Important Note for those using the RPI Authority software: When I first installed it, it didn't start up properly. Instead, it ran in the background and used more and more RAM, causing my PC to freeze.

To avoid this, make sure you have the latest version of the .net framework installed on your computer. Then open your task manager before running RPI for the first time so you can check to make sure it isn't eating up all your RAM.

Or, just use the free MozCheck tool I mention in my report below that will do the same thing, only faster and easier.


Building a Youtube channel with high authority in the eyes of Google gives all the videos on that channel a big advantage when it comes to ranking medium to high competition keywords.

The system outlined here is simple. The key is to repeat these simple tasks daily until your channel has higher authority than your competitors' channels have.

Authority is created through links, and this system is to build authority by commenting on Youtube videos that have high authority on both the video view pages and the channel for these videos.

Every time you post a comment on a video, Youtube creates a link back to your YT channel from that video page.

I bought resale rights to a program that helps you build authority to your Youtube channel called Rank Power Index. This RPI authority software is included in your  download.

However, there's a better way to go about this using some free tools instead of the included RPI software. The strategy is still powerful and I'll include that info below, but first let me give you an alternative technique, tools, resources and recommendations.

The RPI authority software checks Moz.com to find the authority of web pages, specifically Youtube video view pages and channel pages. The issue is, the RPI software only checks one URL at a time.

We're going to use two FREE tools to check multiple URLs:

1. Link Gopher - This is a FREE FireFox plugin that scrapes the links on a web page and gives us a list of the URLs.

2. MozCheck - this is a free tool from Moz.com that let's you enter a list of URLs and returns the authority of each page.


Watch this quick 3 minute video to see how Link Gopher works:




To start, pick a general keyword phrase and build a list of 6-12 sub-keywords that are most relevant to the niche that will be the focus of your channel.

For example, if your main keyword was "dog training", your keyword list may look something like:
dog training
dog training basics
dog training commands
dog training equipment
dog training for beginners
dog training expert
dog training tricks
dog training tips
dog training exercises
Do a search in Youtube for each of your keywords using Firefox with the Link Gopher URL extractor installed.

After each search, you'll want to make two lists of keywords:
  1. One for the ranked video URLs - Filter using: watch
  2. Another for the channel URLs - Filter using: user

When extracting the URLs, use the option in Link Gopher to filter the results. Every Youtube video URL contains the text string "watch", so using this as a filter will give you a list of URLs to the videos listed in the YT search results.

Now, use Link Gopher with the filter as "user" to scrape the URLs of the channels for each video in the search results.

Create two text documents, one for videos URLs and one for channel URLs.

Depending on the keyword, you'll want to do this for the first 2-3 pages of the search results for each keyword, building a list of 100-250 URLs for videos, and about 100 URLs for channels.

Once you've built your two lists of URLs, be sure to check for, and remove duplicate URLs. You don't want to waste your CheckMoz quota checking the same URLs twice.

Most text editors (other than Note Pad) have the ability to remove duplicate lines.

Or, you can use this free online tool to remove duplicate URLs:
http://textmechanic.com/text-tools/basic-text-tools/remove-duplicate-lines/

After removing any dupes, run the URLs through CheckMoz to find the URLs with the highest authority. Note that CheckMoz reports the "Domain Authority, or DA. Since all of the URLs are on the Youtube.com domain, just ignore this number as it will be the same for all the URLs in both lists.

Instead, pay attention to the "Page Authority" (PA) as reported by CheckMoz.

Sometimes CheckMoz doesn't report authority stats for every URL, I'm not sure why. Hopefully this will be fixed before you use it. If you have URLs without info, you can do two things:

1. Ignore the URLs with no info...I usually recommend this.
2. Run the URLs with no data again, adding only 6 at a time.

I generally don't worry about those without any info, especially if I build a big list of URLs in previous steps.

While it's good to know the authority of all the videos we'll be competing against, our main goal is to find a number of videos with the high Page Authority for us to comment on.

Remember, each time we comment we automatically create a link back to our own YT channel. And by commenting on high videos with high Page Authority, we can siphon that authority to our own channel, which will pass it on to the videos on our channel.

