subject: The Right Way To Make Youtube Give You Traffic [print this page] If you've got a website or a blog, you need traffic. Without traffic, your site or blog will be, at best, a ghost town. The more people who know about your site, the better it is going to be. While there are plenty of strategies that have proven to bring in traffic, some will work and some aren't going to work. It doesn't matter which niche you've chosen, video marketing can work. When you leverage the power of YouTube, your video marketing can be taken up a level.
Even if you are brand new to video marketing, it's not hard to get your feet wet. Here are a few YouTube specific tips that will help you get more out of your video marketing.
One of the very first things that you need to do is plan out the content you want to put on YouTube. Do your research so that you're certain what content your target audience wants to see. Don't just film any random video and publish it. It is important that you give targeted content to the people who watch your videos so that they will enjoy watching it. This also provides incentive for them to share your videos more with their visitors. The real truth is that, if you aren't able to effectively plan and create a strong outline for your video, you won't have the clarity that you need to get to where you want to go. So get done with the planning and then move on to the next step.
Look through YouTube and learn everything you can from the videos that have found success there. See how and what the makers of those videos have been doing to get the attention of their viewers. Analyze the approaches they have taken and try to understand what makes their content popular. Look for clues in the videos and try to figure out exactly what they did to reach their levels of popularity. It isn't all that difficult to learn a lot from the hotshot videos that can be found throughout YouTube. You just need to have an eye for what's working. If you notice that a video has become successful, take notes and ask yourself how you can get the same result. Contrary to popular belief, YouTube has a learning curve if you want to find success; go through it--you'll be glad you did.
Don't limit yourself to the creating of just one video and stop at that. It is important to promote your videos beyond YouTube as well.
Use social bookmarking sites to bookmark the video, stumble it on StumbleUpon, tweet it on Twitter, share it on Facebook, etc. Focus on getting the maximum exposure for your video because you never know when it may go viral. The more exposure your video gets you, the higher traffic you generate. Make sure you focus some of your attention on gaining as many viewers for your videos as you can.
No matter which goals you've set for yourself with your video marketing, properly leveraging YouTube can help you reach them. Applying tips like the ones we've talked about here will help you get as much as possible from YouTube. Nothing happens in just one night; remember that. The traffic you are able to generate with YouTube can only be long lasting when you really work for it. It is vital that you put in true effort and take consistent action. It's important that you don't just use the tested methods on YouTube, you need to try out new ideas and creative methods for breaking barriers.
