how to rank YouTube videos in 2017 now I ended up doing bit of research on YouTube and
I end up seeing lots of different videos showing you how to search engine
optimize your videos and rank them quickly but most people just keep
talking and talking without sharing with you the important factors
that you can follow as well for example I've just uploaded a video on Facebook
marketing tips for local businesses that means if someone was to search this
Facebook marketing tips for local business and look where I am this is 19
minutes ago in fact as soon as I published this video it was on the 3rd
position here you can see there are no views because it's just uploaded and
yet from now on when a local business owner is looking for Facebook marketing
tips on YouTube they will always find this video that means it's always going
to get views it may not be a hundred thousand views but nonetheless its still
views and it's always going to rank and it's always going to grow RankYa
YouTube channel so I'm going to share with you the exact steps that I follow
and I believe that as soon as you follow these insights you'll be getting free
website traffic as in free YouTube traffic all the time and rank your
videos very quickly now the first thing that I do I actually start exploring the
YouTube search box here to gain some ideas I sometimes say A B C D and so on
for let's say business when you see date based search terms target them they
are so easy to rank but I also say A B and C and so on
in between keywords to see what else what other keywords I can target because
that is very important imagine creating a video and naming it
title A well unless someone searches for that keyword no one's going to find that
video not from YouTube search anyway so once you identify the keywords that is
ideal for your channel then create the video I use Camtasia but you can use
different screen capturing software then I open up basic notepad and I say ok
this is the title of that video I find some keywords as in I note down the
keywords then once the video is created and rendered I right-click on the video
go to properties go to details I populate the title subtitle give rating
I put those keywords that I group together into tags I comment say you know
what it's for my channel then the promotion URL I do have playlists I grab
that copy the URL for that playlist and place it in there author URL can be your
YouTube channel your main YouTube channel that means you simply grab the
URL here if you want and place them in there or it can even be your own website
if you're promoting videos on your website as well publisher can be your
business name perhaps then you simply apply changes and then
save it let's say 2017 and then we apply and then now all those details are
attached to that video furthermore the file name of the video
is actually related to the keywords that I'm actually creating the video for now
this particular video is optimized better then I create a unique image as
thumbnail now RankYa blog does have YouTube thumbnail backgrounds you can
easily download and use and I've actually created a video for you showing
you how to do that as well now next part is the name of that image thumbnail is
surely going to be related to the video content that means I use keywords
there as well now that video and the image thumbnail is optimized now let's
go back to editing because this is rather important you can experiment with
all these settings I'm not going to cover that in this video but playlists
that you create is very important you can create a new playlist if you haven't
got any playlists but grouping related videos together is much better for your
YouTube channel visitors furthermore 150 character space of this video
I use Microsoft Word look at review and look at the keyword count and within
the 150 character space I use the video title as well as other related keywords
related to that video furthermore to extend the description I provide
additional information a viewer to this video may find interesting so I use the
description to enhance the user experience so to speak and I never mind
pointing visitors who are going to read the description to external resources
because video description space here is not here for us to spam it meaning keep
including keywords and keywords we don't need to do that then the tags for the
video which are very important it can be all these keywords so you need to tag
your videos custom thumbnail now has an optimized image now if someone was to go
and watch this video on this watch page if I press on Control U on my keyboard
and then press on control F to find keywords tab you can see all those
keywords that are added is here now furthermore that description 150
character space is here as well that's important now is this all I can do no
absolutely not I can do more let's say let's search just imagine someone
searches for
these keywords and now you see me on the third position right now what if I want
to move this up that's rather very simple as well all I would need to do at
this moment is share on my facebook profile I can use the share button here
I can copy the URL for the share go to my facebook profile and share it which I
have done already what else I can do I can create a blog post this is WordPress
but if you operate another website then you can easily create a blog post that
is original and unique and useful it can then be related to similar keywords and
create content for your website visitors and within this post itself
I can embed that YouTube video you change the settings according to your
wants and so on and then optimize this blog post which will take me about 5-10
minutes and publish this on on internet now come back perhaps a week later and
then you will see that this video won't be on the 3rd position it will move up
depending on the keywords you're targeting some of them may be more
competitive if so you may need to share the video a little bit more and so on
encourage people to comment on the video while here let me show you another
insight that no one on YouTube is going to share with you cause they don't know let's
go to videos let's leave this so now that video is optimized and as
soon as someone interacts with that video through comments I can encourage
my Fans or my viewers to share that video make sense and let's imagine that
to close this let's imagine grab this link then on the comment if someone
wants to interact with the video perhaps even ask a question or share their
ideas I can say things like this how did you find this video give the link to
that video put asterisks copy the title paste that title close the asterisks ok
let me do something like this I'm going to delete this comment as soon as I
render this video because it wouldn't be fair on the commenter
let's copy that reply now look watch what happens now you see keywords within
an asterisk they get bolded let me remove that comment but it also has a
link there so then I can get my commenters to perhaps view the new video cause the
more people view the video more watch time is always going to help that video
to rank so that is how you optimize and rank your YouTube videos follow these
insights begin with targeting longer tail keywords keywords that are made up of
three four or even five words and if you end up seeing people searching YouTube
with Year based search terms begin there but nonetheless don't just create the
videos for the sake of creating them instead find what people are searching
for optimize the video that I've just shown you how to and then you'll
instantly rank your YouTube videos just like I have so from now on anyone
searches for this basically as long as YouTube is around people will always find my
videos before I close up let me show you one final insight and that is this let's
imagine you have a related video that you published previously if so you can
edit that video and in the description because you know I have a brand new
video you can say you know what this is the title
and then give link to that video whether you use URL option or Share Option
now you've got another link pointing to your latest upload remember video
description is not a place to spam YouTube if the video is related you can
definitely utilize that method I've just shown you basically what I've shown
you you're not going to find on any other YouTube videos if you do please do
share the link so that we can all learn more but I can basically assure you
all these different tips and insights most of them I learned by accident so
don't worry about what some other YouTuber is telling you how to rank
your videos all that stuff I've just shown you how to quickly rank videos
almost instantly following these methods try it and you will see I thank you very
much for learning with RankYa if you benefited from this video session please
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