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Everyone is familiar with search engine optimization (SEO), but I have just stumbled across some people who (accidentally) have optimized their videos to be heavily promoted. Have you ever considered making an advertisement/commercial video and submitting it to the video sites? Sure, everyone has. The problem is getting people to see it.
Well, have you considered registering a username for a typo of the site you are submitting to? Just looking at popular typos of youtube (such as youtub). — People’s videos have received literally MILLIONS of views. Imagine if instead of their stupid video it was a 5 second video advertisement… you would see a nice burst of traffic and sales!
For the visual learners, here are a few examples of accidental, video engine optimized pages.
http://www.youtube.com/hanggliding
Info: Ranks #1 for youtub
Result: Channel Views: 2,837,297
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPgA1nAWhLQ
Info: Ranks #1 for youtoob
Result: 112,872 views, useless video
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.Channel&ChannelID=88331292
Info: Use to be #1 for Facebookk, has since moved to #3
Result: 2500 views in a week.
(NOT SAFE FOR WORK) http://www.dailymotion.com/daily-motio (NOT SAFE FOR WORK)
Info: #1 in google for “daily motio” a typo of dailymotion.com
Result: 119663 views, 95 fans, 1328 favorites
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghn4-uFOjnk
Info: #1 in google for youtuube
Result: Views - 10,000+
This is only a sample list of the many possibilities…
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Here lies the real question… if these accidental videos can receive 5000 to 3,000,000 views… just imagine what making 10 of these videos and PURPOSEFULLY optimizing for these keywords could do. Think of any typo you can for your favorite video upload sites (youtube, revver, metacafe, dailymotion, etc), and create a username for it. Upload the video and call it the typo. You now have a powerful domain, related page, and related video that keyword and have a good chance at ranking #1 without even building any links.
Now, I do not have time to experiment with videos, but I thought I would give away a pretty ingenious way to build traffic for those that are interested. Who needs viral marketing humorous videos when you can appeal to the massive amounts of stupid people? 
Hey Collin,
I’m going to try this. Should I make my username the typo, or only the video?
Awesome, I wish you the best of luck!
As for the username, I would imagine that by using the typo you are only increasing your chances for ranking, so you might as well. =)
What would I do with the resulting traffic. Use it sell a product? Any ideas?
I’m definitely interested.
I provide the technique, you provide the solution.
Be creative. =)
WOW pretty good idea…I am going to try this…I will share how it goes!!
If only I were good at making promotional videos…
The e-commerce company where I work does this, and we have over 100 videos on YouTube that do pretty well. It’s definitely a lot easier to rank a YouTube page than one of your own (though ideally, you’ll do both).
These are very interesting results. We’ve been giving advice to our clients on web video marketing and bringing them results from landing on the top charts of youtube for the day to giving videos that extra bump needed to go viral.