SEO: youtube videos – getting more hits.
Want your video to get noticed on youtube? think you deserve more comments than the views youâre getting? one way is to produce a better quality, higher standard of content clip.. but if it is good, and even if it isnât, everyone deserves to get the exposure, cause feedback is great. And we all want kind words and good advice from our peers.
Youtube has some good stuff on it, but its buried and many of the best stuff gets lost because people arenât filling their details with all the correct words that allows people to find it. Iâve decided to write a little guide on how to get more hits to your youtube movies. enjoy. (Iâm a web designer, I know this stuff)
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The title of the movie should be the most common search term eg: the combination of words that most people are likely to type in to the search box.
The description box should also contain this common string of words. Plus other text if you wish.
The tags should contain all the variations of likely typed search words in order. this is important!
for example: if I had a tricking video showing people how to do a gainer. I need to make sure as many people can find it.
To do this you need to understand how search engines work. They track, store and deliver words based the order that people string words together in real life. People generally think and type in the order that they speak: âHow to do a gainerâ âI want to learn how to do a gainerâ âbest tips to land a gainerâ âhow do I learn a forwards backflipâ.
With this in mind, this is the basis for completing all the input boxes on youtube.
First the title: âhow to do a gainer tutorialâ
This starts with âhow to do aâ⊠very common search term for anything.. âgainerâ a very specific search term for a trick⊠and lastly âtutorialâ because iâm guessing more people think speak and type âgainer tutorialâ than âtutorial gainerâ âŠ. therefore the word âtutorialâ must be last. Sure some people wonât use this natural order of words, but Iâm guessing most will. NextâŠ
The description area:
âHow to do a gainer? Gainer tutorial, learning a gainer, what is a gainer? how do I learn a forwards backflip?â
This area needs to display all the various combinations of what people would type. Without this, your clip wouldnât stand a chance of being found frequently. You can also throw in any other text in this section to describe the clip. But focus on popular search terms first. You could put them last, but that isnât logical if you want things to be found first.
next the tags:
âhowto best tips learning gainer tutorial forwards backflipâ
Tags have no order right? wrong, they work just like the search strings, a logical natural order based on what humans commonly type. In my example, Iâve dropped the words âhowâ & âtoâ for âhowtoâ its a gamble but a specific one, tagging them as 2 separate words is natural, but you may also run into zillions of clips that also just have the random words âhowâ & âtoâ in there, not good. So joining them to âhowtoâ specifies them that I want to learn something. Like wise Iâve also dropped all the other non specific words to eliminate pointless results. Also donât go crazy adding loads of tags, it actually confuses the Youtube system, rather than speed it up.
Hereâs another eg for you:
I say ânikon coolpix S7c cameraâ.. so thatâs the most likely search string order for people to find the product⊠if I type âcamera S7c coolpix nikonâ, its an unlikely order of words, because we donât see them printed or publicised in that order, so typing them in that order would be even more unlikely⊠therefore I would miss most of the audience that were looking for it.
Now with this knowledge, you can actually focus on typing the âwrongâ ordered search terms into youtube and getting back a whole bunch of clips that normally wouldnât be so easily found.