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Youtube videos ranking really well in Google?

Discussion in 'Google' started by caroline, Sep 12, 2007.

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    I have noticed recently, that for many keywords, there's one or two youtube videos on the first page of search results. What do you need to do for your videos to appear in Google? Anybody tried it?

    I suppose you need to:

    1)Get the video url crawled by linking to it from an existing site
    2)Have the Keywords in the video title
    3)Maybe the popularity of the video is important too. Since Google owns Youtube, maybe they give the views/comments on the video some weight. But that's just speculation.

    So, anybody experimented with that? I'd be very interested in hearing what you want to share. :)
     
    caroline, Sep 12, 2007 IP
  2. zexy

    zexy Guest

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    Yes, that's because Google love YouTube, Amazon, Wiki, etc.
     
    zexy, Sep 12, 2007 IP
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    It's because Google bought YouTube
     
    Divisive Cottonwood, Sep 12, 2007 IP
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    Yes it's because Google own Youtube and yes they are ranking well I see youtube videos a lot when I do a search :)
     
    Brennan, Sep 12, 2007 IP
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    i also think the same, because of google already own youtube and moreover it also counting on more comment and views.
     
    surfaddict, Sep 12, 2007 IP
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    the big questions is what's the variables /seo behind youtube videos...?

    how to rank well in google using youtube videos ? hmm...seems like an ebook title to me..hehe
     
    Kerunai, Sep 12, 2007 IP
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    Yes it ranks well but Yahoo videos rank ahead of Google!

    Just Search for "Watch Tom and Jerry"
     
    Freewebspace, Sep 12, 2007 IP
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    corlock Banned

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    I have seen some of those videos of by you tube that ranks. If you tube is owned by google, probably they just help those videos in a way.
     
    corlock, Sep 12, 2007 IP
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    this is why my niche video site is now dead. I had top SERPs for several categories, but not anymore - since everyone clicks the youtube video above where my site used to be. It's a disgrace.
     
    Pixelrage, Sep 12, 2007 IP
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    who can really compete with google or youtube, none of us thats for sure. Unless we come out with something truly brilliant :D which is ofcourse in the realm of possibility.
     
    Phantom-DXH, Sep 12, 2007 IP
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    well metacafe is pretty nice but I think that it might be run by google or youtube
     
    stacybball4life, Sep 12, 2007 IP
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    mridout196 Banned

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    Knew about this a while a go but for me it seems to be mainly entertainment keywords :)
     
    mridout196, Sep 12, 2007 IP
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    IEmailer.com Well-Known Member

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    It's their own company why they don't rank it well
     
    IEmailer.com, Sep 12, 2007 IP
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    google has started to give a special importance to youtube videos because of youtube is owned by google
     
    trichnosis, Sep 12, 2007 IP
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    Its only because youtube videos are linked from millions of blogs. Look at the backlinks for the video that is ranking. Google is not playing with index manually. If you don't believe look at what comes up for "search engine". Won't you expect Google to be first but its not even on 1st page!! So its always the b-a-c-k-l-i-n-k-s if you want to rank high enough.
     
    ketan9, Sep 12, 2007 IP
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    google have direct access to youtube and amazon's database. maybe that's the reason.
     
    b. J., Sep 12, 2007 IP
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    Many of Google's own products don't rank all that well, for YouTube to rank high, it has something to do with the "authority" factor. YouTube is the best video site out there, with tons of backlinks, and is considered one of the authority video sites if not THE one. Similar to Amazon in shopping, and Wiki in information (lots of people think this is debatable).
     
    Zanswer, Sep 12, 2007 IP
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    I have a feeling someone already work on that e-book :D
     
    axlarry, Sep 12, 2007 IP
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    If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a video (since it consists of numerous frames of pictures, should be worth millions. I don't see any problem for a video ranking well on Google, especially since Google bought Youtube. I'm sure Google factors several variables into its video ranking algorithm, e.g. popularity, # views, #links, etc.
     
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    akhilesh243, Sep 12, 2007 IP