Some tips for getting more views on Youtube.

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While your YouTube channel might be producing high-quality content, if it isnt getting audience attention and views youre missing out on huge opportunities.
Views are essentially the blood that keeps a Youtube account alive, here are a few things that can help you to get that blood pumping!


Make sure your content is appealing

Youtube is all about the content, and one of the reasons the content is so important here, is because People wont watch any video they dont find attractive, so you need to make sure your videos are, otherwise, no one will watch them, is that simple.
One of the things that are trending right now are tutorials and how-to videos, a lot of brands are using them to get views (Mcdonalds for example, recently released a video explaining how to make their famous sauce), this kind of videos is a good place to start your Youtube channel.
Emotional videos are also a good idea, if you create good content that gets to your audience feeling, the results will be amazing, no doubt about it.


Ask your audience to subscribe

One of the best ways to get more views is to ask your audience to subscribe to your channel. This helps make sure that they are aware of any new content you post and puts necessary pressure on you to post consistently. The easiest way to get your audience to subscribe to your channel is to provide a clear and simple call to action in some of your videos, you can notice that this is something all youtubers do.
Your viewers are engaged and looking for a next step when they finish watching a video, so provide them with one. However, you need to make sure that this subscribe request isnt coming across as a cringe-inducing beg, but rather a helpful suggestion.


Use playlists!

The main thing to remember when youre trying to increase your YouTube views is discoverability. Your channel and videos obviously cant get the views they deserve if your target audience cant find your brands content. Organization plays a huge role in discoverability.
Your channel is a direct representation of your brand, and you want to make sure that customers see you at your best. Dont present them with a messy, disorganized YouTube experience.
You can create playlists, whether of your own original content or curated content from other relevant makers and brands, and help your audience find more of the videos they want to see.


Optimize your metadata

To get more views on your YouTube videos, think about how your target audience might discover your content. Ask yourself what kinds of keywords they would use when conducting a search, and what sort of video titles would they click on?
These are the questions you need to consider when filling in the metadata for your video to increase discoverability and views. Metadata includes the video title, description, tags, category, thumbnail, subtitles, and closed captions (if applicable). This information helps videos get discovered more easily, and adds important context to your content.
Here are some tips you can take into account when designing your metadata:
  • Be short and sweet with your videos metadata. Instead of describing every component of your video, use a few words to sum up the main idea.
  • Use subtitles and closed captions. These help broaden your audience to non-native language speakers and those who are hearing-impaired.
  • Follow the rules and dont use clickbait tactics.

Youtube is a very important place for brands these days, but most brands are not using it properly, some of this tips can help you improve your channel and get more views.


What other tips would you add to the list?
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  • Profile picture of the author go tie me up
    Thank you for the tips. This is really informative and it gives a brief summary of what is important about getting more views on YouTube. I will definitely give this a try when I get to do my own channel!
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  • Profile picture of the author NotBelieve
    From what I noticed subscription and likes of your video plays much more role for your channel if your users will do it after watching full video, it seems that Google knows that if people like video after watching it - it is more interesting and helps avoid paid likes
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  • Profile picture of the author EugeneWHZ
    I think that is normal to ask user to press "like" and subscribe to your channel. That is normal. Although that works only if you have really interesting content within your channel. If your content is not that interesting that would be useless.
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  • Profile picture of the author jpdsa
    This is a great list of tips. Another suggestion is to have a YouTube widget included in your blog and also make it visible in other social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, etc. to make sure it will be seen by more people. Also, try to engage with the viewers. Respond to their comments or inquiries as this will gain their engagement.
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  • Profile picture of the author DWaters
    Thank you for posting these tips. I set up my youtube channel some time ago and I have pretty much ignored it since then. After viewing your tips I am motivated to work on it again and make it work for me. Thanks...
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  • Profile picture of the author Sam JTB
    Great tips so far.

    Another thing that helps - add text to your thumbnail. I read somewhere that most people don't even read video titles (which is why it also helps to have an attractive thumbnail photo).
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  • Profile picture of the author michaelkoehler92
    Some of the tips from my side would be to focus more on Video quality it should be good. Now comes the optimization part, I always focus more on tags then title and description of the videos, Tags are something that tells youtube what your video is actually about where it should be shown every youtuber knows that if your video appears in a suggested field then it receives a lot of views and tags play a important role in that.

