YouTube is an inevitable part of this era. There are people who make regular income via YouTube channels. To become a successful YouTube vlogger, you need to drive more traffic to your YouTube channel. This traffic can result in your channel getting more subscribers and hence leading to good income.
Tips and Tricks to Get views and Traffic for Your YouTube Channel.
Understand what your subscribers want
Find your niche topic to vlog and ensure that there are subscribers and viewers who appreciate that particular niche. Once you have found your potential niche, Its not gonna be an easy road to 1000 subscribers and 4000 watch hours. There could be a number of YouTube channels that use the same niche as yours. Consider them as your competition and make a content strategy on ” what new contents you can bring to attract potential customers”
Keyword research:
Keywords play a crucial role in recommending your YouTube channel to potential viewers. Do your keyword research with online keyword research options like SEMrush and google keyword planner. Plan and use these keywords as needed. You should try and learn to understand the competition on popular keywords and plan accordingly.
Promotion:
Along with search engine optimization, make sure that you promote your content on several social media platforms such as Instagram, Facebook, twitter and so on. Promotions could be paid and unpaid. Paid promotions includes publishing ads all over the social media and internet such as google ads, Facebook ads, LinkedIn ads and so much more.
Unpaid promotions are mainly focused on establishing a digital presence all over the social media to attract prospective subscribers. For example, building a strong follower’s group on Instagram and Facebook, collaborating with existing youtubers to increase the subscribers and viewers of both the YouTube channels.
Thumbnails:
Thumbnails are what attracts your prospective viewers to your YouTube channel. Make sure to make aesthetic custom YouTube thumbnails to enhance the persuasion of your videos. You can quite easily create your aesthetically pleasing and click bait thumbnails with the help of some creative software such as Adobe Photoshop and canva.
Encourage viewers to subscribe:
Some viewers would just watch your videos for some minutes and forget to subscribe. Make sure to encourage them to subscribe to your videos by adding an end screen or displaying a subscribe button on the video to remind them. Persuade them by providing some information about your next YouTube video, saying, in order to watch it the views could subscribe and support you.
Shorts:
YouTube shorts are viewed more than typical YouTube videos. People scroll through shorts very often and spend quite a lot of time on YouTube. Promote your vlog through the shorts to make it reach a number of prospective viewers. Give out a glimpse of your video through the shorts and encourage the prospective subscribers to watch the complete video. By doing this, you will several views for your video and also some new subscribers as well.
Collaborate:
One of the most rewarding ways to increase your views and subscribers is to collaborate with another well known youtuber who works with the exact same niche as you are. This could increase your familiarity around YouTube. You could collaborate with influencers and celebrities in different platforms around the social media such as Instagram influencers, TikTok viral celebrities, podcasters and so many more, in order to achieve a vast variety of potential subscribers.
Giveaways:
Organize giveaways to your subscribers. This could lead to a person to person promotion around friends and family. Giveaways are a proven way to increase popularity and subscribers for your YouTube channel
Publish consistently:
Regularity and consistency is very important when it comes to YouTube algorithms. YouTube tends to promote channels which are regular and consistent.
Paid marketing:
You can use multiple paid ad platforms such as google ads, Facebook ads, YouTube ads to promote your channel and increase views and traffic. Just like collaborations with other youtubers, you can pay other YouTube content creators to promote your channel as well.
