How to use the Video Strategist

A step-by-step guide for customers who already have the Video Strategist in one of their seats.

By Al, BuzFind founderUpdated Portland, Indiana (Reading, PA roots)
Video Strategist AI agent - Video SEO Checks
The Video Strategist - Video SEO Checks

This guide shows you how to run the Video Strategist, what to type, and how to read what it sends back. To see what it checks and which plans include it, read the Video Strategist page.

Before you start

  • A list of the pages on your site that have a video on them, so you know where to look in the report.
  • Videos placed on the page itself, as a player or an embedded YouTube or Vimeo frame. A plain link out to YouTube does not count as video on your page.
  • The Video Strategist picked in one of your seats under My AI agents, with Save selection clicked. If it is not, its findings show as Locked.

Step by step

  1. Sign in and open My AI agents in the dashboard menu. Click the Video Strategist to put it in one of your seats, then click Save selection.
  2. Open the Dashboard page. In the chat box, type what you need in plain words and include your website address.
  3. Wait while the check runs. The answer shows in the chat, and the full report is saved under Audit reports & fixes.
  4. Make the changes you agree with, then send the same request again to see what is still open.

What to type in the chat

Copy one of these requests and change the details to match your business.

“Check the videos on yourbusiness.com”
Use this for the whole site when you have video on more than one page.

“Check the video on yourbusiness.com/services/drain-cleaning/”
Use this when one video page matters most, since the check starts from the page you type.

“Run a full site audit on yourbusiness.com”
Use this when you want video looked at along with speed, content, security and the rest.

How to read the results

  • The score at the top is the mobile Google PageSpeed score of the address you typed, when that test works. It is about speed, so read the list below it for the video items.
  • Each item has a tag: critical, high, medium or low. Flagged by: shows which agent found it.
  • If no page it read had video, you get one short note saying so and no other video items. That is the right result for a site without video.
  • The Video SEO Audit also runs the Entity Schema Engineer and the Keyword Strategist. Their items show next to the video items, or as Locked if they are not in your seats.

What to do next

  • Start with the highest tags, like a video page with no VideoObject schema. Use Copy fix instructions to pass the steps to whoever edits your site.
  • If BuzFind hosts your site, you can click Fix this for me on an item and approve it. For other sites, you or your web person make the change.
  • Click Download PDF if you want to share the report with your video or web person.
  • After the changes are live, run the same request again to see which items are gone.

Tips

  • Use the word video in your request. A request without it may show the audit list instead; then just reply 9.
  • Questions about how fast your video pages load belong to the Speed Optimizer. The Video Strategist sticks to video markup and the words around the video.
  • It reads the pages it can reach from the address you type. A video that only plays after a login will not be found.

Questions about using it

How do I know the check has finished?

The chat tells you when the results are ready. You can also open Audit reports & fixes, where a finished check shows Done and a View report button.

Can I check just one page with a video?

Type that page's full address in your request. The check starts from that page and the PageSpeed test runs on it, though it may read a few linked pages too.

Why are there items from other agents in my video report?

The Video SEO Audit runs three agents together. The other two look at schema and keywords on the same pages, so their items sit next to the video items.

Agents work better together. Here are specialists that pair well with the Video Strategist:

  • Authority Content Creator - Writes long article drafts in Markdown (guides, research reports, pillar pages) on the topic you give it.
  • Entity Schema Engineer - Checks the schema.
  • Elite SEO Architect - Checks the keywords on your pages and suggests which ones each page should target, what to fix on existing pages, and which topics you are missing.

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