Seo Tips

Top SEO Tips For Your YouTube Videos

In this post, you will learn some useful tips and ideas on how to improve the SEO structure of your YouTube videos.

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YouTube is an indispensable marketing tool; it’s not just for uploading useless videos of your dog dressed up in your grandma’s underpants… Whether you’re a musician or run a small eCommerce website, YouTube is a powerful and essential tool for marketing and promoting anything you want in your line of business.

For me, YouTube has become one of the most resourceful tools for generating traffic to my art website. More recently for increasing traffic to my blog and helping me achieve some affiliate marketing success.

Whilst YouTube is a powerful marketing platform; it has also become a saturated one too. More and more videos being uploaded means tough competition, and getting your videos noticed can prove a real challenge at times. Hence, you should understand the importance of promoting your YouTube Videos.

Optimizing your YouTube Videos

So how do you effectively optimize your YouTube videos to ensure that it receives the most amounts of views possible? In this short post, we’re going to look at some all-essential SEO tips for improving the visibility of your videos on YouTube.

1. Optimizing your Video Title

Let’s start with the title. This is essentially important if you want people to find your videos using specific keywords, so ensuring your keyword or key phrase appears at the beginning of your video title is important.

For example, if I was going to create a video on painting tips using acrylics, my target keywords might be ‘Acrylic painting tips,’ so I’ll ensure this is present at the start of my SEO title for my video. Here is an example:

‘Best Acrylic Painting Tips – Landscapes Acrylic Painting Tips for Beginners.’ As you can see, my focus keywords are at the beginning and are also mentioned again in the title; this is effective; however, remember not to overstuff your SEO title with too many keywords.

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2. Add Texts and Captions in your Video Content

Don’t forget when you’re adding texts and captions in your videos to add your keywords. This will greatly help to improve the search rank of your videos.

3. Video Description

Again when you’re writing your unique video description, start with your keyword or your key phrase… So the keywords for the example video I used earlier, being ‘Acrylic Painting Tips,’ are used, followed by my video description. You might also want to add your keyword or key phrase again in the body of your description.

4. Add a Link to your Video in your Description

Another useful little YouTube SEO tip I want to share with you is copying and pasting the link (URL) to your video into the description itself. This will create a backlink to your video each time your video is bookmarked on social or embedded on another site or blog.

5. Promote more Likes on your Videos

Get your social connections, including your family members, college friends, landlord, or anyone else you can get hold of to like your videos on YouTube. Get as many thumbs up as possible. If you run a blog, write a short post kindly asking for readers to give you the thumbs up on your latest video, you can also embed the video in the post itself.

6. Promote sharing of your Videos across Social Networking Sites

Don’t forget that social media now has an immense role to play in how we perform SEO. Share your videos using social bookmarking tools like Digg, StumbleUpon, Pinterest, and social networking sites like Facebook and Google+. Also, since Google owns YouTube, you can also encourage viewers to give your video a plus-one rating.

7. Choose the Correct Category

It’s important to choose the right category for your video. Avoid choosing nonrelated categories just because you think you’re going to get more popularity from them. Besides, choosing unrelated categories will only confuse potential viewers, and you may also run the risk of having your video removed by YouTube.

8. Use Multiple Tags

Use as many post tags as possible that best describe your video, but by all means, don’t go overboard… I’d say around 10 tags should be plenty.

9. Get your friends commenting on your Video

Finally, get as many of your social connections, families, and friends as leaving you nice comments on your videos.

Well, those are my top SEO tips for optimizing your YouTube videos, but I’m sure you’d like to add a few more of your own. So please let me know your thoughts on the tips above and whether you are involved in YouTube in any way, and it would be great to hear from you; comments below as always.