 Get more views on YouTube without an audience expert hacks. You ever ask yourself why some channels just take off like crazy and other channels just flounder and flounder for years and years and nothing ever happens? Well, in this video, I'm going to show you how you do not need an audience to get tons of views on your videos and give you practical ways that you can actually use these things on your channel to build a lot of views and additionally more subscribers. And we're starting right now. If you haven't subscribed yet, make sure you subscribe, ring the bell, turn on all bell notifications so that you're notified every single time I go live and I do a new video. Yeah, those two things go live and do a new video. So what I want to do first off is I'm going to show you a screenshot of my channel. So let's go over to that real quick. All right. So this is a screenshot of my channel and it's got watch time from subscribers and it's got the last 28 days. Get this out, not subscribe 83.3% subscribe 16.8% now as you scroll down, you can see age and gender. I have a 90% male audience. Come on women. You can start watching my channel. But then again, if you look down here, my age group that watches my videos overwhelmingly is 18 to 24 year olds. Thanks for that young people in 25 to 34 year olds and actually the older folks don't watch me. So I don't know if that's a good or bad thing, but it's a thing. But the thing I want to share with you really is that my views are not coming from my subscribers. Not that they aren't watching. They certainly are, but I'm getting way more views from people who aren't subscribers. In other words, they're discovering my channel and that's what you want to do too. So what I'd like to do is go through a few steps that you can do so you can get some incredible results. Number one is ensure your YouTube basics is good. You got to make sure your YouTube basics is good. What is your YouTube basics? YouTube basics is basically who you are. Make sure all your contact information is up to speed. When people click on the about you, they have an email. They have phone numbers. They have all that stuff. When they go to your channel, there's actually a channel banner there. There's links that go out to your website. So make sure your channel is set up right first. Number two, zero in on a specific niche. This is by far the biggest mistake most people make on their YouTube channel. You could ask them to say, who is your videos for? And they go, everybody. Well, then it's for nobody. If you're making videos that everybody can watch, then nobody's going to watch them. Because what YouTube's about is all niches. You got to really niche down. I watch a lot of cooking channels and I know certain ones are about Asian food. I know certain ones are about grilling outdoors. I know certain ones are about gourmet food. I know what that channel is about. And when I want to watch stuff on that particular subject, I'm going to go to that particular channel. People have to be able to describe what your channel is about. If you don't niche down, you're never going to get a good target audience. You're never going to build many views. You're never going to have a lot of subscribers. You have to have a niche. So stop now and ask yourself, what is my niche? Who am I speaking to? Number three, do your research before you make a video. This is super, super important. And really nowadays, there's so many ways to go about it. I mean, you could come up with an idea and start typing it into the search bar in YouTube. It's going to show you the results of what people are searching for in order of how many people are searching for it. So that's a good way to start. But after you do that, you need to get a tool like TubeBuddy. I will have a link down in the description for TubeBuddy. TubeBuddy is excellent. It really is. What you can do is you can put your title into TubeBuddy and you can click search and it will tell you how good that title is based on how many videos are made, based on how many people are searching for it. And it gives you like a metered indication of how good that title is. You want to get a title that's going to have high search results and possibly lower competition if you could do that. You can't always do that. So I would always go with the high search results if you can't get low competition. But that's what you want to do. And that way you know what people are actually searching for and you can make a video to fit what they want. I think too many people go, I think I want to make a video on X. And they don't even know if anybody is interested in it. They just want to make a video on that. Then they wonder why nobody watches their videos. And here's why nobody's searching for that. Okay. That's why. So you want to make videos on things that people are searching for. Number four, use metadata to get recommended on your next video. And here's what I mean. Find out who your competitors are. And they could be big competitors. People have millions of subscribers. And then go to their videos and search their videos by most popular. Now, when you do this, number one, you're going to find a great title because for people to have watched that video, you know, thousands or millions of times, they obviously search something that made them land on that video. So it's going to give you an idea for your video. You could actually look at the video they did, use a similar title to them. I mean, you could use the same title if you wanted, but you could use a similar title to them and do a video that's better than theirs. You know, maybe they had, you know, four steps to do something and you're going to do eight steps to do something. Maybe they're editing, wasn't that great, but your editing is