How to get Traffic from youtube

After being a useless member for almost a year, I felt maybe it's my time for glory (or maybe because I am little bored) ;)

Anyway, I had planned to put this content on my blog but instead am writing it for YOUmoz since I wanted to know what it felt like to get read by someone/humans. So here we go...

I have seen many webmasters surprisingly/shockingly ignoring YouTube (even though Google has decided to put YouTube videos on almost every search query nowadays) as a great promotional medium and traffic generator. In this post, I'll tell you step by step how you can get great traffic from YouTube. In the end, I have also shared my own YouTube case study.

How to Get Traffic from YouTube

1. Create a Nice Video. There is software which can convert PPT into videos, but personally I will advise you to spend 100 bucks and find someone to create a professional video which you can use everywhere. I have seen people offering such services at DigitalPoint or you can find such people on freelance websites like Rentacoder.com or getafreelancer.com.
2. Give it a Nice Title. The title is one of the most important things of your video. Give it a title which can rank in Google as well as catch user attention, something like "How to Buy Cheap Second Hand Bikes - Example.com."
3. Don't forget to Watermark it. Make sure every frame/slide of the video has small watermark of your site.
   
4. Leave it for More. Create the video in such a way that it's informative yet leave enough out so the user comes to your site. Saying this, it will be good if the video is indeed informative and useful. Give the 80% on the video and say the rest is on the site.
   
5. Add a Nice Description. Put some informative content in the description (i.e., "more info...") section of your video. Make sure you link to your site from it. Lots of people use YouTube feeds that rip the descriptions of YouTube videos, so that's added traffic for you. Just imagine how much continuous traffic a video can bring you if it is indeed good and informative.
   
6. Disable Ratings and Comments. You don't want those "Your Mom is..." or "Forward this to 5 people or you will die" kind of comments in your video, do you? Just disable comments and ratings.

How to Increase Views of Your YouTube Video

Google normally shows videos which have high views in their SERPs, so you also need to make sure your video initially gets good views (after that it will start going up on its own). For this you can do the following:

1. Promote your video on your blog and almost everywhere. Link it from every place you can find. Link it from Squidoo lenses of yours (I often do this). Send it to friends and others.
2. There are some people at Digitalpoint selling 10k YouTube views for few bucks (eh? must be PTC or proxy traffic), so you can hire them to quickly lead the charts. Remember, people often like to sort the YouTube search results as page views. This is where you can score.
3. If nothing works and you are way too desperate, than start rickrolling (for example, "Check out Hot Latino Teens kissing here "). Ok, I am just joking (you should not play with people's emotions like this!!!). Anyway, I don't think things will come to this level if you are imaginative.

Top Ten Organic SEO Myths

Myth 1: You should submit your URLs to search engines.
Myth 2: You need a Google Sitemap.
Myth 3: You need to update your site frequently
Myth 4: PPC ads will help/hurt rankings.
Myth 5: Your site will be banned if you ignore Google’s guidelines.
Myth 6: Your site will be banned if you buy links.
Myth 7: H1 (or any header tags) must be used for high rankings.
Myth 8: Words in your meta keyword tag have to be used on the page.
Myth 9: SEO copy must be 250 words in length.
Myth 10: You need to optimize for the long tail.

Guide to SEO Strategies: Avoid Unethical Practices

Search engine optimization has become a necessity for the survival of online business. Moreover in the recent times it has evolved as an online marketing tool for online business. Search engine optimization requires certain strategies as a plan of action before optimizing your website. SEO is all about getting targeted traffic to your site by ranking high up in the search engines. Certain new SEO strategies are devised so as to generate free traffic to your site. The main idea behind devising a SEO strategy for an online business is to have an online presence in the World Wide Web so that users may have an access to information as well as the products and services provided by you online. Before drawing out SEO strategy certain tips if resorted to could lead to successful search engine optimization.

Certain SEO strategies if resorted to would help you in updating your website thus improving the search engine ranking.

• It is important to determine the right keywords. With the help of relevant keywords you could target the potential customers for your products & services. You can make a thorough analysis of keywords keeping in mind the recent search trend as well as the competition.
  
