I have been seeing a lot of people make the same mistakes via vlogging lately and I thought a post on the subject outlining the 5 most common ones I see was a good idea. Hope you enjoy it!

5. Bad Titles – The main one I see people making is the titles they are choosing for there videos. Sometimes they put there name on the title or even a un-related name. These videos are either banned or are never viewed once word gets around about the title being misleading.

4. Description Link – I see a lot of people putting there link in the description of there videos which is good but they are not putting the http:// so people can easily click the link. Never forget the http:// on your url in YouTube because it wont be a live link if you dont!

3. No Play lists – Why haven’t you created a couple play lists to help your subscribers find relevant videos? Play lists are powerful and worth creating, comment below if you dont know how and I will make a post on it for you!

2. No Custom Channel Design – You should customize your own Channel so its all yours and one of a kind! I did one for the PixelForLife YouTube Channel and it helped us!

1. Bad Use Of Tags On Each Video – The biggest mistake I see people making is there miss-use or non-use of the tags feature in YouTube and other major video sites. Be sure to use your tags just like you would technorati tags or the meta tags of a website (I know I’m going back a little 1998-ish on that one but trust me, this is how it works on YouTube).

If you follow those mistakes and avoid them you should be a way better video blogger then you were before!

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