YouTube’s Updates Search Algorithm to Rank Videos Based on Time-Watched

YouTube's Updates Search Algorithm to Rank Videos Based on Time-Watched

reelseo.com 15 Oct '12, 4pm

YouTube’s Updates Search Algorithm to Rank Videos Based on Time-Watched

We all knew that YouTube was trying to get people to stay around on the site longer, and they were putting less emphasis on views with all the housecleaning a few months ago. Several creators cried foul on the new YouTube , which saw their subscriber base and valuable views go down, but we saw that a lot of what YouTube was doing was about engagement, not views . In other words, make your viewers stay around with great content. Well, the YouTube Creator Blog announced on the weekend that YouTube's search engine is going to be optimized for a video's time watched . Time-Watched is New Ranking Factor: What Does This Mean? It means if you keep viewers around on YouTube longer, you're videos will start ranking better. And the view count is discounted at this point. It doesn't mean trying to come out with a ten-minutes-or-longer video just for the sake of coming out with someth...

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