• The website layout & design should be powerful enough to grip the customers. Search engines are fond of fresh & appealing designs. Customers get attracted towards your website which might generate sales.
  
• Good, unique, informative & fresh content should be used in your website. v High quality links should be placed in your website from top ranked website so as to improve the search engine ranking of your website.
• The title should be exciting as well as enticing.
  
• Get your website listed in the web directory. You can choose from the directory with generalized theme or a directory with specified theme.
  
• Appropriate keyword density should be maintained in the content & strategic placement of keywords should be done.

There are certain unethical practices which you should never resort to avoid being blacklisted.

• Judicious use of keywords should be done and Keyword stuffing should be avoided.
  
• Outbound links linking to sites with bad reputation may affect your sites popularity as well as reputation.
  
• Avoid using duplicate content; such sites are banned by search engines. Fresh, exclusive & keyword rich content are liked by search engines.
• Hidden text as well as links should be avoided as they are deemed to be spam & would be banned by search engine once discovered.

Creating the best PPC campaigne

PPC issues

Do you ever face these issues?

• Costs are too high to make a profit?
• Quality Score is playing havoc with your bid prices?
• Click through rates on your ads too low?
• Minimum bids too high?
• Landing pages don’t convert?
• Finding what keywords are working isn’t clear enough?
• Takes up too much of your time?

PPC Question

What would our PPC campaigns look like in a perfect world?
Meaning, if we had all the time in the world what should our campaigns look like?
You see, we already knew what we had to do to solve these common problems.
We had to provide our PPC clicks the ultimate journey of relevancy. We had to create an unbelievably strong relevancy chain between the keyword, the text ad and the landing page.
It’s really all about creating the “Anatomy of a Perfect PPC Campaign”. In this perfect anatomy:

• Every keyword perfectly matches the ad. So the ad specifically mentions the term that the user typed in.
• Every ad perfectly matches the landing page. So when the user clicks the ad, they feel like the information is perfectly created for them (or their original search).
• We could then take this information and push it into our post click activities. For example, conversion tracking, email marketing, analytics etc.
  

Now we knew we could achieve this if we had unlimited time. We’d simply create our campaigns 1 keyword at a time.

SEO tools

Free Online SEO Tools
* Page Strength SEO Tool
http://www.seomoz.org/tools/page-strength.php
* instantPROMOTION SEO Tools
http://www.instantposition.com/free_tools.cfm
* Sitening SEO Analyzer - A Web Standards & SEO Web Design Page Analyzer
http://www.sitening.com/tools/seo-analyzer/
* Reaction Engine Free Online SEO Analysis
http://www.reactionengine.com/
* SEOBook Free SEO Tools
http://tools.seobook.com
* AbiLogic Page Keywords Analyzer
http://www.abilogic.com/seo/
* SEO Scanner
http://www.webmasterbrain.com/
* Keyword Density & Prominence
http://www.ranks.nl/tools/spider.html
* Meta Tag Analyzer
http://www.submitexpress.com/analyzer/
* Search Engine Keyword Tracker & Keyword Ranking Tool
http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/keywords/
* Web Site Analysis
http://www.sitesolutions.com/analysis.asp
* Free Robots.txt Generator
http://www.mcanerin.com/search-engine/robots-txt.htm
* Robots.txt syntax checker
http://www.sxw.org.uk/computing/robots/check.html
* Robots.txt Validator
http://www.searchengineworld.com/cgi-bin/robotcheck.cgi
* Link Vendor SEO Tools
http://www.linkvendor.com/seo-tools/
* Bad Neighborhood Text Link Checker
http://www.bad-neighborhood.com/
* Free Site Map Generator
http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/
http://www.freesitemapgenerator.com/


Check Position in SERP on Google
http://www.seoserp.com/



Sandbox & Banned Sites Checker Tools
* Google Sandbox Checker Tool http://www.searchenginegenie.com/sandbox-checker.htm
* Google Banned Site Checker http://www.searchenginegenie.com/goo...te-checker.php
* Yahoo Banned Site Checker http://www.searchenginegenie.com/yah...te-checker.php
* MSN Banned Site Checker http://www.searchenginegenie.com/msn...te-checker.php
* Another Google Banned Tool http://www.123promotion.co.uk/tools/googlebanned.php


