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How to Advertise for Free on YouTube & Leverage Your Video SEO!

In the SearchLove London video, Phil had a tip that involved creating Google Adwords ads for the display network that make it possible to overlay a banner ad into your own YouTube videos that link back to your site. Yes, wake up people!!! I said, “You can configure a YouTube video to have an embedded link back to your site.“ Yes, in the video!

Building a Video SEO Strategy

Designing and implementing a goal-driven strategy for Video SEO is imperative to its success. In today's post, Phil outlines the core goals video can provide for SEO and explains what type of content is required for businesses to reach Video SEO glory.

Winning the Video Thumbnail in Google Universal Search

Have you noticed that more and more video results are showing up in Google search results? Everywhere I turn, it seems that Google is providing me with options of videos to watch on the first page of their search results. As a user, I appreciate the video content and will often click on the video results. As a marketer, I am incredibly jealous of those placements and am cons...

Dominating Youtube Search and "Related Videos" Results (Case Study)

Earlier in April I have come up with the fun contest idea: having our users create screencast tutorials of their favorite MyBlogGuest features. Before that our Youtube presence had been quite weak, so it turned out to be quite an insightful experience that I am laying out here for other Youtube newbies like me.

The YouTube Experiment

When I first suggested setting up a YouTube channel for our videos, I got a lot of sneers at the office. YouTube gets a bad rap (compared to a good rap) around our office. It’s probably because we’ve been soured by the comparisons between it and Wistia for business video hosting.

An SEO's Guide to Video Hosting and Embedding

I'm frequently asked: "How should I host my videos for SEO purposes? Is it better to use YouTube, Vimeo or third party hosting?" My response to this question is invariably terse, along the lines of "it depends on the style of your content and what you want to achieve with it." Each situation is different.

Video Sitemap Guide for Vimeo and YouTube

Did you know that major search engines want you to make video sitemaps for all of your embeds, even if you're hosting on Vimeo or Youtube? Not only does it help them spider your website by giving the search engines clues as to where to look for video embeds, it may also earn your site a click through boost by giving you a picture in the SERP. Below I'll show you how I managed to index my Vimeo video embeds to include a thumbnail. Don't worry, the same steps should work for Youtube as well.