- I'm gonna give you 10 tips
that are gonna get you more views
and more subscribers on YouTube in the coming years.
And we're starting right now.
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What is going on?
Welcome to another video.
My name is Nick.
If this your first time here
and you wanna grow your YouTube channel
and you wanna learn how to make videos
and all types of other YouTube related stuff,
hit that subscribe button down there
because I'm gonna help you do it.
Okay, now I get a lot of comments of people saying,
Hey Nick, I'm getting views and I'm not getting subscribers.
Or, hey man, I'm not getting views on my channel.
What's going on?
Will you check our my channel
and let me know what's going on?
Well, I check out channels.
I actually check out the channels
of almost everybody that subscribes to me.
And at the time of this recording,
that's almost 9,000 channels.
I like to see who's watching my stuff.
But there's a string of things that I've noticed
on the channels that are not making progress,
the channels that are not getting views,
the channels that are not getting subscribers or engagement
and that's the stuff that I want to share
with you here in this video
so that you can fix those problems
if that's something that's happening with you.
And real quick,
if you are somebody that's making any progress
on YouTube at all and you have any fundamental tips
that you think are gonna help the community
and help other the people that are watching this video,
leave them down in the comments below.
Number one, you have to make sure
that you set up your channel page properly.
Now you're gonna hear a lot of people
talking about optimizing your channel page.
Optimizing is just a fancy way
of saying that you set up your channel page
to make it easy for viewers to understand
what's going on in your channel
and to make it easy for them to navigate your channel
and to make it easy for them to know more about you
and easy for them to make the decision to subscribe.
This means organizing your channel into playlists.
This means actually sitting down,
looking at all the videos that you have
and saying, okay, what videos fit where?
What type of content am I making that I can put
into this particular playlist on my channel?
It also means fully filling out your about page.
Make sure that you put in more than just a sentence.
Put a paragraph in there,
put your social media links in there,
links to other stuff that you're doing, whatever.
But fill out your about page
to let people know what's going on.
Let them know about you, let them know about your channel.
This also means filling out your channel key word area
so that you can basically give YouTube
an idea of what your channel's about as well.
To do this, because it's kind of a hidden feature
if you're not digging around inside of YouTube admin,
you go into your Creator Studio,
you hit the channel option over in your left sidebar
and you go down to Advanced and you'll see it in there.
And it kind of goes without saying
but I'm gonna say it anyway.
Make sure to add Channel Art to your channel page as well.
The reason that setting up your channel page is so important
is because out of the almost 9,000 subscribers
that I currently have on my channel,
over 5,000 of them subscribed on my channel page.
Think about that for a second.
Not from the video page because they liked a video.
They actually clicked through my user name
from a video page, went to my channel page and said,
okay, hey, this guy's gotta a lot of videos.
He's get everything set up, everything's easily organized.
Whatever, and I made my channel subscribable for them
so it made it easy for them
to make the decision to subscribe.
Number two, you need to take the time
to learn about YouTube SEO.
SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization.
The reason that SEO is so important
especially when you're first starting out
is because you want to actually get your videos
in front of people and in order to do that,
of course, you can share your videos
but you can also rank your videos
to have them come up when people search for
specific topics inside of YouTube and inside of Google.
As a matter of fact, some of the biggest videos
on my channel are ranked well inside
of YouTube and in Google
because they're optimized for search.
There's that optimize word again, right?
But basically, all that means is
you're filling out your titles, your tags,
and your descriptions in a way that
the search engines can easily find them
to put them in front of people that
can see potentially view your videos,
like 'em, comment, and subscribe to your channel.
I have some videos here on this channel
about how to rank in search engine on YouTube.
You can check those out by going to my channel page
or I'll put a link to some of them
down in the description below.
I also have a friend here on YouTube
that makes awesome videos
on how to rank in search.
He's actually in my videos about SEO on my channel.
His name is Brian D. Johnson, I'll put a card to him
somewhere up here so you can check him out.
And I'll put a link to him down in the description as well.
Number three, as you get the rest of the stuff
that I talk about in this video together,
upload more videos.
Think of it like this, each video is a doorway
into your channel, so every video that you upload
and you optimize for search and things like that,
you have a better chance of somebody coming in
and finding your video, sharing your video,
liking your stuff, commenting on it, and subscribing.
Here's a good analogy for this concept.
If you are fishing in a very well-stocked pond
and we're gonna say YouTube is that stocked pond.
Do you think that you would catch more fish
if you throw in one hook or 10 hooks?
Or do you think that you'd catch more fish
if you throw in 100 hook?
The obvious answer is,
the more hooks you're throwing in the pond,
the better your chances of catching fish
and the better your chances of catching
a lot of fish faster.
So if you want to increase the rate
that your subscribers are coming in at,
then upload more videos.
Number four, plan out everything.
Here's what I mean.
Before you just start uploading videos
to your channel, think long term.
Look into the future and think of what your goals are.
What is it that you want to accomplish with your channel?
And be honest with yourself.
Are you trying to give traffic to a website?
Are you wanting to be famous?
Are you wanting to sell stuff?
What is it exactly that your end goal is?
What is it that you are trying to do?
When you know exactly what it is
that you're trying to do on your channel,
then everything that you create
can lead you in the direction.
Basically look at it like you're just
making cement and paving the road
to where it is that you want to be.
We are all about analogies today, right?
But basically, each video is just a little block of cement
on the road that you're creating
to get to where it is that you're wanting to go.
So for whatever reason it is that you're making your videos,
once you start planning everything out,
and you start making videos
to get you into the direction of your goal,
then what's gonna happen
is you're gonna start adding benefit
to other people in the process of doing that.
And when you add benefit to other people,
whatever that benefit is,
if it's entertaining them, making them laugh.
