When I first started my views were very low. Not saying they are high now, far from it, but by paying attention to a few important things and promoting the right way things start to look better
A few key points to get you going:
Channel art and Thumbnails
Make sure you have appealing art that matches what your channel is about. Thumbnails need to be informative and appealing at the same time.
Upload frequently
As a new channel you should try to put out quality content as often as possible. After a while once you build up some subscribers and views you can work out an upload schedule that works for you. But still, even with a schedule, I think when you're in the starting blocks, more is better.
Promote your videos
Golden rule is not to spam your links around. You'll need to get involved in the different communities that will be valuable for your content.
I'll split this up in a few bullet points for the different social media:
- Facebook: Join facebook groups and bring valuable replies / post to their groups. Make yourself look interesting and helpful. Actually, don't just make yourself look it, be it.
Create a page for your channel and spread the word about it. When you give somebody a helpful reply tag your page at the end of your comment. Somebody might say "hey, this was a really good reply, this is good info" and check your page out.
- Twitter: Twitter is known to be a "scratch my back and I'll scratch yours" community. Not saying that counts for all it's members, but on Twitter you'll see a lot of "follow me and I'll follow you back". Don't go that road. Follow people you are genuinely interested in and interact with them.
Twitter is brilliant to find other youtubers in your niche. Interact with them, learn from them, support them and automatically you'll get a boost in views from that.
Apart from promoting your own content on twitter you should try to tweet about other things as well, try to get noticed.
- Reddit: Reddit can be tricky. Of all social media, reddit will be the most unforgiving about walking in and spamming your links. A lot of subreddits will not hesitate to ban you for it. There are subreddits where they allow you to post your links without giving back to the community, although I can't say how beneficial it will be for your channel.
Again, find the right subreddits and interact with the community. When the opportunity is there inform other people about your content.
In my opinion it's probably better to make a text post including a youtube link than to post a youtube link with just a title. As an example, if you have some good info about topic X, make a thorough post on reddit while including "if you prefer to watch than read, feel free to check out my video". This will come over better than just post your link.
Keep in mind that reddit is mainly about communities, not about self promotion.
But while this may be so, posting the right stuff in the right subreddits will give your views a massive boost.
- Youtube: Last but not least. Good titles, good tags and a good description are all important. Apart from that you need to also interact with the youtube community. Watch other videos and write good comments. I'm not talking about the generic "great video" comment. Giving support to other youtubers will get noticed and eventually people will start finding their way to your channel.
TLDR: Appealing channel art and thumbnails, frequent quality uploads, to the point promotion without spamming, no sub4sub.
This should get the ball rolling, good luck!
