Content marketing
Content marketing is a process of creating and distributing content to attract and retain customers. Besides, it is a marketing strategy that uses relevant articles, videos, podcasts, and other media to attract, engage, and retain an audience. Establishing your organization as an authority in the field of your product or service, as well as raising consumer knowledge of your brand, are all achieved through this marketing tactic.
How to promote video contents:
There are several techniques which helps us to promote our YouTube content. These are given below:
- Choose Google-friendly keywords
We have to identify possible keywords with a tool like the Google Ads Keyword Planner. Besides, we have to add words like “How to” or “Tutorial” and choose a keyword that prioritizes video and suits our content.
- Use concise, descriptive titles
Here are some basic tips for writing strong YouTube titles:
- Keep it short and sweet.
- Include keywords in the first half of the title to avoid losing valuable information.
- Create custom thumbnails
Thumbnails matter, maybe even more than titles. That’s because our brains are hardwired to notice visuals first. Besides, We process them in less than 13 milliseconds.
- Fill out your profile
Many You Tubers skip the profile section and get straight to content creation. But a compelling profile is one of the easiest ways to promote our YouTube channel—and boost our SEO.
- Optimize our descriptions
We have to optimize our descriptions by maintaining some rules including –
- Front-load your keywords in the description and title
- Stick to the 5000-characters limit
- Create a “contents page” with timestamps
- Add links to relevant playlists
- Include a few relevant hash tags
- Don’t forget about metadata
YouTube’s metadata guidelines emphasize two things -Be honest and Choose quality over quantity when it comes to using keywords.
Create high-quality videos
Even the best content can be undermined by poor video quality. So, before we post anything, make sure it looks professional. Besides, We have to use a good camera, perform a sound check before recording, and learn some basic editing techniques.
However, there are some others ways to promote our YouTube content like – interact with our fans, offer real value, try a Q&A, run contests, be active in the community, work with brands, respect the community guidelines, create a series. Moreover, we have to make playlists, go live, add a call-to-action, cross-promote our channel, promote our channel-not just our videos, take advantage of the holidays, balance trending content with evergreen videos, find out what works and do more of it.
