{"id":5,"date":"2011-11-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/andyphelps\/how-to-rank-a-video-on-google-in-six-steps-and-two-days\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T02:41:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T02:41:12","slug":"how-to-rank-a-video-on-google-in-six-steps-and-two-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/andyphelps\/how-to-rank-a-video-on-google-in-six-steps-and-two-days\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Rank A Video On Google in Six Steps and Two Days! Video SEO"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nHow to rank a video on Google in five steps and two days;<\/p>\n

Video is definitely the quickest way to rank on the search engines and if you are not using video at the moment, it is certainly the time to start doing so, The Google guys are going to be ranking websites a lot higher going forward if they have Youtube video on them. <\/p>\n

You will notice that almost all video footage that is ranked on Google are Youtube videos, this is because Google own Youtube and rank their own videos higher than any competitors. Relevance is the key to ranking on google. <\/p>\n

Also if you make a webpage or blog post to embed the video onto, it will rank the video and the webpage at the same time.<\/p>\n

Once you have done that, post it onto Google+ and all your other social networking sites for people to view and comment on, the more comments you get, the better, good and bad.<\/p>\n

Top tip, Google Love \u201cHOW TO\u201d videos and the more relevant you are the better they rank.<\/p>\n

Here are the steps to rank your video on Google. <\/p>\n

Step 1<\/strong> \u2013 Make the video;
\nYou can have a screen recording, a pro HD video and even one made on your mobile phone, it doesn\u2019t matter, you can rank a video that you made at the end of a drunken night out using your smart phone, as long as you can transfer the video to your computer ready to upload to Youtube. I sometimes use iMovie to tidy the video up before uploading, but it doesn\u2019t matter too much. <\/p>\n

Step 2<\/strong> \u2013 Upload the video to Youtube;
\nIf you do not have a Youtube account, go and open one! Once you have done that you will see a big button that says UPLOAD, hit it, find your video and hit ok! Depending on the length of the video, it will upload in no time, usually a coffee and you are done, after a period of time and behaving on Youtube, they will extend the length of the video you upload.<\/p>\n

Step 3<\/strong> \u2013 Youtube Title to include keyword;
\nYou will see an area to insert your Title, It is imperative that your focus keyword is included in the title, for example, if your focus keyword is home based business, the title has to have this keyword included \u201cHow To Set Up A Home Based Business\u201d for example.<\/p>\n

Step 4<\/strong> \u2013 Youtube video description;
\nThe Youtube description has to include detailed description including the keyword several times in the description and also try to include the Video web page url once you have placed the embed code onto a webpage, Top tip here is to make the first word in the description the URL, because it is a clickable link, for example http:\/\/www.YourSite\/How-to-set-up-a-home-based-business, followed by a detailed description, which is a pain, but well worth the effort, Gogle look for relevance and content, also you can revisit at any time to update the description.<\/p>\n

Step 5<\/strong> \u2013 Youtube Tags to include keyword only;
\nThe tags section should really be called the Keyword section, never ever use different keywords, only one keyword or a variation of that one keyword including that keyword, for example \u201cHow to set up a home based business\u201d and Home based business\u201d and \u201cHomebased business\u201d, but never add a different keyword like \u201cBusiness Opportunity\u201d as well, this totally confuses Youtube and Google, they don\u2019t know where to put you, Make another video for \u201cBusiness Opportunity\u201d and follow the steps again!<\/p>\n

Step 6<\/strong> \u2013 Use the Youtube Annotations;
\nUse the Youtube annotations to insert your keyword inside the video at least 3 times, it is very simple to do, if you go into edit the video, you will see some tabs at the top, one of them is labelled Annotations, this allows you to insert words into the video, Google love it if you use this option as they can then tell what the video is all about and it ties in with the relevance policy, so in the example we are using you need to add \u201cHow to set up a home based business\u201d and \u201chome based business\u201d into the annotations at least 3 times through the duration of the video. <\/p>\n

One Last Step<\/strong> \u2013 Include the video on a blog post or webpage;
\nIf you have not already done so, write a blog post or a webpage on your site including the keyword, eg yoursite.com\/how-to-set-up-a-home-based-business, and on that page, write some content including your keywords and insert the embed code of the video on the page so that it plays on the \u201cRelevant\u201d page.<\/p>\n

All this together is perfect for relevance and Google will rank you almost everytime and will even knock off that out of date video that has been there since 2008.<\/p>\n

Tip: If you do a search on a keyword before making the video and there are no videos ranking on that particular keyword, it should be even quicker to rank the video.<\/p>\n

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