Youtube SEO Best Practices

[brianvest]

Does anyone know where to find a list of SEO best practices for Youtube?

Specifically...does anyone have thoughts on the SEO benefits of an @domain.com login vs @gmail.com login?

Or is adding my url to the  "Associated website" channel setting sufficient for SEO purposes?

[DmitriiK]

Hi there.

No, none of SEO related benefits would ever come from what email you use to login or URL in your profile. The way to use YouTube for SEO is actually to use it (surprise here:) for it's intended purposes - create awesome video content, put compelling descriptions, titles and thumbnails for your videos, grow the audience and, eventually, people will remember your brand, and start coming to your website from youtube, which will indirectly influence SEO.

Cheers.

P.S. Here are some links you might find useful:

https://www.straightnorth.com/insights/youtube-video-optimization-best-practices/

https://creatoracademy.withgoogle.com/page/lesson/discovery?hl=en

https://www.clickz.com/clickz/column/2262954/optimizing-videos-for-youtube-search

https://moz.com/blog/youtube-ranking-factors-whiteboard-friday

https://www.distilled.net/blog/social-media/youtube/youtube-seo/