I was going to share some of my experience when it comes to Youtube and marketing and found this thread started by Todd, so I might be repeating what's already been shared here but it might be something new.
Something that is really important when it comes to getting ranked high in Google and Youtube is links to your video from blogs and all the social media sites. While it is good to get links from your own facebook and Twitter accounts you should try to get all your friends to also tweet, and share on Facebook and Google plus, the more the better. You can also use annotations in the video to incourage people to share with their friends.
(When you edit the video it is a good idea to put an image in the video that says "please share" or something that stands out a little bit, an image looks a lot better than the annotation.
If you have a website or blog than it's a good idea to make an image inside the video clickable for example an image that says "Click here to visit my new website") This is a pretty new feature in Youtube and it will for sure increase visitors to your website. (Something for GMC maybe)
Keywords in the title and description has already been talked about but it's very important to get any views other than from friends and channel subscribers. If yout put "My new guitar video" as a title and nothing in the description you will not get any views from search. If you put "Cool Guitar Riff in the Style of Hendrix" and also write something about this riff in the description and also include keywords and tags you will have a much bigger chance of getting many more views.
If you have a website you can embed your video. Something that helps the ranking is to also put a link to your video or channel just under the video itself or somwhere in the text.
Finaly chose a good thumbnail you know the picture that you see on the side and in search. For example if you make a how to play something and have tabs to share make a picture that illustrate that you share the tabs, everybody wants tabs so they will likley click on your video first.
There is lot of very good videos with hardly no views at all so if you shoot a good video take a litle time and go through these steps to give it a chance.
If you are serious about your music or have a band you should register a domain it is only $10/year and the hosting of the website cost from $5-10/month.
If you need any help with setting up a wordpress blog just let me know, I have some pretty good templates you can use. I don't have a ton of time but if you want to promote your music I will be happy to help.
/Lars
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