Optimizing YouTube
If you heeded my advice in my other training SEO Made Easy, you should hopefully have a YouTube video linked to your site already, and if you didn’t read my other training modules, yet you have YouTube videos on your site anyway, you’re probably just a genius. Good job *pats on the back.* If you don’t have a YouTube video linked to your site then you have two options. You can either skip this part, or go visit the training here, implement the movie into your site, and then continue (the second option is much better for SEO).
Okay, if you have a movie linked to your site then you can optimize the presence of YouTube by going to the plugins and using the one called “Google XML Sitemap for YouTube.” This gives you more credit for having YouTube on your site (and remember, Google just loves YouTube!). Here’s the description for the plugin, straight from WP:
“Sitemaps are a way to tell Google, Bing and other search engines about web pages, images and video content on your site that they may otherwise not discover.
The Video Sitemap plugin will generate an XML Sitemap for your WordPress blog using all YouTube videos that you may have embedded in your blog posts.
Your Video Sitemap will include web pages which embed videos from YouTube or which links to videos on YouTube. If a YouTube video that you have in your blog has been removed from YouTube, the record in the Sitemap file will be ignored by Googlebot.”
Just in case you were confused, Googlebot is an awesome word.
…Grey hat…
If you heeded my advice in my other training SEO Made Easy, you should hopefully have a YouTube video linked to your site already, and if you didn’t read my other training modules, yet you have YouTube videos on your site anyway, you’re probably just a genius. Good job *pats on the back.* If you don’t have a YouTube video linked to your site then you have two options. You can either skip this part, or go visit the training here, implement the movie into your site, and then continue (the second option is much better for SEO).
Okay, if you have a movie linked to your site then you can optimize the presence of YouTube by going to the plugins and using the one called “Google XML Sitemap for YouTube.” This gives you more credit for having YouTube on your site (and remember, Google just loves YouTube!). Here’s the description for the plugin, straight from WP:
“Sitemaps are a way to tell Google, Bing and other search engines about web pages, images and video content on your site that they may otherwise not discover.
The Video Sitemap plugin will generate an XML Sitemap for your WordPress blog using all YouTube videos that you may have embedded in your blog posts.
Your Video Sitemap will include web pages which embed videos from YouTube or which links to videos on YouTube. If a YouTube video that you have in your blog has been removed from YouTube, the record in the Sitemap file will be ignored by Googlebot.”
Just in case you were confused, Googlebot is an awesome word.
…Grey hat…
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Bedros
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Well, are we sure about this?
""To start, allow me to give a little background. Google automatically assumes that if you have links on your website, you're trying to get something out of it (I don’t blame it, it’s probably true) and will lower you in the rankings. Now if Google finds your site and sees that it has no links on it, it will think that your site is purely informational and thus, more helpful for the people who search with Google (pretty much everybody).
Now let's get a little tricky… When you’re writing your content for your site, purposefully omit all of your links. Yup leave them out. If you want you can underline where you want them to be so you don’t forget, it doesn’t matter, just leave the links out.""
""To start, allow me to give a little background. Google automatically assumes that if you have links on your website, you're trying to get something out of it (I don’t blame it, it’s probably true) and will lower you in the rankings. Now if Google finds your site and sees that it has no links on it, it will think that your site is purely informational and thus, more helpful for the people who search with Google (pretty much everybody).
Now let's get a little tricky… When you’re writing your content for your site, purposefully omit all of your links. Yup leave them out. If you want you can underline where you want them to be so you don’t forget, it doesn’t matter, just leave the links out.""
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tommydillard
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It has nothing to do with your affiliate links or any of your out going links. It is all about back links which are the ones that get linked yo you from someone or something else and people where using computer generated back link programs to game the system. So now google does not use them to rank your site anymore or they only play a small part of your rankings. So you can still link to your other pages on your on your site and affiliate links but only a few per page. I hope this gives you more insight on this.
Tommy
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tommydillard
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Richanddarla
Premium
Very good training, and I really enjoyed your light humorous writing style.
Goldenlady
Premium
When you say Google will give your site high ranking while it doesn't have any links on it, what is high ranking? Is this page-one ranking?
TrevorSH
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It should be. It's as high as a ranking that you're going to get, although I'll admit I've had a site stuck on page four and it won't budge. It usually works for me though. Also I forgot to add in the training: more pages. Lots of content is a good thing. (should be obvious) and don't bold ALL of your keywords, only bold them at the beginning of every post. You probably know that, I just figured I would cover it just in case... Some people have actually PM me about that.
