How do you get organic views?

[molarbear]

These are all very interesting insights!

 

[Dave2017]

Organic views has A LOT to do with SEO. You should work on your titles, description and tags.. there are a lot of tools you can use for this (like tubebuddy) but I know there are others out there. you can also find millions of videos on Youtube about SEO for videos (some are better than others) but try to check them out and see what you´ll find helpful

 

[LKgolf]

Hey, so I've looked at your channel and there are certainly some issues that may explain why you see no organic growth. First off, you have a pretty low subscriber count, which makes your average view count pretty true to what it should be. As for the 'big youtuber' that you mentioned, I would not classify them as such, they are also a pretty small channel in the grand scheme of things. As for your videos themselves, the thumbnails do not draw the eye at all, people will probably look over them. The SEO on your channel and your videos are almost not there at all unless you search for your channel name in specific, your content doesn't even pop up, but even then there is also another channel with the same name as you out there.

But as for the videos, they are all over the place, your channel has no theme, no core structure that viewers can latch on to. Bundled with the SEO problem, that means there is no genre of videos that your content will consistently come up as suggested under. Improve that and you will see results, I mean even under your own videos while watching, not a single other one pops up under recommended to watch next; which means people are not staying on your videos or channel, which hurts views and retention time, which hurts your videos being pushed up the algorithm, which ultimately keeps your channel in a stagnant stage..[DOUBLEPOST=1519672722,1519672654][/DOUBLEPOST]

Agreed, SEO should be the top priority for any channel, though especially smaller ones

Interesting information... I'll probably ask this in a different thread but, what if your niche doesn't really have that much traffic? I feel like even if I used SEO it wouldn't help all that much. Or maybe I'm wrong

 

[Courtney Candice]

Promoting gets lots of short term views as you've seen, but usually the retention rate is low (as people just quickly check out the video for a few seconds out of curiousity).

I'd advise you to stop promoting, concentrate on making great content with great SEO. Good SEO and good audience retention = long term organic growth.

It really depends on who you’re promoting your videos to if your promoting to other content creators that’s obviously not going to work if you make gaming videos and you’re promoting those videos to people who have no intreast in watching gamers than they will view your video and click off but if you promote to the right people you could get long time viewers and subscribers if they like your videos and those people share your videos and that will help reach more people. But You should still focuon on seo and audience retention

 

[Realm Unknown]

Interesting information... I'll probably ask this in a different thread but, what if your niche doesn't really have that much traffic? I feel like even if I used SEO it wouldn't help all that much. Or maybe I'm wrong

Oh, no one hundred percent SEO helps you out. Not only on youtube but within search engines itself. I mean, take it this way, there is a book series called Realm of the Unknown, has been out for years; my channel comes along in 2015, called Realm of Unknown, and due to constant effort and persistence with making sure my name is in videos and channel page; when searching Realm of the Unknown, into google. The third result, above blogs, articles, sales, and reviews of this book, lies my channel link.

As for niche content, that always is gonna be harder, especially if your viewer base is small to begin with. But if you understand the audience and claw to get a few steps above others, then you'll be noticed more often.

 

[Courtney Candice]

Oh, no one hundred percent SEO helps you out. Not only on youtube but within search engines itself. I mean, take it this way, there is a book series called Realm of the Unknown, has been out for years; my channel comes along in 2015, called Realm of Unknown, and due to constant effort and persistence with making sure my name is in videos and channel page; when searching Realm of the Unknown, into google. The third result, above blogs, articles, sales, and reviews of this book, lies my channel link.

As for niche content, that always is gonna be harder, especially if your viewer base is small to begin with. But if you understand the audience and claw to get a few steps above others, then you'll be noticed more often.

I like the name of your channel and your videos look interesting, I always like watching those spooky paranormal videos. Do you watch Shane Dawson? He makes a lot of videos on this topic and he goes exploring in haunted places.

 

[6StringMadMan]

You are incorrect in assuming that youtube only promotes videos with more than 1k views.
We started from nothing and slowly, more and more, our videos were suggested more and more..
Just keep making [good] videos, sharing (NOT spamming) on social media, etc, and it will happen..
There are no tricks and no shortcuts.

I've gotta agree with this. I made a video about 2 weeks ago and it just sat there for about a week and then suddenly took off bringing in about 50 daily views. After a few days I looked into the analytics of the video only to figure out that the views were coming from Suggested and the video that my video was getting the views from was very loosely related. After about a week of this, the Suggested views stopped coming in. My guess is that YouTube realized that the viewers that saw my video weren't interested because both videos didn't have much in common.

 

[Ezrider92356]

I've gotta agree with this. I made a video about 2 weeks ago and it just sat there for about a week and then suddenly took off bringing in about 50 daily views. After a few days I looked into the analytics of the video only to figure out that the views were coming from Suggested and the video that my video was getting the views from was very loosely related. After about a week of this, the Suggested views stopped coming in. My guess is that YouTube realized that the viewers that saw my video weren't interested because both videos didn't have much in common.

yup I agree with everything you said there. iv had it happen too. iv got a video its a informational video it does ok not a fast grower but it brings in slow but steady good retention views. then one day it landed on suggested video on a big youtube channels new upload for about a 6 hour time span and it brought in a lot of views in that time. it was only loosely related to the big channels upload. there's was a entertainment video where mine was more informational. so it did far less than its normal retention for those views. so YouTube pulled it off the suggested videos for that video. it still chugs along its normal daily views though.

iv got other videos that have found good homes on suggested video's and have worked there way up to the top spot for suggested video's on some.

I seem to do really good on organic views for the size of my channel compared to most channels my size iv stumbled across. only a little over 50 subscribers at the moment haven't been making for YouTube content very long about 3 months. 28 day is at 2700 views over 8000 mins watch time. only 250 of those views are from external traffic over 50% comes from suggested video. and I don't upload daily or anything like that. 48 hour views are sitting at 250 currently and a upwards trend across all analytics in the last 28 days.

could just be that there is less competition for my types of video's so they work there way up the ladder quicker. and some video's sit around a while before they start gaining momentum others get the most views they seem like they are going to get right off the bat. sometimes I probably look too far into it trying to figure things out but I try to study all the data YouTube gives me to try to improve my next video.

but good titles and descriptions and tags certainly help youtube to figure out where the best places to promote your video's are I think being consistent on the type of content and trying to keep your video's targeted to the same audience helps especially starting out. It gives YouTube kind of a baseline on where it should promote your video's

so if you do one video and its a for a completely different audience than your last video and youtube presents your new video to someone who watched your last person that last person clicks it but its totally not interested then youtube just thinks the video is garbage because hey this person liked there last video but only watched 10 seconds of the new one.

just kind of my random thoughts and ramblings on the topic.

 

[Lifeofronnie]

I know I do not have much room to talk since I’m only at 31 subs right now, but what I am trying my best to do is become great at my niche. I’m a flight attendant vlogger and I’m already aware that there are plenty of us on YouTube, some better than others. I’m just now doing my best to make my thumbnails look good and my channel to match my banners. Pretty soon I’ll have a short and sweet intro and outro that’ll match my whole theme. I comment on other’s videos that are tailored to that specific video with positivity and I like others videos as well. I engage as much as I possibly can on YouTube as well as promote on all social medias once every new video.


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