YouTube Closed Captioning & Subtitles: SEO Your Video

http://www.seoexciter.com Videos are great for getting traffic, but for SEO & getting ranked in Google, it is tougher. Now we can add closed caption subtitles to our YouTube Videos. I show you how!

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• youtube
• closed
• caption
• captioning
• subtitles
• video
• transcription
• seo

[rewboss]

One small correction: subtitle files can be saved in UTF-8 format; and in fact should be, if you want to use special characters (like ä or é, for example).

[MatthewBredel]

You are absolutely RIGHT! (It even says that in the Subviewer notes!). I suppose that the ANSI format *may* work in English (since it worked for me), but note that the ANSI *should* be used, especially if you are writing in other languages (outside the English alphabet). Thanks for the correction! (I'm learning more about this every day!...very cool stuff!)

[Wolfmaedchen]

@MatthewBredel Help! I can`t find this "Ansi" thing! I have windows xp and use word, not notepad!

[Wolfmaedchen]

@rewboss Hello! I have a problem with the file format! Could youplease help me? I have windows xp and used word to make my subtitles, but I can only save it as .doc or .txt, both of them don`t work! YT doesn`t recognize them! :( Do you know what I could do?

[TREPACITO]

Nice tutorial

[theoutsidejoke]

I've been looking for this information for a while, and this is the best explanation I've found. Thank you!

[HazelEhren]

You might want to divide your text into smaller chunks. If you make them too long the software divides it up its self and cuts the time in half and you end up, like in this video, with most of the caption taking up the first half of the allocated time and sometimes only one word in the other half. This often means there isnt time to read the first half.

[searchenginefirm]

I know the captions will index on google video. I look forward to YouTube captions being indexed. Great video.

[Theowest]

I already know that..