How to get more views on youtube and best ways to promote a youtube video

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1. Relevant video Title
Your video title should be relevant to your video that you are uploading on youtube.
2.Appropriate keywords in the video Title
Your Title should be under 66 characters. Include " video" so that you come in searching. Your title should tell people what exactly your video is all about. Try to come up with a very appealing.
3.Keyword rich description
Write a keyword-rich description that is detailed and informative. The length of description can be of 800 words so you can make a very enlightening description that can help you in convincing people. Put your keywords and links of social media in the beginning as youtube search bar only displays 25-30 characters. also include your website link in the description.
4.Optimize YouTube Tags using relevant keywords
Write a script and upload your transcript, which YouTube will then use that transcript to provide captions within the video.  Captions can be indexed by Google and can maximize the ability for Google to understand what’s on the video, helping to improve the rankings of your videos.


5. Annotations
With video annotations, you can engage more viewers to watch your videos and read your content.
For annotations, add the video background information. Create call-to-actions for sharing, visiting other pages, or commenting.
6.Optimizing Your Youtube Channel
You can also make your own youtube channel for all your videos. It is a bit time-consuming, but it would make it possible for you to rank your videos.
For optimizing the channel, make sure that the title you add describes your channel, foregrounds your products/services, select keywords that relate yo your business.

7.Category
 Every video should be placed into the appropriate category.  You want to have your video appear alongside other related videos within the appropriate category.
8.Thumbnail
 Choose the most enticing thumbnail possible.  You want to catch the attention of viewers in a single, very small image.  Uploading of your own thumbnail is fine, but it must come from the video.
9.Privacy
 Once a video’s meta data is completely optimized, make i tpublic so it accessible to the whole video community.
10.The most important Youtube video ranking factor is Estimated minutes watched
Views is playing much less important role than before.

 11. You can also have a trailer in the "For new visitors" tab in your channel.

 You can share your videos on free video sharing websites , this a major step for more views . Share your video's link on FACEBOOK , WHATSAPP , TWITTER , PINTEREST, etc.

 12.Allow the viewers to like and comment your video.

 13. Relase your video on monday and tuesday.

14.Increase your reach by emailing it to your acquaintances.

15.Give the video link in your blog or website.

16.Get subscribers Make use of annotation that encourages people to subscribe to your video, or even ask people to subscribe to you over email





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How to promote your music online through music forums

  • Join two or three forums and visit them regularly
  • Ask your fans to post about your music on forums 
  • Only have your own forum when you know it will be busy
  • Don’t feed the trolls
  • Fill in your profile
  • Pick your forums carefully
  • Have a link to your own music in your footer
  • Look out for “promote your music here” threads
  • Be your own fan
  • Dont spam!



So..Promote your music online!!


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Here are a few ideas:
  1. Push them into your social networks. You can obviously post to Facebook,tweet, etc., but you can also connect your YouTube account to your Facebook, Twitter, Google Reader, Buzz, etc., services to post your uploads, likes, favorites to those spaces automatically.
  2. Video SEO - make sure your titles are clear and descriptive. Use lots of tags.
  3. If relevant, attach your video as a video response to a popular video on a similar topic.
  4. Use Promoted Videos to pay a min-per-view to be promoted against relevant YT searches, in Related Videos, etc.: https://ads.youtube.com/
  5. Establish an anchor - get one of your videos to 5k+ views (so it will start to rise in search results) and then use annotations from that video to promote other videos.
  6. Encourage your viewers to subscribe to your YouTube channel so new videos will be pushed to them. For many of our most popular channels, 40-50% of their views within the first 24 hours can come from subscribers.