According to Rebecca Lieb of the ClickZ Network, recent surveys show that video has a greater chance of being clicked if it has a thumbnail or image. These results are evident in the popularity of universal search. Rebecca advises marketers to take these statistics seriously and recommends posting related videos with each new video just as Greg Jarboe suggested. Get more from Rebecca Lieb and her take on SEO with blogs and feeds in the WebProNews interview from SES San Jose.

The .mobi infatuation is losing its case, according to Cindy Krum of Blue Moon Works. Cindy explains to WebProNews how .mobi is not very valuable for SEO. She suggests moving all your mobile content to one site in order to better leverage your rankings and your .com history for mobile search. To hear more from Cindy Krum, tune in to the WPN interview from SES San Jose.

Vanessa Fox has been credited and recognized for creating Google’s Webmaster Central, but that’s only the beginning. As she tells WebProNews, she has been quite a busy lady since she left Google. Aside from speaking, writing, organizing conferences, and blogging, Vanessa has two new projects to add to her resume. She has launched The Jane and Robot Mission to help bring search marketers and Web developers together. She also has a new blog called Nine By Blue in which she plans to write about holistic online marketing and search analytics from a reference standpoint. Get caught up on Vanessa in the WPN video from SES San Jose.

Although Video SEO is not completely new, it is still tricky. Matthew Scheybeler of Blinkx talks to WebProNews and gives a few helpful tips. First of all, Matthew recommends submitting a video sitemap to Google and the other search engines. According to Matthew, the most important factors for video SEO are good content and metadata. Find out more in the WebProNews interview with Matthew Scheybeler at SES San Jose.

After listening to a spirited musical intro from none other than Greg Jarboe of SEO-PR, WebProNews got him to tell his secret to video distribution. Greg explains how video optimization on your own website was enough in years past, but now in order to succeed you must distribute your optimized videos to sites like YouTube, Yahoo Video, and more. Get more details on that plus hear what you should ALWAYS include in a video, only in the WPN video from SES San Jose.

It’s not enough to make a video, upload it to your site and wait for search engines to find it. Video and image search engine Pixsy’s Chase Norlin explains how producers can take a more active role in getting their video content to climb up the search results. RSS can help, and so can a good old-fashioned poke on the search engine shoulder.