YouTube hosts millions of videos. If you are making videos about anything that people want to learn about, in any market where there is profit potential, it is guaranteed that other people have already created videos that cater to that market.

Don’t worry about it - it’s good news.

First of all, if there were absolutely no other videos at all about your subject area…it would mean that you were making videos that would not likely appeal to many people.

If there is an audience out there, someone has made videos that will appeal to that audience.

And it also means that you can learn from other people’s successes, and other people’s failures, on YouTube, and use that knowledge to make better videos of your own.

One of the best ways to learn how to shoot good YouTube videos is to spend some time on YouTube browsing through other videos that cover the same subject that your videos will.

Pick out which ones are informative and enjoyable to watch, and do what they do.

You especially will want to check out the videos (in your same subject area) which have the most views. Clearly, they are doing something that people like!

Read the comments on other people’s videos. See what people liked and didn’t like.

The way that you are going to find videos to study and learn from is by using the search box that is at the top of every YouTube page.

Let’s say that you are promoting a video series of golf lessons that you are selling through your web site.

And you are going to create some YouTube videos offering viewers some free tips, to show them the quality of your work.

Giving away some high quality free information - but not everything that you’ve got! - is the best way to create grateful, loyal customers.

So, before you even create your videos, you should see what else exists in that field and which videos are most popular, and then you can figure out why.

Some people refer to it as “reverse engineering” - examining a successful product or website and figuring out how it was created so that you can do something similar.

So, you would go to the search box and type in something like “golf tips” and you would come up with a list of videos like this:

At the top of the page, you would see that there are some suggestions for other searches: how to hit a driver, swing golf, golf lessons driver. It would be worth typing in those phrases and doing a search on them also.

All of these videos get a decent amount of views. Notice that the video listed at the top, which has an enormous amount of views, also has a very specific title telling you the exact, desirable result you are going to get from watching this video.

What can you take away from this?

You should pay attention to the title of your video and make sure that it is enticing and also informative.

Rather than “Eye Makeup Lesson No. 1″, you could create a video titled “Use Mac Makeup to Create Sultry Eyes For An Evening Out.”

Rather than “Ab Exercises For Men” you could create a video with a title like “Go from flab to six pack abs with these three moves.”

You get the idea. Be specific, and create a video which promises the viewer a benefit, and then deliver on that promise.

Viewers are allowed to “favorite” videos and recommend them to their friends, and if you create a high quality video, they will want to do that.

It’s also a good idea to look at some of the videos that got the least views, and try to figure out why.

Those videos will be towards the end of the list.

Another way to potentially get a lot of views and visits to your You-tube video is to post “video responses” to popular Youtubers videos.

There are some rules though.

First of all the person who posted the original video that you want to create a “video response” to has to approve your video reply.

So think about that when you are creating a video reply. Don’t create a video response that is a rant or an argument. Be humorous if possible. Being flattering doesn’t hurt.

Also your video response can ONLY be used once. You can’t create the same video reply, and post it to dozens of other people’s videos. You can pull your video reply from one person’s video comments area and use it as a reply to a different video, however.

So, we have talked about searching for other people’s videos that are in related fields.

But when you enter search terms, how does YouTube know which videos to pull up and list for you?