Using this method, not only will you be posting comments on high authority pages, by using the search results for a variety of related keywords, you'll also be posting on relevant videos...a double dose of video SEO.

Using Camouflage and Mixing It Up

You'll probably be tempted to rush out and start commenting as much as you can, as fast as you can.

Don't.

If you rush things and look like you're simply trying to "game" Youtube, there's a chance your comments will be "ghosted". This means that you'll see your comments, but no one else will. It's Youtube's way of tricking you into thinking you're accomplishing your objective, when you're really not.

Instead, you need to make your comments look natural and make 3-7 comments a day, over a period of time, usually a few weeks.

Make sure you watch the videos BEFORE taking any action.

We can still be smart and efficient. Use the videos with low authority to watch the videos and then:
  • Sometimes like
  • Sometimes dislike - but only when a video is truly bad.
  • Hit the "Back" button in your browser after 20-90 seconds.
  • Sometimes subscribe
  • Sometimes do 2 or 3 of the above
  • Sometimes do none of the above

On the videos with high authority, sometimes (most of the time) create a new comment. Once in a while, reply to someone else's comment, particularly if they ask a question.

Either way, make sure you've watched the video and make a friendly, positive comment that's relevant to the video. You want your comment to "stick" and be approved, not reported as spam. This is NOT the time to be a troll.

Not only are you creating links to your channel from high authority channels, Youtube will see you are active and may well reward you for your effort.

In summary, use the high authority video URLs for comments and the low authority URLs for camouflage.

Tip: Don't think of high authority channels always as competition. Instead, realize that these folks can be future partners and approach building your presence on Youtube with this concept in mind. Your goal is to secretly beat them with higher authority while being friendly and open to helping each other out.

DoFollow in comments to social media accounts

Subscribe to high authority channels. While the main goal of this technique is to build authority to our own Youtube channels, good comments on popular videos can drive people to your channel.

Internal Linking - Links to other pages on Youtube are "dofollow".

Links added in video descriptions are nofollow. Links in comments appear to be dofollow.

Add links to your own resources in comments on your videos, especially your social media accounts.

http://textmechanic.com/text-tools/basic-text-tools/remove-duplicate-lines/


Link Silos

Link silos are a link strategy. They are generally thought of as a way to interlink pages on a web site or blog to maximize SEO benefits. We can apply the same strategy to our YT videos. Think of all the video view pages on the same YT channel as a "web site". We can add links in the descriptions of our videos to our other videos, pushing authority to those video pages.

Every video on your Youtube channel should link to at least two other videos on the channel, and should be linked to from at least two other videos on the channel.

To add a link to other videos, simply add the full URL to the other video(s) in the description. Be sure to include the https part of the URL so that the link is clickable with will be followed by Youtube and Google.

A good strategy is to create a "default" for all your uploads, adding URLs to your most 3-4 important videos on your channel in the description of the default. Think of the default as a "base template" that will be used every time you upload a new video.

You will still want to add custom text for each video you upload, but by having some URLs in your default description, these URLs will be automatically added to the description of every video you upload from then on. Once you add URLs to your "money" videos in your default, every time you upload a new video, you will be automatically increasing authority to your money videos.

To add URLs to your default description, be sure you're logged into your YT channel, then click this link:
https://www.youtube.com/upload_defaults


Links in Comments

An under-used strategy is to place URLs/links in the comments of your own videos. It's interesting that URLs/links in video descriptions are "nofollow", but URLs/links placed in the comments are "dofollow".

It's possible to put URLs in the comments of videos by other people, but I generally don't recommend this because you may come off as a spammer. I know I don't allow anyone to place links in the comments for my videos.

Try adding a few links in the comments of your own videos to the social accounts used for the channel. In other words, link to the other sites that link back to your YT channel.

Free Tools:

MozCheck - Bulk page authority checker

Link Gopher - FireFox plugin that scrapes the URLs from a web page.

IFTTT.com - IFTTT means "if this, then that" and is a free site that can automate getting links from some of the major authority sites. For example, if you add a new video to your Youtube channel, then post a link to that video on your Twitter and Tumblr accounts.

