My Youtube traffic is terrible

70,000 "bot" views on my youtube video yet no traffic to my site. Should I wait until the bot views climb to 80k to 150k? Was hoping for at least some traffic!

 

what are you talking about "bot" views.... if they are bot views or produced by a program, of course no one is going to click it.... no one is going to go to video just because you faked the stats... I LOL'ed

 

lol... i do blackhat type things but sh*t like that has always seemed stupid to me... faking plays on myspace band... faking youtube views... makes no sense... you cant fool someone into liking your stuff! if a youtube video is good, it will organicaly expload anyway, if you plant a few seeds...

just my thoughts

 

Bot views bring organic views. That's why I'm confused there are no real views now.

Negativity can leave my thread.

 

Make sure to add content there and url of your site in description tag in particular video.

 

whats the video abut?

 

As popnyc says, bot views will increase organic views, purely because people will go onto the 'Most Viewed This Month' or similar honour lists and click on them to see what all the fuss is about. However, if the video is no good then it doesn't matter if you are in the 'Most Viewed All Time' list, people wont bother viewing your site because the video was awful. To get organic views from bot views, not only do you need to make a good video, but you also need to grab people's attention with your URL. Put a watermark on the bottom of the video or something...

 

your obviously not going to get traffic from bot views :S

 

you need a good video in order to get good traffic, you need people to like it

 

Thanks for the super suggestions
Do you think a watermark will significantly help traffic? Rather than posting the URL on Youtube? Right now I have my URL on the top of the video and in the description, something that is clickable.

How do I put a watermark in? Is this within the video? It isn't the Youtube thumbnail, is it?

 

Try changing your tags, do some keyword research and find what people are searching on your topic! Use those keywords in your title and descriptions also

 

Yes you should wait the bot view to at least 300k to get more real person attention

 

Take it into a video editing program and you can put it on. When I'm home tonight, if you send me the video then I'll watermark it with your URL and send it back to you if you aren't able to do it yourself .

The new annotation system is pretty good, too. Make an annotation with your site URL

 

What's your niche? Maybe it's not good for the crappy YouTube traffic?

 

You should create controversy so your videos will get lots of views

 

Good idea, but then you always run the risk of creating a negative image and reputation for your website. In my opinion it's better to just create a really good video

 

Views of a video is a factor that plays into ranking video's on YouTube search. A video with 20,000 views is more likely to show in related vids and search to a similar video with low views.