Monday, November 23, 2009

How To Use Video Search Engine Optimization

By Alexis Jameson

With more and more people gaining access to the internet and DSL, Video SEO, otherwise known as Video Search Engine Optimization or iVOD, is expanding at a fast rate. More and more websites are posting video content for people to view.

With search engines not being able to look inside the videos for content is the reason for Video SEO still being in its early years. Place metadata on your website or even within the video so the search engines will locate this information. Use text or inbound links to describe the video. Basically, treat the website as if there were no videos on it from this stand point.

Facial recognition, screen text and flesh, for potential adult content can be recognized by search engines. For your effort at Video SEO, do not count on this to help you in optimization.

There are 3 methods available for video optimization. All three are worth doing. The process is listed below. While a minute area of the market is represented by video search engines, they can still prove to be important in video seo. These search engines make several prospects available to provide optimization results. Truveo is one such search engine.

Prospects: For the video file itself, the title, description, keywords and tags are housed. The video world is only a small percentage but, data entry does not take long. Be sure to enter HTML text on your website that will allow people to read about the video. Be sure to give a graphic detail about the video. Placing all your video files in the same place makes it easier for search engines to find them. Do not use Flash Players and finally, use video sitemaps.

Using the videos as uploads to YouTube or similar websites, as RSS or MRSS feeds, enter keywords, a description and a title. Create a link that connects back to your website.

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