What's The Best Way to Rank YouTube Videos?

You can try SEO for YouTube ranking. The usual stuffs: longtail keywords, have the keywords in the title, main description, bookmarking/ping it. You will be surprised that it is much easier to rank in video.

Hope this help!

It's not that difficult, honestly.

But to truly make good money usually you need several attempts at ranking videos.

Put your keyword in the title (some say twice). Put keywords in the description.

Do mass social bookmarking of the youtube video.

Don't buy fake views, youtube is getting better and better at catching this. Avoid a service like vagex. Make sure if you do an paid traffic towards your video it's going to be human views.

Before you upload your video file, title the video file with the main keyword you're targeting.

For example, if you are targeting "lose weight" then your video file should be title "loseweight.mp4" or whatever kind of video file you use (could be .mp4, .wmv, etc.).

This post will help you. She gives lots of details and the process is not expensive to follow. http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post7609792

Manipulating Youtube will only have your account banned.

Do the right thing and just shoot useful videos.

Youtube are actually fairly easy to rank. They are less volatile than websites for most people. You don't need to worry as much about being "sandbox" or "flagged" and they are very passive.

BTW I would expect youtube to start taking more attention to marketing with all the recent buzz. Now more and more, it would seem they are cracking down on those fake views especially from what i've read.

Proper techniques will outlast spam.

1. Optimization on your video: Your video description is important as well...make full use of that area with additional keyword text (you might put a transcript of your video there)

The most important thing here is your title however.

Also remember to put your link first so it's fully visible as well as a call to action

2. Next your video social proof:
I would suggest getting a good mix of everything instead of just doing likes and views etc.

a good number of likes, views, subscribers, and favourites...comments are better left without, unless you can avoid those spammy ones

The easiest way to get these likes and views is fiverr.com
You should be able to find quite a few people who do this by searching youtube likes and sort ratings.

3. Link building; in the past it seems any link worked with Youtube videos for the most part. It was throwing anything and seeing what sticks; as you often could not get your video sandbox.

I would suggest getting a good volume of links but going for a good variety (we also always prefer manual link building...softwares are great but they are also very limited).

Try to get a good variety, don't approach it the same way you might with a website in the sense...youtube videos can handle more links at one time. In fact you probably should go with more links here to rank above the competition. Going in volume should still be considering the link profile and try going for the not spammy links; sure you might still be able to get fast results with blog comments and forum profile but whether they would last is another question.

Also try to really couple it with social promotion to get some natural links and buzz.

We find social bookmarks work well for youtube videos as well as bulk links from web 2.0 or article directories.

Final Opinions:
Seriously, youtube is a great way to get passive profits and traffic. We have successfully linked to affiliate offers directly with somegood conversions.

However youtube marketing has taken a lot of attention in the past year with all the guides coming up. The concern would be some people simply spamming too much forcing google to start making some changes so I would suggest to avoid the usual method people approach and try to foster a community on your channel instead.

(Youtube videos are very passive; we have had videos left there for months after the initial set up)

The key idea is to give youtube what their viewers want. Provide a quality video, something that is actually educational so you can get real views and likes. your promotion should just be something to kickstart your video.

When we create a video for an affiliate offer or amazon product, we try to include useful facts and then tie in a call to action to click the link bellow.

Follow the ideas above about SEO and ranking your video in Google and Youtube for selective keywords.
Another trick not mentioned is to create your Youtube video, get the link, then submit that video with a service like traffic geyser to other video sharing sites WITH the link to your original Youtube video to help get fast backlinks + more views.

Tube toolbox, a free software to optimize your youtube videos and help you rank it quickly.
Google it to find

YouTube Subscriber Train - Get YouTube Subscribers!, website to exchange youtube likes,view,and subscribers The free and paid way.

The Formula To Make A Viral Video!

1.WRITE AN INTERESTING & DESCRIPTIVE TITLE FOR YOUR VIDEO

2. WRITE A “DESCRIPTIVE” DESCRIPTION

3. ADD KEYWORDS IN YOUR TAGS

4. SHARE YOUR VIDEO ON FACEBOOK & TWITTER

5. GET AS MANY LIKES AND COMMENTS AS POSSIBLE

6. MAKE YOUR VIDEO A “VIDEO RESPONSE” TO A POPULAR RELATED VIDEO

7. MAKE YOUR VIDEO GO VIRAL

8. GET SUBSCRIBERS TO YOUR CHANNEL

9. USE LINKS TO YOUR OTHER VIDEOS IN ANNOTATIONS

10. POST YOUR VIDEO TO YOUR BLOG OR WEBSITE

11. POST VIDEO ON FORUMS

12. SUBMIT YOUR VIDEO TO OTHER VIDEO SHARING SITES

You can respectfully make enough traffic with this method.

I think if you promote a video on YouTube just like you promote an article on your website you will get much better results than you would get for a website.

You should have your keyword in title, tags, and in the description it should be there a couple times. You can even use different wordings of the keywords on top of that for some extra google love although this stuff is constantly changing...

Also, social bookmarking is huge, and .gov or .edu links can be beneficial. Depending on how competitive the keyword is if you have done all of this you should be at least on the first page.

If it is more competitive you will most likely need to use some paid advertising campaigns on youtube to boost up the human views which has a big influence on ranking these days.