I'm pleased to announce that my good friend, Mark Robertson, Founder and Publisher of ReelSEO, The Online Video Marketing Guide, the best web site for news, trends, & tips for video marketing, video search engine optimization (VSEO), will be participating in a webinar hosted by Ooyala, titled "Reel" Video SEO Strategies & Best Practices, next week on Thursday, February 4th at 11:00 am PST.

Here's what Mark had to say about the upcoming event, "Video SEO has become somewhat of a buzz word these days for internet marketers and online video publishers alike. Having videos that rank well within search engines is certainly an attractive proposition.However, the true value of video SEO lies in positioning video content in front of a growing number of internet users who are actively seeking out that content using search. Just as with general SEO, Video SEO is about publishing content in a way that follows best practices to ensure and maximize indexability and discoverability. Join myself, Pete Kocks,and Sean Knapp as we discuss Video SEO strategies and best practices.To register for the webinar please click here."

I previously featured one of Mark's most popular posts, SEO For Video – Video SEO Tips & Techniques, which is a collection of some of the more popular video SEO tips, tutorials  and guidelines from ReelSEO. This video of Mark is from SES San Jose 2009, where he spoke on the panel session, “The Next Wave for Online Video”, and talked about Video SEO trends and best practices for SEO of video content . Read his post on the session and see his slides here: http://www.reelseo.com/mark-robertson-wave/



I also featured Pete Kocks in this recent post, Video SEO Needs Fast Load Times and a Killer Thumbnail - Pete Kocks, Truveo, which is from a ReelSEO interview from the Online Video Platform Summit. I've covered Ooyala on my blog and spoke with CTO Sean Knapp about his fast growing online video technology company which was named as one of the leading online video platforms by Forrester Research in the report, The Forrester Wave™: US Online Video Platforms, Q4 2009. Ooyala just announced a major expansion into the Japanese online video market through a partnership with NTT SMARTCONNECT. Ooyala also recently announced another strategic partnership with Telegraph Media Group (TMG), one of the leading and most respected newspaper brands in the world. The Telegraph news site, www.telegraph.co.uk reaches over 30 million people and delivers over a million hours of video every month.

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