19 Youtube Tricks, Do You Know Any More? (Lets make it all about Youtube thread)

I want to share some of the tricks that I've learned about Youtube.(Some of my tricks might now seem like tricks to most people, but I'll share it anyway.)

1. Youtube keyword tool https://ads.youtube.com/keyword_tool

2. Building back links to your videos help your videos ranking. Submit to social media such as digg, and reddit. Twitt about the video. It will get indexed very fast. Also find relevant questions on yahoo answers and past your video in the resource box. This worked really well for me in the past.

3. Number of user comments you get helps your video ranking. The best way to get comments is to pay people on Mechanical Turk to view your video and ask them to comment. Also you can use a few fake accounts to post controversial comments, causing others to engage in the discussion. If the video itself is controversial people will be more likely to comment.

4. Volume of views your video gets improves its ranking. Once again use Mechanical Turk to get you started, as well as Social Media will help you bump up the count. Additionally you can embed your video to your website, set it to autoplay and drive a very cheap adwords traffic to that page.

4. Using tags that google finds relevant helps your video ranking. Use google adwords tool, as well as the search for your keywords in google, then just pick up the bold ones as your tags, google suggest, commonly misspelled words etc. Use google suggest ETC. The regular keyword research stuff.

5. Using same tags as another popular video in your niche. It will increase your chances of showing up as a related video.

6. Using your keywords in your description. (Many people overlook this step, but google does check this as well).

7. Make sure that you have an attention gripping picture as your thumbnail. Google picks up the middle frame as your thumbnail, so just plan for the most interesting picture to be exactly in the middle of your video.

8. Use an unique tag in all your videos (i.e. I use feedtherightwolf) to increase chances of your other videos showing up as related videos for each other.

9. Post video responses to other popular videos in your niche. You can either use existing videos, or create specific one just for that purpose. (Note you can only use 1 video as 1 response. I remember long time ago, I've spent a day posting same video as a video response to 20 different videos, only to find out that every time I reposted it, it was removed from the previous video and posted on a new one).

10. Comment on other people'c channels, it will provide a follow link to your channel.

11. Embed your video on other people Myspace accounts (and other site's) as a comment. It will provide a link, and will increase your view's count.

12. Make a post on forum ( like this one) with your video and this will also increase your view count.

13. Watch the news or google trends closely for something related to your niche. And create a video targeting the new keywords, knowing that soon people will be searching for this stuff. Then you will be likely to show up both in Google search and Google video search.

14. Make a parody of already popular Youtube video, use same tags title etc.

15. Use tube mogul's free account and upload your video to bunch of other free networks. Many time I get my videos showing up in Google video search that I've uploaded to Dailymotion or other networks, while it does not rank high on Youtube.

16. Keep your videos short (something I fail at all the time), and keep the images moving often. People's attention span is very short these days.

17. Created videos answering some of the most frequent questions asked in your niche on yahoo answers. You can also get ideas from long tail keywords from your favorite keyword tool.

18. Contact people with popular videos in your niche and try to pay them for link to your product/channel in their description, or at least get them to approve your video response to be posted on their video.

19. Be active. Make friends with other people, subscribe to other people, comment on their videos, and they might return the favor.

Its all I can think of right now. If I'll think of something else I'll add it later.

Do you know any tricks that I've missed?