The YouTube SEO agency that puts your growth targets in writing
We are the YouTube SEO agency for brands tired of uploading into silence. Keyword research, packaging, retention, youtube channel optimization, and the video schema on your own site, so one upload earns rankings twice. Targets and dates agreed before kickoff, backed by a 100% guarantee.
The stakes
Uploaded, indexed, and invisible
You publish. Views spike for 48 hours off subscriber notifications, then flatline.
Six months later that video pulls eleven views a week and nobody can explain why.
The reason is usually boring. The title targets a phrase nobody types. The thumbnail loses the click before the algorithm tests it. Retention falls off a cliff at second 30, so YouTube stops feeding it to Suggested and Browse. No chapters, no playlist pulling the next watch.
Meanwhile a competitor’s video outranks your website in Google, lands in the video carousel, and gets quoted back to your buyers by ChatGPT. YouTube is a search engine that happens to play video. Most brands still treat it as storage.
Every month
What our YouTube SEO agency ships every month
Every scope starts with your channel data, never a template.
- 01Research
Keyword and demand research.
We separate what people search on YouTube from what they search on Google, then map both to buying stage. Chasing raw volume is how channels rank first for questions their buyers never ask.
- 02Audit
Competitor and gap audit.
The channels beating you, the formats they repeat, the queries they own, and the ones they left open.
- 03Brief
Video briefs your team can shoot from.
Working titles, the hook for the first 15 seconds, section structure, phrases to say on camera so the transcript carries the right terms, B roll notes, and chapter markers, all set before anyone hits record.
- 04Metadata
Titles, descriptions, tags, and chapters.
Long enough to give YouTube and Google real text to read, never padded with junk keywords.
- 05Test
Thumbnail design and A/B testing.
We run Test and Compare in YouTube Studio and keep the winner. Click through rate is the cheapest lever on any channel and most brands never touch it.
- 06Retention
Retention work.
Hook rewrites, pacing notes, and a plan for the exact drop off points your analytics already show.
- 07Channel
Channel architecture.
Playlists, sections, end screens, cards, trailer, and branding, so one view becomes a session.
- 08Refresh
Metadata refreshes across your back catalog.
Videos that already carry watch history are the fastest wins on most channels.
- 09Report
Reporting that names the metric.
Impressions, click through rate, average view duration, traffic sources, subscribers, and the leads and revenue attached, pulled from YouTube Analytics and GA4 rather than a vendor score.
Two levels
Youtube channel optimization, video by video and channel wide
Two levels exist and most agencies sell one.
Video level work is titles, thumbnails, descriptions, chapters, captions, and end screens. Channel level work compounds: playlist architecture that feeds Suggested traffic, sections that route a first time viewer to your best converting video, packaging consistent enough for the algorithm to predict who to show you to, and a cadence your team can hold.
We treat YouTube Shorts as its own surface, because it is one. Shorts win discovery, longer videos win the conversion.
Off YouTube
The video SEO agency work that happens off YouTube
Half the value of video search never touches your channel page.
As a video SEO agency we also handle your own domain: VideoObject schema so Google can read the file, video sitemaps so it gets discovered, key moments markup for timestamp results, closed captions and clean transcripts, embeds on the landing pages that already convert, and delivery tuned so the player does not wreck your Core Web Vitals. That is how a video reaches the Google video carousel, and how one production earns rankings twice, once on YouTube and once on a page you own.
AI answers
Video that gets cited in AI answers
ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews cite video more every quarter, and what they read is the text wrapped around it: the transcript, the description, the schema, the page hosting the embed.
We structure all four for machine reading, then track which prompts in your category return your video. Almost nobody in this market does the work yet, which is why the window is open.
The first 90 days
How the first 90 days run
- 01
Weeks 1 and 2.
Audit and baseline. Rankings, click through rate by video, retention curves, traffic sources, and the competitor gap, delivered with the targets we agree to be held to.
- 02
Weeks 3 to 6.
Fix what exists. Metadata refreshes, thumbnail tests on your top 20 videos, playlist and section rebuild, schema and sitemaps on your site.
- 03
Weeks 5 to 12.
Publish against the plan, with briefs, packaging, and optimization on every upload.
- 04
Week 12 onward.
Compare to baseline, cut what underperformed, scale what worked.
Why AceIt
Why hire AceIt as your YouTube SEO agency
Name the real fear.
