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S Top 12 Ways to Protect Your Online Privacy. Free App Encrypts, Destroys Mobile Messages. Belle da Costa Greene. Uploading a video? How's your VSEO look? - Blogs On Entrepreneurs. By Dan Gershenson Let's admit it.

Uploading a video? How's your VSEO look? - Blogs On Entrepreneurs

It's not always easy to wrap your arms around this SEO thing. You've got to think about organic search. Paid search. Relevance. In the midst of it all, you've got to contend with a new term you haven't heard before: VSEO, or video search engine optimization. You might think, “Wait — you mean I don't just upload a video to YouTube and call it a day?” Not quite.

Let's start with keywords. When you take a closer look at the keywords that are being searched for at a high volume and have relevance to your company, you can incorporate these keywords into descriptions of your video. Jack Lane, of Chicago-based Lane Media & Productions, works with clients to help address this very issue. “We insert specific keywords into the scripts we write for clients,” Lane says.

Lane explains that this is really the best way for a search engine to index the content within the video, helping the company move up in the rankings. How do you measure it successfully? The Growth of Social Media: An Infographic. UPDATE: We have published a new version of this popular Infographic here -> which covers data up through November 2013.

The Growth of Social Media: An Infographic

Say what you will about the tidal wave that is social media: it’s over-hyped, a fad halfway through its 15 minutes, that <insert social network, platform, app> surely won’t be around in a few years’ time. But take a look below at the steep curve of the user growth rate in all age ranges and demographics, and the continuing pervasiveness of social networking into every facet of work, play and life in general. It’s hard to argue that social media hasn’t changed forever how we interact and connect online.

See for yourself: (click image to enlarge) This is part of a special infographic series by Search Engine Journal. Also available in PDF format here. Jenise is CEO of Alpha Brand Media, publisher of Search Engine Journal. 5 Terrific Twitter Research Tools. Twitter has a wealth of data - it's a global thought-stream on every topic imaginable.

5 Terrific Twitter Research Tools

But how do we convert that raw data into insights, trends and actionable information? How can we find the signal in all that noise? Fortunately, there are several tools out there that can help analyze Twitter data, understand user behavior, and graph it for analysis and presenting to others. Today, we've picked out five great tools to get you started. For more in-depth information about trend tracking on Twitter, take a look at last month's article, 15 Fascinating Ways to Track Twitter Trends. 1.

Trying to figure out how often you're actually tweeting? Ideal for: researching individual behavior on Twitter 2. Trendrr is a new favorite among analysts looking to keep track of trends and compare information. Ideal for: tracking Twitter search, comparing information 3. If you're looking to do research on retweeting and link-sharing on Twitter, Tweetmeme provides retweeting stats for articles on Twitter. 4.

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