[0:00] YouTube just released a brand new
[0:01] algorithm update for YouTube Shorts. And
[0:03] this doesn't only affect YouTube Shorts,
[0:04] this affects all of YouTube. So, you
[0:06] need to make sure that you're adapting
[0:08] to the new strategies for how to get
[0:09] more views, how to get more subscribers,
[0:11] and ultimately how to monetize your
[0:12] YouTube in 2026. And don't worry because
[0:15] I'm going to walk you through the five
[0:16] changes you need to make right now in
[0:18] this video that just helped this
[0:19] creator, this creator, and this creator
[0:21] all gain over 100,000 subscribers. And
[0:23] they're going to help you, too, so long
[0:25] as you don't skip any of them. Change
[0:26] number one is you need to understand
[0:28] what direction YouTube is actually going
[0:30] in. And in order to show this to you, I
[0:32] wanted to show you what YouTube looks
[0:33] like now. Okay. So, here's what I really
[0:36] want to emphasize to you. If we come
[0:37] over here to the YouTube homepage right
[0:39] here, what you are going to notice, the
[0:40] first thing that I am getting shown are
[0:42] three videos right here, long form
[0:44] videos. And two of these, guess what?
[0:46] Are non-sponsored videos. This one is a
[0:49] sponsored video. And then the rest of
[0:50] the content that shows up here is going
[0:52] to be shorts. And guess what? I don't
[0:54] even engage with shorts. I don't watch
[0:56] shorts. And then if we come down a
[0:57] little bit more, we're going to see more
[0:58] long form. We're going to see more long
[1:00] form and then more shorts. And if we
[1:02] look at this, what you're going to
[1:03] notice is there are more shorts getting
[1:05] shown to people than long form content.
[1:08] And guess what? This is on a computer.
[1:10] If you come over to a mobile device,
[1:12] it's even worse. People are getting
[1:13] shown more shorts. Now, I'm not saying
[1:15] that it's worse in the case that this is
[1:17] bad for YouTube. I'm saying it's worse
[1:19] in the case that you're only uploading
[1:21] long- form content. Now, let's say that
[1:23] we come over here and we do a search for
[1:25] something. For example, how to add text
[1:27] in video cap cut. Now, what you're going
[1:29] to see is that when we do a search for
[1:31] this, one long form video gets shown and
[1:33] then the rest of the content that's
[1:35] going to show here is going to be
[1:36] shorts. And I want you to look at
[1:38] something right here because this will
[1:39] actually tell you what people are
[1:41] actually clicking on, what people are
[1:42] actually watching. This long form video
[1:44] ranking number one literally by Cap Cut
[1:47] has 89,000 views. This video almost
[1:50] 550,000. This video 430,000. This video
[1:55] 460,000. This video 568,000.
[1:58] This video 28,000. If we come in here
[2:01] 393,000,
[2:03] 68,000 3 million. So what kind of
[2:05] content do you think that people are
[2:07] actually watching when they go to search
[2:09] for something? They are not watching
[2:10] this long form content anymore. They are
[2:12] now watching shorts. And you need to
[2:14] make sure that in 2026 you are doubling
[2:17] down not only on ranking for search with
[2:20] YouTube shorts but also that you are
[2:22] doubling down on uploading more YouTube
[2:24] shorts. In fact, the biggest creators on
[2:27] the platform are now prioritizing this.
[2:29] Now change number two is you need to
[2:31] make sure that you begin ranking for
[2:32] search with YouTube shorts. And there
[2:34] are several reasons that you need to do
[2:35] this. One short show up more than
[2:37] anything else on mobile devices. two
[2:39] LLMs like Google Gemini, Chat, Chippy,
[2:41] Claude, they actually go through and
[2:43] reference shorts more than long form
[2:45] content because in a lot of cases shorts
[2:47] deliver on the promise a lot earlier.
[2:49] Now, if you want to rank for search
[2:51] right now, there's essentially two
[2:52] things that you need to be focused on
[2:54] and I want to walk you through exactly
[2:55] what these things are because one of
[2:57] them is going to be the metadata on your
[2:58] post and the second is going to be
[3:00] making sure that you're using keyword
[3:02] research the right way. Now, the first
[3:04] key to being able to rank for search
[3:05] with YouTube Shorts is you need to make
[3:07] sure that you have your metadata set up
[3:09] correctly. If we come over here, this
[3:10] video right here is ranking for YouTube
[3:13] settings. And the reason that it's
[3:14] ranking for YouTube settings is if I do
[3:16] control find and I type in YouTube
[3:18] setting, you're going to notice that
[3:19] shows up one time in the title that
[3:22] shows up two times in the description. I
[3:24] have YouTube setting right here. And
[3:26] then I also have YouTube settings in the
[3:28] next sentence. So, if you want your
[3:30] stuff to actually rank on YouTube
[3:33] search, you need to make sure that one,
[3:34] the keyword shows once in the title.
