Video search optimization and video SEO (VSEO) information, tips and resources. Reel SEO is a must read for techniques and advice about video search engine indexing and ranking, optimizing web videos for Google universal search, and Youtube SEO.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Content creation has been a central part of most SEO strategies for years. In the beginning, we based that content around keywords and phrases we wanted to rank for. When links gained much more importance with the engines, we began to create "viral' content designed to elicit links. And now that we're in a world ...
Brightcove & TubeMogul recently released their quarterly research report for Q1 and Q2 of 2011, entitled Online Video & The Media Industry - Special Features: Full Length Episodes, Mobile Engagement. The report focuses on three areas: platform usage, online video engagement and discovery, and mobile engagement. Today we're going to look at their findings on ...
The YouTube Creator Playbook is a goldmine for anyone looking to improve their video marketing efforts. It's jam-packed with tips, suggestions, and actionable advice on virtually every aspect of using YouTube. For this week's video producer tip from The Reel Web, we look at some of the best video SEO tips for YouTube from the ...
I liked Grant Crowell’s article, “5 Reasons the Latest Michele Bachmann Political YouTube Video Sucks!” And I want to get on the bandwagon by providing five video SEO tips to help consumer advocate Elizabeth Warren beat US Senator Scott Brown in Massachusetts next year. No, this isn’t “fair and balanced.” But, then neither is Fox ...
Trying to optimize your videos can be like an art-form at times, but what happens when you want to go global? With foreign language use online growing at phenomenal rates, more and more video producers—amateurs and professionals alike—are choosing to go multilingual. And it certainly makes sense. A recent Eurobarometer survey found that 9 out of ...
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 ...
We know there are thousands of online videos viewed daily, and we know there are millions of users on Facebook. As a small business owner, it’s clear that both YouTube and Facebook are valuable marketing tools to build and grow a business through sharing content, providing valuable information, boosting SEO and search engine ranking, and ...
Sunday Sky, an e-commerce video solutions provider recently released a report called "The State Of Video In E-Commerce - Q1 2011", which attempts to summarize and provide an update for the latest trends in online retailers' use of video. The company found that e-retailers are adopting video in huge numbers, with Zappos serving as a ...
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 ...
We had the privilege of speaking with Bruce Clay at SMX, and he spoke at length about how video has impacted the search results in dramatic and permanent ways. Bruce is one of the most-trusted voices in the search engine marketing space--he founded his SEO company, Bruce Clay Inc., in 1996... before the official launch ...
This isn't technically video-related, but it's search-related. It's also exceedingly cool. Today Google has unvieled a new experimental toy called Search Globe. It's an interactive visualization tool of daily searches by volume from around the world. Most of us know there is life outside our own countries, but seeing the data in this format really ...
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 ...
If you are a regular reader of ReelSEO you could be forgiven for thinking that everyone must already be aware of the massive benefits that video offers when combined with quality search engine optimization. However, surprisingly enough, the techniques required to ensure that videos are not only indexed by the major search engines, but also ...
