In the ever-competitive world of YouTube, standing out can be a Herculean task.
Between crafting compelling content, editing videos, and then trying to get people to actually see your work, the life of a YouTube creator is far from easy.
That’s where Taja AI comes into play. This AI-powered metadata specialist is designed to take your YouTube channel to new heights. In this comprehensive guide, we’ll delve deep into what makes Taja AI an indispensable tool for any serious YouTube creator.
What Exactly is Taja AI?
Taja AI is more than just an SEO tool; it’s akin to having a dedicated YouTube growth consultant who works around the clock. This platform uses artificial intelligence to analyze your channel’s data, understand your audience’s behavior, and then craft metadata that is perfectly optimized for maximum visibility and engagement.
Impressive Stats You Can’t Ignore
Creators who have utilized Taja AI report an average increase in daily organic viewership ranging from 2 to 6 times. But don’t just take our word for it; the numbers speak for themselves.
Key Metrics
Value
Organic Viewership Increase
2-6x
Minutes Saved Per Video
64 minutes
Total Views Generated
53+ Million
Increase in Organic Reach
87%
Feature Breakdown: What Makes Taja AI Special?
Perfect Titles & Metadata
The title of your video is often the first thing viewers see and can be a make-or-break factor in whether they click to watch.
Taja AI uses advanced algorithms to generate titles that are not only eye-catching but also optimized for SEO, ensuring that your videos reach the widest possible audience.
Auto Chapters for Enhanced Engagement
Viewers love well-organized content. Taja AI’s Auto Chapters feature automatically segments your videos into chapters, making it easier for viewers to navigate through your content and increasing the likelihood that they’ll watch until the end.
Live Preview: No More Guesswork
Ever published a video only to realize that the title gets cut off or the thumbnail doesn’t look as good as you thought? With Taja AI’s Live Preview feature, you can see exactly how your video will appear on YouTube, allowing you to make adjustments before hitting the publish button.
Viral Score & View Prediction
In the world of YouTube, virality is the name of the game. Taja AI’s Viral Score and View Prediction features help you gauge the potential success of your video titles, enabling you to make data-driven decisions.
Smart Descriptions & Chapters
A well-crafted description can be the difference between a video that gets lost in the shuffle and one that reaches the top of search results. Taja AI automates this process, providing SEO-optimized, brand-aligned descriptions and perfectly timed chapters.
Viral Thumbnail Ideas & Captions
A compelling thumbnail can significantly boost your video’s click-through rate. Taja AI offers captivating thumbnail ideas and captions that are designed to grab attention and encourage clicks.
Real User Testimonials: Proof of the Pudding
User testimonials offer real-world proof of Taja AI’s effectiveness. Here are some experiences from actual users:
Sudani Papi, a YouTube Creator, found that Taja AI not only helped with metadata but also significantly improved engagement on his videos.
THMPSN, an Influencer, credits Taja AI with relieving the stress of SEO and significantly boosting his channel’s growth.
Shaun Crawford, host of the Varsity House Podcast, appreciates how Taja AI has simplified both pre and post-show processes, saving him valuable time.
Tailored Pricing Plans
Taja AI offers three pricing plans to cater to different needs:
Knight Plan: Priced at $17.50/month, this plan is ideal for newcomers to the YouTube scene.
Queen Plan: At $48/month, this plan is designed for creators who are ready to take their channel to the next level.
King Plan: At $80/month, this plan is perfect for businesses and entrepreneurs who are serious about scaling their YouTube presence.
Each plan comes with a Free 7-Day Trial, allowing you to test out the platform’s features before committing.
Taja AI in the Media
Taja AI has garnered attention from reputable media outlets like Yahoo Finance, PR Newswire, and Product Hunt, further solidifying its credibility in the industry.
Conclusion
In the crowded landscape of YouTube, Taja AI emerges as a game-changing tool that offers a comprehensive suite of features designed to optimize your channel for growth.
