When to accept that your content isn't interesting?

If you're really enjoying what are your doing right now, just stick to it and keep uploading, there will always be new audience that watch your video and they will surely sub to your channel if you keep uploading stuff
 
The first 100 subs are the hardest to earn. It's almost as if you have to find the right formula to get your channel and videos out there.
 
LPnC Vlogs said:
Title says it all, Dont get me wrong i love uploading Vlogs and i will still do it as much as i can (usually twice a week) but at what point do you start to think that maybe your content is lacking somewhere? I have around 471 Total views and 11 subscribers, I have been uploading for about a month and a half. I do have the thought that people don't like what I'm uploading so they arent subscribing. But as stated before i will still upload because i enjoy vlogging to much to stop :D. Thoughts on this subject?
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11 subs is better than nothing mate. You will continue to grow it will take time but it's only been a month so its early days :)
 
I don't think a month and a half is nearly enough time to start questioning your content. Just keep posting and having fun. Good luck!
 
I watched you motorcycle video i like you i do but turn down the background music please im hard of hearing and i struggle to hear you.
 
Your audience retention is one of the best way to know if people actually like your content or not. Numbers don't lie. I remember spending over 8 hours to make my 6 second intro, but the numbers showed I was losing 30% of my audience during my first 6 seconds. So I sucked it up, scraped my intro and tried a different approach. Other ways to know if people are not interested in your content is by conducting experiments. You could get a friend to ask his/her friends who don't know you, which of 3 videos they like. 2 Of those being your competitors. I ran this experiment with my thumbnails. It's like when you bake something, a good way to know if people will buy it is if you leave it at a table during a party, and if nobody touches it, then you know people don't like it.
 
LPnC Vlogs said:
Title says it all, Dont get me wrong i love uploading Vlogs and i will still do it as much as i can (usually twice a week) but at what point do you start to think that maybe your content is lacking somewhere? I have around 471 Total views and 11 subscribers, I have been uploading for about a month and a half. I do have the thought that people don't like what I'm uploading so they arent subscribing. But as stated before i will still upload because i enjoy vlogging to much to stop :D. Thoughts on this subject?
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The fact that you mentioned views should give you your own answer.

How do people know whether your content is interesting until they've seen it? They don't. Your issue is likely not one of quality, but simply that you aren't putting yourself out there for people to find.

I think some people are wrongly under the impression that YouTube is just: make videos, wait to be discovered. There's a third step in the middle that people miss: Make videos, ensure videos are discoverable, THEN wait to be discovered.

YouTube have given us some amazing tools to reach new viewers. Especially after the new algorithm update. It's pretty much what everyone here has been asking for: an algorithm that actually really gives a big chance to grow to small YouTubers.

I took a brief look at your channel and you're really not capitalising on your title/tags/description in a way that's going to make any of your stuff appear in search.

The tl;dr of getting stuff to rank in search:

  • Think of what you would search if you were looking for videos like yours. Also, think multiple word sentences, not one word searches. It's near impossible to rank for one word search terms most of the time, so in general try to rank for longer search terms. For example I have a very popular lucid dreaming video with 630k views, but I got it to rank for longer terms "How to Lucid Dream in 5 Minutes", and later simply "How to Lucid Dream", rather than something shorter like "Lucid Dreaming" which was too competitive. Pick the main search you want your video to show up for, and make it the start of your title. You can add other details on the end, but make what you want to rank for the start of your title. For example if you do say a product unboxing in one of your vlogs, that'd be a great way to rank the video, and you could title it like "[productname] unboxing (& some other stuff you did) VLOG"
  • Now think of a bunch of different ways people would write this. A good way to do this too is just to type the thing you'd search into the search bar at the top and see what longer suggestions come up. For example for my video my goal was to rank for "How to Lucid Dream", but I knew that was still quite competitive, so I typed that into the search bar to see what other suggestions were there, and found some good ones like "How to Lucid Dream in 5 Minutes", "How to Lucid Dream Tonight", "How to Lucid Dream for Beginners" etc which were less competitive and easier to rank for. So if you did an unboxing for say the Canon G7X you could think of things like "Canon g7x unboxing" "g7x unboxing" "unboxing the canon g7x", "trying out the canon g7x", "powershot g7x", "powershot g7x unboxing", "canon powershot g7x unboxing", etc. Be creative and think of as many different ways to search for the same thing as possible. These are going to be your tags.
  • Now for your description, you want to write a decent 200-300 words on what your video is about, and include your tags in there - especially the parts of your tags that come up multiple times (like in this case the words: canon, g7x, powershot, and unboxing should be throughout your description text numerous times). Just make sure that your description is plain English, rather than tag spam as tag spam doesn't work - but including the tags in normal sentences does, and affects your ability to rank for them. That's your description done.

That's your basic SEO out the way and you should be able to drive in more views/traffic. The only other last thing I'll suggest is making the text on your thumbnails a little bigger and making it contrast against the background more so it's easier to read.

So yeah don't give up and assume your content isn't quality - the issue is that it's very hard for anyone to find your content right now. So resolve that, and you'll start to grow :) Good luck!
 
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