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 ...
Want to get more views for your videos? Have you optimized your videos for the search engines? Knowing how to get your videos found via search can make a big difference in your video views. But it's something that relatively few video producers are aware of. The New Media Minute recently caught up with ReelSEO's ...
If you care at all about having your content ranked well on search engines, then you're probably familiar with the concept of keyword research. At least, I hope you are. No matter what our egos tell us, it's nearly impossible to accurately optimize a webpage or a video using only our gut instinct. Search users ...
Way back in the beginning, when YouTube was just an infant, their search function was awful. It was flat-out terrible. And while it’s improved a lot since Google came into the picture, it’s still not always as helpful and accurate as we probably wish it could be. And a large part of that has to ...
While in Las Vegas for Blogworld 2010, I had a pleasure of speaking with Leo Laporte. Leo is a widely respected technology journalist, and is the President of TWiT (This Week in Tech) Network. We touched on a variety of topics, including why he chose the live video medium for TWiT Live, why video is ...
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 ...
ReelSEO's Grant Crowell will be a featured speaker on Video Search Optimization at Search Engine Strategies Chicago on October 20th, joined by fellow speakers: Greg Jarboe, author of YouTube and Video Marketing: An Hour a Day; and Google’s Senior Developer Advocate Paul Carff. Grant's own presentation will be focusing on Website Video SEO – optimizing search engine results for links and traffic directly to video featured on your own Website, versus 3rd party websites like YouTube.
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 ...
Since Google TV is now all the rage and on everyone's mind I thought it might be interesting to take a look at how you as publishers and advertisers can get your products and content into the mix in an optimized way. Many believe that Google TV might push screen convergence beyond its current limits ...
Google is celebrating their 12th birthday during the month of September, and today they have placed a little birthday cake logo on their home page—it was on this date, September 27, in 1998 that Google was first incorporated as a privately held company. There is an awful lot to reflect on from the last twelve ...
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 ...
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. Greg Funk, Product Manager at YouTube/Google stated the following in ...
I come from a background in search. I’m a search engine guy first, and a video guy second. It’s just how I’m wired. Which is why ReelSEO is such a great home for me, because I get to write about both. Today, there’s some news about search engines that isn’t specific to video, but its ...
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. My takeaways were many but I noticed that there were few ...
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 research and that spells opportunity. The Opportunity For E-Commerce Video ...
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 a proponent of video sitemaps and I have always felt ...
