Article Marketing - How To Market YouTube Videos Writing Articles

Did you know that YouTube gets twice as much traffic as Google? It receives over 50 million visitors per month. This means creating videos is a great way to harness some of that traffic and drive it to your web site.

How do you get people to view your videos?

You need to write articles to market your videos.

How to drive traffic to your YouTube Videos

1. Write an attractive title

The key to capturing the interest of your readers, is to write content that solves their problems. For example if your video is about "How to build a camp fire", your article topic could be: "10 steps to build a roaring camp fire your friends will envy"

2. Pre-sell your produce or service

The main purpose of your content is to prepare your visitor's mind to receive your offer. Mention the benefits of the product and why they can't do without it. Providing more information enables them to make an informed decision.

2. Create a strong call to action

You only have one chance to promote your video in the resource box at the end of your article. Create a strong call to action and the include the web address to your YouTube video.

3. Distribute your articles

Submitting your articles to the top article directories attracts traffic to your YouTube video because:

a) Popularity of high ranking directories

Article directories get millions of visitors because they rank high in the search engines. Many people visit them to find articles to place in ezines, blogs and web sites.

b) Creates backlinks

Every time you submit an article to a directory you receive a link to your video address. The more backlinks you get from the video link in your resource box, the higher your rankings go. High rankings for your video means more visitors will view your offer.

c) Ezine publishers get articles from directories

Ezine publishers often you don't have time or the ability to write articles for their ezine or newsletter so they visit an article directory to find fresh content. If an ezine publisher has a list of 10,000 subscribers and selects your article, you may receive thousands of visitors to your video from the article.

If many ezine publishers distribute your article, your traffic could be massive.

Conclusion

If you write articles consistently and submit them to the top article directories you will attract lots of traffic to your YouTube videos. Make sure you also upload your videos to other video sharing web sites such as Google. Thiis will increase the sales of your products and/or services.

Herman Drost is the Certified Internet Webmaster (CIW)
owner and author of Web Design, SEO, Hosting

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