On a smilar forum elsewhere I read that uploading videos on youtube and using your targeted keywords and your site url in its description can help improve your serp.I request engliten dp members to please comment on this
Yes you definitely heard the right thing that uploading on you tube is very very good technique to improve your site's ranking in SERP and you will also get the much more traffic through it.
upload video on youtube and sit silently you wont get traffic to you site and your sites ranking wont improve.... upload video on youtube build backlink for that video and try to rank that video -- this is going to be lot easier than ranking your own website. thus you gain traffic from youtube. build more bakclinks with youtube video it will become easier for you url to move up...in serps keyword research is the first task and I assume you know your Keyword. creating title with your keyword in it and descriptive title for your youtube video is first step. including that keyword in description and tags for the video. decription will have your URL also generally you can rank your video from social bookmarking only if competition is low..
Your ranking will not improve from youtube video submission. It is a great method to increase traffic.