Many people ask me for some of my best YouTube tactics, especially when it comes to ranking a YouTube Video in Google. There are a variety of YouTube tips and tricks for ranking a YouTube video, but perhaps one of the simplist is to make sure that you rename the video file using your keyword, before you upload the video to YouTube.

1. 10 Hidden Secrets You
Need to Know About
YouTube!
The Missing reference
guide for successfully
using YouTube

2. About this guide
Why a YouTube Guide
If you don’t already know, YouTube is one of the most visited sites in the world.
Unfortunately, most people never use YouTube to it’s fullest potential; especially those
trying to use YouTube to promote their businesses, products or services.
In this guide, I am going to expose my top ten secret features of YouTube that most
people never know are there and never use.
About Ray The Video Guy
Ray has been working in the video production field
for about 15 years. In that time, he has worked in
local and network television. This has included
working for on programs such as The Late Show
with David Letterman, The Montel Williams Show,
Ghosthunters, Tarita Virtue, Nursing Spectrum and
many others. Ray has also worked as a TV
commercial producer, creating ad campaigns for
local and national companies.
After internet video became a reality, Ray began
working with local and national companies on using
online video for promotional purposes. One
specialty has been utilizing the power of YouTube to help companies spread their
messages.
Ray is also the author of a number of books and products dealing with YouTube, video
and internet marketing.

3. Top 10 YouTube Tricks
Search Visibility
1. Use Good Titles
You may have heard this 100 times already, but it’s important to state... and you’d be
surprised how many people don’t title their videos well. A properly titled video should be
clear on what the video is about and should have a good keyword. In other words, if
your video is about the 65 Ford Mustang, you would want to have ‘1965 Ford Mustang‘
in the title - preferably twice.
2. Fill out the description
It amazes me how often this is overlooked. Youtube gives you a lot of space to write
whatever you want in the description - use it! Put as much text as you can, and use
your keyword(s) multiple times.
3. Put a link in the description
One great feature of YouTube is that you can put a link in the description. This is
something you want to use. Whether you want traffic to go to your blog, your Facebook
Page, or an affiliate link, be sure to put it at the top of the description
4. Fill out your channel
With every YouTube account comes a channel. A channel is like your personal
homepage which has your videos and other info about you. This is a great opportunity
for you to get some visibility. Try to fill out all your information, especially your
description. And of course, try to use your keywords in the description as well.

4. 5. Link to your other sites
In the new YouTube updates, YouTube added the
ability to add links to your other sites, directly from
your channel. This offers a great opportunity to link to
your other social media channels, websites, products
and more.
6. Playlists
Playlists are a way of grouping similar videos into
categories. Doing this makes it easy for your visitors
to watch all your related videos, and it also provides
another opportunity to optimize your media using
keywords for the playlist names and descriptions.
7. Annotations
Annotations are a way to add notes onto your videos
as well as links to your channel and other videos.
Adding keywords as annotations is said to help with your video’s search visibility
8. Backlinks
You’ve probably heard of backlinks. These are links on websites that lead back to your
website. The idea is that the more good backlinks you have, the better your website will
rank. Well, the same goes for YouTube videos. Adding backlinks to your videos can
help boost their performance in the search engines.
Tricks You May Not Have Known
9. Chaptering
One hidden feature of YouTube that nobody is using, but can be really helpful is adding
links to a point in your video. Suppose that you had a video called “5 YouTube Tricks”.
In that video, you will likely have a time where tricks 2, 3, 4 and 5 come in. If you past
that time into the video description (or comments), it will create a clickable link to that
time in the video. So, if tip 2 starts at 30 seconds into the video, then typing “0:30 - tip
#2 Use Good Titles” into the description will make a link to the start of tip #2.
10. Embedding videos onto your site(s)
Whenever you upload a video in Youtube, an 11 digit alphanumeric ID is assigned to
your videos. By default the URL should be like this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAGuYz1BBaA
The 11 digit code EEhJLSNtLEc is the video ID of your uploaded videos.

5. Here are some ID code add-ons you may not have known.
Resolution
To view the Youtube video in high quality append the following at the end of the URL as
&fmt=6 or &fmt=18 (480p) or &fmt=22 (720p HD) or &hd=1
Ex: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAGuYz1BBaA&hd=1
Connect viewers to a specific time
Do you find some part of the video very interesting? You can easily skip to that point by
adding a specific time in the URL of the video
Add #t=xxmyys at the end of the URL (xx is minutes; yy is seconds)
Ex: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAGuYz1BBaA#t=01m01s
Autoplay Your Video
To have a video on your site autoplay; add &autoplay=1 to your video ID
Ex: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAGuYz1BBaA&autoplay=1
Remove Suggested Videos
To remove related videos from the end of your video, you can add ?rel=0 to the end of
the URL.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAGuYz1BBaA?rel=0
Conclusion
So, there you have it! These are the ten quick tips for improving your YouTube channel.
If you want to learn more, including detailed instructions on how to set up and use all
the new features of YouTube you can check out our YouTube Market Crusher.
Good Luck!
Ray The Video Guy