Video Marketing Secrets – Part 12

Video Submission Guide

Let’s go through the process of submitting a video. I am going to pick YouTube since it is currently the most popular video site.

The first thing you need to do is create a user account at YouTube. Don’t worry, its free. I would suggest creating a separate email that you use just for your video submissions. This will help keeping track of things a lot easier. A Gmail account is ideal for something like this.

You can signup for a YouTube account here.

Once your account has been activated, just log in and click on the “upload” button to start the submission process. You can also go directly to this url:

http://www.youtube.com/my_videos_upload

The first thing you need to do is come up with a title. This is really important so make sure you give it some thought. You want to make sure that your title is interesting (so people click on it to watch the video) and also reflects the keywords that you are optimizing for.

Next you need to put in a description of the video. It is important to start each description with the URL you are promoting. Many viewers will not click the “more” link to view you entire description so placing you URL at the very beginning will ensure that it is visible to all viewers and encourage some click-throughs. Make it look like this: http://makeavideo.net

Please note how the http:// is at the beginning so it makes the link clickable. It is absolutely vital that you do this, because this is how you get that all important back link to your site (plus
hopefully some visitors will click on it as well). Fill out the rest of the description by describing what the video is about, and try to make it as interesting as possible.

Next you will choose whatever category is most appropriate for the topic of your video. If you are submitting multiple videos for the same site, you may want to pick a different category for each video, to vary where your links are coming from. If your videos are a series similar to this one, then you may want to stick with the same category.

The last option to fill out are the tags. This is where you will put the keywords that the video is optimized for, along with a few other relevant keywords.

You can leave everything else on default settings and then hit “upload a video”. Find the video file on your computer. It may take a few minutes depending on the size of your video. Now your video will be live on YouTube and you’re done!

Watch this video to see the whole process in action:

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