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title: 'How to Get More Views on YouTube (FAST)'
source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=csvZOsLNovc'
video_id: 'csvZOsLNovc'
date: 2026-07-28
duration_sec: 1088
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# How to Get More Views on YouTube (FAST)

> Source: [How to Get More Views on YouTube (FAST)](https://youtube.com/watch?v=csvZOsLNovc)

## Summary

This video presents a comprehensive, step-by-step process for growing YouTube views from near zero to over 100,000 per month. It covers advanced strategies including audience interaction, promotion on Quora, optimizing session time, finding video keywords, channel optimization, and creating emotionally compelling titles.

### Key Points

- **YouTube's Ranking Factors** [01:28] — YouTube promotes videos with high audience interaction: likes, comments, subscribers. A study showed these are huge ranking signals.
- **Audience Interaction Strategies** [02:25] — Ask specific questions at the end of videos (e.g., 'which strategy will you try first?') and reply to every comment to boost engagement.
- **Promote on Quora** [03:17] — Search for questions related to your video, write a detailed answer that stands alone, and link the video for more details.
- **Optimize for Session Time** [04:00] — Session time (total minutes watched on YouTube after starting your video) is a key ranking factor. Use playlists to chain videos and keep viewers on the platform.
- **Video Keywords for Google** [06:41] — Optimize videos for 'video keywords'—terms that trigger video carousels in Google search. Find them by searching your keyword and checking for video results.
- **Channel Optimization with PAS Method** [08:03] — PAS: Playlists, About, Subscribers. Organize playlists with compelling names, write an optimized about section with keywords, and design a professional channel banner.
- **Promote High-Retention Videos as Cards** [11:04] — In YouTube Analytics, find videos with high average view duration. Use cards on popular videos to send traffic to that high-retention video.
- **Facebook Preview Hack** [12:29] — Upload your video to Facebook as a native post, write a title-only caption, then in the comments add the YouTube link. This drives views to YouTube.
- **Suggested Video Optimization (SVO)** [13:44] — Find a popular video in your niche, create a better version, use similar keywords in title/description/tags, and YouTube will suggest your video alongside the popular one.
- **Emotionally Compelling Titles** [15:24] — Titles with emotional appeal get more clicks. Use the American Marketing Institute's Emotional Marketing Value Headline Analyzer to score titles (target 25%+).
- **Best Time to Publish** [16:49] — According to a study, best times are weekdays 12-4 PM EST, weekends 9-11 AM EST. Best days: Thursday and Saturday.

### Conclusion

By implementing these step-by-step strategies—audience engagement, promotion on external platforms, session time optimization, channel refinement, and title crafting—YouTubers can significantly boost their views and grow their channels faster.

