Video/Tube traffic How?

Don't forget to add tags that are very specific to your video. That may help you rank well and appear in the google search results.

You should also write a keyword rich description for your video. This will help with ranking etc too.

Your video thumbnail is also important for attracting viewers. Make sure that it's relevant to the topic of the video

Check out Onlywire for the above tip. It can post to multiple social bookmarking sites at once.

Yep, I second this!!

Especially the "telling your viewers what to do" part.

Only problem with this is that people can rip the video, cut the beginning and end out and then use it for their own purposes.

one thing I discovered that is advantageous to do is to encourage your viewers
to leave video responses.

You end up with tons of internal YouTube backlinks

So when people make a video response to your vid, they are doing you more a favor then themselves

- Jason

There are some good responses here, most of which you could add to your basic strategy, but keep in mind that all of your competition will be doing these things as well.

If you are using videos to drive traffic to your site you must do this ONE thing to be more successful than anybody else.

You must create a COMPELLING reason for the viewer to visit your website.

That often means you have to be really creative in your video production, be that with humor, drama, conviction, or even controversy. Whichever way to approach it, if you do it right, it doesn't really matter how bad you screw up the other stuff, viewers will seek and find you as their top priority.

What I am saying here is creative power and impact is utmost in video marketing. Think about a mere 4 years ago, when you could post a youtube video and hey that was something. Now there are over 1 billion video streams per day from youtube, and although the market has grown, the competition is mighty fierce too.

I have posted 150+ videos specific to the poker market (search:turtleknife) most of which are on my channel. I can now launch a site using ONLY youtube, because I have such a strong following there now which results in about 3,000 to 5,000 views per day on any combination of my videos. That means I can basically usurp my competition now even though they are established keyword competitors. Through the use of my aweber subscribers, twitter, sidewiki, and of course my Youtube channel and the subscribers there, I can create IMMEDIATE traffic.

So not only do you have to be really creative and impactful, consider the task as part of your business model and put up a video as often as you can. In my experience, as poweful video is better than 20 ezinearticles with backlinks, because videos spread much faster now because more and more blogs pick them up for content. Not only that, with proper logo ID, you will have lifetime licensing of that content with 99% worry-free content theft. THAT is REAL internet real estate.

I have google alerts that for my videos and keywords I compete for and I see videos of mine made years ago now, popping up everyday. I also see them being Tweeted and Re-Tweeted on Twitter via other marketers. I just smile.

So Dude - be creative with conviction, and then be dedicated in your volume production. Youtube will allow you to OWN a market if you choose to.