Ranking Your Youtube Videos

March 14, 2018
digitalmarketing, Marketing, SEO, Video

Creating stunning and informative Youtube videos can send a surge of traffic to your website. But marketing the Youtube video is an inevitable step every SEO firm or a business has to deal with.

In this article, we will read on various factors that influence Youtube rankings and how to implement them to benefit our Youtube Videos.

YouTube SEO Ranking Factors

Your Channel’s Keywords

In the same way that you would use Search Engine Optimisation for your web pages, you must use SEO keywords for your channel. Remember, these are the terms that viewers will search when looking for videos, and you need to employ the right amount of competition so that the crawlers find and rank you highly for those terms.

Keywords in the Title

In the same way that Google ranks websites and landing pages by using keywords in headers and sub-headers, YouTube ranks videos by the effective use of keywords in the video’s title. Employ competitive keywords in your video’s title to rank highly with their crawler, as well as with other major crawlers like Google.

Keywords Contained in the Description

The description of your video is another place the crawlers will look for keywords. This is that short bit of content where you describe your video. If you underestimate the importance of writing a description, you will lose a huge factor in how your video is ranked.

While YouTube allows an amazing 5,000 characters in your description, you would do well to keep the important keywords (the same as used in your title) in the first 157 characters of your description. That is the maximum number displayed in the meta description on the SERPs.

Video Tags

While not as important as the keywords in your title or description, the tags you use are still beneficial to the crawlers seeking information on what your video is about. Try to use one or two-word tags which can quickly identify the topic of your video and help both viewers and crawlers to easily find your video.

Subtitles and Closed Captions

The 5th factor used by crawlers to rank your video is one that too many video producers fail to utilise. Not only will the crawlers find your subtitles and closed captions to better understand the content of your video (to rank it), but those written words are highly appreciated by viewers who like to read along while they’re watching.

Sometimes background noise interferes with the quality of what they are hearing, and those closed captions enable them to follow along without repeatedly hitting pause, scanning back and replaying from where they lost track.