How do I rank a Youtube Video?

Hello Kangen, Those are some strategies that you can do to Rank your youtube videos:

YouTube-Channel:

Frequency -> How often logged in, how many actions (ratings and comments on other videos, comment answers etc), how many new video uploads …
Trust -> Age of channel, number of subscriber, count of channel views, total views (all uploaded videos), connected Google+ profile (!), perhaps adsense (?)
Authority -> Channel title, channel keywords and description, link to homepage, related channels, playlists (for each: title, keywords, description)

onVideo:

Keyword relevance -> Video title (video upload filename), keywords and description ( including outgoing links to relevant sites), annotations, video transcript.
Freshness may be a ranking factor
HD quality (of course)
Attractive Thumbnail -> usually you can’t incluence that (be sure to choose the best out of three), importent because the clickrate in listes (search results or “more videos” on the right of a youTube-video-page)

User action:

Number of views ( Very Important Factor )
Audience retention -> Absolute (depends on video length) and relative (compared to other videos with the same length)
Reactions -> Nunber of comments (keywords in comments?), Comment reactions (discussion = good!), Number of Thumbs up, Thumbs up / down ratio, number of favourites, video responses, Number of playlist-addings

Recommendations / Sharing:

Social Media sharing -> eg. facebook, twitter, google+ (!), and other popular services. Power of each signal depends on the “profile-strength” of the sharing person
Embeddings -> number and strength of sites, that embedded this video
Number of Backlinks to the youTube video-page

There are few factors for boosting a Youtube video to the top ranking at Google as follow: Website embeds, Comments, Likes, Subs, Voting, Favorites.

It's crazy trying to rank a Youtube video in Google SERPs instead of a money page.

im currently using gsa search engine ranker for my youtube video backlinks. its slowly rising in the serps. i havent bought any likes, views nd subs nd its still ranking well.

On page 1 it's easy, but for a strong keyword, you won't be able to get #1 place so quick... You need to build some really good backlinks (*just like you do for a normal website/blog!) and of course try to make your video more popular (get more views using Facebook, Twitter), but WITHOUT spamming!

What I do is I do not worry much about ranking on youtube but instead I give value content and then syndicate on social media and get lots of views that way. I hope that helps. Thanks.

Clue is in the title really,

are there any methods to make a youtube video rank for a certain keywords apart from using that word in the video title and description?

thanks

Use This Strategie :

Submit article contain your video url to the top article directories.

creat slideshow and upload them to popular document sharing sites.

Create an MP3 file from the audio of your original video and use it to create podcasts and submit it to podcast sites. You can also submit it to MP3 sharing sites as well.

Make a PDF from your articles and submit them to document sharing sites.

Submit your article to popular web 2.0 sites with your video embeded on the article.

Bookmark your video to the top bookmarking sites.

Use animoto to create a simple video and blast those videos to a bunch of video sites except You Tube.

Volume is usually key to these types of authority websites that can handle the massive influx of links. Diversify the anchor text.

If it's a high competition / high ROI per visitor/lead video then you can approach it the same as any other website, but know it can handle more of the tier 2 type links, such as forum profiles and blog comments.

Currently ranking a Facebook Fan page for the term "affiliate marketing" using this strategy, because Facebook is highly trusted, same as Youtube.

Do quality seo for your youtube video.

Basically do what you would do to rank a website in 2007 but to your video. It still works.

@ Anton and Seontushell, thanks, I keep hearing this advice but Ive tired it and so far no joy.

If I understand it right the theory is that because YT is such an authority site, it wont get penalized for having spammy links and as such the links will help my vids rank.

So far so good?

So by blasting my vids with comments, bookmarks, wikis, profiles, etc the vids will rank much easier than ranking a webpage.

So far so still good?

So if Ive tried this and my vids arent rankings (Ive done very solid on page SEO) do I just keep building links? Do I need embeds as well? Is it basically a numbers game? Do follow/nofollow make much difference?

Sorry to bombard you with questions, Ive been running tests on this for ages now and cant get the rankings...YET

Any advice form people who know how to rank videos with out "quality SEO" greatly appreciated

If you follow these steps ethically,you'll be able to achieve good youtuve rank:

1. Focus on people first
2. Likes, comments, shares matter
3. Perform a good keyword research
4. Write a script and upload a transcript
5. Use youtube captions as a transcript alternative
6. Host your video on youtube
7. Embed youtube videos on your website
8. Create video sitemaps
9. Promote it on social media etc

I rank videos pretty easily on Google. For videos, blast. For websites, do all the stuff above.

Hello Kangen

If you want to promote your, you tube video then create high page rank links, increase views,increase comments and increase likes and also do on page for you video and choose keywords from you tube keywords then if you can do all the factors proper the sure you video with get good rank in search engine

thanks

for youtube videos you can do this:
1-increase the number of views
2-do some blog commenting (high pr blog commenting do follow)
3-on seo video

To rank youtube video you should do following methods
1-Create backlinks from authority sites towards your youtube video url with keyword as anchored text
2-submit your video to social networking sites like Facebook,twitter etc
3-Place your keyword in the title of your youtube video also in the description
4-Write a 200 words description with your keyword inside it.

It's quite simple I think..To rank your youtube..Just create backlinks just like your money site..You can submit to social bookmark, blog comment etc..

For me it has been fairly easy to rank on YT on medium hard keywords on first page within 2 weeks or so.

Keyword research is important.
Also use alternative keywords.
Your description has to be good, with optimal keyword density, and at least 3 call to actions.
Use TrafficGeyser to spread your video to other sites as well (this you have to do correctly for it to rank your YT video).
Facebook, Twitter, and bookmarking sites.
You can always give yourself extra boost with PPC.

Sit back and relax, and video should make page 1 within a couple of weeks.

I just need to try some really hard niches, and keywords now.
(Have succeeded in part of IM before, but want more)

I forgot to mention channel. Channel is important as well (description, and name).

Post a video a week, and you can end up dominating your niche.

Once you understand that your ranking a web page & not the actual video, life gets easier because it's basic SEO (ranking a page).