Youtube ranking factors

That right there is a great bit of advice!

Also don't forget - YouTube Search Adds Time Watched As Ranking Factor

Ok,

I assumed you were trying to rank the YT video in Google SERPs since you posted the thread in the SEO forum.

Don't buy views man. That's rubbish lol.

The same as buying views for a site.

It's just a number. Nothing more.

If you're gonna spend money (even if just a small amount)...

Advertise on YouTube via Ad Words.

$5 will probably get you a couple hundred REAL views.

I spent around $40 on one video...

I got around 4,000 views, 16 Likes, 13 Comments...

In about a week or so at $5 a day budget.

If you optimized your video for your keywords and still not ranking then addmefast services sucks.

Get high retention views, distribute it via social networks and embed it on high traffic web 2.0 sites. Make a video backlink as well, hopefully you should see some improvement.

This is something that is often overlooked.

But google is in the process of organizing channels by relevant groups. And one thing I've noticed with Youtube lately, if you have a FOCUSED channel, with all your content surrounding *1* particular subject, Youtube will show priority to your channel.... as opposed to having a channel, the covers 1001 completely different topics and niches.

So you need to focus on making relevant, "authority" youtube accounts.

ALL of my best performing channels are based on 1 niche. Then all the videos in my channel target subniches or highly relevant niches related to my broader niche.

And similar to what the above poster said, there has been times I've uploaded new videos, and had them ranking on page 1 of google in less than a week. Videos that have outranked competitors with a few hundred or even a few thousand backlinks. But this was usually because their SEO was a nightmare.

When their SEO is really good, I usually have to build links although I find it takes far less links when that video is on a targeted, authority type channel.

As far as ranking on Youtube, in my own experience, retention views count for the most. Followed by likes, then your view to like ratio, favorites, subs, shares, comments to views ratio etc etc.

Along with that, 100% "perfect" onpage SEO is basically a requirement if you're in any type of competitive niche. And I could write a small book just about onpage Video SEO. Having your keyword as your channel name gives you a huge advantage. The way your tags are ORGANIZED can give you a huge advantage. Having a 1000 word article, loaded with all your keyword gives you a HUGE advantage. Having your main keyword twice in the title, or your main keyword and secondary keyword gives you a huge advantage.

But what most people MISS, imho, is the retention view part.

I have tested dozens of different paid view suppliers. And there are some very credible suppliers out there (*credible in appearance* I should say), very affordable, who are providing SHIT views. The views might look good in your analytics, but they are botted, shit views.

On the other hand, there are some more expensive view suppliers I've used, who I ordered from, and I noticed every time I'd order their views I'd get sales. Which never happened before with other suppliers. So I realized this particular view supplier had to be sending me REAL traffic. It was still paid retention views, but bots do NOT buy affiliate products.

I also noticed, compared to other retention view suppliers, it takes about 1/3 as many views when I use him (to rank #1 in YT) compared to other suppliers I used.

So its not always as simple as you think. You don't just find some random view supplier, keep using them, get shitty results then question whats going wrong. You have to test many different suppliers, and you WILL notice that certain suppliers dramatically outperform their competitors.

You will also notice they tend to be the most expensive (per 1000 retention views). But I have learned overtime, they are actually cheaper. Because with other suppliers, I have to get 3-4 times the amount just to rank.

There are so many other factors that I can't get into. But usually, if you're buying views, and you're not ranking, you need to find a new retention view supplier. And please don't pm me for who I use. I don't invest hundreds of dollars in testing to give all my best sources away on a silver platter.

-SB