Comments on: YouTube Adventures

By: NEW!!! Hang Drum, Mark Roach

NEW!!! Hang Drum, Mark Roach — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 23:16:27 +0000

As far as Youtube goes, i have a few links you all might be interested in! Enjoy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mAl2_v_H9c
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnR0Qv-LJGo
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=soulsnurf

By: James Wilson

James Wilson — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 14:30:10 +0000

By the way, the URL for “JayToob” is http://www.jaytoob.com
Please also feel free to post video to any of the video links shown.
Thanks!

By: James Wilson

James Wilson — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 14:28:45 +0000

I have only recently followed Ken’s advice and gotten involved with YouTube. I put together a concept site called “JayToob,” which aims to put together mostly unique, inspirational video that helps with personal development. As always getting traffic even to good videos is a challenge. I saw the comment about being a director, and I think I’ll give that one a try.
Thanks!

By: chris windley

chris windley — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 14:38:31 +0000

Ken, Thanks for this blog and Harald – thanks for the link to Traffic Geyser. Very interesting. Do you know what the latest is on this product ?? Are Michael and Rocket still taking subscriptions ?? Any competitive products emerged ??
Thought you would be interested in this link to The Venice Project ( TVP )
https://www.theveniceproject.com/blog/ – the latest creation of the boys from Kazaa and Skype.

By: Harald Anderson

Harald Anderson — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 23:10:04 +0000

Youtube.com is an amazing hub. At the beginning of last year there was one video portal to my knowledge (youtube.com). Now there are over 300 dedicated to video.
I have been using trafficgeyser.com to upload my videos to over 30 different video portals and the results are staggering.
The amazing thing for me is that the majority of my traffic actually comes from smaller video portals…not youtube.com!
My results and experience make me wonder as to why Google paid $1.65 billion for Youtube. Don’t misunderstand me. I think it is a great site but I am getting much more traffic on the same video from video.google.com as well as video.yahoo.com than from youtube. Sometimes the tiny little video portals just absolutely rock!
in my opinion the transition is underway. Text still rules but ten years from now everything will be audio and video will dominate and text will be third in terms of perferences for finding things.
Youtube is the hub in the video streaming world and I applaud their success and vision. My point is not to overlook the other video portals as they can create an avalanche of traffic to your site as well.

By: Matt Connelly

Matt Connelly — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 10:50:46 +0000

Good stuff- I am not going to get into it specifically, but it’s also important to consider current events/celebrity and how you can apply it to your video and ultimately website.
I know it may sound cryptic and admittedly I am being that way, but add 2 and 2 and you can capitalize on tons of “current event” traffic that wasn’t there yesterday…
Matt
P.S. I don’t need to mention that each video should have your URL branded along with a specific WIIFM call to action at the end do I?

By: David Dutton

David Dutton — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 09:06:51 +0000

Hey Ken,
I have been using YouTube for a while now
and it has gotten me quite abit of traffic.
One key is opening a “directors” account which is free.
With that account, you can upload a logo AND have a link right to your website next to the video.
Type “David Dutton” or “David Bullock” in YouTube and see what pulls up.
I have been doing video reviews of people’s products because of the know like and trust (see david bullock video)
Thanks
David Dutton

By: Jeanne Rejaunier

Jeanne Rejaunier — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 08:21:17 +0000

Another way YouTube stars get viewings is to link their videos to websites, blogs, and to social networks like MySpace. Use the code supplied by YouTube to embed your video here as well as in emails. In the recent elections, 15 short videos I made of a local candidate for County Mosquito Control Board were embedded in a county political site, which in turn drew traffic to the videos on YouTube. In fact, traffic is still watching those videos, even though the election ended two months ago and the candidate lost the election. My son shot a video that got over 15,000 hits in less than two weeks, due to the star of the video embedding it on her MySpace page.