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Youtube is the leading video sharing website that exists today and receives huge number of traffic everyday after Google. YouTube was acquired by Google in 2006 and is one of the successful acquisitions by Google to date. Youtube receives the maximum number of search queries after Google everyday. So optimizing your videos for Youtube and ranking better can bring huge traffic to your website or blog and I am here to share few tips on those lines.

Youtube video Optimization is very important from SEO perspective reaching wider range of audience very fast provided optimized appropriately. In recent times Video Search Engine Optimization is done highly as a part of video marketing efforts to create a better brand and to drive in a constant amount to traffic to any website or blog. Please see the bulleted points below to know the much awaited optimization tips,

• Make your title relevant keyword rich and at the same time  attractive title. Please do not involve in keyword stuffing. Create a title with complete and descriptive words.
• Use keywords as your tags for your videos. Write a nice description for your video using descriptive keywords and try to explain what are you presenting in the form of the video briefly. Please do not stuff keywords in your description.  Title, Description, tags and category are very important for your videos. This is very much vital for your videos to get listed in the search for your keywords.
• Use the thumbnails for the video appropriately so that it can help users to decide which video to watch. A right thumbnail shot should convince the user to view the video.
• Don’t forget to use the word video in your meta-tags and video titles. This will increase the chances for your video to be part of the search results as many users use the word video in their searches.
• Create quality videos with nice resolution. Choose the right compression format for uploading videos to maintain the clarity of the video. Make sure that your videos are not blurred. Use video formats like .mov, .avi, or .wmv
• Use watermarks in all your videos and make sure that  it is not annoying the user’s video experience. Watermark is considered as one of the very important viral marketing technique and it can also help you to build a brand over it. Also watermarking help you to keep your videos and ideas original and the video cannot be embedded in other sites.
• Keep your videos short and sweet. Do not create lengthy and boring videos.
• Share your videos with other members and keep tracking your video responses and allow users to rate your videos. This allows your video to rank high in YouTube.

Encourage users to embed your videos in their blog or website which can increase the popularity of your videos which can drive huge amount of traffic and there is a high chance that your videos can go viral provided if you follow the above said tips. Use social bookmarking to publicize your videos. Use Youtube Insight to see how often your videos were viewed in different regions, how popular they are compared to other videos in the same niche.

Please see the below video which talks about basic video SEO concentrating on title, description and tags which will give you a broader picture,