🧾 YouTube Video 🎞 File Hacks to Improve Rankings 💹 of Videos on YouTube

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This page is going to show you how to hack your video file before you upload it to YouTube to potentially significantly improve your video SEO.

These YouTube video file hacks will also make your YouTube video more attention getting to people on YouTube.com

🧾 YouTube Video 🎞 File Hacks to Improve Rankings 💹 of Videos on YouTube

Most people who upload videos to YouTube (or other video upload and share sites) for some sort of business purpose, such as website promotions or affiliate marketing, know the basic YouTube SEO tactics such as...

• Inserting the main keyword phrase being targeted in the video title, description, and tags.
• Using the main keyword phrase and other LSI or related keyword variations in the text description of the video.

... totally miss out on some edits or hacks that can be performed on the video file itself that can significantly help the video show up more in related videos and show up higher in search results in both YouTube and all the search engines

Video Rankings Hack On The Video File Itself

After you have created your video on your computer, the video file itself, the .mp4, .wmv, or whatever the file extension of the video you are about to upload, can be significantly altered and manipulated to help with the videos rankings. Here is how to do it.

1. Select and right click the video file.
2. Click the menu item Properties.
3. Click the Details tab.

You have just found a goldmine opportunity to further SEO optimize your YouTube video for better rankings.

Hacking the YouTube Video Filename

The trick here is to increase the power of the keyword phrase you are targeting by using that exact keyword phrase everywhere within the editable parts of the video file itself. You also want to try to make your video stand out more than other video in search results.

1. Name the video using the EXACT keyword phrase you want to rank the video for on YouTube.
2. When you upload your video to YouTube, YouTube will automatically convert your video filename into the videos title. Don't use dashes - or underscores _ between the words that make up your videos filename. Use spaces.
3. Upper case the first letter of each and every word that makes up the filename of your video.
4. Where appropriate, use ascii art characters within the video filename to increase the attention getting value of your video when compared to other videos that appear in search results.

Hacking the YouTube Video Files Properties

1. Right click the video file.
2. Click Properties from the pop up menu that appears.
3. Click on the Details tab of the video properties dialog box.
4. Enter the EXACT keyword phrase you used for the videos filename, including any ascii character art, in the video Title and Description.
5. Double click the fifth star for the video rating to give your video a 5 star rating.
6. Enter your main keyword phrase, without ascii art, along with several related keyword phrases, in the video Tags and video Comments.
7. Scroll down the video dialog box.
8. Enter the full URL of a blog post or web page you have that is closely related to your YouTube video into the Media Created text box. Also enter related urls to web pages of yours into the Encoded by, Author URL & Promotion URL. If you only have one URL then place that same URL into all those text boxes.
9. Click the Apply button.

NOW you are ready to upload your video to YouTube! I would suggest spreading a copy of your video around the internet as well and don't forget to include a copy on your own website first. Here is a list of tons of places you can create free web pages to post your YouTube video to.