{"id":538,"date":"2014-05-15T14:32:51","date_gmt":"2014-05-15T14:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mediablitzpublicity.com\/home\/?p=538"},"modified":"2019-07-30T18:40:46","modified_gmt":"2019-07-30T18:40:46","slug":"youtube-won-the-video-seo-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mediablitzpublicity.com\/home\/2014\/05\/15\/youtube-won-the-video-seo-war\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube Won the Video SEO War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediablitzpublicity.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/ReelSEO-Logo.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mediablitzpublicity.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/ReelSEO-Logo.png\" alt=\"ReelSEO Logo\" width=\"253\" height=\"206\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-602\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re optimizing videos on your website so they can be found in Google universal search results, you\u2019re probably wasting your time. Even if you\u2019ve created a video sitemap \u201cto make sure that Google knows about all your rich video content,\u201d you\u2019re probably just spinning your wheels.<\/p>\n<p>Why?<\/p>\n<p>As Google itself says, \u201cWhen you submit a Sitemap to Google that includes video information in a supported format, we will make the included video URLs searchable on Google Video.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Although submitting a Sitemap is easy, getting your video content indexed by Google doesn\u2019t get it a high ranking in Google search results. To get high rankings, your videos also need to be relevant, get more views (or more viewing time), and obtain good ratings&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>First, videos weren\u2019t being found in Google Universal Search results as frequently at the end of 2012 as they were at the beginning of 2012. So, if you are counting on your videos \u2013 wherever they are hosted \u2013 to be found in Google search results, you\u2019re sailing against the wind.<\/p>\n<p>Second, 8 out of the 10 videos that are found in Google search results are hosted YouTube. Oh, and these YouTube videos rank about two positions higher than videos hosted on any other site.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reelseo.com\/video-seo-war-youtube-won\/ \" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.reelseo.com\/video-seo-war-youtube-won\/ <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re optimizing videos on your website so they can be found in Google universal search results, you\u2019re probably wasting your time. Even if you\u2019ve created a video sitemap \u201cto make sure that Google knows about all your rich video content,\u201d you\u2019re probably just spinning your wheels. Why? As Google itself says, \u201cWhen you submit &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mediablitzpublicity.com\/home\/2014\/05\/15\/youtube-won-the-video-seo-war\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[886,11,1],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-marketing-optimization","category-reelseo","category-uncategorized","tag-reelseo","nodate","item-wrap"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>YouTube Won the Video SEO War - Media Blitz Publicity<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mediablitzpublicity.com\/home\/2014\/05\/15\/youtube-won-the-video-seo-war\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"YouTube Won the Video SEO War - Media Blitz Publicity\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"If you\u2019re optimizing videos on your website so they can be found in Google universal search results, you\u2019re probably wasting your time. 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