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Recently I have noticed surge in videos from YouTube ranking for competitive phrases. If you see YouTube page all you see is a video without proper text, few comments shown and all other are just junk data. So here are my questions?<\/p>\n

1. How a video ranks on top of Google results when it doesn\u2019t have any proper optimization done or it just has keywords in title.<\/p>\n

2. How does Google determine the content of a video? Does it have a program that somehow analyzes the video and evaluates its content, even when there are no spoken or written words, as in this case. Or does a Google employee actually watch the video and personally evaluate its content?,<\/p>\n

Doing a bit of more searches I feel Google will be seeing the popularity of the video, real backlinks coming to the video, no of instances the video has been embedded etc.<\/p>\n

Google can also see the comments and valuate the quality of the video some videos attract 1000s of comments so I feel Google will have ability to crawl all the comments though many contents are hidden.<\/p>\n

Also the quality of the domain itself matters youtube.com is PR 9 domain which signals very high level importance and popularity in Google’s eyes. You can expect pages under youtube.com to rank because of the quality of YouTube domain.<\/p>\n

Video views can also signal Google that the video is important.<\/p>\n

In fact only Google knows the algorithm behind ranking YouTube videos. I will leave it to them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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