how to get more views on YouTube in this video I'm going to show you exactly what
I did to go from zero to over nine thousand views a day my name is Greg
Kononenko you might also know me as the Caffeinated Blogger and on this youtube
channel i talk about traffic generation i feel it marketing and various tips
about making money online subscribe to my youtube channel just below this video
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time as soon as I upload my next video alright let's get into the detail what's
happening guys so recently I've just had my best month on YouTube and I've had a
lot of views and I wanted to make a video because quite a lot of people have
reached out to me and said what are you actually doing and I'm gonna give you 13
tips that I could think of that I've sort of started implementing and I'm
hoping that this is going to help you so in the last 28 days you can see my stats
here I've actually gone through a fairly quiet period over Christmas in year and
then my view started ramping up and I started getting 5,000 and then I even
had my best day ever where I had 9601 views so since then I've sort of been
fluctuating between 5,000 and 10,000 views now the funny thing is that I
haven't even made that many videos as you can see in the last 28 days I've
actually only made 9 videos from the first of February till today so that's
an average of just two videos per week which is super manageable for me because
YouTube is not actually even my full-time focus I've got other
businesses that I'm working on as well so what did I actually do in this video
I'm gonna show you so let's jump back into the presentation and talk about it
step by step so number one I started using PowerPoint
I am actually a camera shy person so I have to psych myself up for every single
video and if you just put me in front of the camera and ask me to talk I kind of
get lost I need some prompts you know I'm not a natural speaker I'm not very
fluent in front of people I've never been big into public speaking or
anything like that so I'm actually camera shy if you are like that as well
then this tip might help you because having a PowerPoint like what you can
see here on the screen actually helps me know what I need to say so I put two or
three bullet points and then I pretty much just go through those bullet points
I tried to be animated and I tried to move my hands and tried to be
high-energy on camera but having this PowerPoint actually
really really simplifies the video creation price
for me and I've had feedback from my viewers that this helps them understand
the content better as well because I do have a lot of viewers in non-english
speaking countries and that helps them as well I also looked at my analytics
stats and I found that it actually increased my engagement and view time so
the most recent eight or nine videos that I've done this way actually have a
higher percentage view time and higher engagement in general which i think is
helping me get more views so that's my tip number one let's talk about tip
number two tip number two is improved thumbnails so I've lifted my game a
little bit I've tried a few different options for thumbnails and what I've got
now is I think it makes them really stand out I believe that it improved my
views it increased my CTR that's definite because I looked at it in the
analytics area and I do it all in in Photoshop so I don't outsource or
anything like that I'm going to show you the thumbnails that I use these days
it's the most recent fall out of thumbnails that I've been using is this
one here that you can see in the top left
so these most recent four videos have been like that and I actually tried it
the first time on this video and make money on YouTube without making videos
and it really took off for me this video has actually gone viral and
done over 50,000 views in less than a month so I thought why are we in them in
the wheel I'm just gonna reuse what's already working you can see that I've
actually tried a few different formats of thumbnails right I tried these kind
of black backgrounds they were okay I tried this purple background there was
sort of okay as well I tried the ones with no face as well and I'm gonna
continue using unless I find something even better I'm gonna continue these
ones because I think the reason why they works so well is because there's first
in mind my name on it secondly there is that colored kind of
background that really stands out when my video is placed next to other videos
in suggested videos that really really stands out and I'm getting a very high
click-through rate from suggested videos so I think focusing on the thumbnails
and finding thumbnail format that actually works really well for you is
super super important so tip number three is to have face on thumbnails I've
compared the performance and click-through rate of thumbnails where I
had no face versus the did have a face on them and I'm gonna
show you now so I tried the ones that don't have me on there and they actually
you can even see here that these videos haven't had that many views mm mm 1.3
2.7 they just I mean this one was okay 4.3 but when you compare it to the
videos where I actually do have my face on them I get a ton more views and a ton
more subscribers from them so in my opinion having my face on the thumbnails
is actually quite important it just makes your video more personable so if
you're not doing that yet I actually highly recommend to put your face on to
the thumbnails tip number four is to care about a particular topic popularity
not necessarily about the competition so what I did before was I used to pick out
a really long tail keyword and made video about that really long tail
keyword for example how to start affiliate marketing without a website
and that actually works well and I think it's got you know it was not a failed
approach but what I've now started doing I've experimented with making videos on
keywords that are very very popular and in my mind they're very competitive but
I actually managed to get a lot of views from those videos even though the
competition when you look in different tools is actually really high so I'm
gonna show you exactly what I mean let's use this video here make Clickbank
commissions as an example when I type that in when I was researching that idea
for that keyword and the title of my video I looked at the videos that are
