YouTube is serving more than 150 million videos per day and more than 100k new videos are being uploaded everyday. Collectively YouTube videos are receiving hundreds of millions of views per day.
There is a huge opportunity with YouTube marketing. YouTube recently replaced Yahoo! as the number 2 search engine. YouTube is really a video search engine. It is not just and entertainment site. Most marketers are not fully tapping into the great resource of free traffic.
Here is how you use the title hijacker technique. First type in the keywords for your specific niche into YouTube.
Take a look at the titles of the most popular videos in that niche. Now make your title of your video in YouTube similar but not exactly the same.
For example if you are promoting a video on mixed martial arts and the title of the most viewed videos is “UFC 74 Gonzaga Vs. Couture” you could make your title “UFC 74 Gonzaga Vs. Couture My Predictions” or “UFC 74 Gonzaga Vs. Couture Betting Odds” Just use your imagination.
Now look at the tags of the most popular videos in your niche.
Here is the url for the YouTube Keyword Tool: https://ads.youtube.com/keyword_tool
Copy and paste the urls of the most popular Youtube videos into the keyword tool and you will see the tags and keywords this YouTube video is using.
You will get a list of keywords that this video is using. Use these keywords in your video description and tags.
Also go the the Google Keyword tool here and get more ideas for keywords in your niche. Use these in your description and tags as well. Remember YouTube videos show up very well in search engine results as well. Here is the url for the Google keyword search tool: https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal
Remember to include the url for your landing page in the beginning of your description with the full http://www. Also tell people in your description and in your video to visit your website.
You can include many keywords in your YouTube description so don’t be shy!
Now that you have made your title and tags similar to very popular videos in your niche your YouTube video will start to show up next to popular videos that you imitated in the YouTube search results.
Here is another trick. Make sure the image in the thumbnail of the video is something very eye catching. If it is in the weight loss niche maybe a picture of a very athletic body. Pictures of hot women always seem to work well if you want to go there.
Usually YouTube picks up the picture right in the middle of your video to use in the thumbnail. I have never been able to get this to work.
So for my traffic building videos sometimes I record voice over a very attractive picture. This way YouTube is sure to use the thumbnail I want.
So the goal is to have your videos showing up right along side the popular videos in your niche with a very eye catching thumbnail.
Create 50-100 such videos specific to your niche and watch the traffic roll in! This is very targeted traffic plus it just keeps growing and growing.
There are many more YouTube techniques but this one should get your going. I would appreciate your comments or if you have your own YouTube traffic techniques please share! Please comment below and bookmark this post in all your favorite social media sites. Thank you!
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Great idea, Mike. This should get some good traffic rolling in. I have a technique that you can use to actually spin 1 video into 120… that should multiply traffic 10 fold. Thanks for the information
Going off to implement your plan and correct the url. Thanks
Article or suggestion or the news letter is very useful.One can do much by applying very little efforts.
Hey Matt.
This is some really cool stuff here.
I am just starting to dabble in the in the “whole You Tube thing”
and this is really good information at the perfect time.
Thanks a million, and I look forward to seeing more info about
this in the future.
Your friend in the BIZ.
Scott.
Hi Gina, glad you liked the technique. Please share with us your technique on spinning one video into 120. Thanks!
Matt
Great info Mike, I haven’t dabbled in this yet (u tube) but sounds like something maybe I can do
if an old codger like me can understand it. GREAT HAT!
Thanks, Bill
Hi Matt,
Although I’ve been receiving emails from you for quite some time, this is the first time I’ve clicked through to your blog
… and I’ve got to say, I’m impressed.
Not only with this post, but your blog in general.
Great stuff Matt, consider yourself bookmarked.
Have a great day,
Peter from the land downunder.
Mike, this is great, and thanks for the tips. Very useful. Must use for everyone. Who does not want traffic, that is the bread earner.
Thanks, Ram
Hi Matt,
great information, I’ve just started looking at youtube for promotion, this is very useful.
Kev.
Thanks Peter. Welcome. I am going to try to put more quality content on the blog as I go.
Thanks Mike,
Will give it a try, I usually only did one or two vidoes, but will start cranking them out!
Does it matter if you use the actual URL compared to tiny URL?
GREAT One ! Very useully.
My 7 years labor = Your Blog about traffic from you tube..
Very cryptic not sure what you mean. Please elaborate.
I would use your own domains and redirects. Why not get some high PR links back to your website? Also who knows if Tinyurl will cut off your account for whatever reason. I prefer to control my own destiny.
