How to get views for your videos from outside YouTube [Creator's Tip #18]

[cyberzoom828]

Are the icon Thumbnails in your Annotations provided by YouTube or did you make them?

[reelseo]

@cyberzoom828 I made them. They're a part of the video. Search our channel for "how to make interactive videos" to see the tutorial on how to do that.

[XzeroGFX]

He looks HIGH in this video. You must have some damn good weed to get you that stoned

[reelseo]

@XzeroGFX haha I was just REALLY tired. I shouldn't film these at 2am anymore.

[XzeroGFX]

@reelseo haha wow, well that does show commitment

[TheBlueMentos]

Thanks a bunch for the tips. Hopefully I can get a couple more viewers. :)

[reelseo]

@TheBlueMentos We hope so, too! :)

[coinoptv]

would love to see a video on strats for posting to reddit, buzzfeed, stumbleupon, etc

[reelseo]

@coinoptv That's a great idea! I'll make a note of it for a possible future episode. Thanks!

[Restlessstyles]

Thanks for the tips. Keep them coming!  Great hat!

[reelseo]

@Restlessstyles haha thanks! Look for yourself in our video tomorrow, btw! :)

[Restlessstyles]

@reelseo Thank you!

[MichaelWarbux]

Great ideas Tim! I tried doing this, but somehow I got put on a Forum Block Spam list hahaha. I got it overturned and I'm able to post on forums again, but it goes to show that some people think you're just spamming anyways. I recently started finding different blogs to post to, and I've even submitted my YouTube RSS feed to numerous sites. Keep up the great work!

[reelseo]

@MichaelWarbux Yeah, you really need to engage first on a forum because usually everyone can see your post count. If you only have 10 posts or so and then you start pushing your own content, you'll get hit up as a spammer pretty quick. haha

[knoxmarketingguys]

@reelseo Thank you for sharing these great tips!

[mantic59]

I find that regular "ego searches" on google (in my case i use 'mantic59', 'shavetutor', and 'sharpologist' will turn up references in the most unlikely places (blogs & forums that have nothing to do with my niche') that you can build upon. I've gotten significant traffic from places like somethingawful, offtopic, bodybuilding, etc. (all '.com').

[reelseo]

@mantic59 Yeah, cool, that helps you build relationships with people who are already saying they value your stuff enough to post it, right? That's a great idea!

[MikePfeif]

Tim love the content. This channel helps me out so much. Hopefully other youtubers catch on so they can optimize their efforts.

[reelseo]

@MikePfeif Thanks! Anything you can do to help us spread the word would be great! We'd totally appreciate it.

[digitalbreakthroughs]

Hi Tim, Great stuff. I JUST started more video email. I place a graphic (including a screen capture of one of the frames) in the body of an email and hyperlink it to the video on YouTube. The graphic has a Play button on it so they know it's a video even if they don't read my intro.

I send this to my email list and they LOVE it. It's only 1 video so they're not overwhelmed. They already know me so they click when topic is relevant. Views jump to at least 300 each w/in couple of days.

[reelseo]

@digitalbreakthroughs Yeah, good idea! You could also use your channel's RSS feed to create an RSS to Email campaign to automatically email new videos to your email list, as well. I should make a Creator's Tip video about that. Thanks for the idea!

[digitalbreakthroughs]

@reelseo Cool. Consider this point: I like to pace what my private listers get (I'm also sending them training announcements, computer tips in regular email as autoresponders, etc.) so I wouldn't make this automatic.

I did create a QR code that links to my RSS feed. I put it on my channel background and it's in my enewsletter...figuring out what else to do with it.

[AidanCraftHD]

First, once again :p

[TheShaolinIdiot]

@AidanCraftHD No one gives a fuck.