Should I build tiered links to a YouTube video or just tier 1 links?
Again, since YouTube is already an Authority and its not like its going to penalize itself, doesn't matter here. What I would suggest you do however is make use of URL shortening services. By that I mean, when you do backlinking, you need to use all these different "short versions" of your YouTube URL so that it looks more natural instead of just linking all the links to your normal video URL.
Are views and/or subscribers important when ranking a YouTube video in Google?
Retention views are important, but I always suggest to sprinkle regular non retention views in there as well because, lets be honest, not every single user ALWAYS watches the entire video. Subs does help to a certain extent with regards to Authority, but I would suggest sending some links to your Channel as well as your Videos.
You say you threw your "silly video" up on youtube...How did you create that?
"Send a combo of regular and retention views." How does one do that?
"Send Social Bookmarks to your video" Same question as above...
"Make sure you name the video file using your keyword"
You also say to write a 400 - 500 of content...that's an article isn't it.
Can I make a video of my latest blog post for eg.
http://iveseenitallbefore.com/15k-in-3-weeks Kind of like your video?
Can you add screenshots next time you do a tutorial it makes it a lot clearer for people to follow. Otherwise great work and I look forward to your reply.
Mike
Can you give me an example of one of yours or someones so I can see how it is put together? I just got a youtube channel the other day and have been wanting to put my first video up so i want to learn the best way of doing it.
You say "Send a combo of regular and retention views." I have no idea what this means can you explain it a little for us Youtube Newbies? :)
How do you send social signals? do you do this yourself or is this something you have others do?
You say keep it simple, but almost all of what you said was foreign to me.