## Transcript

more views on your YouTube videos step-by-step. This video is meant for advanced YouTubers you've heard a hundred times already.
Instead, you're gonna learn advanced strategies from this video to quickly grow my views
from almost zero to over a hundred thousand views per month. If you want to get lots of views on every video that you publish, make sure to watch the rest of this video.
putting it up on YouTube and getting no views. When I first started on YouTube, my videos struggled Refresh, refresh, refresh.
Over the years, I developed a process for getting views This step-by-step process helped me grow my views, Now it's time for me to share this process with you
on your YouTube videos. get more audience interaction. interact with your video?
In fact, they state that, "including how well the title description and video content "Beyond that, we look at which videos
In other words, YouTube promotes videos So, if you can get more likes, comments, and subscribes, YouTube will show your video to more people.
According to a YouTube ranking factor study turned out to be a huge YouTube ranking signal. like comments, likes, and subscribes
all correlated with higher rankings in YouTube. Here are two strategies that work great. at the end of your video.
But they hate thinking. So, instead of asking your viewers to share their thoughts, For example, in this video, I outline a bunch
And at the end of the video, I asked my viewers, they're gonna try first. Second, reply to every single comment that you get.
with your audience, they're more likely to leave a comment. Also, according you YouTube, quote, "and have positive interactions,
That means even more views. in the first week after one of my videos goes live.
Promote your videos on Quora and other online communities. are awesome places to get more views
First, search for a question that your video this video about link building. So, I searched in Quora for keywords like SEO
I knew that just linking to my video as an answer that could stand on its own. in case people wanted to see more details.
Now, it's time for our third step Optimize for session time, which is a little known metric that might be YouTube's number one ranking factor right now.
which is the percentage of your video people watch. which is the total amount of minutes over it's lifespan.
That said, there's one huge metric Session time is the total amount of time after they start watching your video.
a video about the paleo diet That's great, this will boost your audience retention But here's where things get interesting.
to what the user does next. But if that person watches another one of your videos,
Because your video is keeping people on YouTube, in the search results and have you show up In fact, YouTube has said on the record that,
"included prioritizing videos that lead The question is, how you do you increase your session time? Whenever someone watches a video that's on a playlist,
on that playlist, boosting your session time automatically. that creating playlists has significantly increased for all the videos on my channel.
that each have four to five videos. As a quick pro tip, I recommend using That way, more people actually click on
For example, I used to name my playlists That led to boring playlist titles Today, I give my playlists a compelling name
And if you check out my channel page, like How to Get Higher Google Rankings and Advanced SEO Strategies and Case Studies.
which is to optimize your videos around video keywords. are dominating Google search results. In fact, over half of all Google results contain one video,
If you optimize your video around keywords you can get more views. in Google, video keywords.
You see, many Google search results But, video keyword results reserve a section of the page These are the type of keywords
Why is this so important? around the keyword YouTube marketing. you don't see any video results.
about YouTube marketing ever made, So, how do you find video keywords? It's easy, just search for your keyword in Google.
in the search results, you just found a video keyword. And give yourself a high-five. Optimize your channel using the PAS method.
into optimizing my channel page. Instead, I focused a 100% on each video that I published. "as long as my videos are optimized, I'm all set."
The more I studied successful channels, into optimizing their channel Sure enough, when I finally optimized my channel,
For example, my old channel had an ugly header Even worse, my videos were listed in random order. was set up or structured.
It's also keyword optimized for terms More on that later. my channel using the PAS method.
for Playlists, About, Subscribers. We already talked about playlists So, now that you have some playlists set up,
it's time to add them prominently to your channel page. you'll have a bunch of awesome playlists for them to watch. has three playlists strategically placed on my channel page.
So, why is your channel's about section so important? what your channel is all about. So, it could help your video SEO.
Also, a well optimized channel can rank in YouTube To optimize your about section, just include keywords without keyword stuffing.
sounds nice and natural. that I want my videos to rank for. to get more subscribers.
But, when you go to that video's channel page, How likely would you be to watch more of their videos? On the other hand, let's say their channel looked like this.
Of course, this channel is about Star Wars Fortunately, it's not hard to create a professional channel art banner,
why they should subscribe to your channel. Promote your high-retention videos as a card. that has the potential to be huge.
It just needs a little push. First, log into your YouTube analytics Then, look at the average view duration column.
that each person spends watching your video. that already has a high view duration, that video will rack up lots and lots of watch time.
The best way to send more people to that video, feature that video as a card on one of your other videos. of your most popular videos and add a card
For example, this video from my channel has an average view duration of five minutes 22 seconds. and that's probably why it doesn't have that many views.
to that video. and get promoted across YouTube's platform. on your channel page.
of your channel page and, bada-bing-bada-boom, Let's move right along to step seven, This is a little hack that I recently discovered
So, you already know that you should promote your video But if you just link to your video in your post, Instead, I recommend using the Facebook preview.
Let me show you how this works with a real life case study. that I published on my channel. and uploaded it to Facebook.
Then, I wrote a post that contained the title of the video. or to sell your video that much. That way, the focus is on your video.
is in the comments. This strategy worked out great. My Facebook preview video was viewed more than 3,000 times.
to see my full video, which led to a huge spike And that's all there is to the Facebook preview. optimize your videos for SVO, get more views.
It's crazy, everyone and their mom focuses 100% on ranking and they sleep on suggested video. In fact, the vast majority of views on YouTube
They come from the suggested video sidebar. I actually get more views from suggested video That said, how do you actually get your videos
The secret is to optimize your video around the same keywords that popular videos I call this process SVO, suggested video optimization.
First, find a popular video in your industry. to look for will depend on your niche, but in general, the more views this video has, the better.
as the popular video. You can make a video better by including more content, or including more visual elements.
that the popular video is optimized around. that video uses in your video title, description, and tags.
YouTube will pop your video next to that popular video, Okay, so, now it's time for out last step create emotionally compelling titles.
which will lead to more views. But, I don't see as many people talk about your video title. your entire video.
to their own internal data, "Well written titles "and sharing your video or scrolling right past it." are optimized for SEO.
From lots and lots of testing, I've found that emotionally compelling titles work best on YouTube. in industry studies like this one by BuzzSumo
As it turns out, this also applies to video titles The best way to add emotion to your video title is to pop your title into the American Marketing Institute's
This tool will rate the emotion of your title. You want your title to get a score of at least 25% If you title isn't racking up a high score,
to your title. into the tool, it gets a score of 33.3% Let's cap things off with a quick bonus tip,
So, what's the best time to publish a video on YouTube? Specifically, a study by a YouTube network on this question.
to maximize views is between 12 and 4 P.M. eastern during the week and between 9 and 11 A.M. on the weekend. are Thursdays and Saturdays.
more views on YouTube. to my YouTube channel right now. Also, if you want exclusive SEO and traffic techniques
head over to Backlinko.com and hop on the newsletter. Which technique from today's video are you gonna try first? Or try the Facebook preview?
Let me know by leaving a comment below right now. When I first started out, on YouTube... I heard that, too.
That explains it.