How to Optimize SEO for YouTube Videos

Your video is uploaded on Youtube and your are not getting views?

Think that why any one is going to watch your videos or your video will be found into search result. Youtube videos also need to be seo optimized in order to get ranking into search result, I assume that you have nice content and you will share and promote your video to get inorganic views.

Here I will talk about how you can get organic traffic to your YouTube videos and how to do smart SEO for better search results.

When someone search any particular types of video on YouTube,YouTube algorithm analysis following things to rank the video on first page :

Title tag information

Audience retention

Keywords in description tag

Tags

Video length

Number of subscribers after watching

Comments

Likes and dislikes

Here is the amazing tips,by following this you can rank your video on first page of YouTube Search:

1. Title of the video – Use Keywords

Video title is the name of your video by which one can know that what is inside your video, having title which perfectly match to your video content will be very friendly to viewer and also to the youtube algorithm for seo, give the suitable title to your video.

2. Description of video.

Write description about your video content, first 2-3 lines matters a lot to rank your video high in search engine, give a short description in 2-3 line which cover the theme of your video and what is going to be inside the video.

Well, the more YouTube knows about your video, the more confidently it can rank it for your target keyword.

But more importantly, YouTube uses keywords in the description to rank you for super-long tail keywords.

3. Get More Video Views From Online Communities

Online communities like Quora and LinkedIn groups are fantastic places to funnel traffic from.

The thing is, most communities do not take too kindly to someone dropping links to their content all over the place.

But they are usually open to people sharing helpful YouTube videos, like yours!

Because the number and quality of your video views is one of the most important YouTube ranking factors, getting views from targeted communities works wonders.

Just find a question in the community that your video could help answer. Then provide some value and suggest that people watch your video if they want more information.

4. Naming your video file before upload.

You have created and edited your video and it is ready to upload on youtbe, but you rendered your video file  as mov001.avi or random_name.mp4, make sure you rename your video as your_keyword.mp4, naming your video file as your focused keyword actually tells the search engine that what can be inside your video, Search engines cannot look inside video content this is the file name which tells search algorithm that what  your video is about to.

5. Tagging & Keyword research for YouTube video.

Tags are another important way to get ranking in youtube search, here are few tips to put tags in your video-

List specific tags first :-  Write your main keyword first, doing this will put weight in algorithms.

List general tags :- Write general and matching keyword to contain.