With its AI-powered algorithms, user-friendly interface, and proven track record, Taja AI is more than just a tool; it’s an investment in your YouTube career.
So, are you ready to join the ranks of over 4,700 creators who are already experiencing transformative growth with Taja AI?
When you start out as a YouTuber, you are trying to achieve many things at once.
Most of your time is spent on thinking about content ideas, filming it, and learning how to edit it into a great video. With, perhaps, a bit of time dreaming about what you’ll spend your YouTube earnings on too!
But, eventually, you get to a point and think ‘hang on, how do I promote my youtube channel?’
You’re working from a standing start. You don’t have the budget for ad buys or an existing following from another platform to leverage.
Well, to get the ball rolling, and the subscribers racking up, you’ll need to spend a little elbow grease. Do some hard work. Because at the start you need to do all you can to get your name out there.
This means cross-promotion on social media networks. You need to be your own distribution network at the start, and create a spiderweb of content to catch your viewers. Then, well, it’s down to the quality of your content to then turn those initial viewers into long-term subscribers.
This blog post covers the big-four social media platforms you should be cross-posting your content on, how often you should do it, and what kind of material to publish.
Let’s get going.
A Brief Word of Caution.
The following tips won’t work unless you are a consistent YouTuber.
You can undertake all the promotional activity you like, but if you don’t regularly upload compelling content to YouTube, then your channel is set for failure. Mr Beast uploaded content for five years before his channel took off. Five years!
The content you’ll post to Twitter has a very short shelf life, in most cases, only a matter of hours. So it’s fine to post out lots of links to your content.
Look for a few popular hashtags that tend to trend frequently, rather than one-offs that happen to be trending at any particular moment. Don’t copy spammers and use hashtags that are not related to your content. You’ll only end up annoying Twitter users.
While following hashtags on Twitter is not possible, people do have favourites that they regularly look up so they can see the latest.
If users see your content under that hashtag, and it’s excellent, then you may get a new follower. Once you gain followers, then you can post out links to your channel and invite them to watch your content over on YouTube.
Think about what you tweet, though. Before you tweet, think carefully about what you’ll write – ask yourself ‘why would people care about this tweet?’ You have to engage people.
Look at the example below, posted with the phrase ‘New Vlog is up!!!’. Who cares!? Maybe his mother, but not anyone else.
Instead, give the Twitter users a reason to click on your link. The illustration below is much better.
Also, make sure to separate your link from the hashtags. Both are hyperlinks. So if your content is next to the hashtags, then fat thumbs can mean you could miss a potential viewer.
Promote Your YouTube Channel on Facebook
Two excellent places to share your new content on Facebook are on your own Facebook branding Page and in Facebook groups.
Create your own brand page. You won’t have any followers, to begin with, but post your videos there anyway. It won’t help your video to rank on YouTube but can help your video to rank for Google searches
The best part is that Facebook has already niched down the audiences for you. Whatever topic area you make your videos around, there is a place for you to share them on Facebook.
Tips for Promoting Youtube Content in Facebook Groups
When searching for groups to post your content to, make sure it contains enough people to engage with. There are plenty of groups with only a handful of members; keep searching until you find a large one.
For some Facebook Groups, activity drops over time. So, even if there is a large membership for a group, check the frequency of posts to make sure that it is worth your time to engage with it.
How you act in a group, once you have joined and been given access, matters. You have to engage with the group and be helpful. There is no point in joining a group to spam a link to your videos every once in a while. Instead, participate in the conversation, be helpful where you can, and when it’s appropriate, then share a link to your content. If you don’t, you’ll likely end up banned from the group.
Promote Your Youtube Channel on Instagram
Instagram is an ideal place to help build your YouTube audience.
Depending on the type of content you make for YouTube, you may be OK with using your existing Instagram account. If you don’t want to mix up your content with your personal Instagram usage, then create a new one specifically for your channel.
But it’s up to you. If you are the main focus of your YouTube channel, and ‘behind-the-scenes’ content might be valuable to followers, so use your existing account. If your YouTube channel is in a niche where you don’t show your face, then set up a fresh account.
