How to Promote YouTube Video

How to promote a video at YouTube.com - useful advices:

1. Create your own channel and regularly upload quality video clips that correspond to the theme of the channel. This should help to create a core of your audience, and may be some fans too, who can bring even more traffic.

2. Participate in discussions of uploaded videos.

3. Comment other video clips related to yours. Leave not only comments, but video replies too.

4. Post videos in appropriate social networks (the list). The rule of thumb: after uploading a video make a quick submission of it to as many video sharing networks as possible.

5. Constantly improve the quality of your videos: brief descriptions, relevant tags, and intriguing titles. The clip shouldn't be too long. The best length is no more 4 minutes. Obviously, the quality of the video stream and the sound should be ideal too.

6. Create accounts on social networks, like Facebook, MySpace, Twitter that will support your YouTube channel, and post links to your videos there with a brief description and tags.

7. Post links to your YouTube video in appropriate sections of forums, in blog comments and at specialized services like Yahoo answers.

8. Create a website or blog, fill it with relevant content and embed a video from YouTube there.

Viral videos - viral marketing

Viral video is a video shared via Internet that instantly grows in popularity, virtually in geometric progression. Some people compare it with the avalanche. Such video clips are often humorous, including some real-life funny episodes. There also many successful directed videos made by various specialized agencies.

Examples:

Article: How to promote a youtube videos