Building Social Presence

If you stumbled across this article chances are you have or are currently experiencing issues with a frozen view counter on YouTube. Since July, this has been a common problem for some of our clients as well. Fortunately there’s a quick and easy fix! This bug in particular affects the main view counter on the video page, and prevents the counter from updating properly even after refreshing the page. We can all thank the kind folks at YouTube for this little contribution that has gone unresolved as long as it has. That being said, this does appear to be a browser related issue. Whether this is related to how the page is cached or something else entirely, following these few steps will fix a stuck [...]

If you are interested in optimizing YouTube videos to rank higher in YouTube & Google’s search results this is information that you need to know! This is the second segment of our How To Optimize YouTube Videos To Rank series. If you haven’t had a chance to read part one, “How To Optimize YouTube Videos To Rank – Video Descriptions”, which focuses on optimizing video descriptions I suggest checking that out. In this segment we are going to focus on keyword research. After all, there is an infinite number of keywords to choose from so it’s imperative to pick the most effective word or phrase that not only describes your video, but reaches the greatest number of people in your target audience. Back To Basics [...]

This is the first segment of our How To Optimize YouTube Videos To Rank series. I thought we would start with the video description because so many people leave this section blank. From an SEO perspective not providing a detailed video description is a huge mistake, especially if you are trying to get your video to rank for a specific keyword. For anyone who is new to SEO (search engine optimization), keep in mind that YouTube is a search engine. Every time a word or phrase is entered into search, YouTube returns what it believes to be the most relevant videos to the specified term based on a number of metrics. We refer to these words or phrases as keywords. Quick Note About Video Titles [...]

If you’re a gamer who live streams, chances are you have a YouTube channel as well. If you don’t, I suggest setting up a YouTube channel as soon as possible (preferably after you’ve had a chance to finish reading this article) because there’s really no better way to grow your audience and build a brand than by publishing gameplay videos. Especially when you can easily create highlight videos from past Twitch broadcasts. Now most of you with channels already may be thinking, “Duh, thanks for telling me something I already know…”. Be that as it may, why do so many people with highlight & gameplay videos fail to create successful channels with a large following? After all, YouTube has over a BILLION users, how [...]