[3:37] Two, the keyword shows twice in the
[3:39] description. And if we come down here to
[3:41] the tags, you're going to notice that it
[3:43] shows more than five times. And you need
[3:45] to make sure that the same exact thing
[3:47] is happening in your content. Now, one
[3:48] of my secret weapons for being able to
[3:50] do this is Vid IQ. In fact, that's
[3:51] what's giving me these title suggestions
[3:53] right here. That's what's giving me this
[3:55] description suggestion. And that's
[3:56] what's telling me exactly what tags I
[3:58] should be putting in my video because
[4:00] Vid IQ allows you to very easily use AI
[4:03] in order to figure out exactly what
[4:05] title, what description, what tags you
[4:07] should be using for specific keywords.
[4:09] In fact, if we come over here into the
[4:11] description details right here, what we
[4:13] could actually see is that if we click
[4:15] on this, we could tell it what our video
[4:17] is about, what our target keyword is,
[4:19] what emotion we want, and this actually
[4:20] goes through and then optimizes all
[4:22] those different things for us to be able
[4:25] to rank for search. In addition to that,
[4:26] if we come over to vidiq.com and we come
[4:29] over here to discover, you're going to
[4:30] see keywords right here. And what this
[4:33] is going to show us is exactly how many
[4:35] people are searching for things. For
[4:36] example, if I type in faceless
[4:38] Instagram, we can see 10,000 people are
[4:40] searching for this a month. This then
[4:41] gives me related keywords. It gives me
[4:43] questions around this. It gives me
[4:45] matching keywords. And this is going to
[4:47] tell me how easy it's going to be to
[4:49] rank for this term and how many people
[4:51] are actually going to be searching for
[4:52] it. In addition to that, if we scroll
[4:54] down right here, this is then going to
[4:55] show us all the different trending video
[4:57] down here that we could actually make
[5:00] content like. And as you can see, there
[5:02] are tons of videos. And then basically
[5:03] all you're doing is creating content
[5:05] with the title or the description or the
[5:09] thumbnail or on the topic. And then
[5:11] guess what that does? It increase the
[5:12] odds that you're going to be able to
[5:14] rank for search. And Vid IQ is a secret
[5:16] weapon to being able to figure that all
[5:17] really easily from one dashboard. The
[5:21] best part about Vid IQ is you could go
[5:22] to the pin comment below right now and
[5:23] get started with it today for only $1.
[5:25] This is an exclusive offer for my
[5:27] audience. And guess what? I would have
[5:28] never gained over 800,000 subscribers if
[5:30] it wasn't for Vid IQ. Because my secret
[5:32] to growing has been ranking for search
[5:34] and Vid IQ is the only tool that makes
[5:36] this incredibly easy to do. Not only
[5:38] because they do the keyword research,
[5:40] but also because they help you fix your
[5:42] metadata. So, what are you waiting for?
[5:43] Go to the pin comment below and register
[5:45] for it right now. Now, the next thing
[5:46] you need to make sure you're doing is
[5:48] you need to make sure that you're
[5:49] actually turning your viewers into
[5:51] subscribers because not only is this
[5:52] going to get you your 100K plaque or
[5:54] your million plaque a lot quicker than
[5:56] if you didn't do it, it's also going to
[5:58] help your videos get pushed out more.
[6:00] And here's the perfect way to do it. So,
[6:02] when it comes to actually getting
[6:03] subscribers from your viewers, you need
[6:05] to make sure you have a call to action
[6:06] in your content. You need to make sure
[6:08] that you're getting anywhere from a 2 to
[6:09] 5% conversion rate. So, if you get 1,000
[6:12] views, you should get 2 to 5% of
[6:14] followers from that, which is going to
[6:16] be anywhere from 20 to 50 subscribers
[6:18] from just 1,000 views. Now, if we come
[6:21] into my content, this is literally gets
[6:23] really obvious when I've used it and
[6:25] when I don't. So, if we click on this
[6:26] video right here, we can see 1.7 million
[6:28] views. This video gained me 34,000
[6:31] subscribers. Now, if we come down a
[6:33] little bit, let's say that we look at
[6:34] this video right here that got a million
[6:35] views. This one only got me 4,000
[6:37] subscribers. And the sole reason for
[6:39] that is because I did not put a call to
[6:41] action in this video. And in the other
[6:43] video, I had a call to action. Now, to
[6:45] double down what I was showing you
[6:47] earlier, I want to point something out.
[6:48] If we look at this video right here, 1.9
[6:51] million views. This video is getting
[6:52] almost all of its traffic from search.
