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Top Video SEO Tips
Hosting Video On Your Site

Offer your video content in as many formats and sizes as possible, for search engine accessability, user preferences, and video devices.

Use appropriate keywords in the filename and URL to help search engines identify the content.

Add text paragraphs with a description of your video. Provide a video transcription to tell both human visitors and search engines more about the video on the page.

Make sure to embed your video into your site. Eliminate the use of pop-up video. Pop-up video is subject to beng blocked depending on the visitors settings.

Keep all of your video located in one central folder. With everything in one folder it is easy to access any video you have on your site and this makes it easier to research your analytics and visits for each specific video.

Create a new web page for each video. This helps to make your search optimization efforts even more effective and provide more accurate statistics and analytics of who is visiting the page and how many visits you get.

Request links from external sites. Especially where the content is relevant and appropriate. You should also link with news, reviews, blogs, etc.

Create a video sitemap. For video that is hosted on your own website, use a video sitemap to index your content. Submit a Google Video Sitemap.

Create interaction and sharing between your videos and different websites. Make sharing through social sites possible and enable RSS feed subscriptions to your videos. Allowing comments could also be beneficial to add buzz and feedback on your content.

Submitting Your Video To Sharing Sites

Put your video everywhere. Your clients and potential clients may find your video directly on their favorite video sharing site. Make sure to provide links back to related content and other videos on your site. Provide keywords that relate to your content.

Youtube is a MUST. Create your own branded channel to host your videos. Use annotations to drive viewers to your other related videos.

Allow the 'Embed Code' on sharing sites. Allow viewers to embed your video code into their own blogs and websites. This will help to create backlinks to your video which boosts ranking as well as help make your video go viral.

Brand your video. Don't forget to include your logo, watermark, web address, and any general information in the video so viewers know how to get more information or contact you.

Optimize the video script to use more keywords. This will help those video search engines who use speech recognition.

Syndication. Benefits the content provider and website publisher. It's an effective way for publishers to discover and acquire video content for their site. In turn, this exposure generates new traffic for the content provider - making syndication a free and easy form of advertisement.

Use social media and bookmarking sites to provide excellent inbound links.