SEO Q&A 2024
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- cherub0
^Thanks trooperbill! It all makes sense now...
What is absolutely MAD is that if you do SEO correctly, building around keywords, the website writes itself. Another thing that amazes me is that if you get 1, just 1 very high quality backlink from a high authority website, that will do more than 100's of views, likes, hours of work spent, clicks, and all the other nonsense you could do. Because that website "passes" the authority thru the link to the 2nd video/webpage. Now the linked to page has some "page authority" of its own. So it will then rank.
So what's needed now, is sort of a "putting it all together" so we can see how it works for youtube video ranking. I screenshotted a relevant comment and give my take on it.
"Always use the main keyword and 2 lsi keywords as your tags" Agreed. We use the "modifier1 + modifier2 + core term = long tail" method on youtube. The core term is the most important one, the others are just supporting it.
HD has higher weight/authority so that's easy. Similar to building a website, the title of the video needs to contain your modifier1 + modifier2 + core term, hopefully at the beginning not the end. It makes sense that the URL page needs to also be the keyword phrase. "First tag" is youtube specific, and it just means the very first tag in the tag box is the most important so put your keyword phrase there. He says to reuse the title as the 1st sentence in the description box, agree. Also put a link to the URL in the description. (I have failed to do this part so far, because that requires website work)
At first it confused me that he put the URL first in the description, even before the sentence "Fat laughing Cat - Can't stop laughing" and this caused me to think... does youtube parse what's inside that URL, and all that text it contains, and then associate it with your video as if you typed that into the description? Probably.
This stuff is complicated and I can see why people would rather pay someone to do it.
- In the process of learning youtube SEO, I accidentally learned real SEO...cherub