SEO for YouTube videos
YouTube can be a great source of targeted traffic, there are different ways to use the video portal. The easiest way is, as Justus Blümer shows in his article, to find a popular YouTube star and simply give this money for a link or a mention in his video.
Who wants to build an own presence, however, on YouTube, must optimize his videos for the organic search…
YouTube OnPage factors
The basis of a search keywords represent here as we know from the classic SEO. To be found in the internal YouTube search so we optimize title, Description and tags on the keywords that we want. External links to your own site should be written first in the description because YouTube separates them for some words.
If you know other successful videos from your theme, it can’t hurt to use the keywords of your competitors to them under ‘ related videos ´ appear to be. Also you can create video responses to successful videos, will appear directly under your competitors.
Community & interactive factors
YouTube CommunityThis includes everything directly under your control. View your videos relating to Age of Video represent a strong ranking walking criterion on YouTube. The faster your video on YouTube views collects, the better.
It is of course also important, as the community with your video bypasses, for example, how many comments there, how your video in the ratings is evaluated, as there are many shares and playlist of additions, etc. much and often is also here best, unless your video has been reported. Flagging of course adversely affects the ranking.
Otherwise the values of your YouTube channel in the ranking of your videos seem to be included. Many Channel Views and a large number of subscribers increase the ranking of your video.
Offpage factors for YouTube
External factors help to bring your video on YouTube search results further upwards. If your video on other sites embedded or simply by externally linked that affects positively the ranking.
If nobody voluntarily linked your video, you can try to link it from a large number of different domains or embed there. To already have a large domain network or hosted blogs, this step is usually easier to create such as multiple YouTube accounts and manipulate the community factors.
Universal search and conclusion
Typically, you can capture videos which rank well in the internal YouTube search have also good chances in the regular Google Universal search results emerge. There are various deviations which you can ignore not so easy, I would like to contact but still once these in a separate post.
With or without search, YouTube has become a very good traffic source universal in Germany. People search for certain things without previously consult Google. Can be reached there incredibly many people with the right content. In the United States, YouTube is already one of the most important traffic sources for some affiliate SEOs, but also here in Germany the subject becomes ‘ SEO for YouTube videos ´ more interesting…