How to rank videos in YouTube higher
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I have a question regarding the ranking of YouTube videos. What are the ranking factors and how we can use them in our favor to rank our videos higher in search results within YouTube.
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Thanks!
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Hello,
There are many ranking factors for YouTube videos. You should always optimize your video's metadata with proper titles, tags etc. and try to make longer videos and number of shares of videos is also a ranking factor now.
You can look at this infographic for the better understanding of all the YouTube ranking factors and stats.
Hope this helps. Thank you.
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Hi,
In addition to Sally Mills reply I would like to let you know the most important youtube ranking factor is watch time. If your video have more watch time will rank higher rest follow what Sally Mills replied.
Latest from backlinko on youtube ranking @ https://backlinko.com/youtube-ranking-factors
Hope this helps.
Thanks
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Hi Sakshamk,
Youtube videos rank based on keywords in the Title & description, along with tags. My best advice is to provide plenty of detail about the video in the description and even include a transcript. Then assign plenty of relevant tags.
There are some great guides for ranking youtube videos:
https://backlinko.com/how-to-rank-youtube-videos
https://webris.org/youtube-seo/
https://www.quicksprout.com/university/how-to-rank-youtube-videos/Webris's is one of my favourites. Hope that helps
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