How to build an audience for your YouTube videos - Three easy to use ideas - lesson #1

Bugbooks

Here are a few easy ways for videographers just "learning the ropes" to get more views on your YouTube channel . I see lots of videos that do not use these easy to use effective ideas.

These ideas are to be used when uploading a video or can be edited into the video information already posted to your channel. These are a few easy to use ideas -- their are hundreds of additional ways to make improve your videos or editing the your video.



Hear a short description of these 3 ideas and how to use them by David

When you upload a video you have the opportunity to add a lot of information for the benefit of the audience and to enhance the SEO or results of a Google search.  .
Read the blog first then take a look at my training video How to Increase your YouTube Audience

1. A good title for the video.

2. A good description.

3. Put meaningful key words into the tag area.

1.  A good title.
The first words of the title are most important as the audience and an on line search will see this first and make some fast decisions to view your video or move on to a new video. The title can be much longer than you may think - I checked and it can be up to about 80 characters.  Use a title with good key words that really tell what the video is about and you can add the less important things at the end to help convince to take a look. I am not suggesting titles be long -- only if the message is really good. Use words related exactly to the topic of the video.  Their are some generic words  that are good - 'How to ----'  all viewers are looking for how to do about anything. You can see the example in the video  on this blog - You can probably do better than I.

2. A good description.
I am really surprised how many people just leave this blank or have almost nothing listed . At the very least repeat the title here - maybe use a few sentences with key words relating to the subject of your video. The description is also used by the search engines and over time they will find all the contents. The description can be very long and loaded with good information and useful links. I also like to put a link in my videos to "subscribe to my channel" this helps build you subscriber list by making it easy.

The first 3 lines of your description are very important because these lines show up when you go to a video & most people read them and then decide if they want to look at the video.  Also the first 3 lines will most likely determine if the viewer "CLICKS" on the 'show more' . When going to 'show more' the viewer will see the entire description. I find it best most of the time to repeat the title on the first line of the description and with a short title you may want add to it with information that will help get the audience to watch the video.

One more idea is to use line 2 or 3 as a link to your web site or a site you would like to have the viewer go to. This should be relate to the topic of the video or you will lose the audience.   The link can go to any site on the web and it will open in a new window. The direct link will only work it you use the full address - that is you must use the http/www.domainname.extention without the http:// the www.websiteaddress will not work. example this will take folks directly to my video channel http://www.lcfvideo.com  . See example in the video.

Use the description area to give more background about the video or other ideas or links for the audience to find more related information - try to keep to the subject of your video.  You can put surprising amount of information in the description.

Review - the first 3 lines of the description are very important - here is suggest use. Remember these lines are always showing when viewing a video and can have a big influence on the viewers actions.

line 1.   Use title of video here
line 2.   good short description of video content
line 3.   continue good description or a link to your webb site

3. Use meaningful key words in the tag area.
These are very important words are for indexing & used by the search engine to find your site. I would use 8 to 12 words here. Make sure they are important words that your would use to relate to the subject of the video. You may want to test them in key word test software to see how much they are used or how well would work. Do not leave this area blank-- do your best to put in meaningful words that relate directly to the subject of your video. You can use multiple words --- it is best to use "" like this  "Apple Computer" .

These ideas are generally entered when uploading your video however existing videos can easily be edited by going into the edit mode when logged into your YouTube channel. 

David G Larsen

This a short lesson #1 to help new videographers  get more views on their channel and also a help to get more people looking at your video when searching for the subject of your  video. This is only a start but I am surprised how many videos I see without  a good  title and no description. Good luck and do your best. I will do my next video on how to get more subscribers to your channel.

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Vintage Computers - The "Bugs" are 40 years old !

8080 Bugbook 

Bugbooks

Integrated Circuit looks like a Bug 

When Bugbooks 1 & 2 were written a logo was needed for the books and other projects. The books were written to teach basic digital electronics using small Scale Integrated Circuits.  I named the books bugbooks because the small digital integrated circuit looked like a bug with its legs. I had made several attempts at a logo however they were not very inspiring. The best I can remember Professor Peter Rony ask students to submit their ideas for a logo and  this one was selected.  I have been very pleased with this logo and it has made many millions of impressions during the past 40 years. The 'Bugs' logo has been great as a branding image for the work of my colleagues and myself.

Here are a few examples of the Bugs use during the past 40 years.
Enlarge the photo's by clicking on them and then even more by a right click and select "View image' you can easily read the text.

Code card 1978 

John Titus designed this very useful octal code card for 8080 microprocessor machine code programming in 1978.

Japanese translation
 of Bugbook 2

Japanese translation of Bugbook 2 in 1976. The Bugs logo is prominent on the front cover. Several of the Bugbooks were included in these translations.

Italian Bugbooks

An advertising button used by our Italian representative.  Our group had a large presence in Italy during the late 70's and early 80's. About 20 of our Bugbooks were translated into Italian,  we taught 15 or so microcomputer instrumentation seminars, and a lot of the MMD-1 training computers were sold.

Fist Fighter code fixer 

Our group was called "The Blackburg Group" and the Bugbooks was one of the group's many ideas and projects. Here is a product Dr. John Titus designed for the amateur radio market. This was called the fist fighter and it made perfect code out of code sent manually with a telegraph key. A very clever idea but it was not a popular product.  It did use the 'Bugs Logo' as you can see in an expanded photo.



More information about the name and use of the 'Bugs' & 'Bugbooks'

The reason I call our museum  "The Bugbook Historical Microcomputer Museum"  is because of the "Bugbooks"

Bugs Logo 

. About 1974 I was part of a team that produced these books. The first two Bugbooks were written and published by Professor Rony and I.  I named the books bugbooks because the small digital integrated circuit looked like a bug with its legs.  Professor Rony typed the manuscripts and we self published the first few printings of the "Bugbooks" . www.bugbookcomputermuseum.com  These books were the start of a book series called "The Blacksburg Continuing Education Series" .  The books covered various topics of digital electronics, computers and software. Dr. John Titus and Dr. Chris Titus joined the group and became important members of our team.  During the period 1974 to 1984 about 75 books were published with a circulation of over 1 million copies.  Our team hired 31 other authors to help write books in the series. In addition to the books our team designed several computers and other teaching / engineering aids that were sold world wide. John Titus was the computer designer and I designed the digital engineering  / teaching hardware aids.  Many engineers, technicians and  electronic hobbyist of the late 70's and 80s used  these books and hardware.  All the books and hardware are on display in our museum. A reoccurring comment from  folks visiting the museum is - I  learned digital electronics from the "Bugbooks". The Bugbook story involves many relationships, interesting events and eclectic people.  It is my  intent to get the details of these adventures in writing -- soon I hope.

David Larsen 

It has been an interesting 40 years.  I am still getting calls about the Bugbooks and other computer and electronic things. Just tonight a fellow here in Floyd called and was in need of a 10 ohm resistor. He could not find a shop in the area that sold these parts.  I was able to find one in my old junk pile and will deliver it to him tomorrow.  He needed it for his computer power supply - Still doing computer projects.
WOW just as I posted this I received an email from Earles L. McCaul the author of   TRS-80 ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE MADE SIMPLE.  This is one of the books in our "Blacksburg" series of books from 1981.

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