ranking here on page one and I actually found out that a lot of these channels
have much more subscribers than me many more subscribers than me I should say
for example this one is one hundred and twenty-two thousand subscribers 40,000
subscribers 85,000 subscribers and so on so normally this would indicate to me
that the competition for this particular keyword is actually quite high and you
know if I was me three or four months ago I probably
would not have made a video for this particular term because I would have
thought well I'm a very small channel there is no way that I'm gonna be
getting any views if I make you know if I make a video about this
particular topic it turns out that I would have been completely wrong because
as you can see my video is ranking here as number four for Clickbank for
beginners because I made sure that the video is high quality and it's also
getting views not just from search but also from related videos from suggested
videos so oftentimes what will happen is that someone who is watching one of
these videos they will see my video come up in the suggested videos and they will
click on it and that's how I might be getting a lot of the traffic so I'm here
inside the analytics area for this particular video and you can see traffic
sources over the last seven days from browse features 35% and suggested videos
33% so this video is only getting 16.1% from search and 33% from suggested
videos and from browse features so you can get a lot of traffic not just
directly from search but also from suggested videos and browse features if
you meet two things one your video is high quality and two you go for a topic
that is a popular topic because YouTube will actually promote your video as long
as it's high quality and there is so so much opportunity to get views not just
from search but from other related videos so I found for me that's very
important to actually focus on the popular topics and on the popularity of
the topics rather than only you know just be black and white all of this is
the keyword and this is the keyword difficulty for that keyword and
therefore I should never go for that keyword tip number five is to focus on
growing subscribers I believe that is helping me as well I don't have concrete
proof but everything seems to point in the direction as well so the logic there
is that YouTube will reward channels that are getting a lot of subscribers as
a percentage of use so for example for me right now for every hundred views I
get four or five subscribers okay if someone else's channel or video is for
every hundred views is getting only one subscriber to YouTube that might be an
indication that viewers really like my channel versus someone else's channel
because I've got more people subscribing so I've actually
very focused on promoting subscription in my videos I put a subscribe link in
the description gonna show you in a second how it is and I believe that this
is giving a really good signal to YouTube I've only started doing that
recently I wasn't doing that before and now I can see that my channel has really
taken off check this out since I have started implementing this
strategy that I'm gonna show you in just a second
you can see that my subscriber volume has skyrocketed and my recent video has
haven't been that much different except for the things that I'm talking about in
this video I've kind of changed a few things and this has had a combined
effect so I've actually seen a massive increase in subscribers because I'm
promoting the subscription link a lot more in my video I'm actually
encouraging people to subscribe to my channel everywhere I can so here is
exactly what I'm talking about in all of my descriptions I just put the main few
keywords and then I actually put a subscribe link right there in the
description so that it's very easy for people as they scroll below this video
that gives them one more option of clicking the subscribe button the way
this link works I've actually made it so that once they click it I've added this
question mark sub underscore confirmation equals one so that they
don't even have to then click on the subscribe button it already pops up the
SUBSCRIBE dialog and all they need to do is just confirm that they want to
subscribe this link is actually getting a ton of clicks it's crazy how many
clicks it's getting and this has really helped me boost my subscriber numbers
and I believe this is helping me get more views on YouTube as well tip number
six is to use five cards per video if you're not using cards yet then I really
highly recommend that you do I believe that this is a great feature and it can
help you get more views on YouTube so first of all cards actually give you
extra views and secondly I think that it increases your retention on YouTube
therefore resulting in a higher state percentage of people who watch your
video high percentage of those people actually end up staying on your video
and staying on your channel and this is definitely sending a positive message to
youtube that your channel has higher retention than other channels that are
not using cards so in my video manager for the
Media I actually use up all of the cards and I'll link throughout my video I'll
link to my other videos here are the stats from the last 28 days for my cards
now I've had 260 card clicks this might not sound like a lot but the thing is
that this is giving you that extra edge you know these extra 260 people did not
click off and go and watch someone else's videos they've actually stayed on
my channel and even though it just giving me a tiny bit of an edge I might
be in the end I might be getting thousands more views because of the
signals that I'm sending to youtube that my subscribers are actually staying on
my channel YouTube said time and time again that viewer retention is extremely
important so you should really do everything that you can and if you're
not using cards yet then I believe that you definitely should start using them
tip number seven is to add your video to at least three to five playlists that's
actually resulting in a lot of views for me personally and once again when viewer
retention is higher it's a really good signal to youtube so i have had 687
views from playlists and 1174 views from playlist page that's a lot of extra
views and not just the views but also it has given me high retention then
