Years ago, I would buy some admittedly spammy backlinks with no anchor text, and blast my youtube videos, and it seemed to actually boost their rankings quite a bit. Keep me posted on how things go.Great information it will really help me to grow my YouTube channel.Brilliant as always Brian! By using our Services or clicking I agree, you agree to our use of cookies. Excellent content in this post it has been very useful Thank you it’s greatly appreciated This is a very interesting guide.
First, you’ll need to verify your YouTube account to access these features. There are two reasons for this:1. Which is nice.But your video won’t get engagement signals (like views, likes and subscribes) that YouTube pays close attention to. In my experience, YouTube is great. Now I am here and astonished with your contents! Thanks in advance.Kamil, I’d start fresh just in case the aged one has community strikes or stuff like that.Another great post Brian! And, you have to reach out and shake people out of their preoccupation and say, hey pay attention to me!Till today, I had strong believe that I know everything about YT SEO. Hey Christina, yeah I noticed that too. A question that I’ve always wanted to ask you: you don’t have links to your blog posts inside your YouTube video descriptions. Thanks for sharing such important things with us.Wow man, again, this is a great write up! Can't stress this enough, it will be very important for your first videos. (Most of which are views from the YouTube homepage)And getting on the homepage led to 3,097 views in my video’s first week.So when I say “get featured on the homepage”, I’m talking about getting on the homepage for users that are signed in.With that, here are two ways to boost the odds that your video will appear on people’s homepages:YouTube’s homepage algorithm tends to feature videos that have two things going for them:And when you get lots of eyeballs on your new video, YouTube will happily feature it on their homepage.For example, I promote my new videos on social media:Which pushes lots of people to my brand new content on day 1:I’ve noticed that YouTube’s homepage tends to feature content from channels that you’re already subscribed to.So the more subscribers you have, the more views you’ll get from the homepage.This video from my channel was my first successful video:So I decided to apply what worked in this video to my future videos.Because I doubled down on what was already working, I was able to grow my channel in record time:Specifically, I looked for spots in my video where my audience retention was higher than average:For example, I noticed a big retention spike at 3:51:3:51 laid out the steps for one of the strategies in my video:So I decided to show steps in text form in all of my future videos:This is an easy way to get your subscribers PUMPED about your next video.First, publish a post about your upcoming video in your Or anything that builds anticipation for your video:(Which means they’ll be MUCH more likely to watch it when it goes live)Which strategy from today’s post are you ready to try first?Maybe you’re ready to preview videos in your Community Tab.Either way, let me know by leaving a comment below right now.Thanks for always putting so much thought and energy into this content. Best of luck with your new channel!Honestly, I’ve been on fence for the past few months on starting my YouTube channel due to the fact that I’ve always thought that it’ll be very difficult standing out in my kind of niche.But with this detailed I’ve gotten a blueprint to follow and go execute Hi Khris, nice! Every video has between 20-500 views, that’s it. Thank you very much!Thanks dude…… now I’m feeling like I got 5 million views in 2 days….. jhakahs Thanks for this useful information. I put a lot of work into this post so that’s really nice to hear.I do very, very little on Youtube but I’m picking up a few subscribers every day which is nice. You really stand out from the unhelpful noise that other “content creators” pump out.Hi Peter, thanks! In reality most people on youtube watch a few minutes and lose focus. Thank you.Nice! Yes, I’ve tried that and it definitely works (Especially when you include the link to YT as the first comment instead of the post itself).Hey, Brian, this article is simply amazing. But not super compelling either.So I added “and Case Studies” to make the title more interesting:And I’ve applied this same rule to all of my playlist titles.For example, one of my most popular playlists is called “How to Get Higher Google Rankings”:My original title for that playlist was: “SEO Tips and Strategies”.But I knew that my audience wants to learn “how to get higher Google rankings”.You might have noticed that I’ve embedded quite a few of my YouTube videos in this post.Not only do these embeds help you get more views, but they can also help your videos rank higher in YouTube’s search results.An industry study found that top ranking YouTube videos And when you post a link to your YouTube video, their algorithms are going to hide your post from your followers.Because my clip was native to Facebook, it was promoted around the platform like crazy.And once you post the clip, link to the full video as the first comment:That way, people that enjoyed your clip can easily find the full video on YouTube.Unfortunately, YouTube doesn’t tell you when most of your subscribers are online.So I recommend testing a few different days and times to see what works best for your channel.This is an easy way to boost your Session Time and YouTube views.First, look at the audience retention report for one of your videos.As you can see, this video has a massive retention drop at 6:16.And that card sends people to another video on your channel at the exact moment they would have clicked away:The YouTube homepage can be a GREAT source of views.39.4% of all of my views came from “Browse Features”. I haven’t been lucky over the years when it comes to YouTube SEO and that’s why I rarely pay attention or upload any more videos on YouTube. I might make a checklist for this post. At least that’s been my experience.Great info here as usual. I have applied all the above techniques on my latest youtube upload (video based on lectures and study materials) and have seen a good result compared to the previous one.I follow you regularly and your previous E-mail case study has also helped a lot. People need cues, and this will act as a cue to just click that subscribe button. Great insight.I know Brian’s guidance helps because, after studying everything he has published and diligently following his guidance, my video is #1 on YouTube for the keyword “Medicare”.
Members. But it’s still a great way to funnel people to your video.