Increase Views & Ratings on Youtube Videos

30. May 2007 | 21 Comments

For those of you that have embraced the Youtube phenomenon & are struggling to get views on your videos here is a few quick techniques that you can utilise to really boost your exposure:

Video Title: The video title (aside from the thumbnail) is one of the most important things you’ll be using to grab the attention of the viewers. Make it catchy, don’t give too much away so that people will click through on the video to watch it.

Sex: Unfortunately, we all know sex sells. So do breasts. If you go to the Youtube Most Viewed you’ll see that most of the videos here have scantily clad women in them. If you have a few beautiful women at your disposal to help with videos then this is probably your best bet :p

Take the Piss: A good old english saying. A good way to get views is to make a mockery or do another version of an already popular video. Doing video replies also achieves this well. The more fans you can get to subscribe to your profile the better.

Choosing the right Frame Thumbnail: The thumbnail is the part of the video that most people pay attention to. This is what they see whenever your video is displayed in the Youtube listings. Quite often when you submit a video, the thumbnail that Youtube chooses is completely unrelated to the part of the video that you want to emphasise. Here’s a few optimisation tips.

Graywolf did a great videocast on Optimising your video thumbnails for more views:

Here’s another (albeit a funnier take) on the same concept:

Here’s a link to a Squidoo Page that shows you how to choose the right frame

Categories: The category that you submit your video to is important. Make sure it’s related to the subject matter of the video for maximum exposure & ratings. Don’t go submitting a comedy video into the Music section. But you probably knew that anyway…right?

Leveraging Social Networking: Social networks eat up good videos. If you build up power user accounts on digg or have a lot of friends on Stumbleupon then this can really get the ball rolling for your videos. Front page of Digg Videos section should net you up to 10,000 views. A successful video on Stumbleupon could lead anywhere up to 100,000+ views over a few weeks.

Embrace the Youtube Network: Just like above Youtube is a network of people. Network with them! Make friends, comment on their videos, rate their videos, tell them you’ve rated their videos & get them to do the same for you. Make communities & groups that you leverage traffic, views & ratings off.

So is Youtube a huge popularity. Of course it is. Isn’t Blogging? Aren’t most things to do with the internet? Problem is, how many of these people are actually monetising these efforts?

More to come

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21 Comments on "Increase Views & Ratings on Youtube Videos"

sp111 31. May 2007, 3:23 am

Also, i heard you can use a page with 100 frames on it to increase your views, also with a meta refresh every 10 seconds.

Any thoughts?

iMarketingGuru 04. Jun 2007, 5:55 pm

Omg, great comment – where can this page be created with 100 frames? does someone have a quick script anywhere or would you have to go through and add numerous frames yourself? That’s just amazing – also, you would need to be logged into other fake accounts in order to get that to work perfectly because without being logged in = half of the video views.

Also, I suggest using TellyAdder as well as the YouTube bots in order to draw in communities by scraping up the friend IDs. Does anyone know more about which bots are the best? I am thinking of testing TellyAdder to see if it works perfectly. GREAT post Stuart and I love this blog. Please respond *sp111* – that’s amazing.

Sly 06. Jun 2007, 11:15 am

Commenting on other videos is very important also.

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Michael 29. Jul 2007, 5:37 am

Another important factor is the simple fact that videos with more views tend to be viewed as more valuable and then tend to garner more views. There’s actually a new site that some people have been using to get more views… It’s called viewtubetrain.com and the views seem to count, it’s just interesting that the quality of the video itself is not a factor at all. It’s all about how many videos you watch for other people on the train.

Salil 28. Aug 2007, 4:54 am

Is there a way to cheat the views on your videos and add them yourself with a script, bot , or hack or something?

Jonas 29. Nov 2007, 11:16 pm

I use a software called tube automator and its got me more than 10,000 views on every video I have run it on so far. Well worth the money paid

Guy 05. Jun 2008, 7:27 am

Well, I have a refresher that can go every three seconds, is that cheating though? Also you can refresh yourself, just refresh right when the video starts (when the spinning thingy is gone) and it’ll count as a view.

put 03. Jul 2008, 1:52 pm

I have refreshed over 40,000 views. Download refreshevery on firefox, and custom refresh every 3 seconds. As soon as you get to the videos home page for most views, your views will shoot up!

Mick 08. Jul 2008, 10:14 pm

Great article! i don’t get why some people bother spending their time or money with software to refresh a page of their video, when it’s not a real view..??? It’s just a number, unless you know that people are really watching!! For the guy that refreshed over 40,000 views…you got perhaps half or less the real views!??

Avant 20. Jul 2008, 4:19 pm

What are you guys talking about? All you have to do is set up millions of email/youtube accounts and then watch, rate, and comment your video from each one. Duh.

Ninja 19. Sep 2008, 9:31 am

You guys are all way off base here! First of all, it’s VERY important to have a lot of views because people see that and think your video is popular and worth watching. Second of all, the more views your video has, the higher it ranks in the YouTube search, getting you found more often. Third, the 10 second refresh on your browser is just plain stupid. YouTube will see all these views over night coming from the same IP! A good way to get your IP banned. If any one wants help with this, email me privately at NinjaRant [at] gmail . com. I can help you get your views through the roof and found easily in searches. My videos all have tens of thousands of views.

Kevin 20. Jan 2009, 1:00 pm

Ninja:

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Lol, u don’t know that youtube has millions if not billions of video views each minute. Track my IP my ass!

Angela 16. Mar 2009, 5:53 pm

HI All

I stumbled on this in a random search for a certain page.. and lol i really felt i had to share this. I to use youtube for a living and have learned alot and i mean alot… but I will tell you all, Youtube does not block IP’S as that would not be of benifit to them, since alot of people in a network have the same IP. And if your vid is banned then you cannot simply change the file name, you need to actually change the raw file name (no you tube cannot image recognize your vid..lol) just change the raw file name if the original gets banned. And dont ever try and get veiws from refreshing your own screen… because that will get your own video banned… not you or your IP, but your video. Hey the plus side is, if you dont like someone then go do it to their video… lol joking!
Its basically how many times your video is flagged, so be careful when using bot software that you dont overdue yourself.. stay within the limits. And yes your veiw image on the vid is really important, as well as your header… do some keyword research before hand and then search that keyword via youtube and see how many veiws the top vid has, then you know what your working with… oh and then steal his tags and description! lmao
hope that helps…..

Jones 19. Mar 2009, 4:41 am

Just visit this site youviewer.webs.com

Jack 20. Apr 2009, 1:21 pm

Kevin, you do realize that we are using COMPUTERS, right. If humans were searching through all of those IP addresses you might be right. However, if you’re using a computer all that is neccesary is a couple lines of code. One line to search for IP addresses with over x amount of views in an hour, and then a second line to ban that IP.

Tube Viewer 18. Jun 2009, 7:11 am

There is a program called Tube Viewer that can automatically increase your YouTube video views for you. This helps get your video know, and may make you famous on YouTube. Get Tube Viewer at tubeviewer[dot]com

C.R.I.$.I.$. aka Mr. Swagger 18. Sep 2009, 5:38 pm

Great article. I’ve just released my new album “Mr. Swagger” and I will be posting new video’s onto my Youtube account.

Watch this one here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFnJqsT4C3g