Google is the most popular Search Engine; YouTube is the search engine for videos. Like Google, YouTube is its search engine and has its own best practices for SEO. Hence, it is important to optimize your YouTube videos to rank for a search.
As per Ahref’s “YouTube SEO is the process of optimizing your videos, playlists, and channel to rank high in YouTube’s organic search results for a given search query. “
What are the steps you need to take to optimize your YouTube channel for search? Follow our tips:
Undoubtedly, the most important factor for YouTube video ranking is Quality Content. The key ingredient to effective video SEO is high engagement. The more people who watch, like, and comment on a video, the better it will generally rank on YouTube.
You have already spent a lot of time researching keywords for your business. Now, it’s time to make sure you are using the same for YouTube videos.
Writing searchable descriptions can help you rank your YouTube videos. Including long-term search queries in the video, description will help in YouTube SEO.
In-video optimization will help you to increase the retention rate and create a better user experience for the viewers.
The more the users interact with your YouTube video, the more popular your video is. It is one of the factors YouTube algorithms use to rank videos. Subscribing to the channel has more weight since it means that people will see your content regularly.
For the best YouTube SEO, you want links to both your channel and videos. The inbound channel links help you to get authority in your niche.
To maximize YouTube SEO and visibility, share your videos on social channels like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Linked In, Quora, etc.
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More Links for YouTube SEO:
https://ahrefs.com/blog/youtube-seo/
https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/youtube-seohttps://neilpatel.com/blog/youtube-seo/
About the Author: Tarundeep Kaur, freelance content strategist and writer passionate about SEO and Social Media Marketing in Plano Texas. Loves to cook and paint in her free time. You can reach her on Linkedin.