I\’ve found Tweinds does have its uses for bumping up views on YouTube videos which, as Wayne points out, obviously effects rankings.

Combining this with more keyword rich annotations & captions and \’stealing\’ high performing video\’s tags has been the key to my success in my niche.

I\’ve actually gone from an average of 120 – 150 views a day for the 1st 6 months to an average of 400 – 430 per day for the next 3 months (with one week producing an average of 1200 views).

I\’ve also found commenting on other high ranking videos seems to work too although i\’ve not been too successful on \’Video Responses\’.

Thanks again guys…onwards and upwards !!

I’ve found Tweinds does have its uses for bumping up views on YouTube videos which, as Wayne points out, obviously effects rankings.

Combining this with more keyword rich annotations & captions and ‘stealing’ high performing video’s tags has been the key to my success in my niche.

I’ve actually gone from an average of 120 – 150 views a day for the 1st 6 months to an average of 400 – 430 per day for the next 3 months (with one week producing an average of 1200 views).

I’ve also found commenting on other high ranking videos seems to work too although i’ve not been too successful on ‘Video Responses’.

Thanks again guys…onwards and upwards !!

Pleased that Matt and I have been able to give you actionable content that you can run with and implement.

Ideas are two a penny but results come from committed implementation.

Great job dude and do more of what is currently bringing you more views and subscribers. Also, think if there is any way to magnify or multiply that strategy (ie. the two forms of leverage) to get even greater results.

Thanks,

Wayne
The Profit Share

P.S. I love the way the new CommentLuv plugin enables you to pick from your last 10 posts, so I can find the most relevant one for the readership of this article. Great development to version 2.9 from Andy Bailey.

Have seen a surge in views (and subscribers) from implementing the new tips i’ve learnt from this post.

Thanks buddy, good to have you back again.

Good point about the marketing side of things. Yes, you’re right, some channels and sites will jump on your from a great height if you are overtly marketing.

Thanks for pointing this out.

Matt

Great blog by the way! I visit regurlarly. I love your top ten for the videos. I would also like to point out to the newbs to video marketing. For some of the video submission sites you will need to be careful you are not doing blatant marketing as they can and will ban your accounts.. I Know because i learned the hard way. So try to keep your videos aimed at tips or general info, unless you have a paid account!

Chris

Yes, comments on YouTube videos is great because you get feedback from your viewership on YouTube. This is in the same way as your blog. I must admit, I have to discipline myself a bit better to actually research keywords and writing calls to action, etc when uploading to YouTube rather than just “batting the content out”. The gap needs to close between “knowing what to do” and “doing what I know.” I think even better results comes when doing this!

Blog owners benefit from visiting other people’s blogs and commenting because it is essentially like a blogging mini JV in any case with just the one comment. The blog owner gets the ACTIVITY from the comment and the visiting blogger gets a backlink. WIN WIN!

Yeah, a guest post is a great idea. You should drop me off some content that you want posting. I’ll write up a great post for your readers in the next week or so. If you want to tie the post in with one of our videos from our YouTube channels so we can make a guest appearance in each other’s hall of fame, then that’s cool too!

Thanks,

Wayne

Anyway…

Wow, thanks for (yet more) awesome content. We should probably start guest blogging on each other’s sites as we write enough for some good individual articles (well, you do!).

Great tips as always, thanks for sharing them with my lovely readers. The point you make about treating YouTube pages as regular web pages is solid advice. Your ABC rule is very good. Is that from your free report? If you’re reading this and you’re not Wayne, get yourself a copy as there’s more of this kind of gold in there.

I like your idea for getting visitors to comment too. Good skills.

Matt

Thanks for commenting. Glad you found it useful. Yeah, the keyword tool was a bit of a recent find for me, so I’m pleased to pass it on here.

I think you are on the right track. I’ve just started buying links on videos and whole channels on YouTube and it’s both addictive and a great source of traffic.

Haha, your comment about Yahoo and Bing made me laugh. They must be pretty pissed off that a non-search engine does their job better than they do!

Matt

I’ve been using video marketing for the last 18 months and your post has confirmed that I’m on the right track.

That’s a great tip about the YouTube keyword tool. Until now I’ve used the main Google Keyword Tool for various research purposes, so I’ll make sure I check out the alternative YouTube tool.

I’m sure it will provide powerful data that’s even more focused towards the needs of video marketing, as I’ve read that YouTube is the world’s second biggest search engine (how depressing is that for both Yahoo and Bing?)

Stuart Laing

I can contribute the following:

When using an informational video for relationship building, use “info keywords”. When using a video to present an offer which will help your people, use “buyer keywords”

A YouTube video page has the same construction as a standard web page. It has a video title (title tag in HTML), video description (meta decscription in HTML), tags (meta tags in HTML). You need to approach it in the same way as you would optimise a text page.

Here are some extra sneaky little known things about optimising YouTube.

1) Every “like” or “dislike” you get counts as a vote either for or against the relevance of your video in YouTube’s search algorithm. By the way, it’s worth noting that YouTube’s search algorithm will bear increasing similarities to Googles since Google bought it.

2) Every comment you get counts as a vote for your video since you have to watch all (or the best part of) the video to leave a comment.

3) Building friends and subscribers is massively under done by most. Once you have friends and subscribers in YouTube, they are effectively a list which you can market to (like a page in FB or a following in Twitter). You can post a bulletin straight from your channel which is seen by all your friend’s and subscribers on their home page. How many people do you think use this? Barely anyone.

4) This one is quite obvious but play count is a major factor in relevancy in YouTube’s search algorithm.

5) You can use captions and annotations to label up your videos with things you say. Yeah, so what? These are used as part of YouTube’s search algorithm, so use keywords in the captions!

6) Encourage people to embed the video into their web pages. Doing so gets your videos backlinks. Have you ever noticed that each YouTube channel has its own Alexa traffic ranking? Backlinks determine relevancy and relevancy determines position and position determines play count. Beautiful catch 22!

Same rule as anything SEO. SEO is really simple: A = Activity, B = Backlinks, C = Content. Do all three consistently and you will gain favour with YouTube, Google and your channel subscribers.

You can get these by asking for it in your description box in the form of a call to action…

If you liked my video, please click “like” and leave a comment.

Something worth bearing in mind is that YouTube isn’t just the biggest video sharing site in the world which is how the majority think of it. It is actually the world’s second largest search engine AND the world’s second largest social network. Do you think it’s getting some serious traffic and got a great page rank? You bet!

Thanks for the great post once again and keep em’ coming!

Thanks,

Wayne