A few tips for youtube promotion

**~kev~** · 12-17-2008, 02:31 PM

If you put some serious effort into youtube, you will be able to get some good traffic in return - but its takes time. A lot of people expect overnight success with youtube, but that is not the way it works. Everyone would love to upload a video that is viewed over a million times in one day, but that is not how it works.

The Tips:

Take your youtube account seriously. This means that you do NOT upload someone elses material. Do not record a show off TV and post it on youtube. The video will be deleted and you account will be banned.

Post quality resolution videos. Do not use the cheapest camera you can find to record the video.

Do not add copyright protected music to your video. This will get your account deleted and the video removed.

Make your videos fun to watch or informative.

Put your website address at the first and end of the video.

Put a link to your site on the first line of the video description where it is viewable.

Change up your youtube profile. This means changing the background color, box color other little "tweaks."

Do NOT use programs to increase your video views. This is a popular but dangerous trend. If you are serious about your youtube career, do not cheat your view count.

If you need audio or songs added to your video, look for royalty free music, or use the audio swap feature on youtube. The audio swap is in the edit video section.

I have been publishing videos on youtube for about 19 - 20 months. In that time I have uploaded 319 videos, which have been viewed between 2.5 - 3 million times. My videos average 10,000 - 15,000 views daily. Because of all of this, youtube sends more traffic to my site then yahoo. This means that youtube is around the 4th - 5th highest source of traffic to my site.

After you get your videos going, you can apply to become a youtube partner. If you are accepted, you can link your google adsense account to your youtube account and start making money off of your videos. Youtube can open up a whole new world to site promotion, but it takes a lot of work, time and patience.

Becoming a youtube partner is not easy. I know people that have dozens of videos that have been viewed over 10,000 times and they are denied every time they apply. It would be best to wait until your youtube account is about 6 - 10 months old with maybe 100 uploaded videos before you apply to the partner program.

When you get the embed code for the video, click the little star - its on the right hand side of the code. A drop down window will open and you can select colored borders for the video. Add borders to enhance the colors of your blog or website. This feature is often overlooked as people post bland videos with no colored borders. Use the border feature, it just looks more professional.

towholesale · 12-17-2008, 07:11 PM

It's very useful. I got trouble by making vedios with a cheap camera. Visitors don't like them at all. My vedio is about lasers, do you have any suggestion to make the vedios better?

**~kev~** · 12-17-2008, 09:12 PM

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Originally Posted by towholesale

It's very useful. I got trouble by making vedios with a cheap camera. Visitors don't like them at all. My vedio is about lasers, do you have any suggestion to make the vedios better?

What kind of program are you using to edit the videos?

towholesale · 12-17-2008, 09:34 PM

Windows Movie Maker. I did't know it's so difficult to make a good video.

**~kev~** · 12-18-2008, 06:13 AM

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Originally Posted by towholesale

Windows Movie Maker. I did't know it's so difficult to make a good video.

When you save the video to your computer, I think its on the second page, select "Best fit to file size" and increase the file size until its maxed out. This should be around a 2mb biterate.

Bobby44 · 12-17-2008, 10:06 PM

Thanks for the tips

bogs · 12-17-2008, 11:10 PM

nice... i really that one... thanks for sharing..

snicky · 12-17-2008, 11:14 PM

Nice tips I really don't know about this thank you for sharing!

benniegriffey · 12-17-2008, 11:36 PM

Hey these are nice tips.....
I haven't done so much of video editing and stuff
but keeping these tips in mind i would love to do it

rypher21 · 12-18-2008, 12:57 AM

nice tips...very well said!!!

my_misyel · 12-18-2008, 01:26 AM

Is Youtube partner via Google Adsense has limitations? like which countries can avail of this service?

**~kev~** · 12-18-2008, 11:24 AM

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Originally Posted by my_misyel

Is Youtube partner via Google Adsense has limitations? like which countries can avail of this service?

I do not know the answer to that question. Check out the Youtube partner program page, here is a link to the guidelines and terms of use - http://www.youtube.com/partners

lloyd.velarde@gmail. · 12-18-2008, 05:22 AM

nice tips dude! they are really useful...

Mechanix · 12-18-2008, 10:59 AM

Great tips buddy.. Thanks a ton for sharing these.!

sandra12 · 12-18-2008, 11:22 AM

hey Nice tips

notepage · 01-03-2009, 06:05 AM

This is a really great collection of tips thank you for posting!

Jenie0109 · 01-05-2009, 12:40 AM

"Do not record a show off TV and post it on youtube. The video will be deleted and you account will be banned."

I still see a lot of these stuff.

micoblanco · 01-05-2009, 02:43 AM

To TS(Topic Starter):

Quote:

Do NOT use programs to increase your video views. This is a popular but dangerous trend. If you are serious about your youtube career, do not cheat your view count.

About what you said (quoted above)... I didn't know that the "view count" of a video can be cheated. Anyway... thanks for very informative and helpful post. rep up+

**~kev~** · 01-05-2009, 12:32 PM

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Originally Posted by micoblanco

To TS(Topic Starter):

About what you said I didn't know that the "view count" of a video can be cheated. Anyway... thanks for very informative and helpful post. rep up+

There are youtube cheat programs that offer X number is hits over X number of days. There are also people that offer their services to boost the video view count. So instead of buying the program and running it yourself, you can pay someone to boost your video views by how ever much you want to pay them.

I do not know the exact prices, but for example lets say $25 for 50,000 views added to a video over the next week. I have never used any such program, or service to boost my view count.

As a video blogger I find these kinds of activities disgusting. Boosting your view count by under handed means only harms the entire youtube community.

realistic · 01-06-2009, 03:00 AM

Hi Friend,

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Thank You Very Much for sharing this useful tips.