If it's actually giving them
another type of value of some sort,
you're going to get more subscribers and views over time.
Number five, create quality and valuable content.
Here's why.
Okay, first let's talk about production quality.
I'm not going to say that production quality
doesn't matter because it does.
If your videos look bad, f they sound bad,
you're gonna have a less chance
of having people subscribe to your channel
because it's just not a good experience
for them when they watch your videos.
That doesn't mean that you have to have
the best looking stuff out there,
it just means that it has to be good enough.
In most cases, just using a phone will do the trick
but recording in a dark room
and with your phone real far away from you
to where you can't even hear what you're talking about,
you're not gonna get followers that way.
It sucks I know, but I'm just being honest with you here.
If you do want to upgrade your production quality
but you're not sure of,
well, I don't know what to get because
"I don't know what's gonna make everything
"look good,"
I put links in almost all of my videos nowadays.
I put links to the stuff that I use
down in the description below
so you can literally mimic
my lights, my microphone,
my camera, everything.
And the stuff that I use
is it same stuff that a lot of You Tubers
that you probably know their names, use.
That's why I use it.
On the value side of that,
If you're helping people,
if you're charge information
that people want to know,
if you are doing anything that actually
contributes outward,
outside of yourself,
that's gonna help, too.
The more you help people laugh,
the more you help people solve problems,
the more you help people
get through things.
The bigger you chance of people subscribing
your channel, sharing your videos,
and things like that.
The next four items on this list
are pretty big ones,
so don't go anywhere yet.
Number six.
Make videos that people are actually
looking for.
Before you decide on a video topic,
take fifteen minutes and hit the internet
and see if the thing that you're gonna talk about
is stuff that people are actually looking for.
Are they typing it in
to YouTube search.
Are they typing it into Google Search
are chanls that are similar to yours
making videos about that topic.
But use what I'm getting at?
Make sure that the stuff that you're making
is stuff it are actually looking for.
Because you're not gonna have people
just magically stumble across your video.
YouTube is a huge crowded space
and people are uploading tons of videos.
I think they're up like 500 hours
of video per minute
or something crazy like that.
So people just randomly stumbling across
your video?
I don't know.
I don't think that you're gonna have much luck
with that.
So you have to make content especially
when your first starting out,
that people are actually looking for so that you have
a better chance of getting in front of them.
Seven, be mindful
Of your intro.
Look I'm all about branding.
I'm all about things looking cool.
I'm all about letting people know, who you are
or throwing your logo up the screen
or whatever, but when your video first starts,
especially as a new You Tuber,
when your video first starts
and the first 10 seconds of your video,
is your logo.
You're losing people like krazy
and you don't even know it.
I see this time and time again
to where I'll have somebody hit me up
for one of my paid general views
that I do, and they'll say,
"Hey, you know,
check out my channel and let me know
what it is I can do to improve
and I'll look inside of their statistics
and I'll see that right out of the gate,
their audience retention is horrible
because they this huge long intro,
at the front of their video.
Here's how you get around that.
As soon as somebody clicks
on your video,
confirm to them that they are in the right spot.
Confirm to them that they made the right decision
by clicking your video that they're not being clickbaited
That it videos is exactly what it is that you
told him that it was
in your title and your thumbnail.
In my videos, I do this by saying
Right out of the gate
"exactly the value that I'm gonna deliver to you.
Ns because I'm giving that confirmation
when a viewer first comes to me video
and the same thing applies to every other video
that I've had the chance to look at their analytics
when they do the same thing.
It confirms that and it gives the view a reason
to actually stick around and watch the rest of my video.
Or at least, a little bit more my video.
Number eight, engage with your viewers.
Everybody that leaves a comment on your channel,
talk to them. They say,
Hey, great video.
Say, "Hey, thanks I appreciate it."
If they give a longer comment.
Something that is actual conversation,
then talk about to them,
leave a longer comment yourself.
Wu do this, you're creating and being a part of
a conversation and when that happens, then the person
that you're talking to
is gonna be more likely to subscribe
because you basically met them virtually.
In addition to talking to viewers
in the comments, check out their channels.
Leave a comment on their video
if you happen to like the stuff that they're doing.
We're all in this together.
Be a part of the community
by doing that, you're going to create
engagement in your channel.
You're going to generate subscribers
You are going to generate more views
coming into your channel,
by just being an active participant
in the community by itself.
Number nine.
Practice your craft.
If you're making videos,
practice as much as you can,
as much as time allows
because the better your stuff is,
the better you get at creating
your content, the higher your chances
of getting subscribers, likes, comments, views,
engagement and all that good stuff.
Number 10, educate yourself on YouTube.
You're already watching my videos,
so you're dog a fantastic job
of starting this process,
but in addition to all of the videos on my channel
that you need to watch,
go to mychannelpage and watch all of the people
in my recommended videos in the side bar,
watch all of the people and subscribe
to all of people that are in my sidebar.
All of those guys, we study YouTube.
We stay on top of it.
It's our passion.
It's what we're into, so we share that information
with other creators to help you grow your channel.
- [Man] Now, it's time for this week's
subscriber shout-out.
This week's shout out goes Nerdy Explorer.
He makes awesome looking cinematic travel videos.
I'm talking like, drone footage,
and you know, really awesome color treatments.
The whole nine.
Right now, the time of this recording,
he's under 400 subscribers,
so if you are into that content
make sure that your head over there,
check them out and subscribe to his channel
and let's help him get over that mark a little bit.
In addition to that, if you are not already
subscribed to my channel.
Make sure that you hit the subscribe button
somewhere on this page
so you can get more videos like this in the future
and as always, thank you so much for watching.
I'll see you next time.