Do you use YouTube to promote your site?

[xXInfectedXx]

I don't use YouTube to promote my site at the moment, but I may consider if for the future. I have heard that YouTube can be quite effective if you promote your site on there.

 

[Belthazar]

I haven't. I do here people say they find success there, though. What is a decent strategy for it? Just make a video with your site name and URL in it, or is there more to it?

 

[Allenafaith]

I don't promote on youtube. I don't think it works honestly.

 

[CoolixHD]

Well, to be honest. Not many people seek to join forums on YouTube. They look for entertainment.

 

[ddoesmc]

I don't use YouTube to promote my website. I don't see the reason to and I can't see it working that well. I need to have a good database of subscribers already to see my website. I don't think I could afford an ad!

 

[alakazam]

I did make a few videos to promote my forums on YouTube. I don't know if it worked or not, but they didn't get the amount of views I expected. In my opinion, YouTube is mostly about luck. Some great videos remain unnoticed, while other ones get viral because some celebrity posted them on a social media page or something.

 

[reddyash]

I dont promote my forum in youtube. I dont think it is worth enough to make videos to promote forums.

 

[ddoesmc]

I dont promote my forum in youtube. I dont think it is worth enough to make videos to promote forums.

What aspect of YouTube makes you think that way? The part about sharing just video?

 

[Capritech]

I don't use it really unless I have a decent niche youtube-related.

 

[Shock]

There are a lot of ways to promote your site using YouTube (such as making a couple videos and commenting on other videos) but I so far have not really utilized YT for promotion.

 

[Ashley11]

I don't use YouTube to promote my site at the moment, but I may consider if for the future. I have heard that YouTube can be quite effective if you promote your site on there.

I have a blog that gets between 250-300 views per day because the blog's URL is in the top comment for around 5 of my YouTube videos. Viewers see the link and visit it as the blog provides additional information for videos. I also started putting important links (to downloads, etc) on the blog so that viewers looking for a download link would be forced to head to the blog instead of getting a DL link from the description.

 

[MeowsePad]

I've never really used YouTube to promote. YouTube probably wouldn't be effective unless you had a lot of people watching your videos already.

 

[Slider]

I say there is no point in using Youtube to advertise your forum. Youtube is more for videos and music videos, not for forums.

 

[cwvps]

I don't promote it through YouTube, but I know that promotion there works. It requires a lot of work, though.

 

[IdealForums]

Kind of yes, it does actually help if the SEO part is done properly.

 

[randiv]

Yes, i am using.

 

[Ravenfreak]

I haven't really tried using Youtube to promote any of my websites... However this does give me a good idea. I might try promoting some of my sites on Youtube, I have a Steven Universe fan forum and maybe if I make a short promotional video I might get new members. As for my other forums, I'm not sure if using Youtube will bring in more members. :V

 

[dungtroy]

Youtube is social media, like facebook or twitter, it's important to have it

 

[thisnew]

I have never tried youtube for website promotion for my current website. I don't think my niche will be what people are looking for.

 

[Teg1]

Honestly, I've never used YouTube as a means of promoting a website. That being said, my current project has a YouTube channel. The main purpose of the channel is to host videos that instruct users on how to browse and complete tasks on the site. It will also play host to videos for a few of our "courses" that we're going to be offering in the near future.