So you’ve created an account, and made some excellent videos, and you have uploaded them.

You’ve written enough descriptive tags for your video that people who are searching for a video in your subject area should be able to find it fairly easily.

However, you don’t just want a little traffic from your videos, you want MASSIVE traffic. And you don’t want to wait for it. That means that you are going to have to put some effort into promoting your videos.

How do you find viewers?

Remember how in a previous post we talked about taking advantage of the fact that YouTube gets massive traffic? And the way you do that is by going to YouTube and presenting your videos in to all those viewers, which means you are standing in front of all that massive traffic, showing your wares.

Well, you’re going to continue employing that principle.

Don’t just go out and try to find little bits of traffic and drag it back to your site.

Go where the traffic is.

In this case, that means go find the most popular videos that are aimed at the same market that you are looking for.

In addition to studying and learning from those videos, and employing the same techniques as they do, as we had mentioned in the previous chapter, you will want to leave comments on the popular videos. These comments should be helpful and positive, and should make people want to click on your user name, which will lead them back to your YouTube home page.

Now, don’t be negative or competitive in any way, because the per-son whose video you are commenting on has the option to block your comment.

Say you are commenting on someone’s video about how to make a chocolate mousse.

You could say something like “I love that recipe! Here’s what I do to make sure that I can lift the mousse cleanly from the pan”, and then explain it in a sentence or two.

Always start out by saying something complimentary about the video you just saw, and then add a sentence or two that gives a different twist or offers some additional information.

Leaving comments on the most popular videos is a great way to get your name in front of a lot of people.
Of COURSE you would only do this on videos that appeal to the same market that you are in. There is no point in commenting on a hugely popular entertainment video if you are trying to get more cus-tomers to your cooking website.