How to Get More Views on YouTube (FAST)

[00:00] more views on your YouTube videos step-by-step. This video is meant for advanced YouTubers you've heard a hundred times already.

[00:15] Instead, you're gonna learn advanced strategies from this video to quickly grow my views

[00:27] 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.

[00:44] putting it up on YouTube and getting no views. When I first started on YouTube, my videos struggled Refresh, refresh, refresh.

[01:00] 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

[01:15] on your YouTube videos. get more audience interaction. interact with your video?

[01:28] In fact, they state that, "including how well the title description and video content "Beyond that, we look at which videos

[01:42] In other words, YouTube promotes videos So, if you can get more likes, comments, and subscribes, YouTube will show your video to more people.

[01:55] According to a YouTube ranking factor study turned out to be a huge YouTube ranking signal. like comments, likes, and subscribes

[02:10] all correlated with higher rankings in YouTube. Here are two strategies that work great. at the end of your video.

[02:25] But they hate thinking. So, instead of asking your viewers to share their thoughts, For example, in this video, I outline a bunch

[02:38] 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.

[02:51] with your audience, they're more likely to leave a comment. Also, according you YouTube, quote, "and have positive interactions,

[03:05] That means even more views. in the first week after one of my videos goes live.

[03:17] Promote your videos on Quora and other online communities. are awesome places to get more views

[03:30] First, search for a question that your video this video about link building. So, I searched in Quora for keywords like SEO

[03:44] 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.

[04:00] 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.

[04:13] which is the percentage of your video people watch. which is the total amount of minutes over it's lifespan.

[04:28] That said, there's one huge metric Session time is the total amount of time after they start watching your video.

[04:43] a video about the paleo diet That's great, this will boost your audience retention But here's where things get interesting.

[04:57] to what the user does next. But if that person watches another one of your videos,

[05:09] 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,

[05:23] "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,

[05:40] on that playlist, boosting your session time automatically. that creating playlists has significantly increased for all the videos on my channel.

[05:57] that each have four to five videos. As a quick pro tip, I recommend using That way, more people actually click on

[06:14] For example, I used to name my playlists That led to boring playlist titles Today, I give my playlists a compelling name

[06:28] And if you check out my channel page, like How to Get Higher Google Rankings and Advanced SEO Strategies and Case Studies.

[06:41] 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,

[06:56] If you optimize your video around keywords you can get more views. in Google, video keywords.

[07:09] You see, many Google search results But, video keyword results reserve a section of the page These are the type of keywords

[07:24] Why is this so important? around the keyword YouTube marketing. you don't see any video results.

[07:36] about YouTube marketing ever made, So, how do you find video keywords? It's easy, just search for your keyword in Google.

[07:48] in the search results, you just found a video keyword. And give yourself a high-five. Optimize your channel using the PAS method.

[08:03] 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."

[08:17] The more I studied successful channels, into optimizing their channel Sure enough, when I finally optimized my channel,

[08:32] For example, my old channel had an ugly header Even worse, my videos were listed in random order. was set up or structured.

[08:48] It's also keyword optimized for terms More on that later. my channel using the PAS method.

[09:03] for Playlists, About, Subscribers. We already talked about playlists So, now that you have some playlists set up,

[09:18] 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.

[09:35] So, why is your channel's about section so important? what your channel is all about. So, it could help your video SEO.

[09:52] Also, a well optimized channel can rank in YouTube To optimize your about section, just include keywords without keyword stuffing.

[10:04] sounds nice and natural. that I want my videos to rank for. to get more subscribers.

[10:17] 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.

[10:33] Of course, this channel is about Star Wars Fortunately, it's not hard to create a professional channel art banner,

[10:49] why they should subscribe to your channel. Promote your high-retention videos as a card. that has the potential to be huge.

[11:04] It just needs a little push. First, log into your YouTube analytics Then, look at the average view duration column.

[11:18] 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.

[11:31] 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

[11:45] 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.

[11:59] to that video. and get promoted across YouTube's platform. on your channel page.

[12:15] 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

[12:29] 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.

[12:44] Let me show you how this works with a real life case study. that I published on my channel. and uploaded it to Facebook.

[12:58] 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.

[13:14] is in the comments. This strategy worked out great. My Facebook preview video was viewed more than 3,000 times.

[13:28] 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.

[13:44] 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

[13:59] They come from the suggested video sidebar. I actually get more views from suggested video That said, how do you actually get your videos

[14:14] The secret is to optimize your video around the same keywords that popular videos I call this process SVO, suggested video optimization.

[14:28] 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.

[14:42] as the popular video. You can make a video better by including more content, or including more visual elements.

[14:55] that the popular video is optimized around. that video uses in your video title, description, and tags.

[15:08] YouTube will pop your video next to that popular video, Okay, so, now it's time for out last step create emotionally compelling titles.

[15:24] which will lead to more views. But, I don't see as many people talk about your video title. your entire video.

[15:37] to their own internal data, "Well written titles "and sharing your video or scrolling right past it." are optimized for SEO.

[15:51] 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

[16:05] 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

[16:19] 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,

[16:33] to your title. into the tool, it gets a score of 33.3% Let's cap things off with a quick bonus tip,

[16:49] So, what's the best time to publish a video on YouTube? Specifically, a study by a YouTube network on this question.

[17:04] 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.

[17:19] more views on YouTube. to my YouTube channel right now. Also, if you want exclusive SEO and traffic techniques

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[17:50] Let me know by leaving a comment below right now. When I first started out, on YouTube... I heard that, too.

[18:05] That explains it.