In order to earn the maximum amount of money possible with your new video blog you must do everything you can to market your video blog. The popularity of video blogging and search engine friendliness of blogging will give your vlog a running start but it is important that you spend some time on your own increasing your audience. Remember, the more traffic you bring in the more money you will earn each and every day.

1. Sign up for free video communities.

There are many free video communities online today that have thousands of active members. It is important that you sign up for as many communities as possible and upload fresh content to them at least once a week. This will help attract people who, once they have seen your videos, will want to view them all. Some of the best communities to participate in are:

- YouTube
- DailyMotion
- MySpace
- Google Video
- Blip.tv
- Buzznet
- Crackle
- EngagedMedia
- GoFish
- GamesVideos
- iFilm
- Hulu
- JibJab
- Kewego
- Liveleak
- MSN Soapbox
- MyVideo
- OneWorldTV
- OurMedia
- Peekvid
- Phpmotion
- Rambler Vision
- Realtime TV
- Twango
- Veoh
- Vuze

In addition to helping your vlog attract more visitors, these sites will also help your search engine ranking. By linking your website to these highly ranked video communities you will be increasing your own search engine status.
2. Sign up with Blog Networks

Always remember that your video blog is still a blog and take advantage of the traffic provided by blog directories and networks. The more you are a member of the more traffic you will receive and the better your own website will rank with search engines.

- BlogCatalog
- Blogged
- GeekySpeaky
- Blogotion
- MyBlog2U
- Webloogle
- Blog Listing
- BlogFlux
- Bloggeries
- BloggersPoint.com
- Bloghub
- BlogRankings
- BlogRater
- BlogTopSites
- Blogwise
- ExactSeek
- LSBlogs
- Top100Blogger
3. Comment Major Blogs/Vlogs

Leave comments on highly traffic, popular blogs and video blogs. Always contribute to the post to avoid being labeled as spam and include a link back to your own video blog. This will help you rank higher with the search engines and will help you get traffic when curious readers visit your blog. A few high ranking blogs to comment on are:

- Boing Boing.net
- BuzzMachine.com
- Consumerist.com
- Deadspin.com
- Defamer.com
4. Create Video Comments/Responses

Take the time to create video comments in response to other video blogs. This is a great way to get attention and traffic on website such as YouTube. A video response will often get much more attention than a text comment. You can also create video comments in response to other vlog sites and simply post links to you response in your comment on their site. This will also help you get attention and traffic.

5. Explore Social Bookmarking

Social bookmarking is a wonderful way to drive traffic to your websites and make the search engines take notice. Social bookmarks have become extremely popular with blog owners, video blog owners, and traditional website owners. Some social bookmarking sites to use are:

- BookmarkSync
- Del.icio.us
- Connotea
- Digg
- Diigo
- Furl
- GiveALink.org
- Linkwad
- My Web
- Mister Wong
- Mixx
- Newsvine
- Reddit
- Simpy
- SiteBar
- StumbleUpon

6. Use Stumble Exchange

Even though many website and video blog owners have come to understand the importance of social bookmarking they are unaware of the many sites that have sprung up to work hand in hand with social bookmarking sites. Stumbleexchange.com is one of these sites that is extremely useful. The website allows users to sign up and they stumble each others listed sites. This helps stumbleupon.com users by providing them with more traffic since the site sends the more popular websites the most traffic. Using this service will provide you with 200 to 300 unique users each day months after you stop using it.
7. Take Advantage of RSS Feed Management Services

Use RSS feed management services to help subscribers keep track of your latest video entries. Signing up for a good feed management service will help you keep track of the number of subscribers your video blog has and will help them keep track of your posts. Your users will also be able to share your feed with others.

- Feedburner
- Zookoda
- Ice Rocket
- RapidFeeds
8. Use Ping Services

Pinging services are used to notify search engines whenever you upload new content on your video blog. There are many sites to ping to and Wordpress makes it easy for video bloggers to make sure that their updates are noticed. I cannot stress how important it is to take advantage of these services. By including the following list into your Wordpress list of services to ping you will notice a substantial increase to your websites existing traffic.

- http://api.feedster.com/ping
- http://api.moreover.com/RPC2
- http://api.moreover.com/ping
- http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2
- http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping
- http://www.bitacoles.net/ping.php
- http://bitacoras.net/ping
- http://blogdb.jp/xmlrpc
- http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2
- http://blogmatcher.com/u.php
- http://www.blogoole.com/ping/
- http://www.blogoon.net/ping/
- http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
- http://www.blogroots.com/tb_populi.blog?id=1
- http://www.blogshares.com/rpc.php
- http://www.blogsnow.com/ping
- http://www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi
- http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC
- http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc
- http://coreblog.org/ping/
- http://www.lasermemory.com/lsrpc/
- http://mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatt
- http://www.mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatter/ping.php
- http://www.newsisfree.com/xmlrpctest.php
- http://ping.amagle.com/
- http://ping.bitacoras.com
- http://ping.blo.gs/
- http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/
- http://ping.blogmura.jp/rpc/
- http://ping.cocolog-nifty.com/xmlrpc
- http://ping.exblog.jp/xmlrpc
- http://ping.feedburner.com
- http://ping.myblog.jp
- http://ping.rootblog.com/rpc.php
- http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
- http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
- http://ping.weblogs.se/
- http://pingoat.com/goat/RPC2
- http://www.popdex.com/addsite.php
- http://rcs.datashed.net/RPC2/
- http://rpc.blogbuzzmachine.com/RPC2
- http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
- http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/
- http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
- http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
- http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
- http://www.snipsnap.org/RPC2
- http://trackback.bakeinu.jp/bakeping.php
- http://topicexchange.com/RPC2
- http://www.weblogues.com/RPC/
- http://xping.pubsub.com/ping/
- http://xmlrpc.blogg.de/
9. Plan Your Videos Carefully to Impress Visitors

Word of mouth is a great way to get free traffic for your new video blog. One great way to get traffic is to impress visitors with the quality and content in your videos. Plan each video before you start filming. Decide what you want the content to be meaning if you want the video to be informative, entertaining, or simply promotional.

