YouTube Viral Video Tips

YouTube is a very useful traffic and link building tool. We know how to sucessfully promote a new youtube release using keyword tags and blogging techniques, but the video has to be really really good to go viral. Usually only 1 in 10 pieces (less or more depending) wil go viral. But when they do, the social media and video networks have the ability to show some massive traffic gains in a very short period of time.

This video http://www.youtube.com/user/blendtec?ob=4 has some key characteristics of a good video that has the potential to go viral:

it covers or injects a hot, heavily searched for topic (iPhone release)

it has something exceptional / amazing / absurd / funny in it (throwing a new $400 phone in a blender)

it demonstrates the product in an impressive way (not every blender can do this)

If you dont have a strong yes to at least one of those, I would say it does not have the potential to really go viral. You should definitely use YouTube, thinking in an outrageous way. Theres alot of content there, so a video really needs to stand out in some way to get popular.

Once you have a great video with some or all of these characteristics, give it to us and we can submit it in the proper way with a good title and promote it.