This document provides tips to increase views and engagement on YouTube videos. It recommends hooking viewers within the first few moments of the video, optimizing titles and descriptions for searchability, adding relevant tags, using high-quality thumbnails and transcriptions, keeping videos short and focused, adding motion, music and calls to action, linking to other videos, and promoting videos in their first week to pass YouTube's initial screening. The overall goal is to create shareable and search-optimized content that keeps viewers engaged.
3. Great content
⢠Start off your video by hooking viewers in give a clear outline in the first few
moment of your video like
⢠In this video we will be taking a look at how to
⢠Today we are speaking about
⢠Also make sure your video are interesting and sharable. If it strikes up an
emotion in someone, they are much more likely to share the video through
social media
4. Optimize titles
⢠Having an amazingly awesome title is like the first time you meet someone.
You have to give an outstanding impression that is memorable.
⢠Keep title short â under 10 words and use numbers if possible. Make sure the
keyword is in the title and towards the beginning if you can.
⢠You will be able to increase YouTube views through simple optimizing your
titles.
⢠Some YouTube experts say that the keyword in the title is not critical to deliver
your message but SEO would say otherwise.
⢠The goal : spark interest and get views
5. Optimize description
⢠The description is a key part of YouTube's ranking algorithm.
⢠That means you have to spend time writing a quality description if
you want your video to be viewed.
⢠160 word minimum, includes keyword , add a call to action in the
form of a URL (get your viewers to take action), add social media or
website links with contact information and the first 2 sentences
are the most important
6. Tags
⢠Tags are much more important on YouTube than other platform such as blogs.
Tags add to the growth and life of your video. You need 3 types of tags
specific contextual generic
⢠Increase YouTube views with tags
⢠Specific aka long tail keyword that people would type into Google ex: large
paste machine
⢠Contextual: describe general subject of the video ex: paste, cooking
⢠Generic: simple and very general words ex: DIY, howto, hints, Top 10
7. Set your thumbnail
⢠The thumbnail is the still frame of the video with the play button over it .use
thumbnails to increase YouTube views you can choose which picture shows up. Try the
tool called canvas YouTube thumbnails should
⢠Make it pop: Make it brightly collared ,interesting stand out from the background, clear
and in focus, and face close-ups can get high click through rates
⢠Have text: Overlay text onto your thumbnail. if your video gets shared around the
internet, the title you wrote on YouTube wont always accompany your video. 4 wards or
less
⢠Be reviewed on size: Make sure the thumbnail in visible with readable text on both a
small and large scale, especially for the size bar which is 120x68 px
⢠Avoid bait & switch :Give people what they want. If they click on the video expecting
one thing and get another, well donât expect many shares and full length views. Donât
sacrifice attention grabbing pictures and text for inaccuracy
8. High quality video
⢠Duh we are in the HD video age.
⢠Donât be VCR quality(for the millennial: that was a special box that played low
quality movies before the internet.)
⢠if your video is not high definition (and youâre not doing it on purpose for
effect),you want to create a great experience for your viewers
9. Transcribe/show notes
⢠There is an auto transcriber available from YouTube. Donât use it .
⢠Do it yourself for accuracy or try another online service that will do it on the
cheap.
⢠Great transcripts will increase you tube views.
⢠Why transcribe? For closed captioning and subtitles and for indexing text in
YouTube's ranking algorithm(because YouTube is not yet smart enough to
watch videos like human do)
10. Short and sweet
⢠Under 5 minutes. If longer than that split into multiple videos.
⢠Make sure your videos have single focus and donât cover too much.
⢠YouTube is great about showing upcoming videos in the sidebar or leading you
to a channel to watch the whole series so donât worry about viewers missing
out on you content that also means you have to make every video equally as
attention capturing
11. Add motion
⢠Ever watch a tv show or music video and the shot keeps changing every few
seconds?
⢠You need to keep your viewers eye responding to you content by changing
something on the screen every 3 to 10 seconds at a minimum.
⢠Zooming in and out of the picture counts so no need to get fancy
12. Add music
⢠Adding music will make views emotionally connect better with your content
⢠there a reason why popular media includes music
⢠even by YouTube free music selection just make sure to attribute ring videos
can seem interesting when adding in the right track. Try it
13. ADD A CALL TO ACTION
⢠YOU GOTEM. NOW WHAT HAVE THEM DO A SIMPLE ACTION.
⢠FOR EXAMPLE a thumbs up, leave a comment contact you, visits a website,
subscribe to your channel, share the video, etc.
⢠Include a call to action at the end of your video with an ever so polite way of
asking if you liked my video do this
14. Link to other videos
⢠Once you have had a viewer watch one of your videos, they are much more
likely to watch another video than a random click.
⢠Why not make it super easy by providing the link.
⢠Linking can also contribute to your video ranking you gain more points from
YouTube when more people watch your videos.
⢠That in turn makes you rank faster and higher and now you're the popular girl
at school
15. Link building
⢠After youâve created this amazing video, breathe some life into it with link
building.
⢠If you want to increase YouTube views, link building is huge. Reminder to mix
up your link building
16. ⢠The first week the video is up YouTube trends to send more traffic to your video. This
is because YouTube's algorithm is trying to figure out if it is interesting and engaging
to watch. YouTube goal is to provide the most engaging content so if you donât pass
the first week test it will be hard to get over that.
⢠How to boost video on first week
⢠Post on any social platform
⢠Email o your subscriber or costumers
⢠Email to friends and family
⢠Post and embed on forms or blogs
⢠Ask fiends to create response
⢠Write and distribute a press realize about your YouTube channel
⢠Try using majestic site explorer
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