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I was going to abandon this forum because of the loads and loads of bad advice around and it seems like the good advice gets drowned out but I decided not to.
All the information here is obtained after researching topics. Its on an "as is" basis for each individual to decide the right path to success. "live long and prosper"
This information applies to everyone really but it applies to people wanting to partner the "mostest"
Here is a tutorial of things to avoid and or do to get yourself partnered
1) Quality of content - With the rare exception visual quality does matter that means you need a HD content and you need to know how to make it fill the screen. If you vlog get yourself an HD webcam and learn to edit the sound.
2) Views matter however if your not getting them genuinely and using deceptive means to get hits because you feel your not getting the right traffic your hurting yourself and the people around you.
If you use any of those hit generating site or sub generating sites you are pumping up your subs and views using artificial means. Its wrong. Youtube refers to is officialy as "stat gaming". It also means that everyone not using such methods have to work twice as hard or cave in and use these traffic generations sites as well. Traffic generating sites or "traffic rotators" cause false youtube rankings and lead people to believe your content is more sought after then it actually is.
Using fireviews, growsocials or likeperview or any of those sites is not real traffic or subs. Dont do it because at the end of the day it means you really didnt legitimately earn your Partnership. Just because your getting away with it does not mean its acceptable. These sites are not botting sites a lot people seem to think they are okay but they aren't. They are view farming/like farming systems with the same people churning round and round on a rotator watching you videos over and over again day after day. Its considered "bad traffic".
This info was pulled up on the google help forums when I typed in fireviews and again when I typed in growsocials.
3) Copyright - I have seen this trend growing lately and the concept of fair use its being abused
Fair use allows for NON-COMMERCIAL usage of small clips in your media for educational, reporting or personal use without asking permission.
Most people seeking partnership are not reporting or using educational means they are in the entertainment area this means this cant apply. So they are attempting to use "personal use"
Personal use - personal use under the youtube terms of service means that the video must be marked as private. So once you mark your video as public is not personal use its public use .
commercial use - for some reason youtube considers placing ads on things commercial usage. However there are companies that sell licenses for use on places like youtube for $5.00 each so that you can monitize videos with such music. The type of content that is okay for usage on youtube is royalty free content and since your partnering your likely wanting to use stuff commercially so look for licenses that all you to use the content "commercial reuse".
This site sells $5.00 licenses to allow for music to be played on youtube and collect money from ads. In my opinion especially with the present climate of youtube always asking for proof its probably the easiest solution to using others royalty free music. Because they give you a reuse license. http://www.audiosocket.com/
A lot of good music and sounds is found under creative commons
http://creativecommons.org/
http://creativecommons.org/legalmusicforvideos
your probably wanting something you can use with ads so you need to look for licenses that allow for it:
The most open ones are:
CC attribution 3.0 and public domain CCO "No Rights Reserved"
I stick to those because they have the least amount of loopholes.
4) Take advantage of other parts of the internet to promote your videos and yourself. Build a website brand yourself, use search engines to list your stuff. Avoid simply promoting on youtube in the end that is the biggest cause of people not getting traffic.
If you do it all "the right way" its not hard to get a couple of hundred views per video quickly and over time those views accumulate.
I found this the other day it seems the "right way" to do things and gives more infos
How to Spread your Video Over the internet MiniGuide to Video Search Engines
In general to get quality traffic no matter what the venue it takes 3-6 months to build a base those visitors will be your active subs.
Get yourself webspace I highly recommend wordpress in some form because it has a cms system build in which is what you will use to promote yourself on youtube. Get a free domain name like .tk to forward over the page or better yet invest in one at a domain registar they are dirt cheap these days!
There are sites like Yahoo listed in that tutorial you can use their video space to your advantage. Create video sizzle ads with a lot of 'pop' upload them and direct the traffic you get to your main channel. Presently I am using youtube as my mainsizzle promo site to direct traffic to other sources. Like blip tv and dailymotion. The reverse can be done too create a dailymotion account and make videos to direct them to your youtube channel.
5) keywording and titles - use them correctly it does help. Use ones that are accurate to the video.
Search Engine Optimization Guide
Youtube Keyword Tool
6) Social Media - There are a lot of sites that you can use to help gather some targetted views However before you start its probably best you work on your blog. After that get yourself a facebook account and twitter account and a myspace account for starters as these are the largest. You might want to add a google page and a stumbleupon page as well.
http://www.facebook.com
http://www.twitter.com
http://www.myspace.com
Although its a bit of work if you create a video sometimes its best to put it on your blog and twitter that although I am guilty of just twittering the video haha I find if you write some nice information with your video add a few screenshots and make it into a real presentation people are going to stop and look!
