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The Definitive Video SEO Guide: SEO Tips & Tutorials for Video

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 ...

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Google Now Indexing URLs with Embedded YouTube Videos

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A few weeks ago, I noticed a drastic change in Google's video index that's something many people have been asking for and has some pretty interesting ramifications.  I didn't post about it right away as I wanted to make sure that what I was seeing ...

How to Tag & Title Your Videos for Search: The New Media Minute Farewell Episode

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This is the last and final farewell episode of the New Media Minute. Today's episode is focused on the age-old question for those involved with online video - what best practices can one follow to make sure videos are easily discoverable in search? I interviewed ...

The Power of Web Video for Link Building: Video Attracts Links

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Casey Henry over at SEOmoz did some number crunching on the posts there to get a grip on what kind of in-linking was going on and what kind of content was generating the in-links. In terms of quality, four of the top five categories had ...

Google Doesn't Like Likes: YouTube Adopting +1 Button Instead?

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YouTube is about to join the fold of Google+ in a more tightly knit and cohesive way. No longer will you be able to simply Like a video, now you'll be giving it a +1 according to recent reports of a big switch over at the ...

Schema Markup For Video: An Overview Of Schema.org VideoObject

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Yesterday, Google officially announced support for schema.org video markup. What does this mean?  Well, it's good news for publishers and it may eventually make video indexing issues, a thing of the past. In this post, I'm going to explain why this is important and exciting for video publishers, ...

Driving Video Views & Engagement With SEO & Social Media

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Our founder, Mark Roberston, had a chance to serve as moderater at the Streaming Media West conference on a panel discussion entitled Driving Video Views and Engagement With SEO & Social Media. With Josh Warner of Feed Company, Gregg LaRoche of Brightcove, and Patrick Starzan ...

Video Search Online Versus Connected TV Search & Discovery?

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ReelSEO's own Mark Robertson spoke last October at the Streaming Media Europe conference in London. He was on a panel with some great folks like Vanessa Vigar & Thomas Dvorak--all moderated by Streaming Media's editor Eric Schumacher-Rasmussen--called Search, Recommendation, & Discovery. And now we have the video of ...

Did Google Forget About Video? New Personalized Search Doesn't Extend To Videos

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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 ...

New Google Universal Video Search Thumbnails Spotted = More Visibility

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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 ...

Create Content To Encourage Social Activity For Better SEO

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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 ...

Search Still No. 1 Referrer of Online Video Traffic, Facebook Slips

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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 ...

Video SEO Tips For YouTube: Reel Video Producer Tips #4

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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 ...

5 Video SEO Tips to Help Elizabeth Warren Beat Scott Brown

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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, ...

Multilingual Video SEO: Go Global By Marketing Video In Multiple Languages

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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 ...

Why Social Video Marketing May Eclipse Video SEO

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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 ...

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