Use Instagram to build up a following in your topic area. Spend some time browsing relevant hashtags to get an understanding of the type of content that is popular, then set out to emulate it.
Create Youtube Teasers
One of the best uses of Instagram to promote your YouTube channel is to create short 15-second teaser clips. Teaser clips can intrigue and draw Instagram users over to your YouTube channel.
A teaser is different and operates like a film trailer made by the big Hollywood movie studios. You intrigue and invite your potential audience to watch the full thing.
You can use your video editing software, or even better use a tool like Placeit to produce a compelling teaser. Placeit lets you quickly create teasers for Instagram (and other platforms) with handy templates and stock graphics.
Promote Your YouTube Channel on TikTok
The new kid on the block. Tik Tok divides opinion, some love the brash new social sharing platform, others criticise child safety and privacy issues. But, no-one can deny its reach.
It’s the new Vine, the platform to share short snappy videos, and there is a massive audience on this hot fresh platform.
TikTok has experienced incredible growth since its launch in 2016. The TikTok app has been downloaded over 2 billion times and now has over 800 million active users.
Use TikTok to post 15-second teaser clips like the ones you made for Instagram. Make sure to add a link to your YouTube channel in your bio, and direct people to your bio in your teaser clip.
Once you become as popular as Mr Beast, you can forget the profile link and afford to be sassy instead.
Conclusion
When looking for ways to promote your YouTube channel, don’t overlook the free options. Yes, it can be tempting to spend money you don’t have on ads and try and spend your way to success.
But YouTube is a long-term undertaking. You have to do the right things, regularly, to make a success of your channel. You’ll run out of advertising budget before you attract enough followers to make your channel a cash earning machine.
Look instead to the big social media players. There are millions of daily active users on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and TikTok. Get strategic and make promotional content for your channel to post on those platforms.
And make sure to do it right. You can spot spam posts yourself, so make sure not to post spam for others to ignore. Become a part of the conversation, help out other users, and when it’s right, direct them to your channel on YouTube.
Very quickly before you go here are 5 amazing tools I have used every day to grow my YouTube channel from 0 to 30K subscribers in the last 12 months that I could not live without.
VidIQ helps boost my views and get found in search
I almost exclusively switched to VidIQ from a rival in 2020.
Within 12 months I tripled the size of my channel and very quickly learnt the power of thumbnails, click through rate and proper search optimization. Best of all, they are FREE!
Rev.com helps people read my videos
You can’t always listen to a video.
Maybe you’re on a bus, a train or sat in a living room with a 5 year old singing baby shark on loop… for HOURS. Or, you are trying to make as little noise as possible while your new born is FINALLY sleeping.
This is where Rev can help you or your audience consume your content on the go, in silence or in a language not native to the video.
If you have been creating YouTube videos but not promoting it across other social media channels, you are missing a real trick.
First thing you need to do is go and read about the best places to share your YouTube videos for all of the ideas, and then come back here and we can run through just how important Facebook is to catapulting your YouTube views and traffic.
Why Share YouTube Videos on Facebook?
Why should you be promoting your YouTube videos on Facebook?
Well I think you should be sharing your videos on every social media platform you have! But Facebook is particularly important for several reasons:
6 Billion monthly active users
Leading non video social platform reaching over 60% of internet users
Over £17 Billion earned in ad revenue in Q1 of 2020
With those huge ad numbers and high active users you really can’t afford to miss out Facebook in your YouTube promotions, plus the platforms work together in a really effective way making it super easy for you to promote your new content
Native Videos or Embedded Videos
When deciding to share your YouTube video on other social media platforms you need to decide whether you want this to be native or embedded.
Native videos are hosted on that particular platform, for example you would download your video on YouTube and then reupload it to Facebook, so the video is then also hosted on Facebook. This is good for sharing a related video or a shorter promo clip.
