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[I know that I promised to give you the rest of the Secret Sauce for creating Youtube transcripts but I need to show you WHY it's so important to optimize your videos before I reveal my recipe. Don't worry I promise you that it will be worth the wait.]

On May 5 2012, I uploaded this video 'How To Install a Font on Your PC'

I know there have got to be millions of people out there looking for a how to video for installing a font to their computer.

No - I didn't do any keyword research (maybe that's part of the problem) but to be perfectly honest I NEVER do keyword research before I upload a video. From time to time I might do some after the fact but in this case I know people are searching for this for one simple reason

-I was. 

And since I consider myself slightly more tech savvy than the typical person searching for something on Google or YouTube, I can rest assured that others are looking for this solution as well. However - here's what I did wrong and why this video is considered a fail in my book.

• BORING TITLE
• NO TAGS (well there is one tag but what the heck was I thinking....)
• NO CAPTIONS/TRANSCRIPT
• NO CUSTOM THUMBNAIL
• NO SOCIAL SHARES

My plan going forward is to address each one of these issues and increase the view count on this video asap. 

As video junkies would attest to, sometimes you want to open more than just one video at the same time, to let the video load up first before you play it one shot.

And those who use this tactic would understand how annoying it is for a video to auto play when buffering has yet to complete, especially when you have several loading and you have no idea which tab is playing and which is not. This article will introduce to you a few browser extensions to help you 

stop the Youtube auto play feature.

Once the installation complete, it just works! Open any Youtube video from your Chrome browser and you will see that the video would not play until it is fully loaded.

Click To Load And Play

If you prefer to be in control and only let a video play only when you want it to, you can choose to activate "Click to play" on your browser. This works with your Opera and Chrome browsers.

1. Opera

For Opera, open your browser, go to Preferences.

Now go to Advanced tab, look for the Content section at the left bar, check option for Enable plug-ins only on demand then click OK.

2. Chrome

If you are on Chrome browser, type chrome://chrome/settings/content in the address bar and enter. After the settings page appear, scroll down and look for the Plug-ins section, and change the option to Click to Play.

With all this set in Opera and Chrome, whenever you open a new video on Youtube, it will not load nor will it play, until you click the big button on the video screen.

3 Firefox

For Firefox, go to Tubestop extension page and install the extension to your browser.

Once installation is complete, all videos will not be played or loaded, until you click on the link on the video screen.

Conclusion

Now with these extensions and settings, you can get full and better control over your videos whether it comes to buffering, loading or playing them. Have fun with your videos!

YouTube is a much-loved source of entertainment; some might think it’s taking over TV due to the sheer amount and types of entertainment: mini web series, tech and tutorial channels, lyric videos and covers etc. It’s no surprise that some of us can spend hours watching YouTube videos on our subscribed list while others can binge-watch recommended videos for the whole day

However, there are minor annoyances with the viewing experience that even these YouTube tricks can’t fix. The common complaints (basically First World Problems) are like the layout being distracting, too much white space, and annoying (or awesome) advertisements that eats into your video-viewing time.

To conquer these problems, I am going to introduce to you the Tube Enhancer Plus for Firefox andYouTube Options for Google Chrome.

Awesome "Hidden" YouTube Settingsc

Both Tube Enhancer Plus and Youtube Options have some pretty cool features, ideal for the serial YouTuber. With them you can:

1. Remove advertisements – Both can let you skip the ads at the start of the video.

2. Enlarge player size – You can also enlarge the ‘video box’ size so that it fills up the space      of your browser window for a closer and clearer view.

3. "Dim the lights" – This feature greys out the areas around the video box. This along with #2     maximizes the real estate of your large, high-resolution monitor.

4. Set default viewing quality - If changing the video quality often irks you, then worry no          more, you now need not manually change it.

5. Set autoplay settings - You can also set the autoplay settings so videos won’t automatically start playing when you open multiple videos in new tabs.

More From Tube Enhancer Plus (Firefox)

Installing Tube Enhancer Plus gives you a few controls at the bottom of your browser window to download or loop the current video on top of the other features mentioned earlier

The coolest feature about this add-on is the ability to watch a video on the Firefox Sidebar. This allows (in)effective multitasking as you can surf the Web while watching all your videos.

More From YouTube Options (Chrome)

YouTube Options for Chrome has more customizable features. You can hide elements of YouTubelike the comments section, video suggestions, video description, title, header and footer from the settings or its keyboard shortcuts. This gives you a super-clean YouTube player.

Using the mouse scroll wheel while hovering the mouse cursor above the ‘video box’ lets you change the ‘video box’ size, forward/rewind the video, or change the volume level.

Certain features of YouTube Options can also be used on any embedded videos or on sites like Vimeo, Hulu and DailyMotion.