A couple of months ago when someone mentioned Comscore’s findings about YouTube having taken the spot as the second largest search engine in the world, I didn’t blink. Straight up: my blinklessness wasn’t because I was aware of a fact that didn’t surprise me; it’s not as if I expected it. The fact is, it just didn’t register.
I mean, can you blame me? It’s not like each week doesn’t find us with new stats about one of the Big 4 surpassing some new milestone, or other. I took it in stride with all the other stats that seem to fly by like a ticker tape: ”…Users view 2 billion YouTube videos per day…Facebook surpasses 500 million users…Twitter passes MySpace… YouTube now the second largest search engine behind Google…” Stats are all over the place. I took in stride as another stat that will either sink in, or not.
It wasn’t until I tuned my brain synapses into the statement a bit more that the implications finally registered: For keywords or phrases that you’ve been trying to gain good organic placement for on Google, you could additionally use YouTube and quite possibly get even better placement in search engine results.
That was one of the points I made at one of the sessions I presented at the REBarcamp Expo in Anaheim yesterday.
The video at the top of this post is Part 1 in my breakout presentation yesterday on “YouTube and Beyond.” The video segment above takes you from the start of the presentation through to the case study about what the second largest search engine in the world can mean for you. I’ll post the rest of the session in small bite-sized chunks over the remainder of this week; the next post will continue with the segment on some of the ranking factors to be aware of and what you can do to improve them for your videos.
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