Comments on: Optimizing YouTube Videos For Search Engines

By: Tom Ness

Tom Ness — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 01:51:40 +0000

Very interesting.. Now although this is only a week later, have you noticed any additional traffic to any of your videos from this, as of yet?

I'm definitely going to try it out, seems like the only way to optimize videos, apart from uploading them with a keyword-saturated file name (and using that same keyword in the title, tags, description, etc.)

By: Mentor Schools

Mentor Schools — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:30:58 +0000

Hi Brad,
Very interesting for sure. I'm just starting to do more video, I will be sure to give this a try.
Thanks, Rick Ostler

By: jimrelay

jimrelay — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:30:14 +0000

Very good, thanks for this value information….

By: ErinTM

ErinTM — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:33:11 +0000

You could test this by putting in a completely bogus transcription and then see if your video bubble sup for your copy. Like on a vegan donut video make the transcript about eating cheesy eggs every morning for breakfast. That should tell you if they are indexing the transcriptions as opposed to any of the other ways they can index videos.

By: Mukul Verma Internet Marketing

Mukul Verma Internet Marketing — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:35:20 +0000

I like videos over reading (both producing and reading)

Great insight, I have a similar perspective on it. You Tube has been able to use what you are saying in your video for atleast a year now..

Cheers,
Mukul

By: Jordan

Jordan — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:01:55 +0000

You must have been thinking of me when you put this together, as I just started the process of uploading 30+ video's. Let's give it a shot!

By: ShaneRQR

ShaneRQR — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:19:05 +0000

Interesting thought.
The auto-transcriptions are pretty funny, most of the time. But it's obviously an attempt to get at what's inside the videos, to grab the content, so to speak. From the perspective of a search engine, it's a huge problem that they have so far been blind in terms of video content, so they have to go with the description and tags. But those can just be faked, of course.

I wonder if you'll see a YT search-traffic increase after you've added your own captions. And I wonder how quickly the auto-captions will become more accurate.