Saturday, October 31, 2009

Deleting your account

If you delete your YouTube account and want to make a new one, make sure to use a different email address. This is because the YouTube system got a little messed up when it morphed with Google and it is having account issues.

So, restating the solution, re-register your new account with a different email address / Google account to differentiate between the two.

Dancing videos

These are the keys for successful dancing videos on Youtube:
1) Uniqueness - is a baby dancing? Is someone getting hurt in a funny way?... It can't just be a normal person dancing.
2) Easy to find - can users stumble upon your video easily or by accident? If you can get a few blogs or websites to link up with your video, that is a great start.
3) Relation to the audience - is your video playing a song people know or a dance that is popular? People love what they know!

Categorizing YouTube Vids

YouTube usually takes a while to categorize videos. This is because YouTube develops data about what your video is and who is watching after it has been posted a few days.

From time to time, there are anomalies with YouTube - videos being together that share no singularities - but this usually only last a few days at the most.

There are a couple things you can do to help YouTube: 1) make sure your video is titled and tagged correctly 2) provide a detailed description.

YouTube buffer bar error

When watching a YouTube video, the buffer bar can malfunction, causing the video to not load properly. It also makes it so the user cannot restart the video properly. This is a known problem and YouTube (hopefully) is working on it.

To solve the problem, you can do a few things: try clearing your web history and cache history. Make sure your browser (Internet Explore, Mozilla, Safari) is up to date. And make sure you have the latest Java software downloaded.

Source: http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/static.py?page=known_issues.cs

Finding YouTube Comments

You can find a user's comments by following this procedure when doing a Google search:
"[screen name] site:youtube.com"
Doing this searches for all the times that screen name appears on YouTube (that Google has indexed).

YouTube has also created a new "Comment Search", however, this only searches for recent comments.