possibly some other channels just because I add my videos to a lot of
playlists and I'm getting all of these views so that's resulting in that extra
retention which is super important for YouTube so in the Edit video dialog I'll
go to playlists and I add them to all the relevant playlists you can see this
particular video is for example added to 6 playlists tip number 9 is I stopped
however complicating I've gone through this journey where about nine months ago
I went and I bought a DSLR camera spent a lot of time on it use them in several
of my videos but I found that I stopped using it right because it was just
complicated I had to record myself just as in me with no screen on the DSLR
camera I could not use it as a webcam then I had to edit that footage in one
program import it then you know put it put the screen capture on top of it it
was just very very complicated so I said all right you know what I'm gonna stop
it I'm just gonna try to stick the webcam the I have a very simple way
logic tech webcam 1080p and I've learned how
to set it up so that the images decent quality I now just record straight in
Camtasia which is the software that I use I capture the screen and myself I
have this PowerPoint sitting in the background and that's basically all that
I do I use PowerPoint as the you know what you can see here right here on the
screen this is actually done in PowerPoint that's literally all I do
order it use any complicated video editing software that allowed me to
really free up my time and from start to finish I can get a video done in about
two to three hours which is really really good that leads me onto the next
step which is tip number ten to produce more videos so this kind of you know
simplification of the process that I've gone through means that I can produce
more videos and more videos equals more views now this is very important for me
because YouTube like I said is probably only about 20 to 30 percent of my
business I've got other things software and blogging etc than I do
so the simpler YouTube is the better for me the more videos I can make and more
videos actually means more views here is what I'm talking about take a look at
the views in the last 48 hours some of my videos have not exactly been very
successful some of them are only getting 30 to 45 views in the 48 hour period you
know some are very very successful of course but none of the videos are really
going to base to waste even if the videos are kind of a moderate failure
like this one here is only getting 98 views per 48 hours 250 views a day you
know 50 views a day is actually quite a lot of videos it's 15,000 views per year
if you wait over a 12-month period so it might not sound like a lot but it is
actually a lot and the more videos you can produce and even if it's each video
is just collecting a small amount of views it's actually all gonna add up in
the long run it's gonna give you more subscribers gonna give you more views
and you're gonna make more money tip number 11 is longer videos so I have
been producing a lot of 20 30 and 40 minute videos I know that Allah
videos that you see on YouTube are kind of in the 10 12 minute mark because I
think people just try to get over the 10 minute mark so that they can put a
couple more ads on the videos nothing wrong with that but I've actually found
that these 20 30 and 40 minute videos work exceptionally well people enjoy
them I get a lot more subscribers from those videos as well and it gives me an
average longer watch time of course the video has to be good you can't just be
sitting there for 20 or 30 minutes talking about something that's not
interesting for the viewers but if the video is on point and you're keeping
your viewers engaged then longer videos are definitely a really good idea tip
number 12 is to template everything I try to cut down my production time as
much as possible I try to be effective and efficient with the way that I do
things so I've templated this background for
example that you can see I've just I've got this file I'll reopen the file all I
need to do is just type in some text I don't you know go crazy with kind of
editing and things flying in and out etc I've got a template for the thumbnail
site and I just reuse the same template so I know that at the start of my
YouTube days I kind of didn't really focus too much on templating but the
earlier you can start doing these the better it's going to be for your long
term because it's gonna save you a lot more time and eliminate any confusion
last tip is probably a little bit obvious I apologize if it comes across
as a bit of an obvious tip but it's try to make the best video that you can so I
really put effort into my videos I sure that you guys do as well but you know
there is some kind of mentality or school of thinking that look this is
just YouTube these are free videos and people should be happy to watch whatever
you put out but it's not really like that because I really appreciate you
guys for example watching this video you've taken the time out to watch my
video and you could be watching someone else's videos or you could be doing
something completely different so I actually try very very hard to make each
video the best video that it can possibly be I tried to really deliver
some useful information and you know I don't really subscribe to that school of
thought that this is YouTube the videos are free so you can just put out
anything out there and people will watch it because it's free I don't
think that it works like that because for you the cost you know is that you
are giving up your time to watch my video so I really want to make sure that
I deliver that you have a good experience and that when you subscribe
to my channel you're actually going to want to watch my next video so I think
it is actually quite important quite an important tip maybe even the most
important out of all these tips that we've talked about to make sure that
each video is as great as you can make it the other thing is that it actually
translates to longer view time and higher engagement on YouTube which can
overall help your channel grow much much faster so these are the methods that I
recommend you start using to get more views on YouTube subscribe to my youtube
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much for watching and I'll see you in the next video