Native video uploads will not increase your YouTube views directly but can help you direct traffic to the full video
Embedded Videos are where you are effectively sharing your existing YouTube video to another platform using YouTube share functions. It is still hosted on YouTube so the views you receive from other platforms will increase your YouTube video views
How to embed your YouTube video on Facebook
Embedding your YouTube video on Facebook is really simple here is a quick step by step guide to help you embed your video
Find the YouTube video you want to share and click into the thumbnail, this makes sure you are on YouTube’s distinct URL for that video
Scroll down to directly underneath the video, you will see the thumbs up / down buttons and a share button, click the share button
You should now have a list of social platforms you can share your video to, click the Facebook button
Add any text or captions you want sharing along with your video, this is a good place to explain what the video content is as embedded videos do not auto play so will require someone to click.
Click the blue post to Facebook button and that is it! Your video should now have shared across to Facebook
How to upload a native video to Facebook
Uploading a native video to Facebook is slightly more complicated but it does have it’s pro points too, first of all it’s important to note that it goes against YouTube’s terms of service to use a 3rd party app to download YouTube videos they want you to stream directly from their own servers.
But as you are creating content you will not need to use a 3rd party app because you should already have the video created and saved before you originally uploaded it to YouTube. Here is a quick guide to uploading a native video:
Locate your video file on your computer and check the files format, you want this to be an MP4, if it isn’t already then you can quickly Convert to MP4
Open the Facebook URL or app and find the standard ‘What’s on your mind’ for sharing new content. Directly underneath the text should be a button that says Photo/Video
Click Photo/Video and find the video you want to upload in your files and click open
Add text or a caption to your post, again this is always important it is a way of selling your video to stop the scroll
Finally click the blue post button and voila! You have now uploaded your video directly to Facebook.
Which should I use?
This is a trickier question and entirely depends on what your marketing goals, traffic goals etc might be. There are pros and cons to both video options and direct comparisons too which can help you decide which is right for you
Embedded video links tend to show as a smaller thumbnail whereas a native video will show at the width of the news feed making it more eye catching and noticeable when scrolling through
Auto play only works on native videos, with an embedded video the audience will need to click to get the video to play
Native videos tend to keep users on Facebook, understandably it’s a competitive field in the social media game, so where they can Facebook will keep it’s audience on it’s own platform, this isn’t good for you if you’re trying to increase your views specifically on YouTube in order to hit goals to monetize your channel.
Whether it’s natively uploaded or embedded Facebook posts are not usually crawled by search engines so it’s unlikely to increase organic search traffic, but it obviously does open up your video content to a whole different audience than the YouTube audience
There are pros and cons to both methods of sharing your YouTube videos to Facebook so it’s important you experiment with both methods to get a good feel for your Facebook audience, determine which they prefer and monitor which type of video gains you more views / click throughs.
A good way of getting the benefits of a native video but the YouTube traffic and increased channel views is to utilise both methods. Try full videos for both, but a common method for gaining traction is to create specific promo videos or a sneak peak video for Facebook.
This allows you to share a short video clip natively that will pique interest and make your Facebook audience want to click through and watch the full video on YouTube
When creating a promo video use a tool such as Adobe Spark, this allows you to cut video clips and add shorter clips while also adding slides and overlay text to your video.
This promo video can then be shared across your various social media channels with a link through to your YouTube video therefore gaining strong click throughs and increasing your YouTube views and subscriptions.
Promo videos are an excellent way of gaining the right audience, and an audience that will stick around. If they are interested enough to click through to the full YouTube video the likelihood is that the content resonates with them and they are going to watch the full video
How are you sharing your videos?
Top 5 Tools To Get You Started on YouTube
Very quickly before you go here are 5 amazing tools I have used every day to grow my YouTube channel from 0 to 30K subscribers in the last 12 months that I could not live without.
1. VidIQ helps boost my views and get found in search
I almost exclusively switched to VidIQ from a rival in 2020.
Within 12 months I tripled the size of my channel and very quickly learnt the power of thumbnails, click through rate and proper search optimization. Best of all, they are FREE!