Once you have decided what you want to make your video post about you should figure out ways to make it entertaining. Think about what your visitors want to watch. If you have a hard time imagining what your video blog visitors will want to see think about what you like to see when you are watching television or surfing the Internet for videos.
Do you want to watch someone sitting in front of a computer talking woodenly in nothing but monotone? Do you want to squint at a dark blurry screen trying to figure out what images you are seen? The answer to both of these questions is no.

When you are creating your video posts always use the highest resolution settings available to get a focused image. Also, shoot your videos in an area with a lot of lighting either natural or artificial. Last, but not least, be entertaining. Laugh, joke, and talk in a relaxed, engaging manner. Use visual aids and consider taking notes and setting them up just behind the camera to help prompt you. No viewer wants to sit through uncomfortable pauses or excessive hemming and hawing.
10. Surprise Your Visitors

Do not let your visitors get too comfortable with your video style. I cannot stress how fickle some subscribers can be. Do what you can to change your videos and make them unique or different from each other.

Change locations often especially if you usually make your videos in front of a plan back drop. Create a video outside, at a park, in a place of business that doesn’t mind you making a quick video (this is one of the times that I recommend using a camera phone) and other unique places. Also try to capture video footage of anything strange or unusual as it happens around you.

Try to include guest video bloggers when possible. Many major blogs and a few minor ones boast guest bloggers and there is no reason that you cannot do the same. Try to interview someone in a field that relates to your video blog. Maybe ask a friend to create a video blog for you or with you. Doing things like that will keep your visitors attention and encourage them to check your vlog often to find out what new things are happening.
11. Promote Your Site in Your Posts

When you are creating video posts to describe a certain product, service, or even movie it is easy to focus on the information you plan to provide and forget everything else. This is a good way to accidentally lose traffic or to help someone else benefit from your hard work. Especially if you are uploading your video posts to multiple video sharing communities. These communities allow users to post your video on multiple sites which means that you must have a way to tell all viewers where the video came from originally.

There are several ways to promote yourself the first way is to always start out your video blogs with an introduction. Say hello to your viewers and tell them your name and the domain name is your site. This is usually easy to remember and will help “brand” your video posts. If possible end your video posts by thanking the viewer for watching and mention your domain name one more time. When done right it will not sound out of place and will encourage viewers to come back to your site.

Even when you are able to mention the domain name in your video also use your editing software to insert the domain name on your video. The video editing software recommended in this ebook all make it easy to insert text in your video. Doing this will help ensure that anyone who sees the video will know where the video originally came from.
12. Update Your Blog Daily

Daily updates do more for a blogs traffic than many people realize. Think of the promotion techniques that have just been explained. Two of these include notifying subscribers about new video blog posts and notifying search engines of new blog posts. Signing up for services that will help notify people of posts is useless if you are never updating anything.

Post to your blog each and every day with a video either yours or the content of another video site that will entertain your viewers. Updating daily will constantly expose your video blog to the search engines drastically increasing your sites traffic. It will also keep your readers coming back often to check for updates.
13. Respond to Comments

Many new video bloggers and traditional bloggers never bother to respond to comments left for them. This is a serious mistake. Responding to comments lets visitors know that you are paying attention to who is coming to the site and are interested in interacting with them. This will help set you apart from the many, automated, video blogs out there that are not run by a full time person.

In addition to letting visitors know that you are willing to interact it will give them another reason to check your video blog. If they are a person that leaves a comment for you on your video blog and they believe you will answer they will have a reason to check your video blog often to see if you, or anyone else, have responded to them. When you have a few people commenting regularly consider creating a video response.

Your visitors will be extremely flattered if you take the time to create an entire video clip just to address their comments or concerned. They will also continue commenting in the hope that you respond in that fashion again.
14. Uses Articles to Promote Your Vlog

Not all places will let you upload your video posts but that doesn’t mean you can’t use them to promote your video blog. Write articles about the benefits of creating video blogs or even the subject of your video blogs. Include links to your own video blog as reference and watch your traffic grow. Sites to write, and submit, articles to include:

- EzineArticles.com
- ArticlesBase.com
- HubPages
- Squidoo
- Associated Content
- Triond
- Helium

These websites not only let you promote your video blog, they will also let you earn income from your articles. HubPages will let you earn affiliate income through Google Adsense, Ebay, and Amazon affiliate programs. Squidoo, Associated Content, Helium, and Triond will all provide you with income based on the amount of traffic that your article makes. If you are someone that has a hard time writing articles or if you are a person who simply does not have the time to spend writing and promoting articles consider hiring a ghostwriter or article submission service.