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Facebook Fastest Growing Video Referrer, But Still Behind Search

Facebook and Twitter are the fastest-growing referrers of video on the web, according to a new report from TubeMogul.  Called "Online Video and the Media Industry," and produced in conjunction with Brightcove, it's a quarterly report, and the findings cover Q2 of 2010.

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.

eTail East Roundtable Reveals Retailer Perspective On Video SEO

I returned this morning from a very successful eTail East conference, where I hosted a round-table discussion on Video SEO along with Bruce Turner, CEO of Pure Pearls.com. Bruce shared his video implementation experience, specifically the video SEO enablement process, with fellow online retailers.

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 ...

Google and ReelSEO Want You To Embrace Video SEO

Last month, I told you that Google is putting additional efforts into instructing publishers of the benefits of  Google's video sitemaps.  It is nice to see that Google is also running some PPC ads to promote Video SEO.  Since the start of ReelSEO, I've been ...

Video SEO and PPC Strategies for E-Commerce Video Online

ReelSEO publisher Mark Robertson was a featured speaker this past week at the 2010 Video Commerce Summit held Seattle, Washington. We've included here Mark's full presentation titled, Building on the Success of Video with New PPC and SEO Strategies, which is also available on Slideshare.

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, ...

Google: To All Video Publishers - Get Your Google Video Sitemaps Ready

Last week, at the SMX Advanced conference in Seattle, I had the pleasure of meeting Matt Cutts, Principal Engineer and head of Google's web spam team.  Matt is a well-known figure in the SEO community and often advises the public on how to get better visibility ...

Reel Video SEO Strategies and Video SEO Best Practices Webinar

Last week, I participated in a webinar (produced by Ooyala) all about Video SEO titled, "Reel" Video SEO Strategies & Best Practices." I promised both those who attended as well as those who were unable to attend that I would provide my slides from the ...

Online Video Platform Solutions Focus On Video SEO Goodness

Validation feels good ;-)  What do I mean by this?  Well, over the past year, many of the online video platforms that we write about, have begun to focus a bit on helping their customers deploy videos that are more search engine friendly.  I imagine ...

Benjamin Wayne of Fliqz On The Importance of Video SEO

Online video solutions provider Fliqz has just launched a new search engine optimization service for its customers along with a whitepaper all about hosted video SEO.  We caught up with Benjamin Wayne, the CEO of Fliqz, at the Online Video Platform Summit and asked him ...

RIP Google Video Uploads - Get Your Sitemaps Ready

Yesterday, Google finally announced that they are shutting down the ability for users to upload videos to Google Video "in a few months". I say finally because many of us expected this to happen for some time and given the efforts spent on enhancements to ...

Google MRSS and RSS2.0 for Video Sitemaps - Tips and Info

When Google first announced the support for video sitemaps, there were many folks who asked why they didnt support MRSS feeds as video sitemaps.  It then became clear that Google did accept MRSS feeds from some partners, but that they were interested in creating a ...

Ooyala Launches Exlusive Promotion for BrightCove Network Customers

Ooyala has launched an exclusive promotion for Brightcove customers who are affected by the announcement last week that they would be closing the "Brightcove Network." ReelSEO has covered Ooyala in previous posts and we utilize their service for many of our videos. Bismarck Lepe, the ...

Ooyala Adds New Video Syndication Options - Google Video Sitemaps, Youtube, and More

Today, Ooyala released several new options for syndication and distribution of online video.  With the new release today, they have added 5 syndication options for your video content: Youtube, Yahoo Video Search, Blinkx Video Search, Google Video Sitemaps, and the ability to create custom MRSS ...