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The Secrets of YouTube Marketing

October 3rd, 2009

Marcus Richard

by Marcus Richard

Video is the future of the internet and a recent study showed that mobile users alone will consume 1.3 billion gigabytes of video a month by 2017. That means if you want to be competitive then you will need to get up to snuff and the fastest way to start using online video to market your brand is to use YouTube. If you truly want to have a great YouTube Marketing campaign, you’ll need these basic tips.

YouTube has a variety of options available to users that want to promote their brand. With over 110 million unique visitors a month, each watching up to 65 videos, there are ample opportunities for your videos to be seen and for you to increase your brand awareness. The first thing you need to do is be there. Create a user account, open a channel and configure it to your needs and make it look how you want.

The YouTube Search Algorithm puts a lot of stock in the following five things: Title, Description, Tags, Number of Views and Rating. If you’ve got the first three done right, you should do well in the last two. But for successful YouTube Marketing you need to have content that people want to see. Comedy is fine but for your marketing needs, a how-to will probably suit your purposes the best.

While producing and uploading your videos, you will also need to optimize them so that they can be found in searches. Since YouTube is a massive search engine itself with more than 3.5 billion searches a month they are the world’s second largest (Google, the owners of YouTube are the first). Optimization for search is done on many levels. First you need very good tags (keywords) for your videos, then you need a very concise and useful description and you need a category for your video (chosen from a pre-existing list). Descriptions should have all the pertinent information in the first 27 characters as after that you get the ellipsis () to read more. Put a URL in the very first line of the description so that there is interactivity even outside of the video. Make it short so it fits in the first 27 characters.

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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About the Author:

For more tips on how to best leverage online videos for marketing, visit ReelSEO.com, the Online Video Marketer’s Guide. At ReelSEO, you can learn how best to create, publish, and optimize online videos for YouTube marketing.

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