Monday, 25 January 2010

SEO for video content - 7 tips

7 tactics for optimising search viability for video content

  1. Educate your video production team on SEO basics e.g. identifying keywords for video titles and file names, tagging options, creating keyword-rich text descriptions of video content
  2. Identify a specific theme for video keywords e.g. more tightly focused. Identify related terms that share the same root as the primary theme and use the term 'video' as a modifier
  3. Host each video on a separate web page so you can use your landing page for keyword rich content
  4. Write compelling titles and 140-150 word descriptions for your videos that include the keyword themes.
  5. Employ video tagging and user comments on video pages
  6. Include a transcript of the words spoken during the video
  7. Add a video site map linked from your home page with a complete list of videos, organised by category e.g. an xml file with a list of URLs that contain video files, along with keyword-rich video title, description, duration and frequency of updates and page's relative importance.

3 comments:

Benny_Chemistry said...

Nice tips! Its also worth pointing out the "more info" box of YouTube allows a live link.

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SEO said...

There's a lot of stuff here and here, many of them are really good... but - I know that's the web's nature - it can be hard to sum all the tips you can find all over sometimes...

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