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In part 2 of ths Viral Video Marketing feature, we will get into the nuts and bolts of attaining tens of thousands of page views. The main idea of marketing on youtube is to take control of the sites traffic and direct it to your video.  Somewhere around 100 million videos are watched every single day on youtube, and many of those views are from people that click on the “Videos” tab at the top of the site.

If we are successful in getting onto the videos tab page, then we are much more likely to get what we are going for: massive page views. The videos tab has 21 videos on it. If we take one video slot then we should be able to grab roughtly 1/26th of the traffic, while also considering that videos found at the top of the page will be getting more clicks than the ones at the bottom.

So, what is the best way to try to reach that first 50,000 video views that we need in order to get our videos onto the most viewed list?

Blogs: You must first find relevant blogs and try to get them to post your video on their site. The most effective way of doing this is paying them to do it. It’s very effective but its also not against any rules!

Forums: Start new forum posts and embed the video in them.  Sign up with a few accounts and get the dialog rolling by posting from the different accounts to each other. You can get other people on board and this will really get the ball rolling.

Myspace:Lots of myspace users let you embed videos into your posts. You can take advantage of this and get tons more videos viewed.

Facebook: Share your stuff on Facebook. If you’ve built a big presence on Facebook, then sharing the video with all your friends can have a great impact on it. You can also write notes on friends walls telling people about the video, tagging friends, or posting it on Facebooks own video sharing area of their site.

Email Lists: If you have a list of emails then send it out to them! If your list is open to receiving your videos then this can be a very workable and worthwhile strategy.

Friends: Try to have all your friends view the videos as well as even having them try to share it on Facebook.

Part 3 Coming Soon.

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