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[TUT] How to Make Your Youtube Famous!
By: Brisdy Date: December 28, 2012, 4:54 pm
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First of all i know Toad has a topic about this, but half of his
tips include using bots and some other stuff.
Second > Here is A really great way to get famous on youtube
without using any sort of bots.
If you really want to get big on youtube just take 5 mins of
your time to read this
1.Getting started
When you are starting your channel, you must determine what type
of videos you will post on YouTube. Will they be home-made
comedies? Or will they be gameplay commentaries? Once you have
decided on what you will post on your YouTube account, you will
stick to it. You will not simply get 1,000 random subscribers,
however you may get 1,000 people who are avid fans of what you
are posting.
You will then want to settle on the quality of your videos.
Standard definition is now low definition. If you dont have the
right equipment to record in HD, its time that you made an
investment. No-one wants to watch a bad quality video, and with
HQ becoming the normal all-of-a-sudden, you will have to keep
up.
Another good idea is to set dates that you will upload certain
videos on. For example, you could make a promise to your
subscribers that there will be a new video posted every Saturday
and Sunday. This will mean your community will know when to
expect videos and so you are more likely to get views on those
videos; rather than them checking their subscription box every
day. When setting this promise, you have to be realistic. If you
dont have the time to make three videos a week, every week, then
dont promise it. You will end up letting your community down and
you will drop in popularity.
2. Goal setting
When taking on almost any big task, goal setting is a key
aspect. It helps keep you on track, meet deadlines and give you
the right state of mind to achieve goals that you have set.
The first thing you must do is remember to be realistic, not
dramatic. Dont set goals that are unrealistic, for example
20,000 subscribers in the first month of your channel being
established. Be realistic, and set a goal that is fairly
accurate. You can always do some research by looking up a
similar channel to what yours will be (make sure the channel is
not super famous), and note the subscribers they have. In one
week, return to their page and note the subscribers they have
now. It will more than likely be an increase, and this can be
used to gauge what you should aim for. So if they have managed
to get 100 subscribers in a week, try aiming for half of that.
Another thing you must set is short-term goals and long-term
goals. Short-term goals can be targets you want to reach within
2 months, whereas long-term goals will be targets you want to
reach after 12 months. Having plenty of short-term goals will
keep you motivated and will keep your eye on the ball, and more
than likely it will help you achieve your long-term goals.
3. Friends
Adding someone to your friends list is often overlooked in
YouTube. Most of the time, video producers want to earn
subscribers and not video views but they have missed out on a
great opportunity.
To get the word out there for your videos, you will simply add
as many people you can find on YouTube to your friends list. 90%
of the time, those that receive a friend request will accept it,
which is good.
Now, with a substantial amount of friends you can send a mass
message to them with a link to your newly uploaded video.
Something along the lines of Hey, I have just uploaded a new
video to my channel about ____, please could you help me out by
viewing it and commenting with your feedback so that I can
improve
Not everyone will click the link, but a lot of people will. This
generates more video views for you, and your channel in turn
will become more visited; and, if you continue to post videos
that have a high-ish view count, you will earn subscribers.
Whats more is that these friends will give you feedback (if you
ask them to) on how to improve your videos. With the advice
given, you can change aspects that are mainly disliked which
will help you to become loved among all of the YouTube users.
Step 3 -
[ Register or Signin to view external links. ]
Cick the ticky box at the top of the collumn in grey. This will
select all of your contacts (Friends and subscribers).
Then click compose which will take you to a screen where you can
write a message to everyone you have selected.
Step 4 -
[ Register or Signin to view external links. ]
Select your message title and the text that will be in your
message, and select if you want to attach a video with your
message. When you are done, simply click 'send message' and
everyone selected will be messaged.
4. Encourage activity on your videos
As your view count increases, you will start to rise on the Most
viewed lists. The Most viewed list is harder to compete in with
the likes of other YouTube members who have 500,000 +
subscribers. So instead of competing on this list, try to
compete on a list such as Most discussed, Most responded or Top
rated.
You can increase your Most discussed rating by asking viewers a
question, asking for their opinion is the best bet, and ask for
them to respond in the comments section. By doing this you are
reminding those people who are watching your video to comment,
and they dont feel like they are doing a task or helping you,
they are simply stating their opinion.
You can increase your Most responded rating by doing things like
asking users to post a video response to a question or by asking
them to respond with a video showing crazy picture of them, the
craziest picture gets a shout-out in your next video. In todays
world, all phones are fitted with a camera and the capabilities
to move the file to their computer, so your viewers should not
have a hard time doing this.
The Top rated ranking really only has one method to increasing
it. At the end of each video you make, remind your viewers to
thumbs up/thumbs down the video. You will get the occasional few
that thumbs down, but most of the time you will receive thumbs
up.
5. Get involved
There are usually quite a few people that have already made it
big on YouTube who may do similar things to you, and you can
take advantage of their success and use it for your own good.
