Are You "The Dark Knight" of YouTube? If so...I'm sending out the Bat Signal!

Shoot me a PM

It's so very simple Mark.


Here it is... are you ready?


Simply show a scantily clothed woman as your video thumbnail.

That's it.

Guaranteed to bring hundreds of thousands of visitors, especially combined with your underwear controversy angle.

- Jared

Yikes, Mark, no offense, but that's how NOT to get visitors to your youtube videos

I have a winemaking video up for a good keyword in my niche and the thumbnail is a "scantily clad woman"

Only 16 views even though it shows up on page one of the search for the keyword!

Hmmmmmmm.............

These 4 things...

1. To promote my Radio Show
2. To promote myself
3. To promote my products
4. To build my list

... are what is keeping you from getting lots of views like you want.

Every one of those listed above mention "MY".

People on YouTube instinctively reject 99% of videos that are promotional. Those are seldom the type of videos that go viral. You need the help of other people to share your videos, and if it's all about building you and your list, very few people care in the grand scheme of things.

And the "tittie" shots that Jared is recommending doesn't guarantee anything at all except showing evidence you have to use some breast shots instead of anything worthwhile.

if you don't mind spending a little cash, check out traffic geyser. I'm not an affiliate at all but their system looks pretty slammin.

Mark, you asked a great question. I was intrigued by it. First of all, I'm a big ol' Noob, here. I don't claim to have produced the results you are seeking, so take what I say for what it is.

Not being the Dark Knight myself, but believing in the adage that success leaves clues and modeling works, I thought I'd truck over there to youtube to look at the most viewed videos of the week to see what they might have in common.

On the surface, the majority featured attractive women, a stunt-type theme, comedy, sports, big news stories, were shopping advice oriented or aimed at teens.

Looking deeper, though watching some of the videos, I did notice a few commonalities that I'll share here:

Clue #1-The most popular channels are by personalities with a clear, strong, obvious point of view. Their channel profiles are chock full of background and personality info. You get who they are after a few minutes. You know right away what they are about and whether or not you feel a resonance..or a tingle

Clue #2-Many of the folks with the most views came out and asked their viewers to respond via video or specifically asked viewers to make comments or to subscribe. So one clue seems to be to be upfront and encourage interaction by telling the viewer specifically what you want them to do (a call to inter-action).

Clue #3-Almost none of them were blatantly selling anything in their videos. (Although they might on their website).

Clue #4-Most of the successful video producers have channels that offer lots of other ways to learn more about them and interact with them easily and quickly; websites, twitter, blogs, etc. They have lots of clickable links in their channels and video description that draw us easily out of youtube and into their sites and their world. Once they get us on their turf, they have lots of ways to draw us deeper in and get our contact information. In other words, they are not counting on youtube or any one video to do the work.
Mark, I noticed for example, on your Nascar song video, which I thought was cool and fun, and got lots of views, you didn't have a clickable link in the description or in your channel profile that would make it easy for me to go and download it.
If you added the full url preface that begins with http to the beginning of your url instead of what you have now it would become a clickable link. (I can't put in the actual link because I don't have enough posts, sorry.)

If you moved your link into the first line of your description you might have a better chance of getting us to click it. As it is, it is buried in the last line of your description. A person would have to really be motivated to find it. I was, so I did. The video clips on your blog were great fun, but I didn't see a way to join your list.

Imagine if I were one of the 10,000 that saw your Nascar video, got over to your site to download it and opted in. Then, you could email me each time you had a new, fun video up and I'd probably go check it out. If you asked me to pass it on and it was cool, I probably would, helping you to viralize your channel. BTW, was that you on the vocal? Great job with the song!

Back to youttube...
Clue #5-All of the most watched videos I saw had a story, even if it was just a silly stunt, or was less than 2 min long, they each took me on a little journey that had a real beginning, middle and an end.

Clue #6-Some of the stories were a part of a larger/longer theme that is a part of a series. That makes us want to subscribe so we don't miss the next one.

Having said all that, I'm sure there are lots of secret ninja tricks the youtube gurus use to get their view counts up. Can't comment on that. Hope they'll share.

Aside from the above, I wonder if its really just views that you are after. Are you perhaps actually interested in the quality of your traffic, the building of a list and then conversion of those prospects over time to customers?

Be interesting to hear what the real Dark Knights have to say about how they do it. -CP