Here are some of my tips which you can look into when dealing with videos -
- Place videos on themed pages with content relating to video content.
- Place videos in divs or tds that have the video container object paired with a caption.
- Create keyword relevent links to videos, possibly on a separate ’site map’ like set of pages
- Text nearest the video code should be keyword heavy.
- Make sure to link to the page with keywords.
- The first and last frame of the video should have keywords on the screen. (newer vid engines like blinkx will ocr and read them)
- Load the video at video sharing sites and include the url to the video at your site in the meta keywords if they allow you to add them.
- Check the format you are using to see if it allows embedded Meta Data. If it does - load it up with keywords.
- Engines will block videos loaded via a popup.
Upload to all the locations you can. You can put up a preview clip and give some away with the tagline: “see the full clip an http…”. Hit sites such ast, AOL UnCut, DailyMotion, Google Video, MetaCafe, MSN, MySpace Video, Ifilm, Revver, Yahoo! Video, Soapbox, and ye classic YouTube.