Noobzilla
I Love YTtalk
I prefer to manually post to FB because I use yt2fb to convert my video so the whole thumbnail shows not just part of it
Promoting like a MF
- Thread starter Jake Fuller
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I prefer to manually post to FB because I use yt2fb to convert my video so the whole thumbnail shows not just part of it
Winger94
Super Poster
Well buddy you do a lot of job to promote yourself! But I think that a lot of those places can't actually be so useful.
The most important ones in my opinion are Twitter and FB, despite the fat that a lot of people says Twitter is good only when you have a following (you can use relevant hashtags to make the tweet visible!). For what concerns StumbleUpon and Pinterest I don't know them so can't be of any help.
For Reddit the situation is tricky: it all depends on the content of your video. It seems you do vlogs so maybe you can obtain more results from some subreddits than other content creators (LPers in primis, like me for example) because actually every vlog can be interesting in his own way so they are accepted (of course you need to interact with the subreddit and not just link dumping!).
I used to promote every single video I made (and I do 1 video per day) on 2 or 3 subreddits and a couple of G+ communities, along with the social media. But later I noticed that the audience retention from Reddit wasn't so good (5% or something a bit higher, compared for example to YTtalk or FB with something around 30 or 40%, even if with less views).
Maybe I handle the promotional side in the wrong way, but I think that before promotion the first thing on which we need to work is the SEO, because the first social media where your video must be visible is Youtube itself and you can do that by using proper titles, tags, descriptions and thumbnails!
The most important ones in my opinion are Twitter and FB, despite the fat that a lot of people says Twitter is good only when you have a following (you can use relevant hashtags to make the tweet visible!). For what concerns StumbleUpon and Pinterest I don't know them so can't be of any help.
For Reddit the situation is tricky: it all depends on the content of your video. It seems you do vlogs so maybe you can obtain more results from some subreddits than other content creators (LPers in primis, like me for example) because actually every vlog can be interesting in his own way so they are accepted (of course you need to interact with the subreddit and not just link dumping!).
I used to promote every single video I made (and I do 1 video per day) on 2 or 3 subreddits and a couple of G+ communities, along with the social media. But later I noticed that the audience retention from Reddit wasn't so good (5% or something a bit higher, compared for example to YTtalk or FB with something around 30 or 40%, even if with less views).
Maybe I handle the promotional side in the wrong way, but I think that before promotion the first thing on which we need to work is the SEO, because the first social media where your video must be visible is Youtube itself and you can do that by using proper titles, tags, descriptions and thumbnails!
PositivelyBrainwashed
I Love YTtalk
I noticed a lot of people here don't know much about Pinterest and I'll share some stats about it and tips on how to succeed there. About 80% of Pinterest users are females and 80% of traffic comes from mobile. So if you wanna target the ladies, you'll have to learn how to play in their playground. Here are tips I've gotten from experts that's helped me get some traffic to my Youtube, Website, Ebooks and get 550+ followers in just over a month.
- Put hashtags in the descriptions of all your boards as well as individual videos. Describe what the board is about
- Don't just post your own content. Consider posting at a 40/60 ratio, where only 40% of what you post are your content and 60% being other people's.
- The top boards you want to promote (like the ones with a lot of your videos), you want to always appear on top (when viewing from mobile). So to do this whenever you're posting stuff, make sure the last board you post to is the board you want to promote. If you don't have any new content to post in the board you want to promote, then a trick I learned is to temporarily move a pinned post from that board to the second most important board you want to promote, and then move it back to the original afterwards. This will place your top two important boards back on top
- You can change boards from secret to public, but not vice versa. So make new boards you're creating a secret board until you have about 6-8 contents in it. It is very unattractive to see boards that have empty slots.
- Follow and engage with other people in your niche
- Put hashtags in the descriptions of all your boards as well as individual videos. Describe what the board is about
- Don't just post your own content. Consider posting at a 40/60 ratio, where only 40% of what you post are your content and 60% being other people's.
- The top boards you want to promote (like the ones with a lot of your videos), you want to always appear on top (when viewing from mobile). So to do this whenever you're posting stuff, make sure the last board you post to is the board you want to promote. If you don't have any new content to post in the board you want to promote, then a trick I learned is to temporarily move a pinned post from that board to the second most important board you want to promote, and then move it back to the original afterwards. This will place your top two important boards back on top
- You can change boards from secret to public, but not vice versa. So make new boards you're creating a secret board until you have about 6-8 contents in it. It is very unattractive to see boards that have empty slots.
- Follow and engage with other people in your niche
Delightfully Dumb
YTtalk Mad
First off, Twitter does not seem to like like Youtube, at least on mobile devices. It's also good at detecting if your links are videos even if you try to mask them with url shorteners like bitly or y2u.be. So if you tweet something with a video link it will not display a thumbnail on mobile.
1. The easiest way is to upload it to Twitter directly, but you're limited to 30 seconds and this won't help you with Youtube views.
2. You can research twitter video cards, but as far as I know you gotta pay for that, and not sure if it links to Youtube.
The best solution I can come up with is to manually upload your video thumbnail and use Emoji's like the hand pointing one and ►.
You can also link to a Blog, manually upload a thumbnail and then promote your youtube video in that Blog.
Now it gets more tricky when you are using certain automations because you can't upload images manually, unless you're using something like buffer (which is only limited to 10 tweets in the free version). I personally wrote my own bot and found certain loop holes, but that's a whole different topic.
Edit: Ha, I just noticed I mispelled whether twice on my tweet
Thanks!!!
Jake Fuller
I Vlog, Therefore I Am
I think I am going to just stick with Facebook and Twitter, my personnel Google+ and Instagram. I made a Facebook page that I will manually post on and Twitter/Google+ will get the upload share and I'll just re-tweet and be active with Twitter, I think considering my channel topic its best to only put my video links on pages/profiles I own. I'd rather grow slow and not be spammy then to get a ton of views and suffer negativity.