Gina
What’s your technique for multiplying 1 video into 120 ?
Thanks for the info.
Ed Janik
Hi Matt,
First time I have been to your blog.Great first time getting that video information for more traffic.
Looks a simple way of getting more. I like it when it’s simple.
Would be great to find out about the video spinner.
Thanks,
Ian
GREAT One ! Very useully.
Matt:
Thanks for the video. GREAT info. I would have never thought of it..
Regards,
Hi Matt,
The information sounds great and it can work out though it’s unethical.
I can not thank you enough for the information.
Good tips…. but be careful YouTube may ban you if you blatantly rip-off Video Traffic.
Annotations can also help drive. a tiny, amount of video views to your other videos.
Thanks very much. I wil try this and get back to you. New to this but learning fast.
this is really useful i hope to see updates soon thank you
Hi! Nice tips, we’ve used the same technique to promote adult paysites in 2007-2008 from adult tubes, but added logo in videos, were getting 250-300k daily. The technique you’ve described work good as well, I think even more than great, because some of our affiliates make 5-15 sales from the sites that are based on youtube videos traffic. I think that on the market should be a lot of scripts that automate uploading, tagging, inserting logos and etc.
Hey this is Matt.. Good info here.. Im going to automate this process. with TFAN and MOWG..
What is TFAN and MOWG? Always interested in automation.
Wow 250k views daily?! Shows what a difference a market makes. I would be very interested in tools which automate this process. Good point.
It is not always clear exactly what is accepted or not with YouTube. I was thinking of purchasing some traffic but I am not 100% on YouTube’s policies about directly advertising the urls. What type if traffic is acceptable and what type is not. I will investigate. Ideas?
It might be a little sneaky as a technique but I think if your video is actually about the subject of the original video then it should be of value to the viewer. One thing that I think is really “unethical” is you not getting good traffic to your site!
Matthew,
Awesome, clear concise and no hype. Tells you what you need to know right away.
Thanks for this, I’m going to revisit my YouTube posts and implement your great recommendations.
-Rich Fairfull
Trying to watch the video but there is a huge google ad running down the middle of it!!!!
Hi Matt:
No doubt this is a very good tutorial aimed to people that are used to work with videos. Others, like myself, have no experience in this sort of advertising, which make think: I got to learn. Thanks.
Jesus Moreno
Thanks for you idea, i’m very happy with.
You are doing great your site is informative.
hi Matt
thanks for sharing such a great idea it really seems like video promotion s the way to go to get alot of target and free traffic .but it has to be outrageous to catch the publics imminagation
I really like this headline hijack technique to you offer a video training series
have a great weekend
regards peter mcgrath
Hi, thanks for that information. You guys should write about the simplicity of the free exposure you get from doing a free blog post on http://www.twitteringsoftwareandmarketing.com and how it ranks quick and high in the search engines. You guys can test it for your selfs with one of these news reports and see how fast it ranks.
Hi Matt
The first part about siphoning traffic sounds a bit black hat and they aren’t going to be targeted traffic either.
The sexy pic works though, I’ve done it on another social account and it works a dream.
Interesting idea. I like it. Video is certainly a great way to get a lot of traffic.
Thanks
Hey thanks for this great info. I started using this techniques and I started getting traffic. Here is my youtube video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icXZO_KdUG8
Hello Matt,
Thanks, because its really nice idea and thanks again for really useful links of keywords.
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Outstanding Information, Sir. Thank You for sharing..the very best to you!
Thank you Matt.
You genius!
giselle
Going to find my camera right now. I think targeted videos can definitely help the pinglots free website services and help more website owners build their own free traffic.
Hey, just wanted to let you know to keep up the super work on your blog!
thanks a lot
I am just new to this bussiness and I found it is too good to promote. bookmarked the same.
thanks
Great idea ,gonna do it now
Thanks,
Amos
Video marketing is so competitive. This method should help to piggyback on other successes. Thanks for the tip!
It really depends on the niche. Some niches are still not that competitive for video marketing. Thanks Gail for dropping by.
We still see key phrase stuffing confiscated to an absurd level. I say to clients that a web page has got 2 work to do – yes, to entice searchers but additionally critically to ‘trade’ to the human visitor. There’s puny direct finding folks to the page if you after that put them off you!
Great point Freida. You should write for human viewers first and bots second. I think it will work out much better in the long run. In any case this is what the search engines are going for and all updates will favor good original content rather than machine spun crap. Thank you.
Just a few words ; Your way is just brilliant!
I am scared how many got through this……..