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hello im a beginning you tuber i started my channel about 2 months ago, i
have 32 subs so far, but i have a question, how do i become known and
attract people to my video?
Socialblade claims that tags help with your google search ranking but not
your youtube search ranking. They also said your tags should be 3-4 words
long.
Hey Tim, when you hit 100k will you go clean shaven for a week?
Great! Didn’t know about that first week boost. Motivating :)
I’ve been using lots of tags and pretty extensive text descriptions. In
looking at the Analytics, it says about 20% of my views are from searches.
But as such a new channel, do my own views of my own channel skew the
analytics? Thanks!
I find that responding to current events gets a good bit of views. If there
is something that is very popular in the media people will be looking for
that.
Responding to other youtubers is another way.
Subjects independent of both of those is hard to get off the ground as a
small channel just because, like tim said, it’s what your subscribers are
clicking and watching along with your video and the more data google has to
use the better it can determine the quality and want of your video.
Great info. Thanks. I have learned so much from you. Greatly appreciated..
sir you have an amazing channel haaa. Great info thank you. I still am
convinced that children rule youtube. They want to see makeup tuts and
video games and music.. I watched a couple of popular channels and it was
some young kids yelling at the camera with NO real info.. Ok sorry RANT
over lol.. Thanks again for your help with these videos..
Hey +Smartmom1981 You were highlighted in a search in this video. Cool!
Very helpful as always!
When it comes to tags, I often try searching for a similar video to the one
I’m uploading. This helps me see what other people would call my video. For
example, I just uploaded a Spring LookBook, by searching “spring Lookbook”
I saw many people are sketching for “spring lookbook 2015”. This way I know
I should add the date to my tags.
This video was helpful, as always! On an unrelated note, I was wondering if
you have an opinion on whether there is any truth to the snowball effect
theory for channel growth? Have you noticed with the growth of your
channel, or by observing the growth of newly successful channels, any
points when growth rate obviously picked up in correlation with hitting
certain milestones? It’s clear that channels with 100k subs will grow much
faster than those with 1k for a variety of factors, but I wonder if there
are any typical common sub ranges when growth starts to rapidly accelerate.
Thank you, Tim!
Hey tim, Would you suggest writing tags in lowercase or uppercase?
Just make sure you have good keywords both in the title, description and
tags, this will help with search. And then make sure that you have a good
thumbnail, so it can grab the attention over similar videos. This helped me
a lot in the beginning. good luck!!
Hey Tim. Is Audience Retention Rate can make my videos more searchable like
the higher rate, the higher rank it is?
I have two tags that I use as the very last two in every video. I do this
so when google displays “related” videos in the sidebar, almost always I
dominate that area with my own vids, thus keeping people engaged with my
content.
great info tim..
Ypu are so true because i will not click on a video if the thumbnail is not
up to par. I have been usimg muvh better thumbnails on my videos and I have
definitely seen better results lately
I made a video 2 years ago, it had a total of 1800 views in that period. I
reworked the thumbnail and description and the video now has 300k views. I
wish I could figure the algorithm out, LoL. Thanks for another great video.
What do you think long tail vs short tail? For example would you put the
tags “YouTube Tags for SEO” and “Youtube tags for SEO results” or
“Youtube”,”Tags”,”SEO”,”Results”? Thoughts appreciated :)
Thanks Tim! I was just thinking about redoing my tags and descriptions.
It’s awesome that you’re keeping the content fresh since we all know things
change so frequently here. Much appreciated!
I didn’t know about that 7 day thing. So interesting! Thanks, Tim!
Really interesting, didn’t know a lot of this, thanks for explaining
everything, very helpful!
I think also making short videos is very important! The watch time is
relative, so if you’re doing a 1 minute video and most people watch 50
seconds then you get an almost 90% watch time rate! So don’t make videos
that are too long!
Thanks Tim, great info again
Our group was lucky enough to work with the under-grad psychology
departments of two universities here for five semesters from 2012-2014. We
helped to design research studies based on YouTube and video marketing in
general. Each semester we got three fourth year students to work with.
One thousand people volunteered for each study. Each student conducted 2
differing studies at the same time for a total of 6 studies per semester
and 30 studies overall. The information we were able to derive from the
data of each study was very revealing. This spring semester, those 30
studies were used in the grad schools of both universities. Their task was
to weed through the 9-15% of data that was inconclusive and design studies
specifically to reveal any hidden, conclusive statistics in that data.
This time, my group was not allowed to participate in the design. So,
anyhow, we were given a reasonable amount of insight into what makes some
videos more successful than others. The department chair anecdotally said
that each video posted is a study in its own right.