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YouTube can be a prime source of traffic if used to it’s full advantage. Here’s 10 tips i’ve compiled which might help you get your videos more attention on YouTube.

1. Quality – Probably the primary tip above all is quality. Whatever you’re recording, use a quality camera, edit it well and make sure the final product is something you’re happy with. Try to get rid of any flaws so that you’re video is as good to watch as possible.

2. Be Helpful – People like free help, so if you’re just going to make videos constantly promoting things, chances are you wont get far. If you’re an expert on something, even if you don’t give away primary information or advice. Give something, some inside tips, your opinion on matters within your topic, make yourself a Guru on something you know and people will listen.

3. Post Regular Videos – If your account is starting to see some good success, don’t slow down. That’s the key to speed up and post good videos as often as possible. People like regularity, if someone loves your videos but you post once every month, chances are eventually they’ll find someone better and more regular and slowly forget about you.

4. Keep Em’ Waiting – One way to attract more focused users is also to post videos which are absolute class, but maybe only once a week. Establish some regularity but so much that you keep them wanting more. Too much too quick can make people get sick of you, post quality, timed quality.

5. Embed – If you’ve got an already successful site based on your topic you’re posting videos on, yet you’re not embedding them on your site. You’re missing a big opportunity to get some easy views to your videos. Spread your videos in anyway you can and don’t hold back on embedding when you can.

6. Break News – If you maybe run some sort of news site on a certain topic or maybe just don’t do your own thing in your videos or give your opinion or whatever, a good way to get a video noticed is to break news. Uploading reports and stories on world events before anyone else will usually bring alot of views.

7. Presentation – If you’re going to give your opinion on things in your videos, make sure you set yourself apart. Don’t purposely be unnaturally stupid if that’s not you, but make sure you’re yourself. If in real life your not boring, don’t be boring on a video, don’t present your videos in a certain way just to comply with social expectancy. Be yourself.

8. Follow Suit – If your purely interested in getting your videos viewed alot and nothing else, for financial purposes or whatever, one simple way obviously is to ‘follow suit’ look at the most successful people on YouTube. The biggest videos and ‘do what they do’ don’t emulate them fully but try and conclude what’s making their videos successful. But obviously alot of the time the only real answer is ‘them’ they put effort in, simple as that. So the only way to really follow suit is to do the same.

9. Spread Your Videos – This is obviously just common sense, unless you get lucky and get featured or for some weird reason your video just virally explodes by pure inexplicable chance, the best way to get your videos seen is to spread them. MSN, email, forums, however and whenever possible, let people know your videos are there and people will eventually take notice, if you keep up persistence.

10. Originality – Usually it’s best, in general marketing… to pick something and improve it. Coming up with something absolutely purely original is hard and can involve luck, maybe not actual ‘luck’ but some viral spread you can’t really explain with logic… people just like it, so trying to produce an absolute unique product or service can be financially fatal. But on YouTube, it cost nothing to try. Be as original as you can, whilst being natural, make videos on things you are passionate about as intellectual passion is the one thing which actually evokes true natural originality in your thoughts.