FACTORS TO RANK YOUR VIDEO ON PAGE 1

WHY RANK YOUR VIDEOS

Getting your Youtube videos to Page 1 of Google and Youtube is a powerful method to drive targeted traffic to your videos. This website will focus on the Top 3 practices of ranking your Youtube Video on Page 1,

METHOD 1 - OPTIMIZATION

Highly optimized Youtube videos can appear on Page 1 of Google and Youtube without doing anything else.

This comes down to keyword targeting- Long Tail Keywords and Low competitive keywords are easy to rank.

Medium & high competitive keywords are more challenging and should be avoided.

You need to do a Keyword Research to determine which keywords are beneficial and easy to rank on Google and Youtube

This section will discuss How To Find the Right Keywords to target for your Youtube video.

KEYWORD RESEARCH

To get an idea of which keywords to target, simply put your "Primary Keyword" on the Youtube search bar, without clicking search

Now, you will see a drop-down list of keywords appear, get ideas from the drop-down keywords list.

Now, go to Google's Keyword Research tool, and see what traffic figures are displayed.

TIP: Long Tail keywords are generally easier to rank, as opposed to 2-3 word keywords, so target those keywords!

YOUTUBE TITLE

Place your "Primary Keyword" naturally in the Title of your Youtube video.

Youtube Titles must be Eye Catching and even Controversial to lure in the clicks.

It's always good to start the title with "How to" or "Learn how to".

Youtube Titles should be around 70 characters long.

TIP: Use this Headline Analyzer to determine the effectiveness of your titles- https://coschedule.com/headline-analyzer

YOUTUBE DESCRIPTION

Place your "Primary & Secondary Keyword" naturally in the Description of your Youtube video.

TIP: Mention your keywords verbally in your videos too, helps a lot with the rankings.

Youtube descriptions must provide interesting information to entice users to interact and comment on your Videos.

Youtube Titles should be around 200 characters long, but you have 5000 characters to use

CATEGORIES AND TAGS

Remember to update your categories to indicate to Google who to target for your audience

Add multiple tags with the necessary keywords inserted into them.

METHOD 2 - INTERACTIONS

The more people that engage and interact with your video, the better your ranking positions on Youtube and Google.

Its extremely important to create high-quality videos to receive higher interaction points such as Likes, Comments, and Subscribers.

This section will focus on the 3 elements that will improve your popularity on Youtube, with some useful tips.

LIKES

Everyone knows Likes are important, be sure to ask your users to Like and Subscribe at the beginning of your videos, or at the end of your videos.

COMMENTS

Comments are great for ranking points too, be sure to ask your users Interesting Questions that will entice users to comment. This works well if you provoke an emotional response.

SUBSCRIPTIONS

The more subscribers you have, the higher your videos will rank. Include a Call-to-Action button on your videos so your users can subscribe easily.

METHOD 3- BACKLINKS

WHAT IS A BACKLINK?

A backlink is when one website links to another website. A backlink is a Vote-of-Confidence for Google. Having large list of high-quality sites linking back to your Youtube URL link will create trust with Google, and potentially drive lots of views to your videos.

WHY BACKLINKS?

Backlinks are an important part of SEO and Youtube rankings. The more websites that link to your website, the better. However, you must have high-quality links pointing to your website, and NOT poor backlinks. This section will discuss how to build links to your Youtube Video to improve your ranking position.