{"id":15325,"date":"2025-09-23T14:07:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T14:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bakanauskas.lt\/?p=15325"},"modified":"2025-10-19T13:54:57","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T13:54:57","slug":"if-you-own-google-you-can-own-youtube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bakanauskas.lt\/en\/if-you-own-google-you-can-own-youtube\/","title":{"rendered":"If you own Google, you can own YouTube"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Many people think that YouTube has a completely different logic, but in fact the same ones work SEO principles<\/a>that have long been proven in Google search.<\/p>\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\ud83d\udd11 The fundamentals remain the same:\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t<\/span>\r\n\t\t<\/h3>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\t\r\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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  • Keywords<\/strong> - people still search for content based on specific phrases.<\/li>
  • CTR (click-through rate)<\/strong> - does your video thumbnail and title make me click?<\/li>
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    \r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\ud83c\udfad What are the differences?\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t<\/span>\r\n\t\t<\/h3>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\t\r\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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    • Instead of title tags<\/strong> you optimise thumbnails - they are your \"first headline\".<\/li>
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      Basically, if you've already managed to get your blog posts to the top of Google, you have all the skills you need to dominate YouTube. The only difference is the format, you work with video instead of text.<\/p>\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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      \"YouTube is the world's second largest search engine after Google. People come here not just for entertainment, but also to find answers - just like Google.<\/p>

      This means that video content can become a long-term source of traffic that works for you long after it's published.<\/p>\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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      \r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\ud83d\udccc Lesson:\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t<\/span>\r\n\t\t<\/h3>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\t\r\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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      If you want to long-term, cumulative flow<\/strong>Learn YouTube SEO like your business depends on it. Because the chances are, it does.<\/p>\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      YouTube SEO is based on the same principles as Google - keywords, CTR, view duration and engagement.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15402,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-seo-laboratorija"],"yoast_head":"\nJei valdai Google, gali valdyti ir YouTube | Bakanauskas.lt<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"YouTube SEO remiasi tais pa\u010diais principais kaip ir Google \u2013 raktiniai \u017eod\u017eiai, CTR, per\u017ei\u016br\u0173 trukm\u0117 ir \u012fsitraukimas.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bakanauskas.lt\/en\/if-you-own-google-you-can-own-youtube\/\" \/>\n<meta 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