• YouTube Marketing

Tips to Maximum YouTube Views: Complete Guide

  • Felix Rose-Collins
  • 4 min read

Intro

YouTube is the video network of the world. Hundreds of millions of hours' videos each day are viewed by people in billions. Still, issues remain there because each day, millions of videos get uploaded. It's tough to get more YouTube views hence to make it more, getting views becomes a challenge. Whether you’re a budding content creator or an established channel looking to grow, understanding key strategies to get more views is essential. This article explores proven tips and best practices to help boost your YouTube views and grow your audience.

1. Create High-quality, Engaging Content

Quality is what makes a successful YouTube channel have good content be it interesting or informative or simply entertaining. All people keep viewing and distributing. So, get to work.

Engaging storytelling:

Content must get off well at all points good beginning, then middle, ending and the observer will continue. Good lights, sound and professional editing comprise high production values.

Unique value:

Be different, whether that's by your perspective, your ideas, or sense of humor.

 

2. Optimize Video Titles and Thumbnails

Your title and thumbnail are the very first things most people see and affect your clickthrough so much. Make them irresistible in these ways:

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Hook headlines:

Using keywords, power words such as "Ultimate," "Best," "Secret," and numbers such as "Top 10" to get people's attention.

Head Turning Thumbnails:

Nice image, big font, contrasting colours, emotions that make them click. No click baiting, please. Value of promise should be content delivered.

 3. Use SEO and Keywords

SEO is how your video is watched when people are searching for something related to your video. Ensure that your video is optimized for search engine with these keywords:

Use relevant keywords in the title, description, and tags. Identify the high-ranking keywords using Google Trends.

Write a summary of your video content: make use of keywords naturally

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Tags: use the broad ones with the specific ones to increase audience reach.

4. Engage Your Audience

To have long term growth, a loyal community is very important.

Engaging comments and engagements: Challenge your audience, dare them to say it themselves in the comment section

Comments: This is another form of engaging the audience, and they too, get a feel of camaraderie among themselves

Community post: Share a few poll updates or behind scenes stuff through the YouTube community tab.

5. Consistency Is the Key

That kind of building momentum will be what those consistent uploads give you so that your viewers are intrigued. Prepare a content calendar that suits you best, stick to it. How be consistent Make a content calendar: Plan those topics and timelines for production schedules and schedule in advance beforehand.

Batch filming: Videos can be filmed in batches so that they create a stock material which can just pop up easily.

Average refresh rate: Monthly or every other month and if it's once in a day, then that is the consistency not the frequency.

6. Team up with other producers of content

This will get you in contact with another creator’s outreach, this will put the content in your newfound audience because they are conspiring together, when Partner up with other creators the same size and niche.

Relevant content: The content uploaded should be related to the channels but not stressed. **Cross promotion of each other's channel is a must: **All collaborations uploaded on all the participating channels must be shared.

7. Social Sharing

Another good source to more YouTube views is getting traffic in the social media websites. To do that:

 Cross promotes across platforms: Dribble your videos out onto Instagram, Facebook, Twitter (X), LinkedIn, and TikTok. Use platform specific strategies like very short teasers to be used in Instagram Stories or hashtags on Twitter. Interact with comments and share to push views further.

 8. More Watch Time from Playlists

A playlist makes a viewer watch more than one video in a sitting. This increases watch time, which is a ranking factor for the YouTube algorithm.  

Group similar videos together: Make playlists by themes or topics.

Arrange videos strategically: Put your best performing videos on top of your playlist so that viewers get caught in them.  

Autoplay is enabled: They stick around there as autoplay next plays the video in the playlist.

 9. Use YouTube Analytics

YouTube Analytics provides some awesome insight into the performances of your channel.

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Utilize it to understand:

Which videos are bringing the most views and viewers' engagement.

Areas wherein the viewers are leaving their videos and adjust content using traffic sources where these views are coming from such as search, video suggestions etc, and optimize them 

10. Use YouTube Shorts

YouTube Shorts are short vertical clips catching eyeballs and getting views almost instantaneously. Fast paced content creation with catchy fast motion clips that deliver some form of value or entertainment within a few seconds. Leverage trending sounds and hashtags most likely to make your short found. Utilize your shorts as an opportunity to promote your primary channel that will lead the audience toward more developed content.

11. CTAs Use Them Wisely

It can do magic by making a real difference with engagement and views. Be using CTAs to use them in the following:

Gently remind your viewers: to subscribe, like, and comment on the videos with related videos: link other relevant videos or playlists to encourage them to check on other parts of your channel, while inserting end screens and cards clickable links to other content inside your videos.

Final Verdict:

In short to get more YouTube views you need to adopt consistency and strategy mixed in with good quality content as well as a little SEO, engaging your needs and wants in your target market, and social networking to get the views attained. Do not forget growth in this sphere takes years and centuries to develop, so keep it with some patience, constant calibration via data points, and giving feedback for better improvement of the situation. The overnight success at YouTube only rarely comes and these channels survive only when the right strategy is made.

Felix Rose-Collins

Felix Rose-Collins

Ranktracker's CEO/CMO & Co-founder

Felix Rose-Collins is the Co-founder and CEO/CMO of Ranktracker. With over 15 years of SEO experience, he has single-handedly scaled the Ranktracker site to over 500,000 monthly visits, with 390,000 of these stemming from organic searches each month.

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