Tips and Tricks You NEED for Growing on YouTube! - My Personal YouTube Tips and Advice
30Alright something a bit different from my usual gaming videos. I see so many people trying to do Youtube videos and I just wanna share my tips, advice, and experiences with YouTube because it's hard to make YouTube work. I've got loads of points I'm just going to rattle off and this is just a one off video...
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Music Used
• Final Fantasy VII - Descendant of the Shinobi
• Mario 64 - Jolly Rodger Bay
• Final Fantasy IX - World Map Theme
• Ape Escape - Space Station
• Croc: Legend of the Gobbos - Volcano Island
00:00 - Youtube Tips
00:16 - Channel Intros
00:32 - Chapters
00:55 - Comments
01:27 - Subtitles
01:40 - Subscribers
02:04 - Early Promotion
02:30 - Feedback
03:03 - Search Tags / Video Topics
03:31 - Keep Content on Point
03:48 - Thumbnails
04:15 - Titles
04:27 - Matching Footage
04:43 - Resetting Viewer Attention
04:53 - Scripted Versus Non Scripted
05:08 - Quality
06:00 - Motivation
First off, I don't really recommend long channel Intros on all your videos, if you're going to use one keep it under 5 seconds, I see some really long ones and most people are just going to skip them or turn the video off.
Break your video up into chapters by listing chapters in the description like this. This helps with getting you in YouTube search algorithms and chapters help keep users engaged with a video because they'll be able to see what topics are ahead and keep them watching.
A little tip, I wouldn't call the start and end of your videos intro and summary. People are more likely to skip an intro or summary.
So for me, I find dealing with comments a little bit stressful, so I don't deal with comments straight away. I find a good time when I'm at my best to look through and respond to comments. Every channel is going to get the occassional nasty people or nasty comment and you've just gotta ignore or delete them - don't let them bother you. Easier said than done though, I can have 100 really nice positive comments but all it takes is just 1 nasty comment to ruin my day. Sometimes you can get useful feedback from a really negative comment - like this guy's comment here, maybe I was being a bit too positive and could have been a bit more balanced in my video?
Always Include subtitles with your video, even if you have to type them up manually. Or if you're working with a script you can just upload the script and YouTube will automatically sync it. Having subtitles makes the videos more accessible and again helps with the YouTube algorithm.
There's this thing where Youtubers subscribe to each other on large scale to boost each other up. Sounds good but seriously, don't do this. YouTube will automatically remove most of these subscribers and if it doesn't it'll push your videos out to these subscribers who won't watch your video and the YouTube algorithm will decide these videos are bad and be less likely to promote them.
It's rough starting out, a lot of sharing sites and reddits are overwhelmed with people posting their videos, and other places will just straight up delete your posts because you're self-promoting. Early on your core audience will be your friends and maybe family, get your friends involved and get them to keep watching consistently. Talk about your upcoming video projects, hype stuff up, and maybe find a way to include your friends in some form.
I don't recommend asking the general public for feedback, you'll get a wide range of different people with different experience levels and the feedback and opinions will clash with each other and not make much sense. You need to find one or two reliable friends who know what they're talking about and can give good honest feedback.
There's a decent subreddit I've got on screen at the moment. You give others feedback for their videos and you earn a currency, you can then spend that currency to post your own videos to recieve feedback. You're going to get much higher quality feedback here than the general public. Worth a try.
You can use apps or extensions like TubeBuddy, these help you come up with videos Tags that have low competition and high search volumes. Alternatively use Youtube's search box and start typing out topics, the autofill results are what people are searching for - these can make good search tags or even ideas for an all new video. Maybe try to make some evergreen videos too, like guides or topics that people will be searching for long term, that's what I'm doing with this Youtube Tips and advice video.
Don't drag out your video trying to make them a certain length, don't treat it like some 1000 word school essay - people like it when you keep it to the point. Sometimes people waffle on a little too much at times like in their intro and viewers just want to get to the content so they might skip ahead.