How can I get more traffic to my YouTube videos and best way to promote a youtube channel increasing the video rank
Building YouTube subscriber (viewer) list organically:
1. Pinging
The very first thing you should do after uploading a video is go towww.pingler.com. In the space provided under “website name or title”, type in the title of your video. Fill in the videos URL. Select a category. Enter the CAPTCHA and click on the “ping my site” button.
Amongst other things, pinging informs the search engines that there is new content available for indexing.
2. Commenting
Commenting on other people’s videos can have a major impact on the amount of views your videos and profile receive. But the first thing you should do after uploading a video is be the first to comment on it! (yes, comment on your own video) This will encourage others to follow along.
I have not seen many bloggers or marketers do this but it can dramatically increase the amount of comments and ratings your video receives. Just saying something simple such as “Please tell me what you think… leave a comment” or “Give me some feedback… leave a comment and rate the video” can have a positive effect on your efforts. When commenting on other people’s videos, I usually will try to find the one’s with a large number of views or go the opposite direction and comment on the newest videos to make sure I’m the first.
3. Social Networks
Once you have uploaded your video to one of the popular video sharing sites, you should share it with as many people as possible. You should start with your own social network and share it on Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and other social networking sites. As you share it with your friends ask them to share it with their friends by either positing it as part of the status update on Facebook or asking people to re-tweet on Twitter. You should seek out special interest groups that would be interested in seeing your video. For example, if you created a video about skateboarding, post your video on Facebook among Skateboarding groups and fans of various Skateboarding brands.
4. Forum and Blog Marketing
One thing that I’ve had success with was promoting it on relevant forums. For example, if it is a video about dog training, it could be promoted on dog forums (there are plenty!). Basically you want to find your audience, and head there. You can put it in your signature, or even make a post about it. Just be careful that you don’t push too hard, as that could turn people off.
You should also reach out to Blogs and first leave your video as a comment, but contact the author as well to ask them to feature your video as future blog post. You should seek out Yahoo Groups and should post your video for their members to see. Post your video on as many places as possible.
5. Rating
As you share your video among your social network and on forums, ask people to rate it high. A high rated video will show up higher on search results, and if you target the right keywords will result in higher “targeted” views.
6. Social Bookmarking
Submitting your videos to popular social bookmarking websites such as Digg, StumbleUpon, and Del.icio.us can produce a heavy stream of increased traffic to your videos. Submitting to these sites will also help your video get indexed faster and provide extra link juice to increase your search engine rankings. One of the keys to effective social bookmarking is submitting other people’s content and not just your own. People who use these sites will see your profile and consider your account purely self-promotional or even worse they may see it as spam if all you are doing is submitting your own content.There is a lot of value in passing around quality information and even if the content isn’t your own, you can still be viewed as an authority if you are providing readers with valuable links to quality information.
7. Web 2.0 Blog Distribution
The first thing you will want to do is set up accounts and a simple blog on these services: Blogger (http://www.blogger.com/), Xanga (http://www.xanga.com/), Tumblr (http://www.tumblr.com/), LiveJournal (http://www.livejournal.com/).
Now you can e-mail posterous (post@posterous.com) and your videos will automatically be post on these various sites.Enter the title of your video in the subject line. You can copy and paste the description either before or after the video. Place the link to your video. Select anchor text. The anchor text you use should be a keyword you are trying to rank for.
8. Article Marketing
Writing articles and submitting them to popular article directories can be a great
source of additional views to your videos. Writing an article in under 10 minutes:
Doing this also provides backlinks back to your video meaning higher search results. A list of 1010 article directories:
Building your
YouTube subscriber (viewer) list in a paid way:
- There are a number of firms that deliver views to your videos on YouTube. Some of them include: ShareThrough, AlphaBird, Feed Company, Unruly Media and Virool (http://www.virool.com).
- The problem with most of these companies is they charge $100,000 to begin working with them before you even see any results (this is the case of ShareThrough, AlphaBird, Feed Company and Unruly Media) and they will typically charge a premium of $.20-$.25 per view. With Virool (http://www.virool.com), on the other hand, you can start a campaign for only $10 and typical per view rate usually doesn't exceed $.10.
- If you perform a search on Google for "YouTube Marketing", you will find a lot of companies offering cheap packages (100,000 views for $100) that guarantee to deliver YouTube views. I would NOT suggest using any of them. Most of them have a bot or use proxy networks to deliver very poor quality traffic to your videos. I have tested about 20 companies and did not find even one that was bringing genuine human traffic. I even had videos removed and flagged as a result of me contracting one of these "YouTube Marketers" that ended up pocketing the money and delivering bot traffic that YouTube recognized as fraudelent.
The way Virool works (and companies listed above), they typically show videos to specified audiences on blogs, social games and iPhone apps. If your video is professionally produced and is targeting the right demographic, then you have a great chance for it to go viral.
- 1. Original audio, video or written content is a plus!
- 2. Useful content (like working howtos) is a plus!
- 3. Fresh news? Your perspective is important, leave a comment!
- 4. Engage channels proximity with collaborations!
- 5. Drive more engagement replying to any reaction so fast!
- 6. Make live events and promote everywhere!
- 7. Embed your stuff on related sites and blogs as much as You can!
- 8. Don't steal content but learn, learn, learn and make it better!
- 9. Use a unique tag to mark all your content!
- 10. If You have a huge content amount just use latest YouTube APIs!
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