Facebook, Flickr, MySpace, LinkedIn, YouTube

It's kind of unfair to put all these together, because they each deserve their own writeup.

What hot community are you already part of? Are you on Facebook, Twittering with your friends, getting Adds on MySpace, or swapping pics on Flickr? Link back to your favorite sites and lenses from those profiles. Link hither and yon and back again, and you'll generate your own little traffic economy. Nice.

Flickr

What if you used pictures to help tell your story?

Twitter

The social conversation site of the moment. What if you twittered your latest lenses for your friends?

Facebook

The perfect place for flaunting links and lenses.

Get your team, or customers, or friends to spread the word

It's not a top down world any more, folks

It only takes a dozen or two people to post something to Reddit, or StumbleUpon, or Delicious, or other social news and bookmarking sites to get a lot of attention to your work. Stop worrying about getting listed in the New York Times and start talking to your friends instead.

StumbleUpon

A great way to get discovered, just by being remarkable.

Del.icio.us

Tag your favorite links and lenses.

Reddit

The 9 Free Things Every Site (or Lens!) Should Do

Rule #1: If you have a site or Squidoo lens, you want more traffic.

Rule #2: You don't have enough money to buy as much traffic as you need.

Rule #3: You've already made your site/lens as compelling as you know how to.

So, what now? Read on for the (free) details.

1. Register with technorati

It helps track blog posts and site changes

It's free and it only takes a few minutes. Technorati and Google both track all the changes you make in your Squidoo lenses and your website, but it helps if you sign up.

Technorati

You might need your tech person to hold your hand on this one.

The secret shortcut of online promotion

...is that there is no secret shortcut. Step by step, bit by bit, link by link, you build something important and powerful.

Hurry, but don't rush.

2. Become a Digger

Digg is a site that lets the mob find the good stuff

Not only is contributing to the community a good idea, but it pays off in traffic back to your best stuff. (Watch out! If your stuff isn't good, it will get buried).

Digg

Once something you do gets "Dugg", be sure to link to that on your site, so that others can Digg it as well.

Bonus #2a: Start an argument

It turns out that arguments and debates and comments are a great way to get people coming back.

Get More YouTube Video Views

Pure Genius! Just make sure you describe your video in two sentences, and then add the keywords so in the search people don't see them! You say you want more views on YouTube? Think of every word having to deal with your video WHAAABAMMM!

3.Thumbnails
This is the MOST IMPORTANT secret! Using a certain thumbnail picture for your video can either make you or break you. If you're looking for a video about baby polar bears, are you going to click on the thumbnail with the cute polar bear face or the one where you don't have a clue WHAT IT IS? Hmmmm...common sense!

or

Either choose between the 3 thumbnails they give you or if that's not good enough, re-do the video to have a better shot for your thumbnail. The thumbnails stop at random times so I suggest you make the same length video and record the intervals. Check out How To Position Thumbnails in Your Video


4.Buying YouTube Views

You may be thinking, is this chick serious? But yes, I am! I have bought thousands of video views, subscribers, and channel views off Ebay (SO CHEAP TOO!!) Now there are many websites to buy from but Ebay is the most legit because you have Ebay Buyer Protection, so if they fail to deliver your views you automatically get your money back! *Happy Dance*

5 Steps To Becoming a YouTube Superstar!

How To Get More YouTube Views

Now, while costly programs can be very helpful to you, there are many free tips and secrets you need to know. I have been on YouTube for over 1 year now and have earned partnership! My highest viewed video is up to 984,454 views now! Let me teach you how to make your way to the top!

1. Titles

I have noticed some people just upload their videos and leave the title!

Example:

"Funny dancer in florida.wmv"
"MyMovie.mpg"
"My video"

Do you WANT to look lazy? Because you do :]

One way to get the perfect title is to first do your research! Go to YouTube search and find similar videos that are successful AND use Google Adwords which is an awesome tool to find the perfect keywords people are searching for on Google! In my experience, the more keywords you have in the title, the better (maybe 3-5 words)

2. Tags and Descriptions

This is where people fail to understand how YouTube works so listen up! Just because you typed in 10 tag words, doesn't mean YouTube will find your video in the search. You MUST also put tag words in your description. The reason is, there is a restriction limit on how many tags you may use while your description can be as long as you want. Take advantage!