Tuesday, December 12, 2017

Video SEO: The Definitive Guide

Total Watch Time

Total Watch Time is likely YouTube’s #1 ranking factor.

What is Total Watch Time?

Total Watch Time (TWT) is the amount of watch time minutes that your video accrues.

You can see this metric in YouTube Analytics:

Total watch time metric

Total watch time metricHow can you optimize for TWT?

First, create long videos.

Let’s say you publish two videos:

Video A is 12 minutes. Video B is 4 minutes.

And on average, people watch about 40% of each video.

At the end of the day, Video A will have 3x the watch time of video B!

In fact, if you look at the results for competitive keywords, you’ll notice that the top-ranking videos are pretty darn long:

Top ranking video time

Top ranking video timeSecond, create videos that maximize audience retention.

I’ll show you how to do that right now.

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Video SEO: The Definitive Guide

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