Search Engines Information for Webmasters
* Google Information for Webmasters http://www.google.com/webmasters/bot.html


Search Engines Guidelines for Webmasters
* Google Webmaster Guidelines
http://www.google.com/webmasters/guidelines.html
* Yahoo! Search Site Guidelines
http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearc...basics-18.html
* MSN Guidelines for Webmasters
http://search.msn.com.my/webmasters/guidelines.aspx
* Ask Jeeves Guidelines for Webmasters
http://sp.ask.com/docs/about/policy.html
* Open Directory Editorial Guidelines
http://dmoz.org/guidelines/include.html
* Zeal Guidelines Overview
http://www.zeal.com/guidelines/overview.jhtml
* Overture's SiteMatch™ Content Guidelines
http://www.content.overture.com/d/USm/ays/sm_gl.jhtml

104 Ways To Get Backlinks

104 Ways To Get Backlinks | Mega Backlink Guide

by Ryan

Building backlinks to your blog/site is crucial in achieving, maintaining, and improving your search engine rankings. If you don’t already know, a backlink to your site is like a vote. Not all votes are equal, and the same rings true for Backlinks, but we can all agree that attaining more Backlinks (healthy ones) is a key integral part of your website and it’s rankings. Having said that, the question I get the most, and one I see often asked in forums and other SEO blogs is, “How can I get more backlinks?”. While some of us may take it for granted the fact that getting backlinks is easy as pie – most new webmasters and bloggers are still overwhelmed with the fact that not only do they have continually add fresh content, but they also have to work on getting more backlinks! Below is a list that I put together that is more of a brainstorm session than anything – and keep in mind, some of these methods are ways of getting more exposure for your site that have the possibility of leading to links. I hope you find it useful, and if I forgot anything, feel free to leave it in the comments.

