Did you know that online users are more likely to interact with videos than they are with text?

Many users would much rather watch a minute-long video rather than take the same amount of time to read text. Videos give online users a much better view of products and services that they may be interested in. They also have the ability to make a lasting impression.

Direct Traffic to your Site

YouTube is the second largest search engine in the world. Hundreds of hours of video are being uploaded to the site every second and users are ready to watch. As a result, YouTube videos have gotten billions of views. The viewing numbers have been continually rising as YouTube has gotten more popular and don’t seem to be stopping anytime soon. More than half of YouTube’s views are coming from mobile devices too.

While sharing the video won’t lead to direct links to your website, you can create two backlinks from YouTube. You can include a link to your website on your YouTube profile and include a link in the description of each video.

Rank for Valuable Keywords

Having a high-quality YouTube video that hits on key terms can be an effective way to get your content to the top of Google’s pages as well. Google understands that many users prefer interacting with video content. The search engine results pages reflect this and make it easy for users to find videos that are relevant to their searches. This means video listings have been bumped up towards the top of the first page and provide an excellent opportunity.

There are a number of different factors that will go into how your YouTube video will rise on the results page. Ranking highly in a YouTube search is heavily dependent on user engagement. Ensuring that you have quality content that users will watch in its entirety on your channel is a must. Boston Web Group has experience creating engaging videos for clients in a number of different industries. Keyword relevance, number of channel subscribers, user reactions and video length also go into how well a video will rank on YouTube.

Having a video that ranks highly in a YouTube search for a key term can be a great way to make an impact. Video gives you the chance to tell the story of your brand while giving them an awesome view of the products you offer. YouTube videos are also very easily shared and stand to give your brand a boost if posted at the right time. Posting videos regularly can be a great way to build a loyal social media following and attract valuable returning customers to your business.

Video Integration

Video is evidence of quality content. Integrating video on your website means that you have mixed media content: text, images and video. The presence of video sends signals to search engines that your page contains rich media relevant to search requests. This means, your website will now show up in more related searches. It will also show up in searches when someone searches for only video results.

Optimizing your video will help your website in Google searches. The biggest thing to optimize is loading time. Google considers page performance in it’s algorithms to rank websites in the search results. Having a video that loads fast will boost your rank. According to Radware, 57% of mobile users ditch a site after three seconds of waiting. Posting videos can be a great way to boost SEO and engage users, as long as it’s optimized for user experience.

Boston Web Group Video Production

SEO is centric to every website that we build. We optimize all content for Search Engine value — and we know that video is an important component to that. Our video production team has created all types of videos: corporate, restaurant, personal lifestyle, tech, event coverage and more. We’ve even done some “reality TV” style content for our clients! As creative marketers, video production is something we love doing.

To learn more about this process, visit our website or give us a call!

Take your business or product to the next level with a video.

 

Did you know that 85% of internet users will use a search engine first when looking for products or services? And 95% of those users don’t look past the first three search results pages. This is why you want your business to be on the first page — and even better — on top! It’s possible to be on the front page of a search engine like Google. There’s two ways to get there: Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Pay Per Click (PPC). SEO is done organically, takes longer to see results but is longer lasting; PPC is a paid advertisement and results are seen immediately, but can disappear when the promotion ends.  

SEO	PPC
Organic, natural	Contrived
Long lasting	Lasts as long as budget
Appears slowly over time	Appears immediately
Requires a length of time for effect	Can be as short as one day and still effect

  Let’s talk about some other key differences. These include position, results and price.

Position:

SEO and PPC cause your website to land in different position on search engine result pages. Search results effected by SEO will show up in the main body of the results page. The better the webpage is optimized for SEO, the higher it will be in the rankings. SEO results can include all webpages that the search engine thinks is relatable. On the other hand, PPC listings are displayed on the top of the results page as “sponsored links.” PPC targets a certain audience based on different categories specified when building the ad.

Results:

With an SEO campaign, it may take several months for a website to show higher up in search results. However, this means that there can be continuous traffic over a longer period of time. PPC campaigns show immediately, which can result in an immediate boost in traffic. However, once the campaign is stopped and the budget is removed, the search result is removed.

Price:

For SEO campaigns, there are no associated costs. These are done organically. The only costs you’d incur are if you hired an agency or an employee to do it for you. For PPC, there is an ongoing price per click. You can set this price when building the ad. The greater your budget, the more traffic you will receive. You don’t pay anything to show the ad, you only pay whenever someone clicks your link. Both campaigns can be a great way to build your business.