Friday, February 20, 2009

Market Your Videos with the Search Engines - Tips for Video SEO

By Marcus R

Whew! The hard work is done right? You've put blood, sweat, tears and cash into the creation of your video content and now it's up on the web. If you publish it, they will come right? Wrong! You've got some more work that needs to be done before the masses come rushing to watch your videos and the first thing you need to do is to get the search engines indexing your videos. So here are a handful of tips so get reading already because time is a wasting.

Keywords "These most precious and important of things are necessary or all content. But not only necessary they must be accurate in order to be useful. If they're not then you won't get the traffic that you want or the search engines will not list your content as high as you'd like. So be very picky when you set forth your keywords for your video. Once you have them chosen then it's time to implement them. Make sure you use them in all the appropriate fields and definitely be sure to have them in the title of your video as well as the description.

Video Sharing Sites "You will not be surprised to learn that YouTube gets more traffic than your website does. So why not put your video where the most people can find it? YouTube is one of the most popular sites on the web and one of the great things about it is that you won't get hit for duplicate content in Google's index when you post your videos up there. A pretty cool advantage for a small amount of work really. Making a channel to group all of your videos together will also help to strengthen brand awareness as they will be easier to find.

RSS and MRSS "Google Webmaster Tools allows you to link sitemaps so that the Googlebots can more easily find your content. RSS is generally used for standard text and image-based content while MRSS is used for media itself, and can really help boost your search results ranking. You see video, like some other forms of content, not only gets indexed separately in some respects but is also seen by certain search engines as better content. But you've got to tell them where to find it and what it is and that's what the MRSS file does.

While these are only three simple ways to get your video search engine optimized they are definitely a start. Making your video easy to find, easy to share and appropriately categorized will definitely be a major help in getting people to look at it. But it's also got to be worth looking at so the content has to be useful and interesting. There are many other things that you can do to search engine optimize your video online so be sure to take a look around.

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