    Description it should be long and should contain the proper keywords that we want to target as that helps in ranking the video. if you keep these things in consideration you will easily be able to drive a lot of views to your videos.
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  • Profile picture of the author xx 8c
    I agree. You can also take advantage of YouTube Annotations to have a link for them to subscribe, give you a thumbs up or link to your other videos or playlist. Another thing is that you can also send a video response to other videos (most preferably a related one) to have it seen by more audience as well.
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  • Profile picture of the author apache421
    These are some very useful tips indeed. First of all you need to be very clever when adding metadata for your videos on Youtube. Choose words that people will google the most while looking online for a video like yours; for this think like a simple user. What would you search for?
    Secondly get people to subscribe for your Youtube channel after watching your videos so that whenever you put up something new they get a notification and they will get to watch it. this leads us to the third point that is make your videos interesting. only if your first video was interesting enough then people will subscribe and bother watching more of your upcoming videos in the future.
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  • Profile picture of the author HenryWNeville
    For increasing the views on You Tube you must focus on the following points:
    Try to increase your subscribers.
    Focus on Bulletins.
    Video responses are also one way to increase the views.
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  • Profile picture of the author Drake Nicholson
    1. Annotations across videos[/B]
    2. Playlists
    3. Subscribers
    4. Bulletins
    5. Video Responses
    6. Community
    7. Topical Content
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  • Thank you so much for posting its really very useful
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  • Profile picture of the author AMorrisonP
    Originally Posted by RichardKasper View Post

    While your YouTube channel might be producing high-quality content, if it isnt getting audience attention and views youre missing out on huge opportunities.
    Views are essentially the blood that keeps a Youtube account alive, here are a few things that can help you to get that blood pumping!


    Make sure your content is appealing

    Youtube is all about the content, and one of the reasons the content is so important here, is because People wont watch any video they dont find attractive, so you need to make sure your videos are, otherwise, no one will watch them, is that simple.
    One of the things that are trending right now are tutorials and how-to videos, a lot of brands are using them to get views (Mcdonalds for example, recently released a video explaining how to make their famous sauce), this kind of videos is a good place to start your Youtube channel.
    Emotional videos are also a good idea, if you create good content that gets to your audience feeling, the results will be amazing, no doubt about it.


    Ask your audience to subscribe

    One of the best ways to get more views is to ask your audience to subscribe to your channel. This helps make sure that they are aware of any new content you post and puts necessary pressure on you to post consistently. The easiest way to get your audience to subscribe to your channel is to provide a clear and simple call to action in some of your videos, you can notice that this is something all youtubers do.
    Your viewers are engaged and looking for a next step when they finish watching a video, so provide them with one. However, you need to make sure that this subscribe request isnt coming across as a cringe-inducing beg, but rather a helpful suggestion.


    Use playlists!

    The main thing to remember when youre trying to increase your YouTube views is discoverability. Your channel and videos obviously cant get the views they deserve if your target audience cant find your brands content. Organization plays a huge role in discoverability.
    Your channel is a direct representation of your brand, and you want to make sure that customers see you at your best. Dont present them with a messy, disorganized YouTube experience.
    You can create playlists, whether of your own original content or curated content from other relevant makers and brands, and help your audience find more of the videos they want to see.


    Optimize your metadata

    To get more views on your YouTube videos, think about how your target audience might discover your content. Ask yourself what kinds of keywords they would use when conducting a search, and what sort of video titles would they click on?
    These are the questions you need to consider when filling in the metadata for your video to increase discoverability and views. Metadata includes the video title, description, tags, category, thumbnail, subtitles, and closed captions (if applicable). This information helps videos get discovered more easily, and adds important context to your content.
    Here are some tips you can take into account when designing your metadata:
    • Be short and sweet with your videos metadata. Instead of describing every component of your video, use a few words to sum up the main idea.
    • Use subtitles and closed captions. These help broaden your audience to non-native language speakers and those who are hearing-impaired.
    • Follow the rules and dont use clickbait tactics.

    Youtube is a very important place for brands these days, but most brands are not using it properly, some of this tips can help you improve your channel and get more views.


    What other tips would you add to the list?
    Thanks for sharing thus informative post
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  • Profile picture of the author AleksandarP
    Nice topic and nice post
    I have a friend who has 1.6m subs on youtube and he earns tons of money from his videos. He plays video games and there are alot of people who follow him.
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  • Profile picture of the author ranjivkapoor
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    Amazing tips..!! Thanks..
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