YouTube video SEO is a bit tricky compared to other types of web page SEO because the rules about what to do to get the best search rankings for a YouTube video seem to be a bit blurry and less defined.

There are certains hacks you can perform on the actual video file itself to help with the video rankings on YouTube and Google. Higher rankings in YouTube automatically mean higher rankings in Google because obviously Google is going to show the most popular and most relevant YouTube videos in its search results.

After you have finished creating your YouTube video and saved it as mp4, wmv, etc ...

  1. Select the video file and right click to display a context menu for the video.
  2. Click the menu item properties ...