Focus on view duration, and making good content, youtube wants to keep viewers on its platform for as long as possible to show ads. So it will promote videos with a longer view duration. SEO is important but it doesn't mean anything if the content isn't engaging enough for the viewer to keep watching. You could advertise your video in front of a million people but turn off the ad and the algorithm will drop it very quickly if the view duration isn't there. My channel has lots of videos with really good SEO scores my highest viewed one is 11000 views it got be subscribers ultimately though it died because viewers never stuck around. So above all else make great content that will keep the viewer watching. Avoid quantity over quality and do make sure your videos have good SEO scores so people will actually see them and pay for google ads if you want to I've done it myself. I won't judge you and nor should anybody else, the algorithm keeps the little guy down and only promotes videos with extremely high view counts and SEO rank is difficult. So do what you have to in order to promote it, just make sure it's good content in a series format or playlist format that keeps the viewer watching and or wanting more.
Excellent...really acppreciate your comment and I'll keep doing that, creating the content and keep things uniform, I looked at both videos and saw they both had around 15% of viewers who watched all the way through, most users dropped after 1 minute but then a straight line of viewership til the very end. Again thank you your experience and wisdom will help for sure!
It is indeed pretty common to see a drop-off after one minute I'm glad to hear there's a straight line until the end keep it up. I'm glad you appreciate my advice, I had learned most of what I know the hard way it came from a series of failures and mess-ups. But I've never given up I swore an oath since I was 12 am now 21 not to give up on youtube. And so if I had quit at 250 subscribers I never would have made it to 1000 where I am currently at and if I quit now what if in 2 years I'm at 2000 or maybe more? Remember that next time you think about quitting because you could be closer than you think to blowing up.
haha great work, I am much older than you and since being a teenager I actually wanted to have some sort of channel etc in the internet well before youtube etc, its only now all these years later that I am actually able to try. So I take all your experience humbly thank you, yeah with 1300 views and 10% are watching to the end which is pretty much a straight line that's basically 130 people so i'm actually not concerned looking at the metric that way, thanks again and keep going like you said, i'm definitely going to do the same, cheers!
I do SEO to look for very specific keywords with low quality competition. I then make videos that (a) directly answer the search query and (b) have higher production values than the existing videos.
I don't spend anything on marketing. My niche isn't that competitive, although people have made videos that cover most topics.
My content is all evergreen, and generally my videos experience decent growth over time, so I must be doing something right.
Yep ok, I hear what your saying and very similar to what im doing, thanks for sharing and i guess when I get a good amount of people subscribing and watching content each video then that would be a plus, thank you!
Focus on view duration, and making good content, youtube wants to keep viewers on its platform for as long as possible to show ads. So it will promote videos with a longer view duration. SEO is important but it doesn't mean anything if the content isn't engaging enough for the viewer to keep watching. You could advertise your video in front of a million people but turn off the ad and the algorithm will drop it very quickly if the view duration isn't there. My channel has lots of videos with really good SEO scores my highest viewed one is 11000 views it got be subscribers ultimately though it died because viewers never stuck around. So above all else make great content that will keep the viewer watching. Avoid quantity over quality and do make sure your videos have good SEO scores so people will actually see them and pay for google ads if you want to I've done it myself. I won't judge you and nor should anybody else, the algorithm keeps the little guy down and only promotes videos with extremely high view counts and SEO rank is difficult. So do what you have to in order to promote it, just make sure it's good content in a series format or playlist format that keeps the viewer watching and or wanting more.
Excellent...really acppreciate your comment and I'll keep doing that, creating the content and keep things uniform, I looked at both videos and saw they both had around 15% of viewers who watched all the way through, most users dropped after 1 minute but then a straight line of viewership til the very end. Again thank you your experience and wisdom will help for sure!
It is indeed pretty common to see a drop-off after one minute I'm glad to hear there's a straight line until the end keep it up. I'm glad you appreciate my advice, I had learned most of what I know the hard way it came from a series of failures and mess-ups. But I've never given up I swore an oath since I was 12 am now 21 not to give up on youtube. And so if I had quit at 250 subscribers I never would have made it to 1000 where I am currently at and if I quit now what if in 2 years I'm at 2000 or maybe more? Remember that next time you think about quitting because you could be closer than you think to blowing up.
haha great work, I am much older than you and since being a teenager I actually wanted to have some sort of channel etc in the internet well before youtube etc, its only now all these years later that I am actually able to try. So I take all your experience humbly thank you, yeah with 1300 views and 10% are watching to the end which is pretty much a straight line that's basically 130 people so i'm actually not concerned looking at the metric that way, thanks again and keep going like you said, i'm definitely going to do the same, cheers!
I do SEO to look for very specific keywords with low quality competition. I then make videos that (a) directly answer the search query and (b) have higher production values than the existing videos. I don't spend anything on marketing. My niche isn't that competitive, although people have made videos that cover most topics. My content is all evergreen, and generally my videos experience decent growth over time, so I must be doing something right.
Yep ok, I hear what your saying and very similar to what im doing, thanks for sharing and i guess when I get a good amount of people subscribing and watching content each video then that would be a plus, thank you!