The Secret Strategies Behind Many "Viral" Videos via TechCrunch has an awesome list of tips and techniques to make your YouTube videos a success. Here is a quick run down of some of those tips: Making the Video: - 15 - 30 second videos - Ensure the video can be remixed over and over again - The video can't be a blatant advertisement - Add the shock factor - Make your headline fake - Sex works Reaching Most Viewed Page: - Tell Blogs - Tell Forums - MySpace pages - Facebook friends and share features - Use email lists - Tell your friends After you reach the most viewed page, then you can ch [...]

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Compelling video content can potentially open the door to site traffic, targeted visitors, and increased brand awareness. But, are the videos on your site easy for search engines and prospective customers to find? Today's infographic demonstrates some quick and easy steps for optimizing videos: Graphic by Elliance, an eMarketing firm specializing in results-driven search engine marketing, web site design, and outbound eMarketing campaigns. The firm is the creator of the ennect online marketing toolkit. The Search Illustrated column appears Tuesdays at Search Engine Land. [...]

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Video Marketing on YouTube.com by Joe Whyte at the Search Marketing Standard is a nice write up with some tips on how to best promote your YouTube video online. Here is a punch list of tips he gives within his more detailed and illustrative article. Customize your Channel Design Add friend by visiting popular channels Think before submit a video Utilize the "Share Video" link Do not abuse the system [...]

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Spotted via ReadWriteWeb, multimedia search engine Blinkx has launched a video SEO wiki with lots of useful information for effectively optimizing video and other multimedia for search engines. Main sections cover preparing video for search engines using meta-data and other information, what to avoid, and a good list of video search and sharing sites to submit your videos to. There's also some interesting background information, covering search optimization in general, video SEO in particular, and some stats and growth predictions for video on the web. And, since it's a wiki, the site is open [...]

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Jonathan Mendez's 7 Ways to Optimize Your YouTube Tags has a more detailed look at optimizing your YouTube videos. Here are some of the tips in summary. Use relevant tags to describe the video Use as many relevant tags as possible Think long tail searches when it comes to tags also Use adjectives Add category descriptive tags Most important tags should also match title and description of movie Don't use "and" "or" etc. words as tags [...]

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