SEO Tycoon

**micoblanco** · 02-10-2009, 06:02 AM

Internet users are fund of watching videos whether it's for educational or entertainment purposes. More and more gadgets are now being invented with the capability of playing videos. SEOs and Webmaster should grab this opportunity to outdo their competitors.

In SEO, video submissions are now being introduce. I personally think that it is the most influential and maybe the most powerful type of marketing/advertising strategy that can help a business to introduce/expose its products and services to the world. Videos are now listed in SERPs and it adds valuable links and alternetive sources to a website.

Video Optimization Tips:

Video Content - Your videos should be informative and relevant as always.
Baiting - Make your titles/filenames catchy.
Video Length - As much as possible don't make your video clips too long. You can also divide your video clips it into smaller parts if its quite long.
Meta Data - Use relevant and appropriate keywords and put a short yet informative description in your meta data.
Syndication - Submit your video to RSS
Putting attractive thumbnails - This will be the one of the deciding factors if someone will going to watch your videos or not.
Be Friendly - Allow users to comment and rate your video clips. This will help you to improve your videos if someone can give you good suggestions.
Watermarks - We are in the Internet world; where everyhting's can be copied so I strongly suggest to put watermarks in your videos to indicates your ownership and its origin.
Opening and Closing Remarks - You can display an image at the beginning at ending part of your videos to enhance your brand or site awareness. It can also trigger your watchers to go directly to your web site.
Link Back - Youtube offers its members to "link back" their videos to their respective websites if they uploaded or added a video, so you better grab that opportunity.

Always remember that "Exposure is King".

By the way, here's a list of websites that offer video services. Hope it helps.
http://web2.econsultant.com/videos-h...-services.html

**zeruel** · 02-11-2009, 11:08 AM

These are some really nice tips. But most SEO guys or webmasters, tend to host their own video on their own websites due to some copyright issues. And they tend to take the traffic than give it up to some other popular video sites particularly youtube. They are getting a bit smarter that they want to control their own videos and put it on their own sites instead, which in fact they can't do to other video sites.

My two cents.

**micoblanco** · 02-12-2009, 06:05 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by zeruel

These are some really nice tips. But most SEO guys or webmasters, tend to host their own video on their own websites due to some copyright issues. And they tend to take the traffic than give it up to some other popular video sites particularly youtube. They are getting a bit smarter that they want to control their own videos and put it on their own sites instead, which in fact they can't do to other video sites.

My two cents.

About the copyright issues... yep, maybe they have their own point of view but they are losing lots of exposure especially when they can upload their videos at Youtube (I think, the most popular video site today).

**selena12** · 03-16-2009, 02:29 AM

Thanks for the video sharing website list.

**alien668** · 03-16-2009, 03:09 AM

Hi, micoblanco, thanks for sharing your video optimization experience with us, it is helpful and informative. You know, put a video on website for advertising, it's absoluately good, but it always take lots of host space and bandwidth, I had seen many websites contains videos, it always need take a long time for loading, Do you have any good ideas to speed the video play fast ?
Thanks
Alien

**bailey.rein** · 03-16-2009, 03:37 AM

i have never done optimizing a video before but at least I was able to get some tips here... thanks for sharing this.. really appreciated

**rypher21** · 03-16-2009, 04:40 AM

these are really great tips...i haven't tried this stuff, i'll start learning this..thanks for the share..

**camar** · 03-16-2009, 07:47 AM

Nice tips for video opimization.Thanks for sharing.

**stephen186** · 03-16-2009, 03:07 PM

yes video marketing is emerging as a good way to market your promote and to get a rush of traffic. Also try to get backlinks to your youtube video through bookmarking or through linking back with squidoo lens and blogs.

**mrandrei** · 03-16-2009, 11:03 PM

Awesome tips. Video optimization is really a good way to drive traffic to a site. It's viral!