How to rank YouTube videos

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Hi guys, will appreciate an advice on this.
Other than the "on-site" optimization - title, tags, description and of course user engagement ( views. duration, likes, comments), what other factors rank a certain YouTube video?
Do links work here as well? Links from other sites or links from other YT videos? How can one video "beat" the other?
Any grey/black hat methods? Does purchasing views/likes/comments do any good?
 


Hi,

I'm not into youtube at the moment, however I suggest you approach it like standard SEO. Find what is ranking (in your niche), research it to see if you can find out why, and then copy :-) Basically reverse engineer ranking in your niche and you're good.

XH
 
backlinks are dead R.I.P SEO.

But really for youtube videos, this one is easy...

Web 2.0's or your own network of sites with youtube video embedded around LSI content.

LSI anchor text spam

Link / anchor / ip diversity

steady link velocity

And any other good link you can nab
 
For YouTube, views, likes, social shares, subs, etc, all work. You'll have a hard time finding a good view supplier nowadays, a few months back YouTube fixed that, and using view suppliers (those who'll give you thousands of views at once) can get your video banned. You can go the slow route by using sites like Vagex and Enhanceviews though. Most people say that links don't make any difference in YouTube, but I disagree, I've found that social bookmarks and web 2.0s help a lot.

In terms of Google, as skohh said, embeds and links, etc. You used to be able to rank a video in Google with a blast of scrapebox, now it seems to be hit or miss. The best approach would be to link as you do with websites, if you care about the video.
 
I heard somewhere that when you upload the video, make it unlisted and then send views to that video. And when you have good views then List it as Public. It starts ranking.
 
freakads said:
I heard somewhere that when you upload the video, make it unlisted and then send views to that video. And when you have good views then List it as Public. It starts ranking.
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Where did you hear that?
What;s the difference between sending views to the vid while it's listed vs while it isn't?
 
freakads said:
I heard somewhere that when you upload the video, make it unlisted and then send views to that video. And when you have good views then List it as Public. It starts ranking.
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This is something that used to work (specifically for YouTube, not Google) really well last year, but YouTube have caught on. Now it's rare for it to work, but it can.

1) Upload video
2) Don't make it public, keep it private or unlisted
3) Send thousands of high-retention views to it, as well as likes, etc
4) Make the video public

This used to work really well in getting first page rankings, even for competitive terms, because it makes it look as though the video has gone viral.
 
GimpSpack said:
Make sure to include a script when you upload your video.
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GimpSpack:

By script do you mean text for closed captioning?

I've heard that CC is going to be more and more important, especially since they basically put harmful babble in their automatically. A huge extra step for a lot of people, but the ones who put keyword rich CC in will do better in search.
 
People are worried about building backlinks to a specific video, but wouldn't it be more effective to just get that video placed on other websites and blogs? It would have a lot of clout with Google if shared on various Tumblrs and blogs. After all, the video is portable, so there's no reason to send someone to that actual page. Anyway, the url of the video would be in the share code, so it would count as a backlink.
 
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