Strafing

I am making a 3rd person game, and am having some real problems getting the character to strafe. I have followed a few tutorials on youtube exactly to the letter, but still no joy. I have tried it with making blendspaces, with just using the motion animation in the State Machine, but nothing i do works. The character just runs with the sideways animation. Can any one offer any advice at all, or show me a tutorial that works? I have used Virtus/Dev squad, Titanic Games, Awesome Tuts.

an example of what you want?
there are at least 3 main movement styles…

This was the last tutorial I followed:

so just a simple left and right strafe is all I want to do

No what I mean by example is: can you provide a video or a game that moves as you wish?