Optimizing Using Video Sharing Sites.

[Mahesh]

As the trend of using videos to find information grows, optimizing videos continues to become more critical. Video sharing sites such as http://www.YouTube.com and http://www.dailymotion.com provide ways to optimize your videos when you upload them. They allow a title for your video, a short description and even tags. Take advantage of these elements by placing important keywords in them.Here are few tips to Optimize using the video Sharing Sites.

Tips For Online Video Optimization :

Optimization keywords and tags and Titles:
- Make sure you use relevant keywords in your title,also try using catchy or unique title as that will not only grab attention but convey the theme as well
- Research the competition at You Tube for your related keywords, tags and description. Learn from them but don't copy.
- Use You Tube's keyword suggestions. Or Google's keyword tool. Simply type a keyword slowing into You Tube search and you can see what You Tube suggests.

Tips for optimizing community factors:

- Make great and unique videos.
- Add subscribe, favorite and rate prompts/ calls to action to your videos either at editing stage or via You Tube Annotations.
- Video thumbnail is what users see first when they make their decision to whether or not to view your video,So make sure that the thumbnails they display is the right thumbnail that you want the users to see and that will grab users attention.
- Post a video response on the most popular and relevant video at You Tube that day.
= Add comments prompting people to watch your video on the video watch pages of popular videos.
- Use some but not all the same keyword's as your competition in your titles as the ones related to popular videos that are using in their titles, descriptions and tags to wind up in the related videos arena of their pages.
- Post new videos on Thursdays or Fridays to get visibility on the weekend.
- Important: Use social media and web sites to submit/post your video links and imbeds and get the word out about the video to build links and embeds. Target affinity groups/users and automate this effort with tools like tweetdeck and Tweetlater.
- Submit your videos to multiple video sites using " tubemogul.com " and link to the You Tube video within each description page.
- Link your videos together
- Create Playlists.
- Monitor You Tube Insight and Google Analytics for your channel and videos
- Issue free and or paid press releases to trumpet your video.
- Social media + video working together
- More efforts into video discovery and retrieval.

[douglas]

Great insight to video sharing and optimizing. Thanks Mahesh.

[asha]

For further reading in this regard here is good article on

[jay]

Help Google index your videos. A must for SEO Junkies.

[asha]

has a blog post explaining how to optimize your YouTube videos to show up well in Google News.They also posted this with additional tips.

[jackson]

Thanks for the Information Mahesh. Further Tips for Optimizing your YouTube Videos can be viewed by . You can also view the 10 commandments for Video marketing