People say the youtube is the best way to promote your website.

Discussion in 'General Marketing' started by clhcomputers, Mar 2, 2009.

  1. #1
    I created a viral type video on youtube to promote my site and only got 20 some hits in a months time. Is it really that bad?:confused:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZJOe-kXwdQ


    http://www.clhcomputers.com
    http://clhcomputers.forum2u.org
     
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  2. shivanikapoor

    shivanikapoor Banned

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    if you can get more traffic by youtube so very good not bad and this very helpful tips for me thanks
     
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  3. sport302

    sport302 Well-Known Member

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    It really depends on what your videos are about. I have made videos about investing that hardly get any views, but I have made motorcycle videos that have over 30,000 views in less than 6 months.

    FYI - You did screw up your website link in your description it is not active. You put your colon after the backslash instead of before.
     
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    KeyboardHustler Well-Known Member

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  5. viatorek

    viatorek Active Member

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    come on you have 30 views and your traffic is 20? its great RESULT! really
     
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  6. infoemp

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    Hmmm...where is the celebrity?

    The video title could be perceived as being a bit misleading. I did not recognize any celebrity and I heard nothing with audio at 100%. Also, your link goes to a Google search page.

    Viral video traffic generally comes when viewers start telling their friends about cool videos they have viewed. They generally send the video links via emails, via social site, etc.

    Also, what type marketing have you done? Don't be fooled, YouTube videos are much like websites. You are just not going to get instant traffic without marketing exposure. Whether it be "word of mouth" or paid and free marketing, promotion and advertising.

    Kind regards,

    InfoEmp
     
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  7. infoemp

    infoemp Peon

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    viatorek,

    I think he means 20 video views as opposed to website visitors. (I could be mistaken though.)

    Cheers!
     
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  8. dpelliott

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    Youtube is the third highest ranking search engine, alot of people are going to youtube instead of google now to search for stuff, as you get to see a video and aren't bored with pages of text. So i would definately urge you to stick at the youtube videos and learn to master it.
     
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  9. Squidoodle

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    Yeah it's difficult to get viral stuff 100% dead on, there are no written rules.

    Good luck
     
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    gordon_freeman Banned

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    Yeah it is a new and popular way to promote your business or website nowaday

    the reason of your failure is not having knowledge about youtube marketing

    If you want to achieve success in youtube

    you can have take a look on our complete youtube marketing service that includes video creation as well

    here the thread

    http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1017573
     
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  11. BLuka

    BLuka Active Member

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    try promoting other ways, will help alot.
     
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    Yeah, youtube is only one method. You should link the videos to your site though, not to a search, and Obviously you need to advertise using other methods.
     
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    Just make sure that your video is entertaining... add a little humor also and you can be sure that your site will get a lot of attention...
     
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    Video marketing may work sometimes and may failed completely for some niches .There are a lot of racist statements ,bad language comments , in short there are lot of crap there in youtube .I have seen the super affiliate comments filled with abuses ,people calling them scam .
     
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    I don't think you can call your video Viral especially with that big ass at the end of the video :rolleyes:

    Few problems here..

    1. Your targeted keywords?
    2. Your title need to reach out to your prospects visitors (what's celebrity got to do with computers?)
    3. Even if there are viewers, you are going to piss them off with that big ass...it is like telling them to "piss off"

    You need to research the Keywords your prospect buyers are searching for in the Search Engine.
    YouTube videos can easily dominate the top 10 rankings in Google. So thats where you get your views.

    You also need to get your youtube link everywhere...from bookmarking, article marketing, forum marketing and etc. That will give the initial boost , creating views,backlinks and further move your video up the ranking in the search engine.

    You can't just do a video and leave it in youtube unless it is extremely viral.
     
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    I would say just look at the quality. Even if you got traffic i my thought would be to ensure you capture your audience, and not scare them away. Spelling should be good too...pay attention to the smaller detail, cos your potential customers will!!
     
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    I have found the easiest way to make money on YT is simply copy other existing videos (on YT), edit them with your own site, and re-upload them. Lesbian sex works best for this and can make you some very easy money. Other ways to make money is to use software like crazytalk and make a common character speak whatever message you want. Here is an example of that:

    Barack Obama Antichrist

    The only reason I did that was to promote a dating site. It has well over 100,000 views and is only one of many videos that I use to make money with. I also do CPA offers but sex sells best at youtube.
     
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    I read that Youtube got more queries last month than Yahoo.com!
     
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    This is part of marketing. While some people may do really well with videos, others are not guaranteed to have the same results. For example, while I think guitar lessons could do great with YouTube videos, there is probably less demand for videos of legal service type discussion (unless it had a significant twist to it).

    The difficult part about marketing is trying to figure out what will work or not. Almost always you are testing out different avenues to find ones that will work for your website. A good portion of things that work for others you might find to be a waste of time for your website.
     
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