How to analyse competition for a keyword on youtube.
Strategy for ranking your video.
Official youtube keyword tool removed 2014 September 1st,
There is alternative way
google.com/trends you can find the competition of video on this site.
For ranking
Video title is the name of your video by which one can know that what is inside your video,
having title which perfectly match to your video content will be very friendly to viewer and also to the youtube algorithm for seo,
give the suitable title to your video here is the ways by which you can get seo optimizes title for video.
Write description about your video content, first 2-3 lines matters alot to get ranking in search engine,
give a short description in 2-3 line which cover the theme of your video and what is going to be inside the video.
you can also use search engine auto complete keyword phrases as your description.
If the searched keyword is matching in first 2 line of your video description then video will get higher ranking.
Every file rename as your video and thumbnail.
Use closed caption feature of youtube,
this will shows your text over the video which helps viewer to understand your video narration and can be translated into different languages,
upload transcript of video, actually transcript contain the text of what was said into video,
youtube's new algorithm automatically convert your voice into transcript which makes easier to activate it or you can also write closed caption if your video doesn't contain voice.
Tags are another important way to get ranking in youtube search, here are few tips to put tags in your video-
List specific tags first :- Write your main keyword first, doing this will put weight in algorithms.
List general tags :- Write general and matching keyword (Example- If your main keyword is "Shoutmeloud" then general tags can be "Blogging tips" , "Harsh Aggrawal" ," wordpress help", like something ).
Also include misspelling of your tags :- Like if you have keyword "Real SEO" then also put "Reeal SEO" How you know peoples are searching for you, go to youtbe analytics and check for Traffic resources.
Include singular and plural of you tags, like if your keyword is " Tattoo Art" then also put " Tattoo Arts", and separate your keyword into different tags like " Tattoo" & "Art".
Include Phrase into tags such as your long tail keywords.