[6:54] If we come over to this video right
[6:56] here, 1.7 million views. Once again,
[6:59] most of its traffic from search. If we
[7:01] come over to this video right here, 1.6
[7:03] million views, most of the traffic
[7:04] coming from search. If we come into this
[7:06] video right here, again, 1.3 million
[7:08] views, most of the traffic from search.
[7:10] So essentially, what you're trying to do
[7:12] is rank for search on YouTube, have a
[7:14] good call to action at the end, and that
[7:16] needs to be related to whatever the goal
[7:18] of your viewers are. For example, if I
[7:19] look at all of these shorts right here
[7:21] that have gotten over a million views,
[7:22] they're all about growing faster on
[7:24] YouTube. So, what I would do is simply
[7:25] just end the video in the last 3 seconds
[7:27] and say, "If you want to grow faster on
[7:29] YouTube, hit that subscribe button." And
[7:30] then 2 to 5% of the people that watch
[7:33] that video are going to hit that. That's
[7:34] why I've been able to gain so many
[7:36] subscribers. Now, the last thing that we
[7:38] need to cover now that you know how to
[7:40] get more views, how to get more reach,
[7:41] and how to turn those views into
[7:43] subscribers is how you actually monetize
[7:45] YouTube shorts. And I actually found out
[7:46] this method years ago, but I'm going to
[7:48] tell you about it today. Okay. So, if we
[7:51] look at my YouTube content, here's how
[7:52] I'm actually doing this. If we come over
[7:54] here and we type in Robert Benjamin,
[7:56] what we're going to see is that several
[7:59] different shorts pop up. For example,
[8:00] this one right here, how to go viral on
[8:02] Tik Tok. If we click on this video right
[8:03] here, what you are going to notice is if
[8:06] I pause it, we are pointing out to this
[8:09] related video right here. And if we skip
[8:10] to the end of the video, I say that if
[8:12] you want to get started with this, click
[8:14] this video here. And then if we click
[8:16] over here, what you're going to notice
[8:17] is that this is a long form video. But
[8:19] more importantly, this is a super short
[8:22] long- form video. It's only 2 minutes
[8:23] long. And we could see right here that
[8:25] I've driven a few thousand views to this
[8:27] video. And essentially, the only point
[8:29] of this video is to get people to click
[8:31] the link in the description here or to
[8:33] click the link in the pin comment. And
[8:35] guess what? This is actually driving
[8:37] additional signups for this tool right
[8:39] here, Metricool. And I'm not only using
[8:41] it for sponsorship deals, I'm also using
[8:44] it for other stuff. Now, something you
[8:45] want to make sure that you're doing when
[8:46] you're actually implementing a strategy
[8:48] like this is you want to make sure that
[8:49] you're coming through and replying to
[8:51] every single one of these comments right
[8:52] here because guess what that does? It
[8:53] increases the odds that people actually
[8:55] end up going with this. Now, if we come
[8:57] over to another one of my videos that
[8:59] I've uploaded, for example, this one
[9:00] right here, 1.9 million views. We could
[9:02] see that if I click on the related
[9:04] video, it's going to bring us over here.
[9:05] Now, look at this video. This one has
[9:07] gotten over 50,000 views. And again, we
[9:09] could see that the goal of this is to
[9:11] drive people to my programs right here.
[9:14] And this is exactly what you should be
[9:15] doing. Whether it's for sponsorship
[9:17] deals, affiliate offers, for your own
[9:19] program, you should be using a related
[9:21] video that's going to have a pitch in
[9:22] it. And then you can actually put a pin
[9:24] comment in here because you can't put a
[9:25] comment in YouTube shorts, but this is a
[9:27] way for you to still get a lot of views
[9:29] from YouTube Shorts, drive that traffic
[9:32] over to long form and be able to
[9:34] monetize people. Now, if you're still
[9:36] struggling to grow on YouTube, it's
[9:37] probably because one, you just haven't
[9:38] implemented the things I shared with you
[9:40] in this video, or two, you need some
[9:41] personalized one-on-one help. That's
[9:43] exactly what I want to offer you. In
[9:44] fact, I want to help you grow faster on
[9:45] YouTube by telling you everything you
[9:47] need to do differently. what to do
[9:48] differently with your titles, what kind
[9:50] of content you should create, how you
[9:51] should fix your videos, and so much
[9:53] more. If that sounds interesting, well,
[9:54] please check out this video right here
[9:56] that walks you through three different
[9:57] ways we can work together one-on-one,
[9:59] and I can help you grow faster on
[10:00] YouTube the same exact way I help this
[10:01] creator, this creator, and this creator
[10:03] skyrocket their growth. I'll see you
[10:05] over there.