Most people who are newbies to online video marketing tend to assume that video search engine optimization is all about getting your videos into YouTube, and expecting them to appear in Google’s search results. However if you’re serious about Video SEO, you need to learn about how to optimize your own website and video on your website first. Watch my presentation I gave at the Search Engine Strategies conference in Chicago this past October to learn the why’s and how’s of optimizing video on your website for SEO.

1. WEBSITE Video SEO, Explained By Grant Crowell, Videologist grant@reelseo.com Original presentation given October 20, 2010 at Search Engine Strategies, Chicago

3. Why Website Video SEO?

4. Tips

6. ReelSEO Videos indexed in Google

7. ReelSEO videos are indexed in just hours!

8. ReelSEO top search results for “video seo”

9. ReelSEO #1 for “video marketing”

10. ReelSEO’s Image thumbnails of videos in Google’s universal search

11. Video image thumbnails with play button feature

13. AUDIENCE POLL!

14. VIDEOLOGY 101WEBSITE VIDEO SEO, EXPLAINED

15. What is Website Video SEO? It’s an extension of Video SEO which is an extension of SEO and website publishing best practices.

16. What is Website Video SEO? Here are 3 basics things to remember… Website Video SEO is about driving more traffic directly through video in a search engines’ search listings directly to your website, which… Gives you an additional opportunity to rank in that search engines’ search results, and… Provides greater visibility in those search engines’ results pages with the use of a video thumbnail.

17. What is Website Video SEO? Here are a few more things to keep in mind... It can be “owned” or “shared” video content It’s not all about YouTube and Google! It can have traffic advantages over YouTube and other video destination sites.

18. Better targeted traffic More control over the content More control over the display More control over the thumbnail image No competition from other videos No rev share required No takedowns! Website SEO’s Advantages Over YouTube

19. Website Video SEO Chart

20. Website Video SEO Page Sample

21. TIPS!

22. Online Video Platforms (OVPs) & CDNS Manage all of your video assets Custom video players Better OVPs have their own Video SEO support and tools. But… Find out their Video SEO capabilities, and… Get a test demo, and…. Actual template and client samples

23. Content Partnerships Video production professionals Video talent Interview guests Vloggers Consumers (your audience!) User-generated “video studs” Webcammers!

24. Transcription options for Website Video SEO YouTube route. (You need to have clear audio quality to work best.) Transcription software. (Should have a video player feature.) Transcriber (Human ear, but should have someone who understands your industry.) Speech-to-text technology. (RAMP, 3PlayMedia, and others do combination of technolgy + human ear, but charge a premium rate.)

25. Transcription tips for Website Video SEO Create your custom intro paragraph that’s keyword rich (also repeat for title tag and headers) Break up transcripts into easily digestible tracts (and keyword rich headers) Edit your transcript so it’s of a proper length and keyword-richness for where you want to show up in search results. Proof it for readability!

26. Free Goody!

27. FREE Google Video Sitemaps Webinar Reelseo.com/video-xml-sitemaps-video/

28. Questions? Comments? Care for a mint? grant@reelseo.comtwitter @grantcrowell