For more on using IFTTT with Youtube, see my Ring of Fire report, included in your Tube Tuel download.

List of Free DoFollow Social Bookmarking Sites - You don't have to use every resource on this list, but adding a link to your YT channel and a video or two using a few of these resources is a good idea.



Recommended Paid Authority Boosters

Below, in Cliff Carrigan's strategy outline, he suggests buying quality links from Fiverr or other source.

None of these paid suggestions is required, but they can really speed up and boost your results. So, if you have a little money to invest, here's my suggestions:


Mass Planner - Mass Planner is a social automation tool. Post your videos on the major social media sites and use Mass Planner to build friends and followers on your social accounts. This will build links and if your videos are of decent quality, you'll increase your video views naturally. Use IFTTT to post your YT videos to your social accounts and use Mass Planner to build friends and followers to these accounts.

(Read my blog post for more info on how I use Mass Planner for automation along with a human touch to build social accounts.)

Domain Hunter Gatherer -  Highly recommended for building authority to your Youtube channel(s). DHG will help in two ways. The first is finding expired domains that already have authority. Placing a link to your YT channel and embedding a video on the home page of a domain with good authority is a great way to increase the authority to your YT channel.

The drawbacks are you need to pay for the domain names you find, then you need to use different hosting services for each, along with some good camouflage, to get the maximum benefit from each domain.

Another benefit of Domain Hunter Gatherer is it has the ability to find expired social media accounts that have links and authority. Sometimes, for a variety of reasons people delete their social accounts and you can then register them for yourself. And some of these social accounts already have decent authority.

Pick picky and don't register just any social account Domain Hunter Gather finds. Let it do the work to find the really good ones. You'll need to let DHG run for a while and search for these social accounts, but when it finds them, it's like finding little nuggets of gold. Just register the social account for yourself, then add a link to your YT channel and either embed one of your YT videos or add a link.

Source Wave Market - It's like Fiverr in that you can outsource services, but I think it's better than Fiverr for SEO related gigs. I suggest doing a search for "IFTTT" and check out gigs that will set up an IFTTT "ring of fire" for your Youtube channel. You should be able to get a pretty good gig for about $25 that will set up IFTTT to build links on authority social sites on auto-pilot for your YT channel.

For more on using IFTTT for Youtube, see my Toob Ring of Fire report.

Also, check the Source Wave Market for "dofollow" links and point them to your YT channel as well as your "money" videos.



Note: I bought the rights to the following sales page and software from Cliff Carrigan. The sales page outlines a powerful strategy for building authority to your Youtube channels. I posted the strategy from Cliff Carrigan below.

However, IMO it's easier to use the free MOZCheck and Link Gopher tools I linked to above than Cliff's RPI software used in the strategy below. The RPI software is available in your download package, but I think you'll agree it's easier to use MozCheck with the Link Gopher FireFox plugin because it collects multiple URLs at once and the MozCheck tool will check the authority of multiple URLs at once.

Use my techniques and resources above with Cliff's strategy outlined below.



From Cliff Carrigan:

"RANKING VIDEOS IN YOUTUBE AND GOOGLE HAS EVOLVED

BUT MOST VIDEO MARKETERS HAVEN'T EVOLVED WITH IT"


Today I am going to introduce a secret software that I built and use daily. It's sole purpose in life is to very quickly tell me what I am really up against if I want to beat a specific video or an entire channel. You're about to learn how to rank for high-traffic, high-competition keywords using a special software program and a bit of know-how!

Level The Playing Field...

The average video marketer tends to look at likes, subscribers, views, backlinks, seo and so on, all of that is fine if you are on a level playing field with the target video or channel you're trying to beat, but means absolutely nothing if you aren't.

Recently a very well known and very respected full time video marketer connected with me on skype. He was at his wits end.Completely frustrated. He proceeded to show me the URL to the video he is trying to beat, gives me the keyword he is targeting and then gives me the URL to his own video and asks "what am I doing wrong man?"

Without looking at his video or the video he was trying to beat, I simply fired up my RPI Check software and instantly knew the answer. Opened both videos in my browser and looked...