Twelve months of retainer, a folder of reports, a channel that looks the same, and no way to prove whose fault it was. That is the standard outcome here because nothing is ever promised. Read the agency pages ranking above this one: not one publishes a price, not one offers a guarantee. The boldest risk reversal in the market is “no long term contracts”, which only means you get to quit faster after paying.
Ours goes further. Deliverables, targets, and timelines are agreed before kickoff, and if we do not deliver what we committed to on the timeline we committed to, you get your money back. We will not promise a specific position for a specific keyword, because nobody controls the YouTube algorithm and any agency claiming otherwise is misleading you. What we commit to is measurable growth in qualified views, click through rate, watch time, and the leads attached, and the refund backs every deliverable.
Senior people run the account, replies come in 1 to 2 hours, and PR, SEO and GEO, and web run as one system out of Austin.
Proof
Proof with numbers attached
Every number here is ours and carries a source. Vezbi, a community super app: over 1 million brand impressions during its U.S. expansion, with organic PR doing all the work. Forbes: 50+ placements across 12+ industries, with a first opportunity typically inside 4 to 8 weeks. One anonymized client feature alone produced 4,200+ visits, lifted branded search 38%, landed a DA 94 backlink, and triggered 12 secondary pickups. Clients have been featured in Forbes, TechCrunch, Entrepreneur, Mashable, Variety, and USA Today Network.
Cost
What a YouTube SEO agency costs
Rates in this market run from roughly $500 to $5,000 a month, most clustered between $2,000 and $5,000. None of the agencies ranking for this term put a number on their own page; those figures come from directories.
Ours are a different shape. Search engagements run mid five figures to six figures annually across a 12 month roadmap. Organic results take 6 to 12 months to matter, and you should hear that on the first call rather than in month seven. Forbes campaigns are scoped and priced in writing before kickoff, with a first opportunity typically inside 4 to 8 weeks.
The fit
Who this fits, and who it does not
It fits SaaS and B2B companies whose buyers watch before they book a demo, ecommerce brands with products that need showing rather than describing, and marketing leaders who report pipeline instead of impressions.
It does not fit anyone treating subscriber count as the goal, anyone who wants views bought rather than earned, or anyone who cannot commit to a publishing cadence. We can pull real gains out of a back catalog, but a channel that ships nothing new has a ceiling, and we will tell you where it sits before you sign.
Questions
Asked before every YouTube SEO engagement
Anything else, email [email protected] and it comes back in 1 to 2 hours.
Most agencies charge between $500 and $5,000 a month, clustering around $2,000 to $5,000, though almost none publish it. Our search engagements run mid five figures to six figures annually across a 12 month roadmap, scoped on a strategy call and priced in writing before you commit. Every engagement carries a 100% guarantee: the agreed results or your money back.
Yes, when your buyers research before they buy and competitors already answer them on video. A ranked video keeps earning views for years, while ads stop the day you stop paying, and one asset can rank on YouTube, in Google video results, and inside AI answers. It is a poor fit if you cannot publish consistently.
Expect movement on existing videos within 4 to 8 weeks and meaningful channel growth in 6 to 12 months. Metadata refreshes, thumbnail tests, and playlist restructuring land fastest because those videos already carry watch history. New uploads take longer, since YouTube needs impressions to test each one. Milestones for every phase are agreed before kickoff.
Yes, and it is usually where we start. Videos with watch history give the algorithm something to work from, so a rewritten title, a thumbnail tested against the old one, a fuller description with chapters, and a corrected transcript often lift views faster than anything new. We rank your whole back catalog by the gap between impressions and click through rate.
Google ranks pages on relevance and authority. YouTube ranks videos on viewer satisfaction: click through rate, watch time, average view duration, and whether people keep watching afterward. Backlinks barely register inside YouTube, while your first 30 seconds matter enormously. The two disciplines meet on your own site, where schema, transcripts, and embeds decide whether Google surfaces your video at all.
Against a baseline recorded in week one, across four layers. Reach: impressions and keyword rankings. Packaging: click through rate. Content: average view duration and audience retention. Business: site traffic, qualified leads, and revenue. Subscriber counts get reported but never used as proof, because a channel can add subscribers all year and sell nothing.
Next step
Find out why your videos stopped growing
Send us your channel. You get back the videos worth refreshing first, the queries your competitors own, the click through rate your packaging should be hitting, and what we would commit to in writing. Every engagement carries a 100% guarantee: the agreed results or your money back.
Every engagement carries a 100% guarantee: the agreed results or your money back