Top 11 Real Ways to Get More Views on Your YouTube Channel
A Real Journey Tips From Zero To Hero Making YouTube Channel Grow
Are you struggling to get views on your YouTube video?
Are you will learn the best way to generate tons of views on your videos?
Have you just started your YouTube channel and struggling for views?
Wait, guys! In this article, I am going to give answers to all your queries by sharing a perfect and legitimate process to generate a good number of views on your YouTube videos.
As you know, in my last article I had shared with you the top reasons why my YouTube channel failed to gain views and subscribers. I believe you should go through that and check whether are you making the same mistakes or not and if yes then avoid those immediately.
From my past experiences I have jotted down some of the best and real ways to get more views on your YouTube videos and channel which I think will help you all for sure. So, here are the topics which I am going to cover here:
- Make Your Content Engaging
- Choose Your Channel Niche
- Pattern Interrupt
- YouTube Keyword Research
- Google Keyword Research
- Attractive Thumbnails
- Boost Your CTR
- Optimize Your Video Descriptions
- Create Viewing Loops
- Timestamps
- YouTube Shorts
So, are you ready to start the amazing journey of learning and ready to brainstorm with me? Are you ready to make your Youtube channel grow?
Remember…
If you’re reading this then I hope something good happens to you today.
1. Make Your Content Engaging
I believe in many of the articles, you have read this ‘Make your content engaging’ but do you really know, how to do that?
The first 10–15 sec of the video is the deciding factor for a viewer to watch the complete video. When you start your you should do the following things:
a. Keep your appearance professional. b. Always keep an eye to eye contact with the viewer as it is you are talking to your audience. c. Start your video with a question or share a reason to watch.
If you follow the above tips, your videos get benefits in various ways. These are:
a. Watch time — The more people watch for a longer time; the average time of video watch also increases resulting in more recommendations from YouTube to new viewers. b. Average views per viewer — The number of times a viewer watches your videos. c. Click Through Rate — A good thumbnail will increase impression and chances of more clicks. d. Engagement Metrics — More likes and comments.
Some technical aspects that you need to focus on and definitely it will increase your viewership. These are:
a. Use the professional microphone to Improve your sound quality. b. Whether you use DSLR or a mobile phone. Mind to have a good camera quality. 3. Must have good light adjustment. 4. Adjust your camera angles to be in the centre of focus.
If I talk about the channel that has engaging content and good views on their videos, then there is a case study which I will like to check to understand ‘How many views I received for 36k views on a video.
2. Choose Your Channel Niche
‘Choose the niche that you enjoy, where you can excel and stand a chance of becoming an acknowledged leader.’
It is rightly said and I strongly believe in this. As I mentioned in my last blog where I explained to you the importance of Niche selection. A channel with selected niches and videos will attract more people who will watch your videos and subscribe to your channel. If you are working on videos with multiple topics then you are just scattering your channel with non-targeted audiences resulting in a big zero. A selected niche will help you to become a specialist instead of a generalist. Before choosing a niche, you must think 3 questions and if you get your answer, then you are set to go:
a. Do your channel or video help people to solve problems? b. Can you create an entertaining video around the topic? c. Do your videos appeal to a targeted audience set?
3. Pattern Interrupt
As we know, more people watch your videos for a longer period the audience retention increases. Do you know, YouTube loves it when people watch your videos till the end? It is not necessary that every audience should your video till the end but if your audience watches your video to half at least then it increases your audience retention. A positive signal reaches YouTube and it starts recommending more and more audiences. But the question arises, how you are going to make this happen? The answer is ‘Pattern Interrupt’. Include tricks, jerks, Gifs, graphics and even audio snippets. In simple, anything that is relevant to your video topic, that your audience engaged.
4. YouTube Keyword Research
YouTube is the world 2nd largest search engine and 1st largest video search platform with billions of searches happening monthly.
I’m sure you might be asking me; how do I know what people are searching in my niche? The answer is simple, type words or phrases that match your niche. You’ll be surprised to check the numbers, it might be in billions. I’m sure you’d have understood the importance of keywords or phrases. Now, the question stands! How will you do keywords research for your video? The best way to do this, by answering yourself and implementing some steps to find the right set of them.
a. You need to know, what exactly your video is on? b. What type of audience is going to watch it? c. What type of problem your video is going to solve. If you came to know the above answers, now you can use several tools available in the market to research the subject.
