Youtube Strategy 2014
Restored from the Empower Network archive (2011–2017), lightly edited to meet our current advertising standards. Views are the original author’s.
Hi everyone!
First off, thank you for being a part of my life – what I do wouldn’t be possible without your desire to succeed and finally get results with whatever it is that’s been placed on your heart to do while you’re here on planet earth.
Below is my exact strategy for ranking my youtube videos fast on google (which is what counts) and it’s yours as a “thank you” for reaching out to me for help and actually taking massive action today unlike so many others who, bless their hearts, think they’re being productive be always “learning” and never doing.
Here are some bulletpoints regarding what I do, and a couple pics so hopefully you can catch my drift.
If, at anytime you have questions please leave a comment below and I will try to get back to you ASAP.
(I’m a busy guy ya know) 🙂
Let’s dive in.
#1 – I customize my video file data
…BEFORE I ever upload it to youtube.
It’s takes an extra minute but really helps google’s bots to see that my content is legit and I actually care about what I’m uploading.
On a PC you can do this by right clicking on the video file and clicking on properties>details.
I always rate my videos a five (obviously lol), put the keyword in the title area and link to my blog as the subtitle.
I also put the meta tags I’m going to use in the tags area, and the description I am going to use for my video on youtube inthe comments area.
#2 – I’ve got a pattern that I follow
Now that my video is jazzed up and classy, I upload my it to youtube and follow these guidelines:
– Only target one keyword per video
– Put the keyword in the first 25 characters of the title and 3-4 times (1-2% keyword density) in the description
– Minimum of 350 words in the description
– Five to ten longtail meta tags
#3 – Social backlinks
Next, I’m gonna share it to my social networks using the keyword as the text, and link back to the video or my blogpost.
#4 – I Add/edit the subtitles
After the video is published I head into my video manager, find video and edit the subtitles.
(video manager>edit>subtitles & CC)
This is where it gets really freaky and awesome.
I take the meta tags and add them into the subtitle area.
No particular order to this, just get ’em in there somewhere. 🙂
#5 One hefty backlink will do 🙂
…(and this is key) I use my authority blog to pump a hefty backlink to the video and whammo – it’s off to the races!
You’re going to hear a lot of nonsense out there about getting a BAJILLION views and heaps of backlinks, but I’ve noticed that, at least in 2014, google doesn’t really care that much about it anymore.
Their big thing is relevence and authority.
It’s one of the reason’s I stick with the blog I have and don’t jump around.
If you want more info and the juicy details of WHY a blogging platform like the one I chose to use is much more powerful than say wordpress, blogger or typepad, stick around and watch your email like a hawk.
Imma show you some pretty neat things that many of you never thought were possible until now.
Go out and start using this, and when you start seeing results with my method do me a favor and leave me some comment love below.
I appreciate you,
– Jacob DeBoer
“Liberator of the Underdog in All of Us”