Board Thread:Beginning Singers/@comment-23092514-20130924104313/@comment-917693-20130924120230

Oh, check out the VOCALOID ranking additionally, to get the current most popular VOCALOID songs.

It's got hourly, daily, weekly, and monthly ranking. (Monthly ranking is probably most significant)

Oh about the video title, some people have some kind of 'trademark' thing, like Senra writng 歌ってみたラ, or Bronze Arm Drive with それはもう大変僭越ながら[songname]を何でもありません and Lon with only 歌った ;DD but yea, [Songname]を歌ってみた plus singername is most basic. (Supposing you want to be active on Nico Nico Douga, not YouTube)

In the description it's important to credit people, some utaite even go as far as crediting everyone from the original video ;DD but that's.... not really necessary. But I'd suggest you looking at some descriptions of other utaite and see what they write? XD

I think communities are like premium member only though...

Here's the Utattemita ranking and the section you can find here under エンタメ・音楽 then 歌ってみた

Encoding has something to do with the video, I think. Where you format the video properly.