of which wasn't covered here at ReelSEO.
An In-Depth Look At The Impact of Google Instant On SEO and PPC - Is SEO Dead?
Last week, Google introduced a new capability to its search engine results page, a functionality called “Google Instant.” When the announcement hit, people were clamoring to chime in with respect to the effect that Google Instant might have on search engine optimization (SEO) and pay per click (PPC) advertising. The age-old question of “is SEO dead?” started ...
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.
