Video Search Engine Optimization: A Visual Promotion
Tuesday, 24 November 2009 16:45 | Author: Yomi A |
The newest way to promote your product, website or service is to harness the power of video search engine optimization. Now that most homes use broadband, video content is extremely popular. Everyone has always liked video content, no one liked waiting for video content to upload, download and rarely did it ever stream properly.
by AlexisJameson
The newest way to promote your product, website or service is to harness the power of video search engine optimization. Now that most homes use broadband, video content is extremely popular. Everyone has always liked video content, no one liked waiting for video content to upload, download and rarely did it ever stream properly.
A majority of the population would rather watch something than read about it. The consumer gets a chance to see how the item is utilized and it is then easier for them to picture themselves using the product at home. Most of the time, there are less questions that need to be asked once a consumer views a video.
So now that you have your video made, you will want as many people to see it as possible. That will bring the much needed traffic to your website and get the page ranking that you need. There are some basic things that you can do in efforts to achieve video search engine optimization.
The file name itself should contain the name of your website. After all, that is where you want the traffic to go. Video search engine spiders pick up on this, as well. The web page that you utilize to describe your video can contain all the keywords and tags that you want it to have. One thing to know is that Flash video is not a big hit with the search engines.
You will also want to have a wordy description liberally sprinkled with keywords on one of your web pages that describes your video. Search engine spiders will seek these pages and your titles out when they are crawling through pages.
YouTube and AOL video are two websites that are the most popular places to upload videos. When placing your videos on these websites, take advantage of the ability to use the title box. There is a limit to your amount of characters, so make them count. Also, remember that category counts. If you use the wrong category, that will impede anyone from finding your video.