Content Marketing

The Complete Guide to YouTube Optimization

*Whether you want to create videos in order to further your brand, or you simply want to become the next viral YouTube sensation, it’s vitally important to properly optimize your channel and the videos there within. There is a myriad of different ranking factors for YouTube videos, and plenty of different areas which need to be optimized in order to get optimal search engine performance from your videos.

Throughout this post, I’ll go through the ways in which YouTube ranks videos as well as the areas that you should be properly optimizing in order to adhere to these ranking factors and plenty of tips on how you can optimize your videos/channel.

Using 4Chan Tactics for Outreach

I thought I’d start of this post by introducing the kind of “tactic” we’re going to be using by showing you how this has been done before.

Meet Boxxy!

Boxxy, the character played by Catie Wayne was an internet phenomenon that cropped up around 5 years ago (2008) in which a very hyper active girl makes videos about absolutely nothing. Feel free to entertain yourself (or not?) with one of these videos below:

So, how has this got ANYTHING to do with Outreach?

Well what followed was a barrage of harassment for Catie, she had her real name, address, date of birth all publicized as well as her emails and site hacked. Now just to confirm, we aren’t going to be hacking our potential sites emails.. Though the name, address, date of birth etc.. Can be “used” as part of our campaign!

Have you ever had those annoying outreach targets that have a kick ass site, good DA, good PR, awesome community but don’t have a contact form, email, twitter and their whois is protected?! It happens…