Hi Everyone! I am George Pierce and this post is about getting more views on YouTube. It is easy, it is fast, and it is free. The strategy is based on making an immediate "CONNECTION"! This is an essential trick that will help you with more views as well as help to improve your watch time.
Connection?
Let us begin with the fact that your prospective viewers are searching for your content. There are probably at least two or three or more keywords that would describe what your content is about. For illustration purposes, allow me to use a real-life example. It will help you to understand, to see that it is quite easy, and to see that it works.
The example that I will be using is a Cash Cab video. There are three ways that you and I want to "CONNECT".
#1 Title
#2 Thumbnail
#3 In our video
Someone who would be searching for a video such as the one in the snapshot above would probably type into their search box, words such as
Cash Cab, Cash Cab Full Episode, and Ben Bailey.
The title includes or addresses all three of those probable search terms.
If you look at the Thumbnail, it is quite obvious that the video is Cash Cab and Ben Bailey will be the host.
Something I have noticed about channels that use SEO, is that their videos are still sometimes being overlooked! The reason is that their thumbnail and title (which work together) do NOT make an immediate CONNECTION. When there is no immediate connection, there is no connection at all. Of course, that failure to connect hurts their channel, but it is so easy to fix.
When you are creating your title and thumbnail, think about how you can make an instant connection with your prospective viewers.
When YT and Google share your videos, and when your title and thumbnail connect, as you can see above, it will mean lots more views. The views are free, and, since you need to create a title and thumbnail anyway, create them with "CONNECTING" in mind. The CTR is 13.4%,
You also want to make that same immediate connection in your videos, which will mean more watch time. Let your viewers know at the very beginning of your video what it is about and what they can expect.
The average watch time for the above Cash Cab video is 10 minutes and 12 seconds.
The channel watch time is 14.6K hours for the last 28 days. FYI, the channel is about 5 days shy of being 4 months old, and has 830 subscribers growing at the rate of about 11 per day, in other words, this is still a small channel, and the traffic, views, watch time, etc, are free and organic.
If you are using SEO and niche research for your channel, add this little trick of CONNECTING.
If you are not, allow me to invite you to watch my free training video, the first step of three easy steps is about what is called niche research. This research will help you to know what your viewers want to watch as well as how to find important keywords using free tools.
Thank you for reading.
Much success,
George Pierce
Comments
You're rocking it on Youtube and Google search. Awesome stats on the video above. Your channel is rocking too and growing daily. Keep it going George Pierce
I am pleasantly surprised, thank you, Terri.