Wednesday, October 28, 2009

YouTube Marketing How-To

. Wednesday, October 28, 2009
By Marcus Richard

It is estimated that in the year 2017 there will be 1.3 billion gigabytes of videos watched by mobile users, per month. Online video is a great way to market your product and brand. YouTube Marketing is a great first step for an online video marketing campaign, so here are some quick tips.

YouTube quick stats include over 110 million unique visitors a month and each of them watches 65 videos on average per month. Your videos should be in those numbers and they can be. Getting started is as easy as creating your account, starting your channel and setting up how you want it to look. From there it's all about making those videos you upload easily found in searches.

We have a good idea of how YouTube does ranking of its videos and that algorithm places a heavy emphasis on the following things ? Title, Description, Tags, Number of Views and Rating. In order to do well in the last two you must have great options for the first three. First off you need to have content that people are going to want to see, it's suggested that how-to videos are the way to go in the beginning as they will continue to be useful over time. This will be a firm foundation for a successful YouTube Marketing campaign.

You not only need interesting content, you need to optimize for the search engines. Since YouTube processes over 3.5 billion searches a month it's the 2nd largest search in the world. Optimization means having a very good, concise title, highly relevant tags (keywords), and a great description. In regards o the description, it's always good to include a clickable link in the first 27 characters. Why 27? Well that's the length of descriptions prior to ellipsis (the three dots you click to read more). Use a major keyword or tag as the clickable link as well and it will save space and be useful.

Branding via URLs and phone numbers in your video is also a good idea. Also have a call-to-action which will lead people to your site and services in the video. Make sure you get the branding or call-to-action in the thumbnail as well. When you have your videos available, dropping links on popular videos helps, but be careful, don't make them look like spam. If your product or brand ties into other popular videos in some way, make spin-off videos. That will get you listed in related videos and more visibility. You can check out even more YouTube Marketing tips at ReelSEO.com.


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