There is no doubt that in the last few years, YouTube has become absolutely huge. The main YouTube web site receives over one million hits each and every day. There are some videos that have well over 100,000,000 views. That’s why so many Internet marketers have found that they can draw YouTube traffic into their web sites and blogs. In fact, it is actually quite simple to do.
The first thing that you need to do is decide on what your niche is. Your niche is simply the subject that your blog or website is related to. Some common and popular niches include online work from home opportunities, pet grooming, foreign exchange trading, computer spyware and adware, or home security. All you need to do that is find a controversial or amusing topic that is related to your niche.
For instance, if your niche is pet grooming, then an amusing topic would be “How to shave your dog and make a toupee for yourself”. Now all you need to do is create a video about that topic. You don’t even have to have a video camera. You can simply use Windows Movie Maker (which is probably already preloaded on your computer if you use a PC).
Using a funny or controversial title for your video will also help you gain some traffic. But, you should also be targeting certain keywords. So if you are trying to get visitors that are interested in dog grooming, you will want to target keywords like ‘groom your dog’ or ‘dog grooming made easy’. These keywords should be part of your title and should also be included in your description. YouTube also lets you tag your videos with certain keywords, so you should definitely include your targeted keywords as tags for your video.
The next and final step is to add a link to your the website or blog throughout the video, at the end of the video, and/or in the description of the video. If people who view the video end up liking it, they will be very likely to visit your website. On your website I suggest that you have an opt in form that you can use to build a targeted e-mail list. This Youtube traffic will be very targeted and you will find that you will get some great results if you use it as a list building resource.