going to be better. Maybe they didn't put music in their B-roll and you're going to put music in B-roll. But take that idea that's already worked and just improve upon it. And that's a great way to get more views on your channel. Now, ideally, you'd like to be a suggested video because if you could be a suggested video, you're more likely to have your video watched. So how does YouTube do that? Well, when you're watching a video, let me put something up on the screen here. When you're watching a video here, so here's a video that we're watching, the surprising origin of a color darker than Vantablack. Okay, whatever that particular color is. But if you notice off to the side, there's suggested videos. YouTube is suggesting at the top here, why are popcorn ceilings so terrible, horrifying, mysterious lakes in the world. The ocean is way deeper than what you think. So what YouTube has done here is they've tried to figure out what this person likes and show them more things just like that. Okay, so if you look on the screen now, YouTube says that their algorithm recommends videos from the same channel, that makes sense. Videos that a lot of people like based on engagement, watch time, and views. Once you go a little bit viral on a video, they're gonna show it even more. So you got that ball rolling. Videos that a specific person may like based on their viewing history. So when somebody's logged in to YouTube, they have a viewing history. Videos with related or similar metadata. In other words, titles, tags, and descriptions. So if you're making videos, you wanna think about all those things when you're making your videos so that you can get suggested also. Now a little pro tip here. You need something like TubeBuddy and I'll put a link in the description. TubeBuddy is a free tool. They do have an upgraded version. You can get a pro version. And if you use my link, you can get 30% off and it's still really, really cheap. But you need TubeBuddy because you can find these meta tags, these tags that you need to put on your title. And with TubeBuddy, you can look at other people's videos and see exactly what their meta tags are. Heck, you could copy somebody else's meta tags and put it on your video if you wanted to. I mean, you could actually go that route. But the point is, you gotta have these meta tags. You gotta get them from somewhere to try to think them up on your own. It's kinda tough. Number five, increase your views with great thumbnails. Great thumbnails are so very important guys. When people are searching on YouTube, they search a subject and then the first thing they're met with is a bunch of thumbnails. Those thumbnails that stand out are the ones that they're gonna get clicked on and those are the ones that are gonna get views. If you don't have a custom thumbnail, what YouTube does is they take a screenshot from your video and just uses that. Now, I have some screenshots that don't look good. So I don't want them deciding which picture of me to put on a thumbnail. Besides that, a video without a thumbnail, people won't even click on it anymore. They just won't. You gotta have a thumbnail. It's so very important to do this. Okay, so check out some of these thumbnails right here. The top one there are some video influencers. I watched that channel. It's a great channel. I want you to look at that thumbnail though. Notice how his face is filling up that whole right hand side of the thumbnail. There's no extra space there. The video thumbnail right below that, the girl is really far back. There's a lot of wasted space on both sides. Mr. B says that you always have to have the face up close and using up most of the screen. The one below that is PewDiePie, who's one of the top YouTubers in the world. And he's done the same thing there. If you notice, his head is filling up that whole left hand side right there. And then right below that is a video where the guy's head's kind of far back and it's not getting near as many views as those other videos there. Like a 4.2 million on PewDiePie's. You get two and a half million on video influencers there. There's only 132,000 on how to add a custom thumbnail. And there's 344,000 on the other one, which is better. Objectively speaking, what are the properties of an effective thumbnail? Well, here they are. Thumbnail has to be clear and accurate about the video. If it's describing, if your thumbnail misleads people into clicking, YouTube will know because your watch time will go down and the viewer gets annoyed and stops watching. The algorithm will not like that. Don't fake out your thumbnails. But the thumbnail has to stand out and the thumbnail works in tandem with the video's title. So it's gotta be something that is gonna work with the title that you've already got on the video. Number six, multiply your views by creating playlists. Playlists are so very important. Playlists are so important because when you do a video, you're gonna have a set URL for that particular video. When you take that video and put it into a playlist, now it has two URLs. Double, double the views of that video by putting it into a playlist because now there's two chances of that video getting seen. Number seven, direct people to your next videos using end screens. The end screens can have your next up video. You can put in there one of your most viewed videos. The one I like to use is letting YouTube choose what video to show up next because YouTube knows the person that's watching. Why would I think I'm smarter than YouTube? YouTube knows what they want. They're gonna put something up there that this person's gonna wanna see but you gotta have those at the end of your videos. That way you keep them on the platform, keep them watching and YouTube's gonna reward you with more