You don’t need to just stay on Youtube to drive traffic to your Youtube videos.

Here are some Web 2.0 tips to steer traffic to your Youtube videos:

On your blog or website, you should link to your Youtube videos or embed them on your site.

You can create a Squidoo lens, at www.Squidoo.com, that links to your Youtube videos. Then make sure that you go find other people on www.Squidoo.com who are in your market, and post comments on THEIR Squidoo lens.

This is how it works in any social networking community. When you interact and comment on people’s writing, or posts, or pictures, they will often visit you and go to check out your website.

And people who are visiting the blog or Squidoo lens will see your comments, and the link to your Youtube video or website or both, and go to check them out.

The more you interact, the more connections that you will make.

Hubpages.com is another great place to interact and meet a lot of people in your field. Again, create your own “hubs”, and go comment on other people’s “Hubs”.

Another great place to do this is on Twitter.

You can create a Twitter account, and sign up to follow people in your field. Many of them will follow you back.

To find a targeted market on Twitter, you can use www.summize.com, to search for what people on Twitter are talking about.

You can also go to www.Twittermoms.com, which has lists of moth-ers who Twitter, broken down into subgroups like mothers who scrapbook, mothers who are into green living, work at home mothers, et cetera, if any of those are in your market.

Another place to find a very targeted list of followers is http://twitterpacks.pbwiki.com/
Again, use it to find people in your market, follow a lot of them, and they will follow you back.

Once you have created a Twitter account, every time you create a new Youtube video, make sure that you post a Tweet that says something like “I just posted a new video on how to train your dog to heel” or “I just posted a new video showing how to add plugins to a Wordpress Blog” - and then be sure to include the link the video.

Also, every time that you create and upload a new Youtube video, be sure to “social bookmark” it.
You can submit a social bookmark link to sites like Stumbleupon, De-licious.com, www.digg.com, www.reddit.com, www.Propeller.com, www.newsvine,com, and many others.

It saves time to create a whole lot of accounts at social bookmarking sites, and use the same user name and password at each.

You can then just zip through and submit your Youtube video to one after the other.

You can use www.onlywire.com to shorten the process.

You can also use wordpress plugins or plugins for other types of websites, which will add a bunch of social bookmarking site icons on your wordpress blog (or other site.)This means that not only can you bookmark your site every time that you create a new entry, but your visitors can too.

So with luck if you create a good, entertaining, or useful video, a lot of your visitors will submit the videos to these sites on their own.

Here is the link to a Wordpress plugin which does this:
http://www.dountsis.com/projects/social-bookmarks

Here are the icons it currently can provide: (you don’t have to choose them all!)

We’ve provided you with a long list of Youtube tips and tools, so the only thing left for you to do now is…get out there and start driving traf-fic with Youtube!

Other YouTube Tactics…

You might have noticed that even the worst YT videos get a number of hits every day.

With this in mind it’s worth considering just having your headset and mic plugged in as you go through your every day routine as a mar-keter.

If you’re uploading a new website, or adding a new message to your Aweber account just record it with camtasia and upload it to YouTube with the appropriate tags.

If you get into the habit of doing this and just commentating as you do it, you can realistically upload a video a day in less than half an hour, with links pointing to your websites or affiliate links.

Better still, if you link from your video to a website of your own then you control that traffic and can change the links on your salespage as you wish (as long as it relates to the video content or people will lose interest) and redirect or divert the traffic as you go.

If you can make your video interesting, viral or quirky then internet users will do the job for you by passing the link to your video (and of course the links FROM your video) around their friends and custom-ers.
For example if you put together a short camtasia presentation about ‘how to upload a simple website using Filezilla FTP software’ which might only take a minute - literally - for you to demonstrate and re-cord, this could effectively get passed round tens of thousands of people by marketers who are asked this question but don’t have the time to answer emails.

Instead they could just link to your video as an easy answer.

Putting together a complete internet marketers ‘FAQ’ set of Youtube videos has long been an idea of mine that I’ve not yet got around to doing.

I’m sure someone will do it soon if they already haven’t.