YouTube is the second largest search engine in the world, and if you do proper SEO for your YouTube video uploading process, you can gain visibility on this platform. If you want your business to flourish or reach a wide-scale audience, you need to understand the basics of SEO for your YouTube videos.
Let's start with the basics for SEO for your YouTube video uploading process:
- The title of the video should be optimized with keywords that target the audience you want to seek. It should also be relevant to the video content so that it can gain high retention times.
- The description of your YouTube video should give an explanation of what is revealed inside it. You can also add call-to-action links and relevant hashtags to it as well. Adding links to all of your social media and your website is important too. Last but not the least, you can add chapters by adding time stamps to the video description.
- Tags should be added to the tags section of the video, and also you must remember to make them as relevant as possible to the video title.
- You can add location to your YouTube video by geo-tagging; this will help your video to appear in local searches.
- Your custom thumbnail should be renamed to the title of the video and it should be not only visually appealing but also relevant to your video as well.
- You should select the correct category for your YouTube video.
- You can add video cards, which can be 5 in quantity, and also end screens, as these help boost engagement and also give the viewers options to check out your other content.
- Pinned comments are useful in driving traffic to a specific link or can act as a form of communication with your audience as it is also crawled by the search engine.
Similarities of YouTube SEO With WordPress SEO
- Title optimization is a requirement.
- Image optimization.
- Selecting a category.
- Engagement through social sharing buttons and comments.
If you see the above list, you can notice that both YouTube SEO and WordPress SEO are kind of the same really in many ways, so if you are a video content creator, it will automatically help you become a blogger as well, and this process goes vice versa.
Final Thoughts
If you learn the basic steps of SEO for uploading your YouTube videos, you will get yourself a lot of traffic in the form of a new audience that will help your business move forward, hence making you an instant brand. YouTube is owned by Google and has incorporated most of the SEO elements of the Google search engine, so this will procedure will help you understand how you can do WordPress SEO as well.
The two most important factors for YouTube SEO are titles and thumbnails, and if you at least figure that part out, this will give you a significant boost in the search algorithm. I personally use ChatGPT for creating good quality titles and for custom thumbnails I use Leonardo.ai, and the best part about both of these artificial intelligence tools is that they are free to use.
Do you think you can now handle the SEO of your YouTube video uploading? Please let me know in the comments section below.
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