Audio/Video SEO. Search Engine Optimization

Audio/Video SEO. Search Engine Optimization for Universal Search Results

Since Universal Search will be huge in the near future. You will see a lot of changes in the Search results. All in one Search results. Well before SEO's used to optimize a Website to come up in the Search engine Page results. What about now? Now not only websites shows up in the Search results. Now in Google you will see results from Web pages, Audio, Video, News, Blogs, Images. The more results show up in the results, the possibilities of your web page to show up in the top results are dimnishing. Why? Because of the other related content like Video, Audio, Blogs, Articles, How to's, Wiki entry, News, Images a combination of all show up.

So how do you Optimize your Content?

Make use of these free Softwares, Social Media, Audio Podcasts, Video Podcasts, RSS feeds, Blogs, Articles,Wiki, Meta Tags for Audio and Video. In this post lets see how we can optimize your Video, Audio for Universal Search Results.

How to Optimize your Audio or Video?

Audio/Video also relates to Podasts. Video or Audio Podcast. Now Voice recognition can recognize what you speak in your Podcast or Video. There are search engines where it can give results from the words or language you speak and return the results. How can you optimize our audio/video? If you are having or producing a Audio podcast, While editing, Same simple SEO works here too.

1. Give a Good Title, Description to your audio/Video.
2. Meta Tags are important for Video/Audio
3. The use of Meta Tags are like the SERP for Video/Audio Player. Have you noticed when you download a Podcast or MP3 in your Player, You see the Artist, Name of the song etc. Thats how your Video/Podcast look like in their players, So have an Author, Date, Name , Genre, Category. Everything possibly you can add while editing
4. ID3 Tags are tags that used to Optimize the File either Audio/Video. Audaticy or any other programs have the ability to edit your ID3 tags. It is very helpful for both Search engines and Visitors
5. Have Keywords within the text copy of the post
6. Bold/Italic the keywords
7. Anchor link your keywords
8. Tag your video/Audio. Tagging to let visitors and search engines know what this Video/Audio is about
9. RSS feed your Video/Audio. You can get free RSS feed for your Audio/Video
10. Geo Target your Feeds
11. Give the right Category for your Video, If you having a Cooking Show have it in Food and Drink category. This helps everyone to easily narrow down the category
12. Promote your Video/Audio thru Social Networking sites.
13. Send Invites to friends, Invite friends to join you in your network
14. Ping your Video/Audio thru Technorati
15. Embed your video/Audio in your blog
16. Have your friends rate your Rankings, ask them to give honest reviews
17. Submit your video/Audio to all the directories and search engines
18. Viral Marketing helps,If your content is good, it can be easily send to hundreds of Visitors thru Viral Marketing
19. Ask your friends to post your video or link in their blog to your Video/Audio
20. Talk about it to your firnes, Family