YouTube for promotion

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Have you used YouTube to promote a site or forum? How did it work out?
 
Well it depends on what kind of forum you have, YouTube is a good medium to promote yourself and other things but it is not for everyone. If your forums is about DIY stuff or tutorials than you can use YouTube or if you have a Media related forum than again its a good medium. Basically for any market strategy to be a success you should know your target audience, if the people you are targeting use YouTube than yes its a very good medium but if not than you just are wasting your time
 
Servo said:
Well it depends on what kind of forum you have, YouTube is a good medium to promote yourself and other things but it is not for everyone. If your forums is about DIY stuff or tutorials than you can use YouTube or if you have a Media related forum than again its a good medium. Basically for any market strategy to be a success you should know your target audience, if the people you are targeting use YouTube than yes its a very good medium but if not than you just are wasting your time

It is all we just say. If you targeted audiences do not use YouTube, how is it worth? But I can tell you that YouTube is easier to be on top than website/forum
 
Not me, but another member of the community made a video about how the forum works, and the key features it offers. It was just a recording of a computer screen aided by speech to advise others. It actually was the main source of traffic, most of our members came through that way. It was really successful and worked out well in our favor.
 
Youtube promotion also a part of internet marketing. But we should consider following things during Youtube video promotion:
1. Video Should be attractive.
2. It should not be lengthy.
3. Picture and sound clarity also important.
4. We should promote video on other social networking platforms, so that more n more people know about it.
 
Now to be able to get something out of youtube you ether should make a guide on how to do things including a download link that's on your site or forum. It's not easy if you can't provide some kind of service in the forum that you are promoting in the video.
 
Success wit YouTube depends on your niche and your ability to catch viewer's attention in the first few seconds. Keep it short and upbeat. Optimize it like any other content - include keywords in the title and description, tags, transcribe the video.
 
YouTube could be useful if you have a video for your forum, for example
I have a minecraft and gaming based forum - we have our own servers etc, so we have youtube videos that show off the features of our servers that have links to out forums 🙂 that gets people in
 
contarctors said:
Youtube promotion also a part of internet marketing. But we should consider following things during Youtube video promotion:
1. Video Should be attractive.
2. It should not be lengthy.
3. Picture and sound clarity also important.
4. We should promote video on other social networking platforms, so that more n more people know about it.

Those are good tips thank you. 🙂
 
If I could make a decent video that was like, nice, I probably would use YouTube for promotion. Though I have yet to use them to promote my site, I feel as if the video itself has to be great and flattering, otherwise it might reflect badly instead and knowing the YouTube community, I'd like to stay away until I can do it right. 😛
 
Apart from Youtube, Invest in CPM advertising, it would be much easier to accomplish that if you buy your traffic from a DSP like Bluagile since thay are connected with different ad exchanges therefore getting more access to different websites
 
it really effective when you target the right things it needs, or you can also advertise using google adword
 
I don't think this is a good idea unless you are advertising on an existing channel or a popular channel is creating a video for your website. You can't just create a channel for advertising your website because you will have no subscribers. If you can get a popular youtuber that creates videos about your niche and they are willing to help you, then it is a good idea.
 
When I was doing gaming videos I add the website URL in my videos. I had one joined from one of my vids. I made some blogs that's talking about joining my community. I even got one channel for baysidegamers and that only has one video showcasing the great gaming of the year
 
You tube is the best place to share and promote your videos.
It is effective if you will focus on target people.
Your You Tube content should also be effective.
 
Shole said:
Now to be able to get something out of youtube you ether should make a guide on how to do things including a download link that's on your site or forum. It's not easy if you can't provide some kind of service in the forum that you are promoting in the video.
It is great, i done and very well. Thanks for you
 
The longer the video is, the less likely it is it will be watched. Everybody who gets to deal with website promotion in the search engines knows how challenging it is these days. Since competition in Google search results is immense, it takes a lot of time and efforts to get there with standard optimization methods.
Many marketers ignore video promotion as a method to surpass competitors in the search results. However, in website promotion video has several advantages:
-low competition so far
-links to videos stand out sharply against the standard text links
-creating a video is not so difficult and expensive as it seems
-people readily share links to good videos.
Think about it. You probably can not get your site to the top 1 but the video you made to promote your website in the top 1 YouTube located in the primary keywords and even more on the top 1 of Google, this will help a lot for your site.
 
You do an introduction video content on your website. Then post it to Youtube and search public customers
 
I will suggest some ideas to help your idea....

Learn how to make a video on powerpoint which is extremely easy! You go to File -> Export -> Create a Video. You can use so much more art and transition to make a promotion video professional. You can use a movie maker, but talent and doing something different is always better. On a website, have the promo video on your home page visible to guest or visitors. On a forum, add a category only for guest and use the embed code to add your youtube video. It can help get more members. I hope this helps! 🙂
 
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