What helps build your channel?
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adams eats
I Love YTtalk
Consistency, quality content, social media usage, post useful relevant content, good titles,good thumbnails,good tags, keyword in description. Rinse and repeat. I have found youtube is very similar to a blog (which I ran for 6 years) so I apply the same methods. I'm not what you would call successful, but 2 months in, 30 subscribers and almost 1000 views so far I think I'm on the right track lol.
getrektson
I've Got It
Nice! I want my stuff to come out first too.. one day.. the dream.. HahaKey to grow your channel and getting traffic is watch time. Make video's that are part of a series and place them in a playlist. A good overall watch time Youtube will rank your video's higher in search.
If you search for 'Fallout 4 Cait Romance' my video is ranked 1st. It has lower views than the other video's but still ranked the highest because better watch time.
Same to this:
If people search for playlist for Fallout 4 romances my playlist come as first:
So make good video's that people keep watching and searching forever and place them in playlists!
Altairsfriend
I've Got It
We are having trouble with this unfortunately, as I think our content quality is surpassing our ability to reach the audience. It is something that we really need to work on.
KiddieToysReview
I Love YTtalk
Making videos on topics that viewers want to watch.
Focusing 99.5% on YT, social media is mostly a waste of time.
Excel at all aspects of channel design and SEO.
Research, research, research the algorithm and other channels' success factors.
Focusing 99.5% on YT, social media is mostly a waste of time.
Excel at all aspects of channel design and SEO.
Research, research, research the algorithm and other channels' success factors.
braixen1264
I've Got It
Honestly, I never thought too much about setting my channel up for success. The following is not a guide, it's just what I did. It is also not researched, I played my channel by ear and never bothered studying. I'm currently at 1700 subscribers.
What I did:
- Utilize tags(I just typed in things I thought I would search if I wanted to find my video)
- Reply to most if not all comments(until recently). I figured that this would help people see me as a real person rather than a name.
- Write more in the description, including some "tags". I put a couple key words in the description to hopefully make it easier to find. Then I always wrote something personal about the video in hopes to promote some communication in the comments section. Nobody wants views with no interaction.
- Upload only up to 4 times a month. I thought this would communicate that they're not rushed and thus good quality, leading to some more subscribers.
- Give people an incentive to subscribe. I make sheet music, so I basically just say to "subscribe so you never miss a single sheet". Better than just saying "like and subscribe!".
- Make myself some channel art. The channel page is the first(or second) thing that people will see, so I did my best to make mine as pretty as I could.
- Use good titles. I just looked at people that post similar content with a high subscriber counts, and copied their title formats.
- Not care about the growth of the channel too much - it's just a hobby anyway. A watched pot takes longer to boil.
What I Didn't Do(What You May Not Neccesarily Need):
- Promote my content on social media. I didn't make a Twitter account until just recently, and even then I haven't linked it to my YouTube channel or promoted my content on it. Didn't post to Reddit or Facebook either. I figured that this would just make me look desperate for views, and I would only feel proud of views from social media if another person shared it.
- Have an upload schedule. I feel that having an upload schedule will either make you rush to meet the deadlines and sacrifice quality, or work at your own pace anyway and sacrifice credibility. I eliminated both of these by never promising anything.
In the end, I made a video that went viral. From there my sub count has steadily been increasing until early this week, when I got a HUGE spike in subscribers per day. Upon looking into it, it wasn't due to a shoutout -- only 5% of views were external, most were from the search/browse feature. I just got lucky with the algorithm, I guess. Basically I just wing it, for the most part. Don't dwell on details, just make your content good.
What I did:
- Utilize tags(I just typed in things I thought I would search if I wanted to find my video)
- Reply to most if not all comments(until recently). I figured that this would help people see me as a real person rather than a name.
- Write more in the description, including some "tags". I put a couple key words in the description to hopefully make it easier to find. Then I always wrote something personal about the video in hopes to promote some communication in the comments section. Nobody wants views with no interaction.
- Upload only up to 4 times a month. I thought this would communicate that they're not rushed and thus good quality, leading to some more subscribers.
- Give people an incentive to subscribe. I make sheet music, so I basically just say to "subscribe so you never miss a single sheet". Better than just saying "like and subscribe!".
- Make myself some channel art. The channel page is the first(or second) thing that people will see, so I did my best to make mine as pretty as I could.
- Use good titles. I just looked at people that post similar content with a high subscriber counts, and copied their title formats.
- Not care about the growth of the channel too much - it's just a hobby anyway. A watched pot takes longer to boil.
What I Didn't Do(What You May Not Neccesarily Need):
- Promote my content on social media. I didn't make a Twitter account until just recently, and even then I haven't linked it to my YouTube channel or promoted my content on it. Didn't post to Reddit or Facebook either. I figured that this would just make me look desperate for views, and I would only feel proud of views from social media if another person shared it.
- Have an upload schedule. I feel that having an upload schedule will either make you rush to meet the deadlines and sacrifice quality, or work at your own pace anyway and sacrifice credibility. I eliminated both of these by never promising anything.
In the end, I made a video that went viral. From there my sub count has steadily been increasing until early this week, when I got a HUGE spike in subscribers per day. Upon looking into it, it wasn't due to a shoutout -- only 5% of views were external, most were from the search/browse feature. I just got lucky with the algorithm, I guess. Basically I just wing it, for the most part. Don't dwell on details, just make your content good.
