How can I promote my show Wayward Traveler to get more YouTube views?

[Tunechi]

There are several things people should know
about labelling their videos: 'tags' are only the
3rd most important component in YouTube's
search results. Words in the title are 1st, and
words in the description are 2nd.

And ahead of all those characteristics is your
YouTube username. Thus, 'tags' are really in
4th place, and as such are the least important
element in any search.

[Whenever you do a search, how often do you
find videos at the top of the search results list
with no matching words in the username, titles
or descriptions? Probably never. If you ever do
come across videos like that with no matches
whatsoever, that's when the 'tags' are actually
relevant in the search.]

Thus if you're searching for videos (either your
own or somebody else's), and you want them
to appear at the top of search results, type the
username first, and then the title of the video
(or at least the most unique words of the title).

If you don't want your actual username being
part of the search (perhaps because people
don't know it), and you want your videos near
the top of search results, then make the titles
and descriptions of all your videos as long as
you can, using plenty of "buzz" words. (If you
are fascinated by 'tags', try to include them in
your titles.)

As for "generic" searches, it should come as
no surprise that YouTube employs the Google
search engine, which has its own peculiar set
of rules. Thus consider these when you label
your videos:

1 -- Try not to use lots of hyphens (-), because
they are considered just like minus signs, and
compound words risk being totally eliminated
from any search.

2 -- Avoid using many 1- or 2-letter words such
as "a", "I", "at", "in", "me", "my", "no", "of", "to"
or "we" because Google actually ignores those
types of words, and they too will most likely be
eliminated from any search.

3 -- Use quotation marks to denote phrases or
words that must be together, or else YouTube
treats them like separate words. For example,
there is a ton of difference between just typing
Qantas Airlines vs "Qantas Airlines", or typing
the spirit of Australia vs "the spirit of Australia".
(Check it out yourself.)

A great example of all this is when I answered
another person's Yahoo question a while ago,
who asked:...Why can't I find my video whose
title is One in a Million-Hannah Montana?

Well, 1 -- the name "Hannah" is automatically
eliminated; 2 -- so are the words "in" and "a";
3 -- no quote marks means that the remaining
words are each treated separately. YouTube's
search engine isn't aware that this is supposed
to be the name of a song.

Thus, in this example, the person may as well
have written Million Montana One in YouTube's
searchbox. Guess whose video didn't show up
in the first 10 pages of results?

If you want more people to "find" your videos by
accident, there are a few other things you can
consider -- but first make sure you have a pen,
paper and calculator beside you.

While your videos are "on screen", go through
the "Related Videos" section and find the ones
with considerable views. Click on those videos
to find their "date", and with your calculator try
and determine their popularity with the formula
"total views" divided by "number of months on
YouTube". After you have determined which of
the videos are most popular, take note of their
titles, descriptions and tags -- and try to do the
same or likewise.

That way, your videos will be even more closely
"related" to them; and whenever people watch
those other videos, your videos should show up
more often and higher in their "Related Videos"
section.

Another thing that you can do is: when you are
on those other videos, click "Statistics & Data"
to see which sites "link" to those other videos.
Perhaps you can try to do the same with yours.

I hope my information has been helpful to you.