I know next to nothing about Youtube ranking, Please help me..

Hi.

If you are new to Video Marketing, and looking to reach your target audience faster then there is no better option than youtube. But firstly your uploaded video to youtube should be well optimized

teamprojectmayhem.com explained how to do SEO for your youtube videos.

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Video title and description is the main role to optimize your videos to get more views. Gives an engaging title and description for all the time. Next, a cached thumbnail is also one important thing to cover your visitors to view your videos. So use some cache thumbnails.

Video length is also the factor to get more views normally 2-4 mins video can make some impacts with the users and promote your youtube channel to get more subscription. Try with social ads and shares that're also helpful to boost your video ranking.

Very good question and excellent suggestions. There are a range of small strategies you can undertake to support ranking your video:
* Select the major keyword for the title of your video. Prior to uploading the video to YouTube ensure you change the file name to include _ between each work of your keyword title for the name of the video (Once you upload the video to YouTube delete the _ from the title of the video name to be shown in your YouTube channel.
* Prior to uploading your video go to the properties section of the video file and complete all the relevant details.
* Ensure when you upload the video to your YouTube channel you write a very good description in the description section and ensure you include a link to your website/blog or affiliate product you are promoting.
* The jury is out re how to use the YouTube tags, so I suggest you experiment. Some say, keyword tag stuff - the more the better. Others say select your tags judiciously and use a maximum of 3 -5 tags. So best you decide for yourself and maybe test with a number of videos as to what you think works best.
* Ensure whilst the video is uploading that you complete the extra information i.e. geographical location etc. etc.
* Double check the thumbnail that YouTube wants to select for your video that it meets the image you want people to first see when they see your video in the YouTube search. The reason being sometimes YouTube select a thumbnail image in the video that is not the most optimal one. If any thumbnail they've selected doesn't meet your requirements upload your own image and select to use that image as the video thumbnail.
* Once uploaded it's then a matter of promoting the video to as many people as possible, i.e. drive as much traffic as possible to the video, as this will support YouTube to consider your video is important and relevant.

I agree there are a broad range of courses, EBooks, on using YouTube to work for you rather than you work for YouTube.

Hope this assists. Good luck with what you want to achieve.

Hello,
There's nothing to worry about. you can read about YouTube SEO here YouTube SEO: The Ultimate Guide

and you can learn more about how YouTube videos works here https://support.google.com/youtube/?hl=en#topic=4355266

First of all, you need to create a quality video that people will love. It is the most important thing. If you can value to your video, If you describe the whole matter on your video, people will like your video and share that video. They will do the automatic off page seo. So my suggestion is focus on your video content and your title, tags and video description. The rest work will be done automatically.

Thanks for all the tips and everything, but I still don't understand anything about the keyword research, like how to you decide whether the keyword has too much competition etc? In google AND in youtube.

Make your video description as long and thorough as possible, and include as many keywords in it as possible.

Don't make your video too long. Jam-pack as much useful info as you can into the shortest video, so your viewers stay engaged & watch until the end.

Use your best keywords in the title.

Be sure to include a transcript, and enable closed captioning.

Get in the habit of doing research using both youtube and google. You can find all your answers there and even get the latest up to date information. Step by step

It's part of the process

Check out IMpowerclub by Cliff Carrigan, he has a great course on video marketing & video SEO