Hey guys.
It's Thursday, which means it's time
to do some YouTube Q&A with you guys.
slidenerd asked a question.
I'm not in front of my computer right now,
obviously, to read it.
But here it is on the screen for you guys.
Basically, what he was asking is, hey, Dave,
I've got all these videos that aren't performing
as well as I think they should.
Is there a way that I can go back and update them and maybe
help them start performing better?
And the answer to that is definitely yes.
I actually do that here on this YouTube channel at Video
Creators I wouldn't say regularly.
But if I come across one of my videos that's-- it's a question
I get a lot, that videos aren't really performing that well.
Then I go update that video and then try
to see if it'll perform better.
For example, I have a video here on this channel
about should you pay for YouTube views and subscribers?
And I get that question all the time.
And the video-- it got reviews from you guys
and the subscribers, and then it just fell flat.
And I was like, why isn't that video doing better?
So I went back and looked and it said
should you pay for views and subscribers?
And I just simply switched to should
you buy YouTube views and subscribers.
And now, it's one of the most popular videos on this channel.
So going back, maybe adding a captions file.
You can do captions if you don't have
those already in your videos.
That can help give Google more information about your video.
Try a different thumbnail.
Try switching up the title, the descriptions,
the tags a little bit.
If you think it's a video that should be performing well
in search results and it's not, try doing some of those things
and let it sit maybe for another,
I don't know, three, four months or so
and then see if this starts getting some traction then
after that.
Part of slidenerd's question, though,
is also how do you find out which ones should be performed
better that aren't?
And there's not really a magical way to do this, unfortunately.
If you want to, you could just go to your video manager
and sort all your videos by popularity, or the ones
with the most views.
And then just go to the ones that
have the least amount of views on your channel
and figure out if any of those that you see there are ones
that you're like, ah, I actually think this one would
should be doing better.
Or this is a pretty evergreen video,
something that people always just searching for.
How can I tweak or update this video
to like resurrect it, give new life into it
and just people start finding it again?
So all those have worked for me.
I definitely recommend that you do that.
Even YouTube themselves recommends
that you go back and update the different metadata
around your videos if you think that that is appropriate.
So there's no harm in doing that at all.
And you might see, like I have, that some of those videos
start doing well.
I have my kids in the back.
Sorry about those, guys.
This has been one of those crazy weeks.
We're been traveling.
We've been on the road.
And so I did want to get a video up for you guys.
So I was like, I'm just gonna blog style it.
Yeah, we're gonna go.
Hold on just a second, OK?
[INAUDIBLE]
No, we'll fix that a little bit later.
Hold on.
So I'd love to hear from you guys about two things-- one,
if these blog style videos are more interesting to you,
if you care, if you don't care.
I'm interested-- you think that I should
be in front of my computer or in front of my desk,
doing these in my basement the way I normally do.
Hannah.
Shh.
Or do you actually find these more blog style ones
where I'm just out and about to be a little bit more real, more
relaxed, more entertaining, even?
I don't know.
It was certainly quicker for me to edit than produce for you
guys.
So I want to hear about you from that.
And then also, what other tips and ideas have you
guys found that work really well for resurrecting your videos
in search results, for boosting their views
and getting exposure in search results
when you think the video's supposed to be performing well?
What else have you guys tried that works?
I would love to hear from you guys.
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