Example - You then post this using networked blogs and you will probably find you earned a few new subscribers.
(you probably wont do this for all your videos unless you have a lot to say hehe)
Here is cool tool that many are using to get the word out
http://www.networkedblogs.com/
It also helps you track things like your likes.
Some social media rules. Try not to spam your users on either facebook or twitter eventually they will run away or block you. I tend to generally limit my facebook posts to 2 or 3 per week. Find other friends who have friends on facebook that way when they like stuff it goes to their friends. Some people use facebook groups and some people use facebook pages in all honesty if your wanting to support your subscriber base a group is good for people to ask questions or to invite them to a concert or viewing its also good for networked blogs. A page is good for your new video releases or any merchandise.
Another fun thing you might want to do is stream some of your more "cool stuff" and have an event. You can set an event date and invite them via the group then people can either join or decline and you know in advance . You can stream on livestream or other sites and offer them to review the footage on your main channel. I used to do this once upon a time the ability to interact in the chat room at the same time really helped a lot.
7) software - use legal copies. The fact is it does matter. There are tons of free things on the internet that are high quality
here is a list of links to totally free stuff that will infact help you to create video like the pros. The only thing missing is the camera unfortunately that costs money
pro video editing software
pro photo editing software
pro 3d software
audio editing software
In the end its up to you. Do you want your partnership the legit way or do you want to cheat to get there. Are you going to apply the rule "Its okay as long as I dont get caught"? its all up to you but at the end of the day what you do and how you get there does matter even if no one finds out it still matters. The more you rip off the system the more you hurt it. We live in a world that teaches the concept of 'self governance' its not okay even if you dont get caught.
lastly here is an artical on ethical marketting. How do you want the world to see you?
Anyhow if just one person learns the right way I guess these posts are worth it in the end
p.s. I will be updating this as I go along due to the fact well I want it to be a cohesive guide. Some of the links may not be totally up-to-date but the information and concepts are good.
All the information here is obtained after researching topics. Its on an "as is" basis for each individual to decide the right path to success. "live long and prosper"
This information applies to everyone really but it applies to people wanting to partner the "mostest"
Here is a tutorial of things to avoid and or do to get yourself partnered
1) Quality of content - With the rare exception visual quality does matter that means you need a HD content and you need to know how to make it fill the screen. If you vlog get yourself an HD webcam and learn to edit the sound.
2) Views matter however if your not getting them genuinely and using deceptive means to get hits because you feel your not getting the right traffic your hurting yourself and the people around you.
If you use any of those hit generating site or sub generating sites you are pumping up your subs and views using artificial means. Its wrong. Youtube refers to is officialy as "stat gaming". It also means that everyone not using such methods have to work twice as hard or cave in and use these traffic generations sites as well. Traffic generating sites or "traffic rotators" cause false youtube rankings and lead people to believe your content is more sought after then it actually is.
Using fireviews, growsocials or likeperview or any of those sites is not real traffic or subs. Dont do it because at the end of the day it means you really didnt legitimately earn your Partnership. Just because your getting away with it does not mean its acceptable. These sites are not botting sites a lot people seem to think they are okay but they aren't. They are view farming/like farming systems with the same people churning round and round on a rotator watching you videos over and over again day after day. Its considered "bad traffic".
This info was pulled up on the google help forums when I typed in fireviews and again when I typed in growsocials.
the rule of "Its okay as long as I dont get caught" comes into play here.
3) Copyright - I have seen this trend growing lately and the concept of fair use its being abused
Fair use allows for NON-COMMERCIAL usage of small clips in your media for educational, reporting or personal use without asking permission.
Most people seeking partnership are not reporting or using educational means they are in the entertainment area this means this cant apply. So they are attempting to use "personal use"
Personal use - personal use under the youtube terms of service means that the video must be marked as private. So once you mark your video as public is not personal use its public use .
commercial use - for some reason youtube considers placing ads on things commercial usage. However there are companies that sell licenses for use on places like youtube for $5.00 each so that you can monitize videos with such music. The type of content that is okay for usage on youtube is royalty free content and since your partnering your likely wanting to use stuff commercially so look for licenses that all you to use the content "commercial reuse".
