YouTube SEO Articles

How VidIQ Grows Audiences: Announces YouTube Marketing Suite for Brands

Sometimes, a content creator has no idea what they need to do after the video is finished and uploaded. A ton of work has to be done to ensure that it will be seen. How do brands do that? VidIQ is a service that does all that hard work for brands, so that they can rest easy that their video's visibility has been optimized.

Professional YouTube Translation in 36 Languages Now Available

YouTube is teaming with professional services Gengo and Translated.net to bring strong foreign language translation capabilities to your videos. After you upload English captions, you'll have the ability to "Request Translation" in your Video Manager, and you can either invite friends to translate or go with the pros.

Translate Your Closed Captions into 300+ Languages with YouTube's New Translation Tool

If you make videos that are universal, that is, not confined to English-speaking countries, it will do your videos a world of good to be able to provide a number of languages so that almost anyone in the world can enjoy them.  We've covered in-depth ...

How To Spot Black Hat YouTube SEO & Spamming in Action

Awhile back, we pointed out a video that obviously paid for its views, or found some sort of loophole in the system that had trumped up the view count.  These bought views (spam), either by bots or other services, obviously don't represent real engagement, but ...

7 Unexpected Ways Online Video Helped Our Small Business

This is not a story of millions of views or videos gone viral. You wouldn’t even consider products such as barcode scanners, asset tracking software, and inventory control systems sexy or normally video worthy. The hard part is figuring out how to leverage this into ...

How To Easily Create Subtitles & Captions For YouTube SEO - Reel Video Producer Tips #15

Adding subtitles and captions to your videos on YouTube can greatly influence their ranking in search engines. It's one of the best search engine optimizations you can do to increase viewership, gain an audience, and give your videos more exposure. Plus, when you have transcription ...

10 Guaranteed Ways To Dominate YouTube Search: The Reel Web #4

This week's look at the Reel Web covers tips for YouTube SEO and several news stories from the online video world, including "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3's" upcoming service, "Call of Duty Elite." Their web shows sound amazing, but access to their video content ...

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, and articles about everything from distribution techniques for VSEO; to MRSS feeds and XML sitemaps ...

SEO Ranking Factors, Trends & Search Predictions for 2011

Bruce Clay is a name that should mean at least a little something to you if you're in the search engine optimization business. They are one of the oldest, largest, and most trusted search firms in the world. And they're using their considerable experience and ...

Web Video Audience Development Strategies With Jim Louderback CEO of Revision3

Revision3 is one of the most well-known Internet television networks, and it's run by a very energetic guy named Jim Louderback.  As part of our chat with him back in October, we asked him to talk a bit about what Revision3 is doing differently, in ...

What Is Website Video SEO – Is It Better Than YouTube SEO?

Grant Crowell presents on how to optimize video on your own website to perform better in Google and other search engine results pages than what YouTube and other video sharing sites can provide you with.

ReelSEO's Online Video Happenings - Fall 2010 Podcast

ReelSEO's Grant Crowell and Mark Robertson spliff in our podcast shue about our amazing video coverage, including: YouTube's Promoted Videos improvements, speaking on Video SEO at the Search Engine Strategies conference in Chicago, our upcoming coverage of the Streaming Media West conference, Facebook video marketing ...

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.

In-Depth Look At YouTube Closed Captions - YouTube SEO and More

A few weeks back, I mentioned that YouTube and Google were indexing YouTube's closed captions and subtitles. In fact, YES - both Google and YouTube ARE indexing videos for text that is contained within closed captions and subtitles. In this post, I would like show ...

How To Optimize YouTube Videos - YouTube Optimization Tips

Last week I had the privilege of speaking, along with Lane Shackleton of YouTube, at the Dallas Fort Worth Search Marketing Association. The topic was YouTube - why YouTube, and how to market YouTube videos, optimize YouTube videos, and advertise video content on YouTube so ...