How to be successful on YouTube in 7 steps
By: Luca Hofer
Tags: YouTuber, Youtube Tips, Youtube Creators, YouTube, Youtube Marketing

WHAT IS NEEDED TO BE SUCCESSFUL ON YOUTUBE?

If you want to be successful on YouTube in the long-term, you need to have a good organic reach. Organic reach means simply, that YouTube displays your video automatically to many people — which will increase views and subscribers.

And to get a lot of organic reach, you have to satisfy the YouTube algorithm. How to do that, will be explained in the next part of this article!

HOW DO I IMPROVE MY ORGANIC REACH ON YOUTUBE?

Here are 7 simple steps of improvement and my secret tip, on how you can achieve this ;)

1. MAKE GOOD QUALITY CONTENT AND MAKE THE PEOPLE ENGAGE

People should interact/engage with your videos (like, comment, share). But this will only happen, if they liked the video, therefore it has to be a good video for them. Another good sign is, when your viewers watch the videos until the end, and not just 10% of it.

2. VIDEO WATCH TIME

As I already mentioned, YouTube cares about engagement. With greater watch times your videos are more likely to be featured in the “suggested videos” tab of YouTube.

If you want to improve the viewer watch times, you can make sure you:

Create high-quality content

Show a short clip from the video at the beginning of the video, that contains a great hook

Match the first 10 seconds of the video with the video description

Also, the audience retention graphs can be very useful to learn about your viewers.

3. TRY TO UPLOAD REGULARLY

Especially at the beginning of your YouTube career, you should upload 2–3 times per week if that’s possible for you.

Later, when you have a decent amount of followers and organic views you can also slow down a little and go with 1–2 videos per week, but at the beginning, it should be a few videos per week.

But always keep in mind the quality of your content! Don’t just produce bad videos, so that you can upload a lot of them. In that case, you should choose to make fewer, but better videos.

4. (VERY IMPORTANT!) IMPROVE YOUR SEO

You have to pay attention to the tags you use, the Metadata, the video thumbnails, the keywords… to satisfy the YouTube algorithm.

(I will explain a few of them better in the next point)

5. KEYWORDS AND METADATA

YouTube confirmed, that for optimizing your video, keywords, descriptions, tags and captions are important.

This means that it would be great if you’d do keyword research, and if you’d write compelling video titles and descriptions, that include lots of keywords that fit your content.

This way, your videos can be found easier and it’s easier for YouTube to show these videos to the right audience.

6. VIDEO TRANSCRIPTION

This point is optional, but it can indeed make a difference.

If you write your own subtitles (like a transcript), you can help people with accessibility needs, but you also make sure, that people can still watch your videos, even without sound.

If you don’t have time for that, enable the automatically-generated ones. It’s better than nothing.

7. SERIAL VIEWERS

Creating video series will ensure your viewers to come back again to watch the video of the next part. To make it even more effective, you can create playlists of videos from one series or even with similar content. These collections will generate a lot of real views from people that already watched one video from the same series/playlist.

HOW DO I APPLY THESE TIPS TO MY CHANNEL?

But now you might ask yourself “how is it possible for me to make all of these improvements on my own?”.

And maybe you haven’t heard of SEO or Tags before…

Creating good content and uploading regularly is something, that no one can do for you. That’s what you have to do on your own.

But you don’t have to spend time and work improving all the complicated rest (such as SEO, Metadata, keyword research…) — things that are really important for your success.

That’s where my secret tip comes into the game!

There is a tool called TubeBuddy. It is a FREE browser extension & mobile app that integrates directly into YouTube to help you run your channel with ease. It’s approved by YouTube themselves and it will do all the hard work for you.

And it is as simple as 1, 2, 3.

You just have to download the chrome extension here and you are good to go.

TubeBuddy helps you with features like:

· Keyword explorer

· Search rank tracking

· Tag finder

· Video A/B testing

· Best time to publish

· Promotion Materials

· Click Magnet

· Demonetization Audit

· Videolytics

· Advanced Video Embed

and MANY more.

And you don’t even have to pay a penny if you want to stick with the free plan. If you choose the unpaid version, you aren’t able to use all of the features they offer, but you still have a truckload full of helpful tools.

To have access to every tool they offer, you have to upgrade your plan.

Besides the free plan, they also offer Pro ($9/month), Star ($19/month) and Legend ($49/month).

The Star plan is used the most because it offers nearly every feature they have, it is still at very reasonable pricing and definitely worth the money.

Many of its users reported a huge increase in views and subscribers, which made them multiple times more money in return than they spent on TubeBuddy.

You can even change and cancel plans whenever you desire.

Click here to check out and download the tool for free!