tips for optimizing YouTube videos



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From a simple video sharing website, YouTube has gained its position among some major search engines such as Google, Yahoo and many more. YouTube is ranked 3 by Alexa. Millions of videos are being watched and uploaded to YouTube every day, making it one of the popular website.

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To get maximum succe of YouTube videos, video produced and uploaded to YouTube channel should be of great quality. Your target audience should find your content interesting and at the same time one should develop a unique strategy for pulling more public to watch the video frequently. One should do a bit of research on keyword analysis to optimize your content.
Here are a few tips for optimizing YouTube videos
Title: The title should be catchy and appropriate for the video. Use keywords that is highly searches by the audience and optimize the “title” using proper keywords. Each YouTube information can be optimized-the title, description, tags, categories with a highly searched keyword.
Description: Description should be short and rich in keywords. Include the URL in the first sentence of the description as well as other information. Look at other YouTube videos and get an idea about how the description should look like.
Tags: tag your video with keywords that is popular and widely being searched by people. A search in YouTube for “making money online” will display a number of results such as free online income system, AdSense etc.
Some other tips
Google keyword is one place where you can do research on keywords.
Just like Google Analytics, YouTube Insight is a free tool for providing analytical data (always keep a track of audience)
Use an attractive thumbnail for display. You can choose a still image for your video from the “video thumbnail” option from info and settings.
Link your videos to a page on your website or a blog, where there is a collection of videos.
Share video on other website –Facebook, Google+
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  1. Digital Copyright23 January 2012 at 15:33

    Hello,
    You want to create a video in MPEG4 (Divx, Xvid) format with 640x480 resolution. It needs to encompass MP3 audio capabilities, and run at 30 frames per second (fps). These specifications are believed to provide the highest quality of picture for optimizing YouTube videos.


    Thanks
    Daniel Smith

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