YouTube is the place you want to be if you’re doing video marketing. The problem is, most people really don’t know how to get the most out of YouTube. They simply upload their video and expect people to come flocking like crazy to watch it. Unfortunately, it doesn’t quite work that way. In this article, I am going to give you three simple things you can do to get more views out of your video. The last tip is going to blow you away. Keep reading to find out more.

Okay, tip number one is so simple and yet it is something so many people fail to do because they’re not SEO experts. When you upload your video, there is a line where you can enter in keywords that fit the topic your video is about. So many people just leave this line blank figuring that it doesn’t matter. It DOES matter. Fill those keywords in, whatever they are. Why? Because when people do a search for certain subjects, THAT is how YouTube knows whether or not YOUR video is relevant to show as part of the search results. Otherwise, your video NEVER comes up.

Tip number two is another simple one. Don’t expect YouTube to do all the work. Make sure you have a blog or a site where you can tell people about your video. Let the world know it’s there. The more views you get on your own from promotion, the more views you will get from YouTube’s end because your video will end up ranking higher when people do a search. So write articles about your video. Tweet about it. Do whatever you can to make sure people know it’s there.

Finally, and this is the BEST tip of all, to really jack up your views, what you want to do is this. Do a search for other relevant videos in your niche. Sort them according to most views. Then, what you want to do is post YOUR video as a video response to the most viewed videos. This will dramatically increase the number of views you get simply by association.

There you have it…three simple tips that will help you get the most out of the videos you upload to YouTube. By making sure you fill in the keywords, by self promoting and finally by posting video responses to the top viewed videos, you can actually end up with one of the top videos at YouTube.

To YOUR Success,

Steven Wagenheim

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