He had far better seo He had far more visitors, likes, and so on. He even had far better backlinks to his video. From his perspective (the pro video marketer) he was beating that other video on every level, yet he wasn't ranking at all.

The other guy was beating him without mercy, even though his video listing was garbage compared to the pro marketer. Cohere is a top level professional getting his butt handed to him by a complete nobody. A person who wasn't a marketer stall.


So I Introduced Him To One Of My Secret Custom Software Tools!


And It keeps me an advantage over almost all other video marketers! I have a pretty big and bold reputation in the 
video marketing niche. People hate it when 
I enter their niche because they know 
I am unstoppable.

Once I set my sights on a niche, no matter what niche it is, I end up owning that niche. I go in and basically dominate it so hard that I end up creating multiple accounts that looks like competitors but in reality, it is all me.

I Absolutely Swarm The Target Niche.

I am able to do this so easily and with so much consistency because I know in advance exactly what it ingoing to take for me to overtake each individual competitor.There is no guess work.

And 100% of the time, the absolute very first thing I do is use RPI Check in order to see what I am really up against. Basically what RPI Check does is
determines the authority of the video I am targeting.

It tells me exactly what I need to know in order to put myself on a level playing field with the person I want to beat.

It pulls data from Moz, then finds it's active social footprint combining multiple social sites that it has a presence on, and then it crunches those numbers for me and returns a result between 0 and 100.

0 means easy to beat, (I have never seen a 100) and 70 means it is going to be a pretty massive undertaking to achieve my goal... Very doable, but it is going to take some time and work.

For example, if my video has an RPI of 1 and my competitors video has an RPI of 47, then it doesn't matter how many views, social, backlinks, and seo I throw at it, that guy is still going to beat me. He is going to beat me because we are not on the same playing field.

This allows me to know instantly whether or not I want to pursue that keyword. For example, if that niche isn't likely to make me a pretty good bit of money, then I'm not going to spend the effort to get into it.

On the other hand, if that niche is known to be a cash cow, then I already know in advance what it is going to take to get myself into that niche in a very big and visible way.

Within seconds of finding my potential competitor I know what I need to do to beat him... I'm not shooting in the dark like everyone else. I know exactly what I need to do!"

Now You Know... Now you know how to instantly determine if you are on the same playing field as your competitor. Everything after that is just a routine. Just a series of steps and actions just like all of the basic on/off page seo is for ranking a video. None of it is difficult at all... It's all just a simple series of steps.In fact, I'm going to walk you through exactly what it takes to increase your RPI on your channel or any video.

Remember though, you are always in a much stronger position if you focus on getting your channel RPI up before you start worrying about any individual video RPI. 

Example- If you have a video with high RPI but a channel with low RPI, but I have a channel with high RPI and a video with low RPI, then I know I can easily beat you. I know because it is much easier to increase any video RPI when you have high channel RPI than it is to doit the other way around.

OK, so how do you increase your RPI? Simple really. Just do some smart and targeted commenting. Lets say you want to focus your account on the survival niche. Here are the steps you take...

You'll quickly lose all of the people that you currently consider competitors. While they are still trying to rank for long tail keywords you'll be in a completely different league than they are. You'll be ranking fairly short tail keywords on demand even easier than they are ranking the long tail stuff.

And as a bonus, you also know what you need to do any time you want to rank for a crazy high competition short tail keyword.

 







Building Authority Using Expired Web 2.0 Accounts -
From Kurt Melvin

Here's a powerful strategy for both Youtube video marketing and SEO in general. You may have heard of "private blog networks" which are a websites built using expired domain names. Basically, marketers research and find domain names that other people didn't renew for whatever reason that already have links and authority pointed to them.

By building networks of sites, each with strong linking profiles already in place, the new owners of these domains can build sites that leverage the existing links for SEO purposes.

But here's a similar strategy that can be just as powerful, and that's finding Web 2.0 accounts that also have links and authority. For example, with some effort and research you can find Tumblr accounts that have a good number of links pointing to them.

