Hi All! I am George Pierce. This post is about an easier way to reply to your comments on YouTube. As your channel grows, so will your comments. Comments can help fuel channel growth, so interaction or engagement is essential. The more that you engage with your viewers, the more that they will engage with you.
Comments are one of the indicators that the YouTube algorithm uses, in YouTube's eyes comments = engagement and that means that your viewers are interested in your content, so much so that they are willing to take the time to comment. Thus YT is more likely to share your videos with more people for free, which is exactly what you want for your channel. In other words, comments can be very good for your channel, which is why your responding to your comments is so important.
As your comments grow, accessing them by way of your notification bell will get more and more difficult. You may find yourself having trouble keeping track, and the possibility of overlooking comments and thus not responding becomes more and more probable. Fortunately, there is an easier way to keep up with your comments. It is by way of YT studio.
Go to YT studio, then in the left column click on comments, and your unanswered comments will appear. Keeping track will no longer be a problem.
Comment Tips:
If you have a lot of comments, you may not be able to access the reply on the bottom comment, it is below your screen, To fix this, lower your ZOOM. At the top right of your window, on most browsers, you will see three dots or three bars. On the dropdown, you will see ZOOM. Reducing your Zoom to under 100% will solve this issue.
Try to answer every comment.
Bad Comments ~ hiding rather than deleting is usually a better option, YT still sees it as a comment, and as you know that is good.
Give a real response. Canned responses are a turn-off! The reason for your response is to increase engagement.
Thank you. I sincerely believe that a 'thank you' on each reply goes a long way, I believe thank you is preferable to thanks.
Use your viewer's name in your reply whenever possible, people love this. When there is no name, consider initials. As an example, let us say you get a comment from Heavenly Hunk. You may want to end your response with... thank you, HH.
The above information is based on my experience and opinion, and I believe it can help your channel.
Thank you for reading.
Much success,
George Pierce
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Comments
Another powerful post detailing how to reply to comments on your YT videos. Yes it is engagement and this is the start of developing relationships with the people who leave comments.
Building relationships for most newbies may seem like a myth, but it is not. Thank you, Terri.
I agree with you. It's no myth, in fact it's needed.
Great info George (as Always) - I hope this comment fits the bill! :-)
It does, it includes my name, you know how important that is, and it is warm and positive, thank you, Tom.