104 Ways To Get Backlinks:

1. Create viral linkbait.
2. Write and give away a free ebook.
3. Write a pillar (authority) article.
4. Create a numbers list (10 ways to xxx, 20 different xxxx).
5. Hold a contest, and require that they link back to you for an entry.
6. Send off interview templates to big bloggers, and post up completed interviews.
7. Create a Wordpress plugin.
8. Design a hot Wordpress theme, and distribute it for free, requiring they keep your link in the footer.
9. Create controversy (be careful and don’t get into something you can’t handle)
10. Find a scammer/shady website or blogger, and make the world known about it.
11. Submit a press release about your new product or news.
12. Submit your site to free directories (careful, only SEO friendly ones)
13. Submit your site to paid directories (dmoz(kidding!), yahoo, alive)
14. Submit articles to article directories.
15. Submit posts to blog carnivals.
16. Email a webmaster, and ask for a link.
17. Offer to buy a one way link from another relevant website (keep this on the DL)
18. Send unsolicited, yet awesome articles to other bloggers to reference or post
19. Let your networked friends know that you’ll do reviews and testimonials.
20. Buy reviews on pay-per-post or a similar service.
21. Get on the Digg front page (and watch your server melt).
22. Exchange Stumbles on popular webmaster forums.
23. Submit to Del.icio.us
24. Answer a question on Yahoo Answers and reference your site.
25. Pick a hot ebook or software program and review it for free.
26. If you get paid for a review – make it a great one, and you’ll get a link back.
27. Don’t be afraid to link out – share the link love (just don’t get too spammy)
28. Be the first to report breaking news (hard, but very effective)
29. Review a semi-popular tech gadget.
30. Review stuff on Amazon, and put your link in your profile
31. Create a Linked-In page, and make sure to put your link on it.
32. Speaking of that, do the same for Facebook, Myspace, and others..
33. Hire good writers to pump out quality content.
34. Join all applicable Chamber of Commerce’s’ in your area for free links
35. Join the BBB (Better Business Bureau) for a free link.
36. Post a bulletin in your Myspace account about your new site.
37. Throw a relevant link in a Craigslist ad.
38. Create your own SEO tool.
39. Buy TV air time on a small station flashing your URL.
40. Buy Radio time for a short commercial spamming your URL.
41. Put bumper stickers on your car with your link on it.
42. Look for older, higher PR sites with Guestbooks, and sign them! Easy links.
43. Comment on Do-Follow blogs (meaning the link in your comment will be followed by a spider)
44. Post your link in forums, and your forum signature.
45. Don’t forget to link from some of your older, more established sites.
46. Buy post level links from other bloggers/webmasters. (usually cheap)
47. Don’t be afraid to ask for links, you just never know!
48. Do pro-bono work for a non-profit, and they may link to you.
49. Offer to be a guest blogger or regular contributor on a bigger blog.
50. Apply to about.com for a topic that you can write about.
51. Sell items on ebay and agree to donate proceeds to charity – they will link to you.
52. Hire someone from a webmaster forum to submit links for you.
53. Trade articles with industry related webmasters
54. Rewrite old content they may have been buried to fast…breath new life.
55. Find out about getting a link on your local libraries website.
56. Launch an affiliate program for your site, ebook, or product.
57. Technorati tag all of your posts for good Technorati exposure.
58. Take advantage of “old world media” (newspapers, magazines)
59. Rent links from Text-Link-Ads or similar service (careful with this one!)
60. If you have the ability, create a Firefox extension and release it.
61. Answer questions on Google Groups and link if necessary.
62. Call in to a radio show and shamelessly plug your site!
63. A good PPC campaign can draw exposure which could = links.
64. Head over to the slums (chat rooms) and mention your site if appropriate.
65. Create a controversial political cartoon and get it some attention.
66. Most local Fox sites have a blogging community you can tap into.
67. Hire someone to do everything in this list. Outsourcing is cheap and fun.
68. Get business cards, and distribute the hell out of them for exposure.
69. Drop your link on Xbox live.
70. Mention your link when you’re playing online PC games.
71. Donate a larger sum of money to a small charity in exchange for a link.
72. If you’re in school, put your link on your college website (even sneak it in for a free .edu backlink – lol)
73. If you have family friendly content, get a link from your Church’s website.
74. Set up a Squidoo lens with good content, and link to your site from it.
75. Sponsor an event or a big contest – trust me, lots of link love there.
76. Enter all the group writing projects you can find – good links.
77. Start a community helpful website, and get on the local news – they love it.
78. Submit to RSS feed sites – hopefully they’ll link back.
79. Make sure to take advantage of trackbacks when linking out to other blogs.
80. Set up an award system on your site, and have readers vote on best site.
81. Speaking of that, enter all the award sites you can.
82. Make a super crazy viral type video, and get it on Youtube.
83. Start a podcasting series, and build an audience, they’ll link to you.
84. Write a heavily opinionated piece to get people talking.
85. Retain a real linkbaiting service. (There are a few out there, but $$$)
86. Hire an actual real life publicist for your site (if you can justify it)
87. Help with an up and coming web 2.0 project for more exposure.
88. Start a content writing service website, and have clients link to you for a discount.
89. Crack the top 100 in Technorati, or create the largest MyBlogLog community.
90. Go old school and trade links with other relevant sites.
91. Check who links to your competitors, and get links from them!
92. Provide a sexy “link to me” button or banner, and people will use it, for real.
93. Create a good Facebook app, and if it’s really good, the links will pour in.
94. Review bands, local restaurants, and small shops and get links on their sites in return for the exposure.
95. Speaking of that, sponsor a hot local band’s show one night with big flashy banners with your link on it (in the background)
96. When Hannah Montana comes to town, buy up some tickets, offer them on your site as prizes. Local news stations and papers will eat it up alive.
97. Sue Yahoo, Google, or whoever, and you’ll get plenty of publicity – lol
98. Answer all of your emails promptly and professionally. People love that, and will link to you and let everyone know how swell you are.
99. Create a thorough walk through on a game or even an electronic device. People love that stuff!
100. Network with like-minded individuals offline. Talk to them about tossing your link up on their site.
101. Write about the hottest celebrities, and make it unique. People love Hollywood.
102. Create your own Wiki page (it’s nofollow, but could lead to natural links)
103. Create your own training program for your field of interest.
104. Offer an on-page language translator to reach out to other countries, which can lead to new links

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