The other method is to use an asterisk at the beginning and end of your video to find topics based on your subject. You can copy the title and place it as your keyword.
When you type phrases on the YouTube search bar, it also recommends phrases or keywords, which are basically the suggested terms which people are searching for. You can use them for your videos too.
In fact, you can use keyword extractor tools in which you can place the top-ranking videos and extract their tags. You can use those tags in your video title, description and tags.
I suggest going with the top 2 YouTube tool TubeBuddy & VidIq that really helps in various ways. You can do keyword research, tags, title, write descriptions etc. It simply helps you I improving your Youtube SEO.
5. Google Keyword Research
As per the latest update, the Google video carousel appears in 67% of searches on desktops and 54% on mobile. In those searches, YouTube dominates 90% of the market share. It means that people are looking for such content and Google is actively pushing them your way!
Search with your niche search terms or phrases on Google, the recommended search phrases you can use and the suggested keywords at the bottom are other sources. You can include those to your tags, title and description to make sure your videos are also ranking on Google searches.
6. Attractive Thumbnails
It is being said that a beautiful face attracts more people towards it. Explaining this in simple terms, a thumbnail that has a clear message to the user can increase your Click-through-rate (CTR).
It is very much important because the more people click on your video, YouTube finds it relevant to show to more audiences. So, when you create your thumbnail keep three important tips in mind:
a. Use a relevant image b. Use relevant keywords c. Use a consistent colour scheme
7. Boost Your CTR
If you are a TubeBuddy’s premium member then you get access to ‘Click Magnet’. Click Magnet tool helps you get even more out of thumbnails and titles. It’ll suggest changes so that you can tweak your titles and thumbnails that can grab more attention and get a higher CTR.
8. Optimize Your Video Descriptions
Video description is the most important part of YouTube. This is the most important section where you can place the keywords variations to improve your video searches. You can include links, social profile details and other relevant information’s. You can follow the format that might work well for you:
a. Add an opening sentence with keywords and CTA to subscribe to your channel. b. Summarize your details with 50–100 words c. List of video recommendations
9. Create Viewing Loops
Viewing Loops means users watch your videos continuously back to back. You heard me right, video watch times are the important factor of the YouTube algorithm. It gives a positive message to YouTube that your views are serving the problems of user and they are loving it. So, as I mentioned earlier YouTube will start recommending your videos to more users. Now the question is, How you are going to create viewing loops?
You can do these 3 ways and trust me these are simple methods that mainly every YouTuber ignores:
1. Add end screen — You can add thumbnails, links to your end screen redirecting them to your new video or channel. The viewer can watch your video from the same or might reach to your channel and choose to watch some other video resulting in more watch time. 2. Add cards — This is another good opportunity to engage your viewers. Add cards generally comes in beginning, between or end of the video depending on your choice of placement of yours. A viewer might click on that and move to a new one resulting in increased watch time. 3. Create Playlist — When you have created a good number of videos in a series. You can create a specific playlist for that. Viewers landing on your channel can visit your playlist and play more videos.
10. Timestamps
It is a new feature of YouTube that allows creators to mark their video timelines. For example, a video introduction, subject part, chapter and end parts. This offer viewers the flexibility to watch the video as per their interest and demand. To create a timestamp, you need to follow a format: hh:mm:ss, which will automatically create a timestamp link for your videos. You can add this to your description to trigger it.
11. YouTube Shorts
It is one of the best ways to bring traction to your channel by creating 15–60 sec videos and sharing on your feed a hashtag #shorts. The best of this is that everyone is eligible to use this incredible feature.
Before creating shorts, there are a couple of things to consider:
a. Your video should be vertical, which mean it should be in the ratio of 3:9. b. It should be 60 sec or less. c. You must include #shorts in the title and description to help YouTube to identify your content as YouTube shorts.
Wrapping this Up Now!!!
Guys, as I have not mentioned here about some of the points which I feel is common and are mentioned in most of the articles present on the web. These are:
- Include keywords in Title, Description & Tags.
- Be consistent with video uploads and maintain timing.
- Engage your audience through the YouTube community (applicable for creators whose channels are monetized).
- Premiere your video
- Collaborate with other Youtubers or Influencers for more exposure.
- Promote your video through YouTube ads.
- Promote your videos on social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn etc.
- Engage with your audience by replying to their comments.
- Ask your viewers to subscribe to your channel during your video intros.
- Embed your videos to blogs and articles.
- Add transcription of your videos to make people read in multiple languages.
