Do you use written Q and A interviews on your blogs? Do readers enjoy this format? Do you do them via email or phone? Love to hear your thoughts. 

@ernohannink

Two suggestions on the video posts…

… make them short, one question, one answer, transcribe them and make that your short article you post below the video.

— then make sure you copy that transcription/article and paste that in your description beneath your video on Youtube, making sure the very first thing in your description is your complete website address, http:/// and all.

— and if you want to go all out optimization crazy to rank that vid #1 for your keywords, upload that transcription to the vid itself… under captions and transcriptions. 

— AND if you can, create a channel with the same keywords as your Q&A series or that of your website or category where you feature your vid. YouTube LOVES channels filled with similar subject matter vids (kind of the curation effect) and with every vid added, you’ll find it ranks faster and higher as you go along. You’ll always attract more viewers to the whole channel who are interested in the subject matter as a whole.

All that will definitely add juice to your vid and channel ranking, which in turn will add juice to your website ranking. 

Just my two cents… but finding that it’s working that way for me…

Robin

Here’s a link to a FREE copy of TubeRanker by Anthony Aires. Now I love Anthony, but he does have a tendency to overlook (or be ignorant of) some very vital copyright laws when offering advice about WHAT to edit into your videos. So just giving an advance warning to NOT follow his nonexistent copyright understanding.

HOWEVER… Anthony is by far the most enthusiastic video ranking genius out there today… no holds barred! TubeRanker was his first video product on the Warrior Forum, followed by endless ingenious (if not copyright confused) products regarding ranking videos on YouTube. 

He also ran into trouble with Paypal when they decided they didn’t like it that he would make tens of thousands of dollars quickly in these WSO’s (Warrior Special Offers), then months later, turn around and give away the same product FREE. That confused them. To Anthony, it’s good publicity and has increased his list vastly. To Paypal, they keep wondering why he sells so many products then immediately devalues them… making them think they’re at risk for refund demands AFTER others see what they bought is now free only months later. So just hmmmmmmm….

The good new is… Anthony really does know how to to rank on YouTube… regardless of the price… but TubeRanker is FREE at the link below. It comes with some kind of forced Facebook page list-building video opt-in form or method that I ignored… but the rest of it is pretty good, if I recall correctly.

Didn’t know if you had YT ranking info materials or not, but thought I’d add the link here in case others did not.

As far as Q&A videos go, they’re a quick way, whether in interview style or slide-show/video style, to get traffic going with very little work or expense, if optimized properly. At the very least, this will give people an intro into exactly what to do on your video and on your website to make those vids pop up within hours of posting… and I mean popping up at the number one spot on your target SERP page for your keywords, even when your website has a loooooong way to go. Optimize correctly and you’ll pass your own website by in a flash.

Okay, this is NOT an advertisement… lol… it’s a recommendation for free training on how to optimize your Q&A video.

Just my thoughts, lol…

Robin

By dangy, that’s about the third time that’s happened to me today, Mike.

Ima thankin’ you be a-owin’ me about 60 points I done got subtrakted, tee hee.

Here be da link to FREE TubeRanker:

http://www.warriorforum.com/warrior-special-offers-forum/379864-tube-ranker-free-today-best-video-marketing-get-clickbank-products-googles-first-page-hours.html

Crossin’ my fingers and toes this’ll work now!

Robin @mike-stelzner

Thanks for the discussion about the video Q and A. Interesting! Anyone else still doing text Q and A interviews? What are you finding? 

Adding closed captions or a transcript to a video is good practice for (disabled) accessibility too. 
Translation might also be a good point, especially when your interviewee talks a different language than your target audience.With  http://subtitle-horse.com/ this can easily be done, once you have the translation of course…  @ernohannink