Tips on How to Get your Videos into the Search Engines

So you’ve made your videos. You’ve put them online. You’ve waited several days and then checked the major video search engines and your videos still aren’t there! You’re ready to rip out your hair in frustration! Well before you do that, why don’t you read these quick tips on how to get your online videos indexed by the major video search engines. These will help get your video noticed and in front of your target audience faster via the search engines that track video.

Keywords “These are, well, key. If you don’t have accurate keywords attached to your video intelligent video search bots aren’t going to be able to pick up your videos so what makes you think that intelligent web surfers will do any better? These keywords should be incorporated into the title, description and used in meta tags for your videos. This applies if you’re hosting the videos on your own site or if you’re putting them up on a video sharing site.

Video Sharing Sites “You will not be surprised to learn that YouTube gets more traffic than your website does. So why not put your video where the most people can find it? YouTube is one of the most popular sites on the web and one of the great things about it is that you won’t get hit for duplicate content in Google’s index when you post your videos up there. A pretty cool advantage for a small amount of work really. Making a channel to group all of your videos together will also help to strengthen brand awareness as they will be easier to find.

RSS and MRSS “RSS is a great way to tell the search engines about your more static content but what about your media content? Well that’s where the M in MRSS comes in. The media RSS protocol is used to tell the search engines where and what media content is being published. These are pretty handy files as they can be auto-updated so that the search engines always know when you publish new content.

Sure these were just three quick ideas to help you get your videos noticed. There are numerous other things that one can do to get the search engines to notice your content the least of which is to have good content to begin with. Another is to make your video content easy to share by including social networking links and more. A little work can go a long way, so get out there and do it

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