These Web 2.0 sites with links and authority are great for ranking Youtube videos, as well as pointing link juice to money sites and other resources. Find a good Web 2.0 account that's available with a strong link profile and embed your YouTube videos and/or create links to your YouTube videos and channels to give your videos an "unfair" advantage.

These are Web 2.0 accounts that people have used in the past, but for a variety of reasons they are now available and you can register them for yourself now.

You can use Scrapebox to find expired Web 2.0 accounts, but it's a little complicated and you can only research one site at a time.

I've been using a program called Domain Hunter Gatherer (DMG) to find some really potent Web 2.0 accounts. DMG has some good expired domain features, but I really like the Web 2.0 finder.

  • With Web 2.0 accounts, you don't have to spend money on domain names.
     
  • You also don't have to worry about hosting costs and the hassles of removing all the potential footprints so your private blog network isn't discovered and de-indexed by Google.


IMO, building a huge network of Web 2.0 accounts with links and authority already created is one of the most powerful marketing strategies you can use in today's IM environment. And Domain Hunter Gatherer makes is fast and easy.


Here's the Web 2.0 sites Domain Hunter Gatherer checks for available acounts:

Tumblr
Twitter
Wordpress
Blogsport
Weebly
Typepad
Blog.com
OverBlog
Svbtle
Webs
LiveJournal
DrupalGardens
Tripod
Jigsy
Jimdo
Wikidot

NewsVine
Postagon
SnapPages
HubPages
Sapo


Before you get started you'll need:

  • Proxies - You'll probably want to use 10 or so proxies. You'll need these because Domain Hunter Gatherer performs a good number of search engine queries using your choice of Google, Bing and Yahoo to find a bunch of Web 2.0 accounts for various platforms.

  • Content - To maximize the power of these 2.0 accounts, you'll want solid content. It doesn't have to be great but it can't be spun gibberish either and you'll want it to be unique. You'll want to have relevant content ready so you'll be able to post it as soon as possible after you create a valuable 2.0 account. Note that the great thing about Tumblr accounts is they don't need much written content. Just embed your YouTube videos and add 50-100 words, along with a link back to your channel and/or video, remembering to vary your anchor text.

  • Moz Account - Moz gives you a free account that checks the links to each Web 2.0 as well as gives it an authority score. You'll need to hook this up to Domain Hunter Gatherer to check the power of each available Web 2.0 account.

  • A good list of relevant keywords. You''ll want at least 100 keywords related to each niche. You probably don't want to run all your keywords at once, maybe in groups of about 25.


Be Patient

Your Domain Hunter Gatherer strategy should be on-going. New 2.0 accounts become available over time. Keep checking. You're panning for gold, looking for the nuggets.

At first you'll probably be a little excited and try to snatch up every account that looks like it has a little bit of potential. Instead, I suggest you be really picky and let Domain Hunter Gatherer do all the "grunt work".

One really strong 2.0 account is worth 5-10 mediocre accounts. Save your time (and content) and just grab the "cream of the crop". Look for  Web 2.0 accounts with at least 20+ links and good PAGE Authority. Then do a quick check of the links to see if they are legit.

Also, don't pay any attention to DOMAIN Authority, as all the accounts will be on authority domains. We only want 2.0 accounts that have good authority themselves.

Note that Domain Hunter Gatherer will show some pages that really aren't accounts. For example, https://twitter.com/terms obviously isn't an available account, but will show up in your results. It's not a big deal, just be aware.

If you are serious about taking your Youtube marketing (and SEO) to the next level, you really should be building your own collection of authority Web 2.0 accounts and Domain Hunter Gather to your tool kit.

Domain Hunter Gatherer is only $17 a month and gives you a 7 day trial for only $3.50(?) to start things off.

There's also a very powerful expired domain module that's more expensive, but I haven't tried it myself so I can't tell you if it's a good value or not. It does also have a 7 day trial for $17 if you want to check it out. I believe this includes the Web 2.0 module too, but check it out to be sure.

Adding high Page Authority Web 2.0 accounts is a very robust and inexpensive way to build even more authority to your YouTube channels and videos.


Check Domain Hunter Gatherer out for yourself:

http://kurtmelvin.com/Blog/DMG