Project Appleseed

To all You Tube posters,

I've been informed that if you look up 'Appleseed' on You Tube, you are as likely to get an animated series as you are to get The Good Ol' RWVA posting.  For those who post videos, perhaps adding RWVA somewhere in the caption.  Anyone out there that has some ideas on this subject, please speak up now!

Now I don't post on You Tube, but is there a way to link video posts in such a way to create the beginnings of: Appleseed TV, brought to you by the fine folks at RWVA!  :) :D ;D **)

Think about it- this has been discussed in other threads, would this be possible, and still stay with the User's Agreements?

There are a few things you can do to get more traffic to your videos. One thing that I would highly suggest to everyone is to use as many as possible tags for your video when you upload it. These are basically key words that YouTube uses to help refine searches. The title is important as well, but it's not the only element searched when people are looking for videos. There is a great tool called insight in YouTube that you can use to track # of visitors, demographic data, as well as the search terms they used to find your video.

Here is a sample of one of mine: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAFzp6gnO1E (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAFzp6gnO1E)

Here are my keywords for this video:
RWVA  Appleseed  Project  Marksmanship  rifle  gun  shooting  positions  sitting  offhand  prone  sling  loop  hasty  AR15  AR-15  AK47  AK-47  SKS  M1A1  M14  M1  Garand  Ruger  10-22  10/22  Marlin  60  22  patriot  heritage  history  liberty

Here are the search terms that people used to find it. (in order or highest to lowest)

• appleseed project
• hasty sling
• appleseed rwva
• ruger 10 22 drum mag
• rwva
• project appleseed
• appleseed shoot
• shooting prone sling
• marlin model 60c
• applseed rwva
• surplus rifle
• 1022 appleseed
• ak-47 appleseed
• m1 garand sling
• shooting with m1 garand with sling #7
• hasty loop sling
• history of the sks
• ruger 10 22 appleseed shoot
• m14 sling
• ak 47 diffrence sks
• gunshooting america
• appleseed davila
• history sks rifle
• rifle training apple seed appleseed project fron
• marlin 60 c

You will notice that some terms like "surplus" are not in the title or in the keywords. Because this word is in the description, this tells me that it is very important as well.

One experiment I've tried is putting up a couple of videos of shooting old ww2 era guns and mixing in some of the Appleseed message with them. These videos get far more play than my strictly "Appleseed only" videos and hopefully serve as a gateway to get people to view my others and get further exposed to our program. If nothing else it puts that Appleseed logo in front of them, and at least that's a start. I think this branching in approach to Appleseed is a good way to do get a much wider audience exposed.  

I would encourage everyone to put up videos of them shooting anything (rifle, shotgun, pistol, howitzer, etc) and try to mix in a little Appleseed along the way. Take time to think it out and write a good description and enter keywords. No doubt that will make your video(s) easier to find. If you are comfortable with it, (I don't think I'm that good at it) talk about your rifle, what you're doing, etc. I think that adds some interest for people. Old Grunt has done a good job with this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvTXQ_pzkAY&feature=channel (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvTXQ_pzkAY&feature=channel)  &   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=or9cao-n5PY&feature=channel (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=or9cao-n5PY&feature=channel)