- My YouTube page has over a 100,000 subscribers
and best of all I got them in less than a year.
Do you wanna do the same?
It's possible.
Marketing is such a small niche
that if I can do it anyone can.
Hey everyone I'm Neil Patel and today I'm gonna share
with you how I got over a 100,000 subscribers
in less than one year.
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The first thing you need to know
is you have to be consistent.
Everyone's like oh I'm gonna create content.
Whether it's for a blog or YouTube or anything
whatever marketing channel you end up
going after you need to be consistent.
Shoot for ideally three videos per week.
That's what I found to be the magic sweet spot
and by doing that you get consistent growth.
That's led me to over 9,000 subscribers per month
organically without spending any money on paid outs.
So be consistent.
Secondly, you need to optimize your YouTube videos.
Thumbnails need to be attractive.
Just don't use that still image from the video.
Create some animated funny type of images so
that way you get those amazing thumbnails
that people wanna keep clicking on,
'cause YouTube's looking at clickthrough rate.
If you wanna optimize your videos,
from the title make sure
the keywords are in there, the tags.
Your videos ideally should be more than five minutes.
When I started off my YouTube videos were one or two minutes
and now, as you can see, in most cases
they're more than five minutes
'cause once you hit over that five minute mark
YouTube likes keeping people on YouTube.
And the longer you keep them on
the higher your rankings are gonna be.
The more your video gets suggested.
So make sure you're not creating short videos.
Every once in awhile if you can create a short videos
that's okay but in general most of your videos
should be at least five minutes.
And when you're optimizing for tags
and videos look to see what your competitors are using.
Go search for any keywords related to your videos on YouTube
see what your competitors are doing
and make sure you're incorporating what they're doing
and making better content.
I've also learned and this is the next tip,
you need to showcase emotion.
Just don't be boring and dry in your videos.
If I was like talking like this.
Hey everyone today I'm gonna talk about how I
got over a 100,000 subscribers to my YouTube page.
If I talked like that what would you do?
You'd be like back or X.
You wouldn't wanna watch me anymore.
Make sure you're entertaining or you have high energy
or you're passionate.
If you don't love what you're doing
don't create videos on it go create something else,
because when you're truly passionate you won't
have to try to have high energy.
Instead you'll just naturally have it.
One of the other important things that I learned,
and I learned this from Adam from Viewership
this is one of the best tips that I ever got
and he's helped me with my YouTube marketing strategy,
is don't just upload a video.
You need to transcribe your videos.
And we transcribe every single one.
And there's a lot of services out there
and they do it for like a dollar
and one of those services is Rev.com.
And we use them, not affiliated with them.
I don't have affiliate commission.
They transcribe your videos for pennies on the dollar.
When you take that transcription you upload
it to YouTube, they love it.
It helps them rank your video better.
Yes, their technology dissects what you're saying
and they can automatically put that CC
or the captions in there.
But still you don't get as much of a ranking boost compared
to if you manually transcribe your video
and upload that into YouTube.
Props to Adam for Viewership for teaching me that.
And when we did that it helped our rankings quite a bit.
But you can't do that three months
after you create the video.
Yes, it's better than not doing it,
but ideally as you upload a video
from day one you need to upload that.
And here's another amazing tip for you
that most people don't know about YouTube
it's the opposite of traditional SEO.
With traditional SEO you wanna end up making it
where hey write amazing content, keep updating
and over time your rankings increase.
With YouTube they typically look at
how your video does in the first 48 hours,
and more specifically, the first 24 hours.
If your video does extremely well right
when it comes out the gate then it tends to do well
throughout the lifespan of the video.
But if it bombs in the first 48 hours
it's gonna be really hard to get those videos
to climb up and rank really well and get suggested more.
So you need to make sure you're pushing your videos,
sending out to your email list, push notifications
really promoting the videos hard so that way
everyone's seeing them right when the videos come out.
So that way it just keeps ranking really well
and getting that traction on YouTube.
The sixth tip I have for you is ask
for engagement within your videos.
For example, if people, you think they're gonna
have questions about a specific tip that you gave
tell them to leave a comment.
Such as, hey if you guys aren't sure if you're using
these tips right leave a comment below
and I'll answer and respond to them.
Or you can tell people at the end of the video,
hey make sure you subscribe to the video
or if you enjoyed this video like, share, comment,
tell other people about it.
These little engagement cues helps you build up
more of a community so that way you're continually getting
more and more subscribers throughout your YouTube channel.
So on that note, I wish you the best of luck
to getting it to 100,000 subscribers within 12 months.
I know I did it.
It worked for me, it can work for you.
If you enjoyed this video, as I mentioned,
like, comment, subscribe.
Leave a comment below if you have any questions
and I'll be there to help you out.
Best of luck with your YouTube career.