The secret to Youtube hits
From Ants:
Hi again it’s Ants
Sorry I hope I didn’t offend you with my comments re your web site. It is very good but as I said I found it too hard to read. So please do tell how do I get more hits for my videos on YouTube. Search for antsdick and see what I am doing wrong. Do I join channels or groups or post as video comments. Me not sure
Would love your feedback
Ants
My Reply:
hi there, I’m sorry I have not been able to go through your videos and give advice to how you can get more hits to them – but everything I know is in the article on my website:
http://flipcatch.wordpress.com/2007/06/13/seo-tags-youtube-videos/
If you are struggling to read it, I’m sorry about that too. I know the site isn’t the easiest to read and I will be making changes to improve the readability in my next design.
however I can tell you that the best way to improve hits, isn’t in any tricks or tags or reposting through multiple account etc. The way to more hits is to produce something, fantastic, incredible, exceptional, educational, unique and most importantly – sharable!
Creating a video that people ‘want’ to share is really difficult – but that’s the holy grail we’re all striving for. It appears on youtube the things people want to share most, are ‘good ideas’. Our hits, ratings and comments are an exact representation of the value of our ‘idea’ – often this is very hard for us to accept when we have poured our best efforts into something we feel is great – but the reward of conversation and ratings doesn’t reflect.
The harsh truth is the world (Youtube) is bigger than we think, our ideas aren’t as great as we thought and the people that actually achieve stardom through their videos are very very rarely indeed.
persist, persist and persist, learn from our mistakes, take feedback from our stats, listen to peoples comments, raise the quality or our production and push ourselves to be better next time.
A good tip is to spend 90% percent of our videos efforts on the idea – then have a look to see if anyone else has already done it and only then, if the feeling is good – switch the camera on!
all the best
mark
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