With the advent of technology and the extensive use of the World Wide Web, marketing strategies have taken a completely new look, opting to attract people online rather than offline. Various online marketing strategies are being used to attract potential customers, one of which is YouTube marketing, which essentially uses videos to market your product or service. Using videos to market your company has been recognized as a great strategy by many, especially because the visual medium is always more effective. Having said that, it is important to realize that video marketing or YouTube marketing, like any other form of marketing is effective only when used properly and in a manner that you are featured in the top ranks of search engines. There are certain basic features that need to be kept in mind while creating videos for YouTube marketing, which are essential to getting higher ranks on search engines.
Title
This is perhaps the most important aspect that should be kept in mind while creating YouTube videos. Always remember that all your videos should be created keeping in mind the search engines. Using attractive and keyword rich titles will help the search engine access your video and rank it among the top ranking videos in that category. It is important that your chosen title is relevant to the topic in question. For example, if you are creating a video on baking cakes, then the title could be “Simple ways to bake a cake” or “easy tips for baking” etc. Apart from being relevant, the title you use should be powerful and attractive and should catch the attention of the viewer immediately, making him or her want to see the video.
Content
Just as you would in an article, it is important to have good and relevant content in a video. It should contain material that viewers find useful or entertaining. It is essential to remember at this point that viewers normally view videos for entertainment or learning and it is essential that your video caters to those needs. Content used in such videos should be keyword rich so as to attract search engines.
Watermarking with URL
It is essential to note here that most people do not read the description box below the video, preferring to see the video and move on. Under these circumstances, it becomes very essential to watermark your video with your URL, which is extremely useful in cases where another copies your video onto his or her website. In such cases, the embedded URL allows you to direct traffic to your website.
Linking
The idea of using YouTube videos is to generate traffic to your website and in order to ensure people who view your video actually visit your site, it is important to provide a link to your site in the description box. This link should be accessible and should take the viewer directly to your site.
Call to Action
It is important to remember that most video viewers will hop from one video to another and this habit will not increase traffic to your website and will render your video marketing efforts useless. In order to change this routine of a YouTube video viewer, it is important that you have a call to action, where you can ask the viewer to click on the link given in the description box and ensure that traffic is directed to your website.