{"id":5401,"date":"2017-10-19T14:44:25","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T14:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.animaker.com\/blog?p=5401"},"modified":"2017-12-14T09:27:43","modified_gmt":"2017-12-14T09:27:43","slug":"video-seo-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animaker.com\/blog\/video-seo-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"Actionable Guide: Leverage Video SEO to rank your Youtube video No.1 on Google!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Achieving a first-page ranking on Google SERP is a herculean task.\n<\/p>\n

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But then, it\u2019s much easier to get your videos up there on page one. This can be done by having a solid Video SEO strategy in the backend. <\/strong><\/strong> <\/p>\n

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In fact, Google made this easier with a recent update.<\/a> Now videos are 50 percent more likely to achieve first page ranking as a part of the blended results algorithm.<\/p>\n

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If your YouTube videos are properly optimised, Google picks it up and puts it on the first page of Google search results.\n<\/p>\n

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When you have put so much effort into creating your video<\/a>, why not take a little extra effort to make sure it is not buried among the millions of videos online?<\/p>\n

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This article will teach you how to make it to the first page of Google search results with the help of Video SEO. <\/p>\n

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Let’s start with the basics.<\/p>\n

What is Video SEO?<\/h1>\n

Video SEO is the art of increasing the quantity and quality of traffic to your video.<\/p>\n

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Over the years, Google has become an expert in decoding textual content. But when it comes to videos, you need to give some additional information so that Google bots can make sense out of it.<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s the catch, almost no one gives importance to Video SEO. They just produce a lot of videos and pray. <\/p>\n

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But Google is not accustomed to reading videos as it does for textual content. So, you need to put necessary information in certain places so that Google can read and understand what the video is all about.<\/p>\n

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Google then weighs the video against its algorithm and ranks it according to the level of optimization. <\/p>\n

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Video SEO deals with all the 200+ ranking signals from Google along with a bunch of ranking factors from YouTube. Given below are the most important factors.<\/p>\n

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