Whew! The hard work is done right? You’ve put blood, sweat, tears and cash into the creation of your video content and now it’s up on the web. If you publish it, they will come right? Wrong! You’ve got some more work that needs to be done before the masses come rushing to watch your videos and the first thing you need to do is to get the search engines indexing your videos. So here are a handful of tips so get reading already because time is a wasting.

Keywords “These most precious and important of things are necessary or all content. But not only necessary they must be accurate in order to be useful. If they’re not then you won’t get the traffic that you want or the search engines will not list your content as high as you’d like. So be very picky when you set forth your keywords for your video. Once you have them chosen then it’s time to implement them. Make sure you use them in all the appropriate fields and definitely be sure to have them in the title of your video as well as the description.

Video Sharing Sites – Comscore says that YouTube gets more search traffic than Yahoo does. So if you really want people to find your video you might want to put it there just to be sure. You’ll still have keywords and other things you need to fill out to help people find you content and you can even make a channel to extend your brand. There are numerous other places that you can submit videos as well and some of them you don’t even need to actually upload the videos but can use RSS and MRSS (see below).

RSS and MRSS “These two protocols allow you to tell the search engines when your site updates and when you post something new on the web, specifically for MRSS a media file. There are very specific formats required for these files but they’re easy enough to research. Many CMS software packages even make them automatically so you don’t even really need to worry about making it, just submitting it. This will really help the search engines find you content when you tell them where these files are and soon your videos will be shooting up the search engine results charts.

While these are only three simple ways to get your video search engine optimized they are definitely a start. Making your video easy to find, easy to share and appropriately categorized will definitely be a major help in getting people to look at it. But it’s also got to be worth looking at so the content has to be useful and interesting. There are many other things that you can do to search engine optimize your video online so be sure to take a look around.