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 ...
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 presentation. I have one better than that. The entire webinar ...
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 that the focus on video SEO comes from the platform's ...
Today - Veeple, an online video platform that we've covered in the past, announced a new feature for their customers which helps a bit with the long-standing issue of Flash and SEO. They have modified their video embed codes to provide alternative text content for the search engines. Although the <embed> tag is now deprecated, ...
As you all know, having videos that rank well within search engines is pretty cool and currently, at least with regard to the worlds largest search engine (Google), it is far easier to obtain a first page ranking with video thanks to Universal search. Beyond ranking however, the value of video SEO lies in generating ...
ReelSEO's Grant Crowell shows how to optimize image thumbnails for your video content, as they appear in Google's blended search results.
Google is getting ready to roll out their new Caffeine index to the entire world. You might remember this past summer, when we told you about Caffeine being tested. The word is that the new “way of indexing the web” will be unleashed sometime soon after the New Year—though some are claiming to see it ...
Here's another one of our interviews from the Streaming Media West 2009 show. In this interview, I spoke with Dr. Pete Kocks, President of Truveo and VP at AOL Video. I asked Pete if he could provide some tips for our audience with regard to video search engine optimization. Truveo is a well known video ...
A few weeks back, I was asked by Jeff Boudier, VP Business Development for Stupeflix, if I would be willing to answer a few questions about Video SEO for their blog. You can view the whole interview here, but I thought that I would like to provide a few of my thoughts to ReelSEO readers. Id love to know your ...
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 to talk a bit about their new focus on video ...
Online video hosting platform provider Fliqz has tasted the sweet, sweet taste of video SEO and has launched a free whitepaper (see below) and a new service for it's customers. Fliqz is calling this new video SEO service "SearchSuccess", and it's aimed at helping drive more traffic to the customer's video landing pages instead of merely ...
ReelSEO's Grant Crowell interviews Greg Jarboe, Video SEO expert and author of “YouTube Marketing – an Hour a Day," speaking on YouTube and video optimization at the Search Engine Strategies Chicago.
I had a really interesting and occasionally heated discussion with a client today about the purpose of video, and I thought it was worth a broader discussion. The issue was the use of online video—specifically with YouTube in this instance—and how it’s intended purpose drives the SEO, link-building, and other various marketing efforts supporting the ...
Today I wanted to share an interview with media agency executive Robert Davis, Interactive Marketing Director/Leader of Interactive Video for Ogilvy Interactive. Robert tells Andy Plesser of Beet.tv that they have seen a tremendous rise in traffic to video content coming from search engines, especially over the past 6 months. "We are also seeing a tremendous search ...
For those of you who are not aware, SEOmoz—one of the SEO consulting industry’s leaders—has their own index of the web. Unlike Google’s index, the one at SEOmoz, called Linkscape, is after information about links. Rand Fishkin and his team spent months developing the index, and continue to refine, expand, and hone it. The idea ...
When implementing video online, at any point in time, marketers face a decision: to host or post video? Short for: should we host video on our own servers (or use a propietary video platform) or post the content to video sharing sites? Although such a decision primarily depends on the chosen content strategy (generating views ...
