As I've already mentioned, YouTube is the #2 search engine in the world, following it's big brother Google. It might seem like if you rank well in one, you'd rank well in the other, but that's not the case. I still don't know why some of our videos rank so well in Google and others are nowhere to be found.

When it comes to optimizing your content for search engines, we're all playing a guessing game. Google offers the occasional hints about what works, but the algorithm is top secret. All we can do is experiment, share the knowledge and guess some more. There are some great resources on Google SEO and I'll list them at the end of this chapter. But our focus is on ranking well in YouTube.

The YouTube search engine shares some characteristics with Google, but the current YouTube algorithm seems to be a lot more simple and much easier to crack.

YouTube SEO Part One: What the Hell is a Keyword?

Before we can move forward, it's important that we nail down the concept of **keywords**....