2. Adobe Creative Suite helps me craft amazing looking thumbnails and eye-catching videos
I have been making youtube videos on and off since 2013.
When I first started I threw things together in Window Movie Maker, cringed at how it looked but thought “that’s the best I can do so it’ll have to do”.
Big mistake!
I soon realized the move time you put into your editing and the more engaging your thumbnails are the more views you will get and the more people will trust you enough to subscribe.
That is why I took the plunge and invested in my editing and design process with Adobe Creative Suite. They offer a WIDE range of tools to help make amazing videos, simple to use tools for overlays, graphics, one click tools to fix your audio and the very powerful Photoshop graphics program to make eye-catching thumbnails.
Best of all you can get a free trial for 30 days on their website, a discount if you are a student and if you are a regular human being it starts from as little as £9 per month if you want to commit to a plan.
3. Rev.com helps people read my videos
You can’t always listen to a video.
Maybe you’re on a bus, a train or sat in a living room with a 5 year old singing baby shark on loop… for HOURS. Or, you are trying to make as little noise as possible while your new born is FINALLY sleeping.
This is where Rev can help you or your audience consume your content on the go, in silence or in a language not native to the video.
5. Shutterstock helps me add amazing video b-roll cutaways
I mainly make tutorials and talking head videos.
And in this modern world this can be a little boring if you don’t see something funky every once in a while.
I try with overlays, jump cuts and being funny but my secret weapon is b-roll overlay content.
I can talk about skydiving, food, money, kids, cats – ANYTHING I WANT – with a quick search on the Shutterstock website I can find a great looking clip to overlay on my videos, keeping them entertained and watching for longer.
If you’ve decided to go down a vlogging route and have started creating and publishing Youtube videos, then you need to make sure you promote your YouTube channel so your videos don’t flop.
It’s really easy to publish your content but without promotion how are people going to find your videos and see your content?
I’ve put together 10 brilliant ways to promote your Youtube channel and increase your views, a few simple changes to your normal Youtube tasks could see a big traffic change.
[1] Make sure your titles are engaging
Just like any other form of social media or blogging you want people to click into your content, the only way to do this is make sure people are drawn into your content and want to click.
Make sure you use persuasive writing, ensure its clear what your viewers will get out of the video, and most importantly solve a problem for your viewer.
Look at your current titles and decide would you click on it? Do you know what the video would be about?
71% of my traffic on my YouTube channel is from search that I won because I used TubeBuddy and VidIQ to optimize my titles, descriptions and tags.
[3] Promote yourself
If you’ve got a number of videos, the ideal action is for your watchers to watch all of the content.
Make sure you reference your older videos in new ones, leave links in the description and then if your watchers are interested its easy for them to find your older link and click through
[4] Share across platforms
Most social media platforms have a native video uploader, upload a snippet of your video with links to the full Youtube video.
This way wherever your audience are they have a very clear direction of how to access your Youtube videos.
It may be that they don’t usually use Youtube to find content but if it lands on their facebook feed they’re more likely to click through – clicking through from external websites shows Youtube that your content is valuable and is more likely to increase your ranking
If you need help with sharing your videos and building your brand – check out my resources page, packed with great tools I use personally to help grow my brand and get noticed on YouTube.
[5] Subscribe Buttons
You can subscribe to Youtube videos by clicking in the description, but a lot of viewers won’t read the description or even click through to subscribe.
You need to make it abundantly clear WHY they should subscribe to your channel and make sure you add a nice big subscribe button within your video.
Our brains are hardwired to react to visuals so make sure with every video you upload a custom thumbnail image which is bright and details what your video will do.
While YouTube will auto create a thumbnail, by creating a custom one you can make sure your viewers can see instantly what your video will be about.
If you’re going to spend the time to create a professional looking thumbnail, start with the proper sizing and dimensions.
Per YouTube’s guidelines, your thumbnail image should be 1280 x 720 pixels, with a minimum width of 640 pixels. An aspect ratio of 16:9 is ideal as it’s used most often in YouTube players and previews.
