How to promote my youtube video?

[XxDohBoyxX]

I want to promote my first video to get more views and I need a little help.....any advice?

BTW This is my video......http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xWiMuVP0LA

[Sara]

Make your video searchable: With so many videos getting uploaded to YouTube each day, it's more important than ever to ensure that your audience can find your video on the site. How do you do this? First, make sure you have a compelling title. Use your keywords and make a strong emphasis on the benefits of the video. People don't want to be surprised, and the minute you make them figure out something, you'll lose them to a more focused and succinct video title.

Next is your video description. I see a lot of videos on this site without descriptions and that's a big mistake. Why? Because if you capture your audience with the video title, you really want to keep their attention with a compelling description. Remember, solve their problem, offer solutions, and entertain them. Whatever it is you're doing, tell them clearly in a keyword rich description.

Make them short: Don't push long videos to this site. Short is key, and studies have shown that viewer interest starts to decline as you inch towards that two-minute mark. If you have a long video you want to upload, consider editing it down into shorter segments. Also, while the two-minute mark is key, I find that education videos can sometimes be longer. We run short seminar excerpts up to seven minutes and they do fine.

Page Layout: When you're setting up your YouTube channel, be sure and use the "Player View." I don't recommend using a grid view which is also an option. Additionally, set your video to play automatically. When you've done that, create playlists of your most popular videos. You're going to keep updating this as viewer preferences change. The dashboard on YouTube gives you a lot of options, use them!

Get a custom channel: Make sure your YouTube channel is branded to you, your book, or your business. A custom channel will help represent your message better and makes your entire video series look more professional.

Annotating your Channel: Have you ever watched a YouTube video and see words or a call to action pop up during the video? These are called Annotations and anyone uploading a video to YouTube can use them, they're fantastic! You can use Annotations to drive people to a sale, get them to another video or video link on your site.
Promote your channel: Be sure to push your channel out through social media channels. Promote it on Facebook, Twitter, your own website and even in your signature line. Every time you upload a video you should promote it on these sites, and every once in a while, push a random video to your list to keep reminding them you have a fantastic YouTube channel!

Finally, YouTube got a real boost from Google+. Now you can load a video into the "Hangouts" section of Google+ and watch a video together with others in your Hangout. (Don't know what a Google+ Hangout is? Click here) It's a great way to share and comment on videos and you should be encouraging your readers to try this. In fact, why not invite your followers to join you in a Google+ Hangout to watch a video and get their instant feedback? You could gather great data!

The importance of YouTube can't be overstated. It's a fantastic platform and, if used properly, can really help ignite interest to your book. Don't burn out on it; getting on YouTube can be fun, lots of fun. But sometimes (like with any social media) if you aren't staying with it, you might burn out or lose interest. Check out my ideas for creating YouTube content to keep your channel going. Be a star on YouTube, you'll be glad you did!

[Katherine]

You can by some adwords from google, and people will find you via search engine, tough every time someone finds you then your adwords, well youll get charged, its lik renting words.

Other way:

Put more meaningful, and not meaningful but popular tags on your videos!

Put loads!

Most favoured tags:

sex, pamela anderson etc..

Another way:

The picture capture of the middle of your video, any video is the one that appears as on the video when the video isnt playing and people load your page.

You can Chose any picture,!

Use your imagination!

[Sam]

1. Add your YouTube video to video search engines.

2. Make smart, search engine optimized (SEO) titles and descriptions. Tell your YouTube viewers what your online video about with carefully chosen words. Think ahead and ask yourself, "What will people be searching for?" If you are making a YouTube video about the stock market, use terms that someone interested in the stock market will search for.

3. Brand your video! Create a logo in Adobe Photoshop or Adobe Illustrator. Add it to all of your videos. If someone steals it, which can happen online (many people use Keepvid.com to steal YouTube videos), your brand will still be on the video. In your brand, include the address of your web site or blog where a viewer can find the original movie content.

4. Promote your videos on MySpace and Facebook. Both social network websites offer easy ways to upload or link to YouTube videos so that all of your friends can view them and tell their friends, as well.

5. Stay ahead of the trends. A way to easily make popular videos is to make them about popular topics in the news or on television. Did Britney Spears do something crazy again? Make a video about it and post it on YouTube. When people search for it on Google or on the online video search engines, they will find it and watch it! It's a natural way to create popular YouTube content and make money.

6. Investigate which of your YouTube videos are doing well using Google Analytics and YouTube Insight and copy what made them successful.

7. Tell people about your YouTube videos using RSS feeds from your personal blog. I would recommend Feedburner.com as a great place to start with RSS feeds.

8. Include a link to your YouTube account in all of your emails. Put it in your email signature. Even when your friends forward your email, it will be included in the body of the message, spreading the word about your YouTube videos and increasing your chances of finding new YouTube viewers.

9. Make "video responses" on YouTube. Go to a video that has a lot of views and comments, and click "create a video response." Now, your video will be linked to the popular video!

10. And don't forget to ALWAYS backup your YouTube videos on your computer. If something happens, you do not want to lose your movies! Backing up your computer is better than having to re-film all of your YouTube videos.

With these tricks of the trade, you can easily make some money on YouTube through search engine optimization and smart promoting of your YouTube content.