This site sells $5.00 licenses to allow for music to be played on youtube and collect money from ads. In my opinion especially with the present climate of youtube always asking for proof its probably the easiest solution to using others royalty free music. Because they give you a reuse license. http://www.audiosocket.com/
A lot of good music and sounds is found under creative commons
http://creativecommons.org/
http://creativecommons.org/legalmusicforvideos
your probably wanting something you can use with ads so you need to look for licenses that allow for it:
The most open ones are:
CC attribution 3.0 and public domain CCO "No Rights Reserved"
I stick to those because they have the least amount of loopholes.
4) Take advantage of other parts of the internet to promote your videos and yourself. Build a website brand yourself, use search engines to list your stuff. Avoid simply promoting on youtube in the end that is the biggest cause of people not getting traffic.
If you do it all "the right way" its not hard to get a couple of hundred views per video quickly and over time those views accumulate.
I found this the other day it seems the "right way" to do things and gives more infos
How to Spread your Video Over the internet MiniGuide to Video Search Engines
In general to get quality traffic no matter what the venue it takes 3-6 months to build a base those visitors will be your active subs.
Get yourself webspace I highly recommend wordpress in some form because it has a cms system build in which is what you will use to promote yourself on youtube. Get a free domain name like .tk to forward over the page or better yet invest in one at a domain registar they are dirt cheap these days!
There are sites like Yahoo listed in that tutorial you can use their video space to your advantage. Create video sizzle ads with a lot of 'pop' upload them and direct the traffic you get to your main channel. Presently I am using youtube as my mainsizzle promo site to direct traffic to other sources. Like blip tv and dailymotion. The reverse can be done too create a dailymotion account and make videos to direct them to your youtube channel.
5) keywording and titles - use them correctly it does help. Use ones that are accurate to the video.
Search Engine Optimization Guide
Youtube Keyword Tool
6) Social Media - There are a lot of sites that you can use to help gather some targetted views However before you start its probably best you work on your blog. After that get yourself a facebook account and twitter account and a myspace account for starters as these are the largest. You might want to add a google page and a stumbleupon page as well.
http://www.facebook.com
http://www.twitter.com
http://www.myspace.com
Although its a bit of work if you create a video sometimes its best to put it on your blog and twitter that although I am guilty of just twittering the video haha I find if you write some nice information with your video add a few screenshots and make it into a real presentation people are going to stop and look!
Example - You then post this using networked blogs and you will probably find you earned a few new subscribers.
(you probably wont do this for all your videos unless you have a lot to say hehe)Here is cool tool that many are using to get the word out
http://www.networkedblogs.com/
It also helps you track things like your likes.
Some social media rules. Try not to spam your users on either facebook or twitter eventually they will run away or block you. I tend to generally limit my facebook posts to 2 or 3 per week. Find other friends who have friends on facebook that way when they like stuff it goes to their friends. Some people use facebook groups and some people use facebook pages in all honesty if your wanting to support your subscriber base a group is good for people to ask questions or to invite them to a concert or viewing its also good for networked blogs. A page is good for your new video releases or any merchandise.
Another fun thing you might want to do is stream some of your more "cool stuff" and have an event. You can set an event date and invite them via the group then people can either join or decline and you know in advance . You can stream on livestream or other sites and offer them to review the footage on your main channel. I used to do this once upon a time the ability to interact in the chat room at the same time really helped a lot.
7) software - use legal copies. The fact is it does matter. There are tons of free things on the internet that are high quality
here is a list of links to totally free stuff that will infact help you to create video like the pros. The only thing missing is the camera unfortunately that costs money
pro video editing software
pro photo editing software
pro 3d software
audio editing software
In the end its up to you. Do you want your partnership the legit way or do you want to cheat to get there. Are you going to apply the rule "Its okay as long as I dont get caught"? its all up to you but at the end of the day what you do and how you get there does matter even if no one finds out it still matters. The more you rip off the system the more you hurt it. We live in a world that teaches the concept of 'self governance' its not okay even if you dont get caught.
lastly here is an artical on ethical marketting. How do you want the world to see you?
Anyhow if just one person learns the right way I guess these posts are worth it in the end
p.s. I will be updating this as I go along due to the fact well I want it to be a cohesive guide. Some of the links may not be totally up-to-date but the information and concepts are good.
