Did you end up hosting the Dr Oz video on youtube itself? I'm curious as to whether my time remapping trick worked or not. If you did upload it to youtube, did they detect a copyright issue for this particular one or no?
I was hosting it on youtube, but they wanted me to confirm it was copyright material (competitor probably flagged it). I confirmed, the video is still up (private) but sometimes it got cut off when viewing it on the site (due to the copyright).
So what I did was I have it hosted on a 3rd party server now, this way it was way harder for them to track and they won't really bother (since it's not youtube). Also even if they do, it's not on my server so we are golden
p.s. where have you been? haven't seen you on skype these days (let's talk, gotta show you something)
but youtube ranks videos based on audience retention. Basically how well does your video hold an audience and how well your video retain viewers to watch other videos. If I have people leaving youtube via a link in my description... eventually my analytics/retention will take a beating?
Audience retention is 1 factor in rankings. It is not the only factor.
Imo, you should just put the link in the description and see how many clicks it gets (don't even draw attention to it). Really you have nothing to loss and only $ to gain.
p.s. do you have an authority channel? what kind of video is it?
Depending on your answers, it will change the strategy you want to apply (as Dennis mentioned above)
Awesome stuff guys, really appreciate it!
What kind of links are you sending to the video to rank it in Google? If any?.. (social bookmarks, vagex, etc)
I am really interesting in video marketing. Definitely something I want to try on a local scale.
Np, it's our pleasure.
I send all types of links (check out the link at the bottom of this post for more info).
Vagex can work, but only in very specific situations (would take too long to explain, but i'll probably make post going over it in the future)
I just ranked a (city) lawyer video
You mentioned that you hadn't done much to rank the video in Google, would you care to share an advice on how to rank the video on YouTube results?
I noticed that you YT account name matched the product keyword, would you do a new YT account for every keyword you are trying to target?
Good stuff.
A huge factor in me not doing much, is because I know exactly what to do and I have my own tools to do it. This doesn't mean that it is very difficult though.
Check out the link at the bottom of this post, I made a case study going over exactly what it takes to rank and how to do it
Dennis said in his podcasts, that you should make one theme related channel. So in this case - if every keyword contains the same product/keyword, you can upload them to one channel. This will also give extra power for the channel and not to mention that in related videos(as TheTruth said great traffic) ones of the first ones will be videos from your channel(in this case bigger chances on not loosing potential customer/buyer/sale/lead, because of him clicking on related video, which basically means - I'm leaving).
I would also like to ask about the video ranking. Though only on youtube. I used vagex way back, but after youtube changes, vagex actually did a lot of harm.
Thanks guys
Yeah Dennis is spot on with that.
Think of it this way, if you are ranking a 4 page site, it would take more work for you to rank then if you had an authority site in that niche.
Same thing with youtube channels, you will get boosts for being an authority.
Vagex does not do any harm, but it is very inefficient. For the amount of points you use up, you don't get even close to the amount of views. (this is not to say that vagex isn't useful, it is for some specific reasons - will make a post in the future about it)
Here is a link to a case study I did,showing you exactly what I do to rank:
My Exact Strategy For How I Ranked A 246,000 Keyword On Page 1 Of Google | VidsMedia - Exclusive Video Marketing