Simply try to get involved with them. If you were, for example,
doing a Modern Warefare 2 commentary, ask the famous YouTube
user if they would be kind enough to join you in a
dual-commentary. At the end, make sure there is a link to both
of your channels, and allow the famous user to post it on their
channel too. This means that all of their viewer base will see
the video, but they will also be linked to your YouTube channel
at the end of the video, which will generate traffic to your
videos and channel.
Sometimes it can be even easier than that, but it may cost you.
If the YouTube users are from the 100,000 + subscribers, they
may be tempted to charge you for a shout-out in their video.
This requires less work for you, but it will cost you the price
that the YouTube video producer charges for a shout-out.
6. Get people to remember you by something
With the exception of your username, there is few ways for you
to be identified by the community. One way that you can get
yourself remembered by viewers is by using a catchphrase.
To show the effect, try guessing the name of the YouTube users
by their catchphrase.
1) To tha face, to tha face
2) Im vloggin here!
3) Im out, peace!
The chances are, if you watch their videos you will realise that
they use their catchphrase in every video. The reason being is
that their YouTube username isnt the most catch thing, and most
people will associate a phrase with a person rather than someone
to theirself.
If I was to say Jello pudding, yeah thats right, Bill Cosby. If
I was to say Eh, whats up doc, yet again, you know its Bugs
Bunny.
Really, its another way for you to bring attention, and curious
viewers to your channel and videos. This is what you want, and
you should create a catchphrase of your own to capitalise on
this.
Make sure its short and snappy. A good guide is to make sure
that its no longer than 6 letters, as this will give you the
short factor. To make it snappy and to the point, make sure it
relates to your content. For example, COD videos -> FRRAAAGGGG,
but a bad example would be COD videos -> Pretty colours.
7. Tagging your videos
When a user searches something in YouTube, it uses key words to
show the most appropriate video. So if someone searched the tech
game, YouTube would search for videos with the tags of the tech
game. The videos will then be sorted in terms of relevance. At
the top will be videos with matches on all of your keywords, in
the middle would be videos tagged with around half youre your
search keywords and videos listed at the bottom will be videos
with the least matches to your keywords.
Try not to stray away from what your video is about. If you were
doing a karate demonstration, it would be rather pointless
tagging it with something like cheese.
YouTube does have a tool where it will come up with some tags
for your video. If you run out of space, simply post them in
your description of the video, and it will still work.
8. Social networking
Offer more ways of your community to stay connected to you and
your channel.
You can do this by making an official Facebook page or a Twitter
account. By doing this and posting the links to them in the
description of your video and channel, you will be able to
update people when new videos are uploaded in more than one way,
and you will be able to update them with updates to the channel
such as a new series of shows.
9. Promotion
Its a good idea to also show your video to those of other
communities. For example, if you were doing a xbox mw2
commentary, you could post a thread on ttg, post a thread on the
Playstation forums, post a thread on the Modern Warefare 2
forums and it goes from there. Remember not to spam the forums
or your promotion will not have the intended effect.
You may also want to include links to your video in forum
signatures or e-mail signatures, which means every post you make
essentially advertises your video, and every e-mail you send
will advertise your video.
Another good idea to get your channel seen is to get your
channel listed in other users 'Other channels' lists. Make sure
the users channel you are listed on does similar things to your
channels content.
To get listed on a users channel, you may need to win
competitions or simply become friends with them and ask. By far,
the fastest and easiest way to get listed on someone's channel
is to pay them a fee. The more popular the user is, the more you
are expected to pay, but you can generally expect more people to
come to your channel if they are more popular.
10. Make a toolbar
Although you dont receive the funds from adverts that may be
placed on your video by YouTube, there is a way that you can
earn a small amount of money through your viewers help.
Simply make a toolbar.
The most popular choice by YouTuber's is to make a toolbar at
the following website:
Conduit(.)com
This website will allow you to create a toolbar of your own and
will let you customize it a lot. You can add features to it such
as a feed of your video uploads and tweets or a direct link to
your channel homepage. The best thing is, you get paid for each
download.
11. Become a YouTube partner
If you have managed to get a good amount of subscribers, video
uploads, views and high quality videos, you may be eligible to
become a YouTube partner.
Becoming a YouTube partner means that you can start making a bit
of money from posting videos on YouTube through video
advertising. These adverts will usually be during the video at
the bottom of the screen or to the right of the video in a
square format.
Becoming a partner also has other benefits, such as an insight
to your views and the demographics they come from, copyright
protection and higher quality broadcasting.
12.Also Another way of getting you're channel is advertising it
on more popular channels eg: machinma,zzirgrizz and hutch's (
there is lots more i just named a random 3)
If you want to get big really fast than you can pay some one
that is very popular to be in their subbox.( zzirgrizz will put
you in his subbox until you get 1000 subs more and this service
costs $50.
And that concludes some of the pro tips to getting known on
youtube!
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