views and they're gonna suggest your videos more. Now check out this example from SNL Saturday Night Live. Their end screen here has two different videos they can watch. It's got a subscribe now button and it's got more sketches there. So they're giving them four opportunities to stay on the channel. If you do that, you're gonna get more views too. Number eight, go beyond the how-to videos. Now chances are when you're searching on YouTube you're gonna see a lot of how-to videos on all types of different subjects but you gotta go beyond that. When I say go beyond that, think about your audience you already have too. You wanna make sure you're preaching to them and you're giving them what they want. If you don't do that, then the subscribers you do have are not gonna continue to watch your videos and that's gonna lower your views for your subscribers and that's gonna lower the algorithm. Number nine, build relationships with your viewers. Now 90% of people who watch videos on YouTube say they stay on a channel because of the interaction of the creator of the channel. So if you're getting a lot of comments, that's great but if you're not responding to those comments that's not so great. What you need to do is if you ask for comments which I do and you put your comments below I would love to talk to you. I would love to get some interaction going with you but if you ask for those comments you gotta go in there and respond to people. When people say hey that was a great video on SEO I need to learn that. Don't just say thanks, okay? That's not responding to them. What you need to do is say thanks. I'm glad you appreciated that. Here's an article I wrote on SEO. It may be useful to you. Click this link to go read more about it, right? So now you're actually helping those people out and if you help them out, guess what they're gonna do? They're gonna help you out. They're gonna watch more of your videos. They're gonna see you as more valuable. You've gotta interact on a daily basis. This takes time. Nobody can do this for you. I know when I go in to put comments in YouTube it will offer me suggestions like thanks for that or I appreciate you saying that or whatever and they're really just, they're canned responses. They're not real. So I like to actually write a sentence or two. Sometimes even a paragraph. I'll look up stuff for people. I show them a link to another website that's gonna help them out. If you do enough of those things, guess what? People are gonna be loyal to you and they're gonna watch more of your videos and your channel's gonna grow. And when you're doing this and you're doing these videos I like to go live every now and then and give back a little bit. We do gift cards. I actually hand out gift cards in some of my lives and it does get people to show up. You're like, hey, he's giving away money. And I'm not saying you gotta give away money in all your videos, because I certainly don't. I usually do that once a week. But it's a fun new thing. Maybe you could do a contest. You could have people enter. You could do something along those lines and they have some type of giveaway. I know a lot of travel bloggers will shop while they're doing their travel and they'll buy items and they'll say hey, post in the comments if I get enough reactions or I get enough people saying they want this. I'm gonna send it out to you. I'll randomly pick somebody and I'll actually mail it out to you. That's pretty cool stuff. I know Harold Boulder does that a lot. He does a lot of shopping in a lot of these places. He doesn't keep any of this stuff. He just gives it away to all of his viewers. Really good idea to do. Number 10, partner with another YouTuber. Find some other YouTubers on your niche and maybe do a joint live video with them. Maybe do an interview with them. I know I just did a video a few months ago with John Crestani and I had somebody on my live today I did a live this morning. And they said they found me because of an interview that I'd done with John Crestani months ago. And that's pretty cool. Now they're on my channel and now they're a subscriber for my channel. So you wanna get out there, you wanna help other YouTube channels. There's enough people to go around. Don't worry about somebody seeing somebody else's channel and going oh, I'm gonna lose subscribers. They're gonna go watch them instead. Don't think that way. That's a scarcity way of thinking. There's plenty out there for you to get. There's plenty out there for you to get. And actually the more you help somebody else get what they want, the more you're gonna get what you want. That's how it works. Number 11, don't think of YouTube as a standalone platform. And here's what I mean by that. You wanna get traffic from all your platforms. So I may post in Facebook, in fact I do post in Facebook, every single day the new videos that I have coming out on YouTube to drive them in there. I posted Twitter every single day to show the people on Twitter what videos I have coming live on YouTube. So you can interact these platforms together and get people from one platform to the other. Will it work every time? No, but it's one extra thing that you can do. Here's a big one. Number 12 is a really big one, okay? What is number 12? It's getting more subscribers, but here's how you do it. This is a big secret. Come here, come here. You get more subscribers by asking them to subscribe. Yeah, I didn't do that in the beginning. I never asked them to subscribe and lo and behold they weren't subscribing. And now guess what I do? I want them to subscribe. Hey, you subscribe right now. Hit that button down there, that red button. If it's red, that means you didn't subscribe, it's warning you. 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