Comments on: 10 Video SEO Tips To Improve Rank and User Experience

By: Jamie Royld

Jamie Royld — Tue, 28 Jun 2022 12:51:37 +0000

Excellent tips! To rank higher on YouTube I personally prefer using a tool called Tuberank Jeet. It helps to build highly successful and insanely popular YouTube channels and it is built with the latest YouTube algorithms to help you rank faster and better with a minimum effort. I think this tool will be a great addition to your blog.

By: Chelsea Adams

Chelsea Adams — Mon, 09 Sep 2013 17:44:12 +0000

In reply to Bobby.

Thanks for writing, Bobby!

I can’t go into too much individual consulting here, but here are a couple quick things you might try:

1) I don’t see any Schema in your Waggoner source code, so the first thing you should do is add Schema video markup there (item number 10 in my blog post). After you’ve added the Schema look in Google Webmaster Tools to make sure Google is understanding your XML sitemap. (You did submit an XML Sitemap for both of these websites, right?)

You can learn how to apply video Schema at the Google Webmaster Tools blog: http://bit.ly/1ax3l1x

2) Sometimes Google will look for an tag to verify whether the video you claim in you sitemap is actually on your site. You might also try defining your video with an object tag. Learn more about Object Tags here: http://bit.ly/1ax7dQj

If you’d like more intensive one-on-one consulting we have a whole team dedicated to that in the room next door…! (Learn more about our SEO services here: http://bit.ly/1ax727n)

By: Bobby

Bobby — Fri, 30 Aug 2013 16:49:03 +0000

Thank you for these tips. I’m a very frustrated SEO who’s trying to get this “video seo” thing figured out. Here’s my problem: I’ve tried and tested just about everything but still cannot get my video thumbnail image to appear in Google search results, or for Google video search to show that it’s grabbed the page where the video resides. Here’s the sites where I’m testing:

http://www.waggonerinsurance.com (using Bits On The Run – JW Player)

http://www.samriveraautos.com (using Wistia)

Now have a few other sites, but they are all integrated with either JW Player (bits on the run) or Wistia.

And these video snippets are still not showing up in Google.

Any thoughts, insights, or help?

I would be SOOOO appreciative.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 11 Jul 2013 06:20:30 +0000

Hi Chelsea,

Thanks for the great article. My name is Mike and I’m a member of the Treepodia team. Your audience probably already knows this, but I like to remind myself WHY we should concern ourselves with video seo in the first place: because video is 53x more likely to rank on page 1 of your SERPs!

Best,
Mike
@treepodia

By: Chelsea Adams

Chelsea Adams — Tue, 09 Jul 2013 22:04:02 +0000

In reply to Kevin L. Hi, Kevin! Yeah, I'm not really sure why YouTube (a company owned by Google) decided to make the new embed code an iframe... seems like an SEO curve ball to me. None the less, go team O.G. embed code! (That's you and me, and possibly a half-dozen other SEOs, Kevin. ;))

By: Kevin L

Kevin L — Tue, 09 Jul 2013 07:41:42 +0000

Thanks for these tips man. well done.
I’m excited to find out it is just not me who prefers the old youtube embed code. Now that I know it helps seo I am on it even more :)

By: Chelsea Adams

Chelsea Adams — Mon, 08 Jul 2013 16:05:21 +0000

In reply to Siddharth Lal. Thanks, Siddharth!

By: Siddharth Lal

Siddharth Lal — Fri, 05 Jul 2013 03:24:22 +0000

Awesome tips on video seo!

By: Rajeev.R

Rajeev.R — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 04:26:59 +0000

Great article. I think videos are the future of internet marketing. It seems many people now are opting for video news. Thanks for these truly excellent tips.

By: Jimmie

Jimmie — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 21:01:12 +0000

Great article!