Creating a YouTube channel for your business is a great way of expanding your “e-footprint” and boosting your SEO (search engine optimisation).
Here are some tips on how improve your SEO using You Tube.
1. Ensure your video title is descriptive and contains key words.
For example your business name, location and what you do along with the product or service featured in the video.
2. In the video description include a link to your website and keywords.
Again include the keywords and repeat them. For example if your video is about how to choose a tennis racket, weave that phrase into the description at least two or three times.
Top tip: Ensure you include the http:// bit in your website address otherwise it won’t be clickable. Eg. https://www.expertiseontap.co.uk
3. In the tags section include no more than 10-15 phrases including variants.
So for a video on choosing a tennis racket also include the alternative spelling of “racquet”. And just as you do for website keywords include phrases of two words of more in inverted commas, eg “tennis racket”.
4. Drive traffic to your channel.
The more views your channel gets the higher the impact on SEO. Mention your channel wherever you can and give people a reason to click through. Mention it on Twitter, Facebook, your blog, web forums and in your email signature.
I recently created a series of tennis coaching tips for East Glos Club. Below is an example of how one of the videos appears in a YouTube search at position number two. This is due to implementing all the above.
I think you neglected the most important thing for SEO. Make a transcript! It will produce a massive amount of textual info for Search Engines to get their teeth into.
Many thanks for that additional tip Kris. When you say make a transcript, for the benefit of others reading this, what do you mean? Literally type out a transcript and the paste it into the video description?
Yes, get a text version of all the speech. Don’t paste into the description though – use Youtube’s transcript feature service as hard of hearing viewers will benefit as well.
http://support.google.com/youtube/bin/static.py?hl=en&page=guide.cs&guide=2734661
I’ve tried these strategies and it’s really working good.