1. After I post a video, I watch and like it. I then force my wife to do the same. That way I'm guaranteed at least two views and two likes.
2. The next thing I do is post it as a video response to a video in my category that has millions of views and allows video responses without approval. If there isn't one related to my video I can respond to, I'll post it to anything that accepts video responses. I'm just trying to get it in front of eyeballs. This requires as good thumbnail and title. Unfortunately I'm bad at both.
3. I then post it to one of my blogs. This starts it off with at least one back link and a few views coming in from the site. the blogs were created for free on blogger and I have one hosted web site. the interesting thing here is that I originally created these sites to give each new video a back link in order to improve it's rating but, as I've added more videos and descriptive text to go with it, my sites have started to take on a life of their own, with traffic and adsense adds. The reason I have multiple blogs is that each one is in a different category and has different videos on it
4. An odd note about Facebook, if I post a video to my Facebook page it gets zero views. I can't even get my mom to watch it. I have my doubts anything would change, even if i started mailing out checks. But, I do get a substantial number of views and shares from total strangers on Facebook.