This was MY BREAKTHROUGH in finally making money online

I've been looking to start driving massive YouTube traffic in 2014.

Any pointers?

One thing holding me back is fear that YouTube will terminate my account if I overpromote stuff.

I never bothered reading their TOS, and am not sure what would constitute a perm. ban. (I wonder if they're as draconian as AdWords).

I have a feeling they wouldn't appreciate aggressive promotion of Squeeze Page or affiliate products.

(I Remember a popular guru going on an anti YouTube campaign a few years back because they got banned, lolz).

This is basic. Nothing new.

Not quite and who wants to wait a 'few months' anyway?

Whilst the secret to lots and lots of good quality traffic does start with offering high quality content and delivering value if all you're doing in publishing that content to your blog you will not get very far.

You still need to let people know about that content. Some sort of magic isn't going to happen and suddenly the world will know all about how great your stuff is and start flooding to your site.

You create good quality content then you get your ideal target audiences eyes on your content.

That can be done in a number of ways, via guest posting, a heavy presence on forums (where you provide similar quality topics with a sig active), blog commenting on relevant forums and linking to your own related topic, video marketing, SEO, social media presence, Reddit, content syndication, banner ads, PPC and a zillion other ways.

Do this and you can have tons of high quality traffic at your site near instantly never mind waiting a few months and hoping some sort of miracle happens and that people magically find it.

Not quite and who wants to wait a 'few months' anyway?

Whilst the secret to lots and lots of good quality traffic does start with offering high quality content and delivering value if all you're doing in publishing that content to your blog you will not get very far.

You still need to let people know about that content. Some sort of magic isn't going to happen and suddenly the world will know all about how great your stuff is and start flooding to your site.

You create good quality content then you get your ideal target audiences eyes on your content.

That can be done in a number of ways, via guest posting, a heavy presence on forums (where you provide similar quality topics with a sig active), blog commenting on relevant forums and linking to your own related topic, video marketing, SEO, social media presence, Reddit, content syndication, banner ads, PPC and a zillion other ways.

Do this and you can have tons of high quality traffic at your site near instantly never mind waiting a few months and hoping some sort of miracle happens and that people magically find it.

You need to become a master of paid traffic. It's the most reliable and scalable form of traffic around. SEO, articles, all of that stuff is like building a house on a beach. It will get washed away one day. Become a master at paid traffic and you will never be short of traffic.

Not quite and who wants to wait a 'few months' anyway?

Whilst the secret to lots and lots of good quality traffic does start with offering high quality content and delivering value if all you're doing in publishing that content to your blog you will not get very far.

You still need to let people know about that content. Some sort of magic isn't going to happen and suddenly the world will know all about how great your stuff is and start flooding to your site.

You create good quality content then you get your ideal target audiences eyes on your content.

That can be done in a number of ways, via guest posting, a heavy presence on forums (where you provide similar quality topics with a sig active), blog commenting on relevant forums and linking to your own related topic, video marketing, SEO, social media presence, Reddit, content syndication, banner ads, PPC and a zillion other ways.

Do this and you can have tons of high quality traffic at your site near instantly never mind waiting a few months and hoping some sort of miracle happens and that people magically find it.

I agree with the point that you need to offer great value. Word of mouth traffic is the best kind of traffic - which means you've created something people want to share. Create sticky content and be really really helpful to the people who you care talking to.

Knowing what they want, what their problems are, building a relationship with them and helping them find solutions is what makes you money online.

Create good content everywhere whether it be articles, blog comments, social media or other places. Get to know your audience off site and give them what they want onsite.

Then link back to your deep value filled content from pages that have already built interest in what you have to share.

This is how you get 8% conversions when everyone else struggles to get 1%.

Videos, images, info graphics, tips, step by steps, questions and worksheets are all very shareable - but building relationships using these tools is the secret to success online!

Interesting signagure.

I agree with you that building relationships with visitors is very important, and you can get their e-mails too, and communicate with them regularly via e-mails.

So many steps and you can't leave none of them out....

I think a common problem is people try to get traffic the way everyone else is talking about and so often practices are outdated. You need to find ways to connect with real people so that they are interested in participating and visiting your site regularly. Then you need to be good at deciding when to pivot.once you have a growing readership you can work more with your existing clients and help them more directly, as well as get them involved in driving traffic to your site instead of you doing all the work yourself. Sometimes you get an idea that is very viral and you get a lucky break. It doesn't happen that often but it does happen.