YouTube Joins Elite Club Along With Facebook

Eight  Years, One Billion Users And Really Just Getting Started.

 Google held a fancy press event in Santa Monica, California last month to tout that its video site YouTube is now averaging 1 billion monthly users who are streaming a stunning 4 billion hours of content every month. The purpose of the gathering was to let advertisers know how great a platform YouTube is so that they spend more money there in the upcoming year rather than on traditional TV.

7 Ways To Promote Your Video

Since YouTube is the second most searched engine in the world (and by the way: owned by the #1—Google), there is good reason to be smart! Make the MOST of each upload.

Here are the 7 tasks vloggers (bloggers) should do whenever you upload a YouTube video to your YouTube channel.

1.  Add an SEO-optimized title:
   The title is key in helping your video to be found, so use appropriate keywords.
2.  Add an SEO description: Add a description that isn’t keyword stuffed, but has your main keywords.
3. Add your blog/website link to the description: Be sure to provide a link back to that.  You can also include links to all of your social media platforms.  When posting links, be sure to include the “http” or the “https,” as that’s the only way YouTube can automatically hyperlink it. What?! No website/blog? Get one!
4. Maximize your tags
5. Create A Facebook Company/Fan page
6. Share it on other social media platforms: Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn (if appropriate), Pinterest etc
7. Create video responses: Search for videos that are similar to yours, and instead of writing a comment about it, create a video response that will attract the audience you want back to your videos. Be sure to provide links to your blog/website too.