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Understanding your YouTube Video Analytics

October 30, 2012 / Dave Taylor / YouTube Help / No Comments

If you’re a content producer, you should already be creating and posting videos on YouTube. With millions of searches every hour, and billions of videos viewed weekly, it’s another important place to attain visibility for your company, products and services.
But how do you know whether people like your videos? Sure, there’s the view counter and there’s a like/dislike indicator, but those are crude and almost pointless because someone who watches four seconds of your video and bails is counted identically to the next viewer who watches the video all the way through and visits your Web site immediately thereafter.
Turns out that the team at YouTube know this and have some pretty interesting analytics built into the video hosting service that offer a lot more insight. Let’s have a look…

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How do I delete offensive YouTube comments?

September 3, 2012 / Dave Taylor / YouTube Help / 3 Comments

I’ve been putting up a few videos on YouTube but am upset to see really crude and obscene comments left by others. I don’t want those! On the other hand, I do want good comments, those from people who have questions or just want to share their pleasant opinions. Can I selectively delete comments on my video on YouTube?

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Can I set a custom thumbnail on my YouTube video?

August 10, 2012 / Dave Taylor / YouTube Help / 3 Comments

I’ve been uploading some videos to YouTube and am really frustrated by the thumbnail image that YouTube chooses for the video. It’s usually awful. Is there a way to change it and, ideally, to actually specify the exact frame I want to have used for a custom YouTube video thumbnail?

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How to SEO optimize YouTube videos?

May 19, 2012 / Dave Taylor / SEO & Marketing, YouTube Help / 5 Comments

When I do a search on Google why are videos showing up on page 1 now, and more importantly why isn’t my YouTube video showing up? Is there some way to improve my chances of being found on YouTube and Google for videos I upload?

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How do I upload YouTube videos longer than 15 minutes?

February 13, 2012 / Dave Taylor / YouTube Help / 2 Comments

I’ve been starting to upload videos of my daughter singing and playing guitar and we’ve hit a limit of 15 minutes for the entire video on YouTube. But I’ve seen videos on YouTube that are longer, including a conference talk you gave that’s an hour long! What’s the secret of being able to post longer videos on YouTube?

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How do I change my YouTube account profile picture?

February 4, 2012 / Dave Taylor / YouTube Help / 1 Comment

I set up my YouTube account years ago and now that I am more serious about producing videos for my cooking classes, I’d really like to update the profile picture to be my company logo. How can I update my profile photo on YouTube, Dave?

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How is CPM calculated on Google AdWords YouTube Video?

November 25, 2011 / Dave Taylor / AdSense, AdWords, and PPC Help, YouTube Help / No Comments

Have you bought Google AdWords Video [actually it’s called “YouTube Promoted Videos” -dt] before? I’m confused about whether the CPM bid for 1000 “plays” or 1000 “opportunities to play” the video on YouTube? Thx for any help! Their explanations are both automated and opaque.

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Make my private YouTube video public?

November 23, 2011 / Dave Taylor / YouTube Help / No Comments

Just loaded my first video up to YouTube and it came out great, except that for some reason, Apple’s iMovie 11 program has it marked to be “private” even though I specified “public” when I did the upload. What’s up? How do I fix it?

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