video marketing

How To Get More Traffic on Your YouTube Channel

How to Get More Traffic from YouTube

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It’s no secret that video marketing is one of the best ways to promote your blog and your brand and getting traffic from YouTube is much easier nowadays. Create a video that’s educational, artistic, funny, captivating or interesting enough to capture the attention of your audience, and you’ve just made a new fan who can’t wait to subscribe to your YouTube channel or share your video on social networks with family and friends. You might even be the next YouTube sensation, but at the end of the day, what you really want is for people to take enough of an interest in you, that they take the time to subscribe to your channel and eventually visit your website or blog.

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How To Use YouTube Video Analytics

YouTube Video Analytics Just Got A Whole Lot Better

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For years YouTubers were frustrated by the lack of traffic data available for their YouTube channel. We longed for a system that would rival the data rich reports we’d come to know and love in Google Analytics, and the old, out-dated YouTube Insights, reports were merely scratching the surface. This left the video analytics door wide open for freemium tracking services like vidIQ, Cyfe and TubeTrackr to easily attract any video marketer who wanted detailed performance reports for their channel. All of that changed a few days ago when YouTube released Realtime traffic reports on the desktop version of YouTube Analytics.

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3 Examples of Why Your Blog Needs Video

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Stop creating the same old blog content with basic text and boring stock images! As bloggers, we are all familiar with the usual text and images that make up our content. However, as the internet continues to expand and get more creative and advanced everyday, basic text and images will only get you so far. The important thing to remember is that there are over 300 million blogs in the world today. If you want to stand out from the crowd and create content that simply isn’t a waste of time, you need to be original and cater to your audience across all platforms.
One of the best ways to do this is through the use of online video.

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Best YouTube Tips Ever! Record Edit Publish

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Record, Edit, Publish: 3 little words that can have a huge impact on the growth of your online reach. Now is the time to put your fears aside, swallow your pride, do whatever it takes to put yourself in the right frame of mind to start making videos today! There is no better time than the present because the latest research from Compete Pro demonstrates that in the U.S. YouTube is more popular than Facebook.

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How To Make the Perfect YouTube Thumbnail for Your Videos

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Everyday, millions of people are flocking to YouTube searching through an endless sea of videos. They want to find information, they need a laugh, or even if they just want to be entertained they can rest assured that YouTube is the place to find just what they are looking for. Let’s face it, this is why so many of us started YouTube channels in the first place. It’s a huge platform with tremendous potential and opportunity for anyone trying to make a name for themselves online. How can you make your YouTube videos stand out among the crowd? By adding the perfect YouTube video thumbnail.

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How to Tell Your Story on YouTube

How to Tell Your Story and Connect with Your Audience on YouTube

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Are you making the most out of your YouTube channel? Here’s what I mean by that. I’m sure by now you have uploaded a video or two to YouTube. Perhaps you even created a playlist or learned how to add annotations that link back to your website. Of course you should always try to send people back to your blog from outposts like YouTube, but let’s face it, lot’s of people will never leave YouTube and head for your home base unless you’ve given them a darn good reason to do so.

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Get the Call To Action Link You’ve Been Waiting for on Your YouTube Videos

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Previously I shared how you can use Annotations to add InVideo Programming across all the YouTube videos on your channel. If you missed that post and video, you can check out Part 1 in this series called Now That You Stated Making Videos Here’s How To Get More Views on YouTube. As promised this is Part 2 in the series where I follow-up by showing you how to create those coveted, clickable Call to Action links from inside your YouTube videos back to your blog.

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