Tips on improve youtube video ranking

Alex Shawn

Alex Shawn

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Why Youtube? That maybe one question that newbie will ask..First, Youtube has lot of audience where they use YT as search engine.. Ranking a video in Youtube is lot easier compared to ranking a site after penguin.Second, there are high chance for the video that you upload to be promoted on Google search. So you will get traffic from Google as well.So which one I'm going to focus? Since I'm still a noob, it's best for me to rank only in Youtube. My strategy to choose good keyword is by using the listing suggestion. When you put keywords in YT search box, you will notice the drop down suggestion.. So I will choose those longtail keywords and analyze the competition on 1st page.If the competition on the 1st page don't optimize their title for the long tail keywords, I will make a video related to the keyword.But why longtail? Why not just focus on short tail which probably has more searches per month?Actually I notice ranking a longtail it's lot easier compared to short tail..If I target a keyword that has huge searches.. Maybe I need to spend lot of money for SEO. To save money, I create around 30 videos in one niche.I only target 1 sale per month for each video That make 30 sale per month.But I am not sure whether my strategy will work or not... but we will see.Before I continue, I want to make clear that I never make any sale from Youtube yet.. probably because I choose the wrong niche. It got thousands view but no sale even though I'm focusing on buying keywords. Even if my video isn't convincing enough, I am not sure.. but I've read somewhere that advice to promote high gravity product. Maybe that's the key. I've choose an evergreen niche and create 15 videos for the niche. I am not sure whether it's okay or not to put all of the video in one account, but I think it's better to separate the risks (in case YT decided to ban your account)

Once the video is optimized, I spread it to the social networks such as Reddit, Facebook, Twitter, StumbleUpon, and also embed on my blogspot blog. Try all means to get those youtube videos exposure to more people as I can to get more target traffic, in youtube rules, more view, more feedback means for higher ranking for higher traffic, in return, I can get more sales. If you have better ideas on improving the youtube videos, you're welcome to leave your comments, thanks.
 
The distinction between long and short tail keywords is one that most places don't outright mention.

Since the game community is so big on this forum, I'll use them as an example.

The benefit to including such a broad search term as "video game" in your tags, description and title is unknown. You're not going to get the top search result for "video game" because the competition is far too high and entrenched.. But picking a longtail keyword like "super mario 3 speed run" will have far less competition.

So by seeking out the higher search longtail keywords, you improve your chances immensely. Will you rank every video? No because plenty of people do it right, but it will definitely improve your rank to some extent.
 
I think as more and more people become aware of SEO and video SEO it starts to be even more important than ever. Sure, doing everything 'correctly' might not get you on the first page but if you don't do it at all you then you will probably be below the increasing number of people who are doing it right.
 
Thanks for the tips! I thinks it's gonna be really usefull in the future! Let's see if it can help me!
 
Alex Shawn said:
Why Youtube? That maybe one question that newbie will ask..First, Youtube has lot of audience where they use YT as search engine.. Ranking a video in Youtube is lot easier compared to ranking a site after penguin.Second, there are high chance for the video that you upload to be promoted on Google search. So you will get traffic from Google as well.So which one I'm going to focus? Since I'm still a noob, it's best for me to rank only in Youtube. My strategy to choose good keyword is by using the listing suggestion. When you put keywords in YT search box, you will notice the drop down suggestion.. So I will choose those longtail keywords and analyze the competition on 1st page.If the competition on the 1st page don't optimize their title for the long tail keywords, I will make a video related to the keyword.But why longtail? Why not just focus on short tail which probably has more searches per month?Actually I notice ranking a longtail it's lot easier compared to short tail..If I target a keyword that has huge searches.. Maybe I need to spend lot of money for SEO. To save money, I create around 30 videos in one niche.I only target 1 sale per month for each video That make 30 sale per month.But I am not sure whether my strategy will work or not... but we will see.Before I continue, I want to make clear that I never make any sale from Youtube yet.. probably because I choose the wrong niche. It got thousands view but no sale even though I'm focusing on buying keywords. Even if my video isn't convincing enough, I am not sure.. but I've read somewhere that advice to promote high gravity product. Maybe that's the key. I've choose an evergreen niche and create 15 videos for the niche. I am not sure whether it's okay or not to put all of the video in one account, but I think it's better to separate the risks (in case YT decided to ban your account)

Once the video is optimized, I spread it to the social networks such as Reddit, Facebook, Twitter, StumbleUpon, and also embed on my blogspot blog. Try all means to get those youtube videos exposure to more people as I can to get more target traffic, in youtube rules, more view, more feedback means for higher ranking for higher traffic, in return, I can get more sales. If you have better ideas on improving the youtube videos, you're welcome to leave your comments, thanks.
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This method is just missing one thing: watch time. If people stay and watch your videos, YouTube will reward you with good rankings.
 
Tarmack said:
The distinction between long and short tail keywords is one that most places don't outright mention.

Since the game community is so big on this forum, I'll use them as an example.

The benefit to including such a broad search term as "video game" in your tags, description and title is unknown. You're not going to get the top search result for "video game" because the competition is far too high and entrenched.. But picking a longtail keyword like "super mario 3 speed run" will have far less competition.

So by seeking out the higher search longtail keywords, you improve your chances immensely. Will you rank every video? No because plenty of people do it right, but it will definitely improve your rank to some extent.
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Yeah, that's right, when I optimize my video, I always find the right longtail keywords, but still lack of method to search them all.
 
Tarmack said:
The distinction between long and short tail keywords is one that most places don't outright mention.

Since the game community is so big on this forum, I'll use them as an example.

The benefit to including such a broad search term as "video game" in your tags, description and title is unknown. You're not going to get the top search result for "video game" because the competition is far too high and entrenched.. But picking a longtail keyword like "super mario 3 speed run" will have far less competition.

So by seeking out the higher search longtail keywords, you improve your chances immensely. Will you rank every video? No because plenty of people do it right, but it will definitely improve your rank to some extent.
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yeah i agree as well just because a tag is more popular doesnt mean youll get ranked higher you want the tags that are less used so your content doesnt drown in a sea of other content
 
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