Search YouTube Comments
Did you know you can search YouTube comments for keywords? This comes in handy when you want to find out who’s trashing you in videos. Here’s an example… click here to search video comments for the word Nalts.
What You Don’t Know About Videos & Search Engines Can…
… be hurting you. Why do keep writing about video search-engine optimization? Your viewers or customers are increasingly using specific terms in their search, and including the word “video” into searches more than the word “sex.” In the past 5 years the term “how to” has grown steadily as a search phrase (Google analytics). Eye…
Getting Your Videos to Rank High on Google
I just spoke with the Guru of Video SEO, Mark Robertson, to get some input on my chapter on video SEO (for “Beyond Viral Video”). I don’t think I succeeded on convincing him to just write the chapter (with credit, of course), but he’s been very generous with his insights. He’s got the smack daddy…
How to Search YouTube Comments
It’s now easy to search YouTube comments without diving into each video and clicking “show all comments.” In a vital move, Google now invites you to search ALL COMMENTS here. Nice job, Google & YouTube. I’ve been begging for this, and with this and the Twitter partnership… you’ve become a real-time engine again. I can…
Google & Twitter & Real-Time Search, Oh My!
I beg your pardon. While I’ve been bustin’ on Google for not keeping up on real-time search, I neglected to read this announcement 6 days later… Seems the folks at Twitter and Google have reached an agreement, and we’ll soon see Twitter indexed on Google. Clearly my post was the impetus, and I’m glad to…
YouTube is a Search Engine, Dummy
YouTube was once a popular video-sharing site built on community. That community is still critical to gaining and keeping a large audience, but heat maps show the YouTube masthead is HAWT around the search field, and YouTube is now the second most-popular search engine after Google. It beats MSN and Yahoo. Or YahooMSN. ReelSEO has…
Find Videos Even When You’re Not Searching For ’em
Veoh video compass provides browser plug-in to augment your searches with video content. Growing quickly in popularity.
New Sitemaps: Can Google Crawl the Video on Your Site?
An important note from Google about how to ensure your videos are easy for Google to find… Video Sitemaps: Make your videos discoverable [Original Post by Amit Paunikar, Product Manager] Indexing video content presents some unique challenges, and if you have videos on your site, you’re probably wondering how to make sure your videos are…
Online Video & SEO
I don’t often quote press releases, but this release by Vmatrix is quite accurate: Two hottest trends in online marketing – streaming video and video SEO – will take off in popularity in 2009. According to online marketing studies, Google’s universal search algorythms, which allow multimedia to appear in search results along with web page…
Getting Your Videos Seen With Search
Last week I wrote one of my more seminal posts on the convergence of paid search and video. Those who comment on my blog, of course, are rather indifferent about these vital topics and would just prefer me to stick with such topics as farts and YouTube drama. Alas, I finally know how our summer…