How to make my videos appear on the right hand column?

Curious

Curious

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When watching my videos, my other videos don't appear in the right hand column for suggested videos. When I watch other peoples videos sometimes the whole column is taken up by videos only by their channel. How can I do this?
 
I'm actually interested how this works too. Some of my videos have more of my videos suggested on the right side and others less.
 
I think putting certain consistent words in your tags across all of your videos should help a bit (such as your real name, channel name, video series name, etc.). You could also make a playlist an official playlist by going to your playlists, selecting the playlist, going to playlist settings and then setting it as an official series. I imagine linking to the other videos with annotations, cards or links should also help.
 
KEYWORDS!! That's what gets them over there! Other than that, there's no way to really "make" them show up. Keywords, when used correctly, is what get your videos on the "recommended" column :)
 
Ciarra deBritto said:
KEYWORDS!! That's what gets them over there! Other than that, there's no way to really "make" them show up. Keywords, when used correctly, is what get your videos on the "recommended" column :)
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Ciarra's on point there! Throw in your channel name and any other keywords in your tags and hopefully YouTube will then know to "link" them.
 
It's a mix of keywords, similarity (does your video have the same general theme as the video you're watching?), average retention on your videos, and engagement (likes, comments)
It can be fairly hard to get your video in the recommended videos bar, but when you do it's completely worth it.
Out of my 25ish videos I have 1 of them that's featured in the recommended section for a video for a large yter and it does amazingly well for views:
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Just use an unique tag / tags in every video. That's the main thing you can do.
 
I don't think anyone knows in detail how the suggested video column works, except for the people working for Youtube. But I think most of us have an inkling. Personally I see it as a network, the more points of contact between two videos, the higher the chance that they will show up. These points of contact probably consist of the following elements: the channel (videos from the same channel are more likely to show), tags, descriptions, annotations, links, cards, etc.

But I also get the feeling that there is a ranking system involved, videos that score well on audience reception and interaction are more likely to be shown. The personal preferences of the user watching the video are also taken into account, so it's a personalized list.
 
freshjiivetv said:
It's a mix of keywords, similarity (does your video have the same general theme as the video you're watching?), average retention on your videos, and engagement (likes, comments)
It can be fairly hard to get your video in the recommended videos bar, but when you do it's completely worth it.
Out of my 25ish videos I have 1 of them that's featured in the recommended section for a video for a large yter and it does amazingly well for views:
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those views per hour though :eek:
 
I'm pretty number of views makes a difference. Like, you can't upload a video and have it to get in the suggested videos list of another video that is already up. It has to get there by getting more views. I think the tags similarity is only for what videos will initially show up on that newly uploaded video's suggestion list. I can upload a video and put identical description and tags and it won't show up on the older video's list, but the older video shows up on the new one's.
 
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