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YouTube High Retention Views

by Marhelper
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I noticed it's not so easy to rank YT videos even in long tail KWs ... Back linking doesn't seem to help. Are high retention views the key?
#high #retention #views #youtube
  • Profile picture of the author paulgl
    Backlinking doesn't work, because backlinks to a YT video are quite useless. They
    are backlinks to youtube.

    Backlink your youtube channel. That's a real page.

    Embed videos on SEO'd pages, social share, etc.

    How many view the video all the way through might affect rankings. So,
    I myself have started to make shorter videos. The longer the video,
    more likely for someone to surf out.

    Make the video engaging. Get to the point. I myself surf out after
    a even a few seconds of rambling...

    Paul
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    Pages rank, not videos.

    Build good backlinks to the page that the video is on.

    It DOES NOT matter that Youtube pages are dynamic, a HUGE percentage of the web is dynamic (welcome to 2011).

    That Youtube channel page is also dynamic, I guarantee Youtube is pulling that page content from a custom built CMS database. Nobody builds millions & millions of static webpages.
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    • Profile picture of the author paulgl
      Originally Posted by yukon View Post

      Pages rank, not videos.

      Build good backlinks to the page that the video is on.

      It DOES NOT matter that Youtube pages are dynamic, a HUGE percentage of the web is dynamic (welcome to 2011).

      That Youtube channel page is also dynamic, I guarantee Youtube is pulling that page content from a custom built CMS database. Nobody builds millions & millions of static webpages.
      That's true about the dynamic page, but it's not your typical dynamic page. Most
      dynamic pages are somewhat static, but the generated page your video might come up on
      is probably changed or tweaked every time, as new or old videos come and go.

      A dynamic page can be static, just gets created on the fly, but the content remains
      the same. Not the case on youtube.

      Paul
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      • Profile picture of the author yukon
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        Originally Posted by paulgl View Post

        That's true about the dynamic page, but it's not your typical dynamic page. Most
        dynamic pages are somewhat static, but the generated page your video might come up on
        is probably changed or tweaked every time, as new or old videos come and go.
        It's no different than any other site/blog that rotates related internal links/content.

        The Youtube video page is still a webpage & still has a Google Cache (example (PR6)).

        Webpages are ranked with links.






        Originally Posted by paulgl View Post

        A dynamic page can be static, just gets created on the fly, but the content remains
        the same. Not the case on youtube.

        Paul
        Youtube is pulling all the content on their pages from a database. It's a typical CMS.
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  • Profile picture of the author Marhelper
    So are high retention views one of the biggest components of getting one YT video ranking over another?
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  • Profile picture of the author SamOne
    YT looks a lot these days at length of time someone watches the video when they determine rankings.. obviously their first priority is user experience.
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  • Profile picture of the author Marhelper
    I read that in a few places ... Seems like high retention views are more important than backlinks etc
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