The same goes for images as well as it is imperative to have alternative text aka alt text with images so the crawlers can know what the image is of. The same philosophy is true for videos. If you make videos and want to post them on your site then make sure you have text that surrounds the video.

For example lets say I was to post a video here on this page about SEO. I would explain in text what the video is about. Again the best way to do this is to imagine that you have a blind person in the room and it is your job to explain what the video is about to them.  This is the same way I do alt text for images.

When you are explaining the video in text you will want to use your keywords and words that best describe your video and what is in the video. Be careful not to overstuff your keywords here and make it sound as normal as possible. Keyword stuffing is always bad in any copy and the same goes for the text that you put around videos. 

I have seen a lot of blogs adding videos on a constant basis without any text around it. While the saying ” A picture is worth a thousand words” is true the search engines still love to see and eat text like candy. The search engine crawlers feel like a kid in a candy store when there is a lot of good quality content on a relevant subject even though pictures and videos are becoming more popular.

The text that is wrapped around a video will be what the search engines determine to be of most importance to try and figure out what the video is about. It is the same philosophy as hyperlinks. Hyperlinks that are in the middle of an article or text normally fair better than those that are by themselves. This is why when you are building inbound links it is always a goal to get good anchor text links on other sites that are in an article instead of just some link on the side or in the footer because the crawler is also reading the surrounding text to help it determine the context.

Adding videos to websites is a must in today’s online world because that is what people like to see and hear. People will stay on your website if you give them a reason to stay on your website and video is one of those things that will help people stay on the site. As you do this you must also remember to give the search engine what it wants which is text. Text has been around for a lot longer and the search engines are masters at reading text and still in the learning and adapting phase of reading video.

When you use these social bookmarking companies you can uses the keywords you are targeting for tags and then those social bookmarking listings will show up in the search engine results. What this means is that you are borrowing their authority and so many times these listings will show up fairly high in the search engines.

These social bookmarking listings will show up faster than video listings. However video listings do stay longer in the search engine results pages. Video sharing websites have great authority and are becoming more popular everyday and getting more authority in the search engines.

The search engines are using blended search or also called universal search which means that they are showing results for videos in the main search results for the web. What this means is that you can get a video to rank very well in the search engines for the keywords that you want.

Video marketing is a very good strategy to use when doing search engine optimization. When doing seo you want to get as many types of listings you can in the top 10 results for the keywords that you are trying to go after.

When posting videos to the many video sharing sites you can use your keywords that you want in the description and in the tags and keywords sections. The best thing to do is to use your keywords in the description plus the keywords section.

Search engines cannot read videos yet and so they rely on the surrounded text that supports the video. The better you can describe your video and use text the better chance you have at getting that video listed for what you want.

Although it is easier to get a social bookmarking listing into the top 10 listings a video listing once it is there will stay longer than a social bookmarking listing. So it is a good idea to also get video listings in the search engine reslults for the keywords you are targeting as well.

Online video is getting bigger and bigger as more people upload and watch videos online. CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt, said that right now there are 13 hours of video uploaded to YouTube every minute. That is a lot of video for people to see.

There are other video sharing websites along with YouTube as well so you can see that people are joining in on uploading and sharing videos on anything with other people on the internet. Just like any other industry there are certain video sharing websites that cater to certain niches.

For example some cater to music, comedy, politics, do-it-yourself, and how to video sharing websites. There is any type of video sharing website that you would want.

Internet marketing is a huge industry and is one of the industries that does not have its own video sharing platform. Until now!

www.imbroadcast.com just recently launched and is a video sharing website like YouTube where internet marketers can upload videos and ask questions as well. There are many different channels, communities, and groups that you can join on IM Broadcast to.

You can see the videos that are currently being watched, recently viewed, as well as featured videos that have been viewed many times and have high ratings. That is right there is also a ranking system in which users can rate videos as well as comment on them.

Users can also tag their videos when they upload them so when users are searching for videos there videos can be more easily found.

Try IM Broadcast and find interesting videos on many different internet marketing topics.