Be honest & accurate in your thumbnails
If you click bait users to viewing your videos by misleading them with thumbnails and headlines, this will hurt your brand and reputation.
Not only that, but YouTube will stop showing your videos in search results if your bounce rates are too high.
The thumbnail is meant to give context, so providing an image that does not depict what is in the video will harm you rather than benefit you. Find the most important point or part of your video and create your thumbnail around that.
[7] A complete profile
Many people skip straight to creating content but don’t skip out on your profile it’s a really important aspect to making sure your viewers return.
Maintain a consistency across your other social media channels / website and most importantly have very visible contact details.
If your channel is going well then companies may want to contact you for sponsorship deals, your watchers may want to send you an email
Why have Multiple Social Media Accounts?
Having a social media presence is key things for companies in this day and age.
Especially with the different types of social media accounts out. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc. is key to get the word out about your company, brand, youtube channel or blog to your chosen target audience.
Social media has been a growing trend for businesses over the last few years, and for good reason. Before you begin dabbling with multiple social media sites, a strategy needs to be put in place that includes:
Consistency: Instead of posting when you have time, post something at the same times every day so your audience knows when to expect it.
Engagement: Interact with your audience through social media, whether it’s by answering questions they post or by asking questions yourself.
Images: Don’t just post links and text. People love pictures and infographics. Visuals are processed 60,000 times faster in the brain than text. Businesses that have used infographics have grown in traffic 12% more than those that don’t.
This will increase your reach to people without accessibility issues too, so many people watch videos with their phones on mute you’d be amazed how many are skipped over if they don’t have subtitles it’s a really untapped market you need to address.
Why Accessibility Matters
It’s time to set a universal standard for accessibility. How many people have visited your channel and left without complaining because of its inaccessibility?
There are 466 million people around the world who are deaf or hard-of-hearing.
Up to 71% of people with disabilities leave a page immediately if it is not accessible.
How do the statistics of videos with captions compare to video content without subtitles?
When it comes to watch time, subtitled videos increase view time by more than 12% and are watched an average 91% to completion. In comparison, videos without subtitles are only watched 66% to completion. When subtitles are included, 80% more people watch videos to completion.
[9] High Quality Content
Let’s be fair, you can create rich SEO descriptions, fill out all your profile, have active subscribe buttons etc. etc. but if your content is weak then people won’t return, they probably won’t even watch the entirety of your current video.
Just like any other form of blogging / vlogging or social media content will always be king. Make sure the videos you are creating are what your ideal audience would be looking for, that the video ultimately answers a problem, that you’re clear and engaging and most importantly that you are yourself.
Anyone can create a factual video what makes your videos unique is you. So inject some personality and let your viewers really get to know the person behind the camera
Hopefully if your videos are doing well you will start getting comments on your videos – answer them! Respond to your fans and engage with your community.
These are your viewers and subscribers, by making them know you ‘see’ them they’re more likely to return to your new content. Plus engage enough and you will get ideas for new Youtube videos, questions they need answering – its basically free market research very specifically from your audience.
So there you have it, 10 ways you can improve your current Youtube promotion with just a few simple changes.
Content creators upload over 300 hours of video every minute to YouTube. That’s a lot of competition. So, to stand out and grow your channel on YouTube, you need to upload professional videos on a frequent basis with these time saving apps for YouTubers.
But, once you’ve planned the content and shot a video, the work isn’t finished yet. You still need to add graphics, caption it, get the title keywords right, and think about promotion.
There’s lots to do.
This article takes a look at five excellent tools to speed up your content creation process.
Some are free, and some need a subscription. And once you start using them, you’ll find you can reduce the time from recording to upload – leaving you more time to plan and shoot more content.
Let’s begin.
remove.bg – YouTube Image Background Remover
YouTube is a visual platform. Viewers mostly choose what video to watch next based on visual clues from the thumbnail.
Having the right thumbnail then is essential, it can be the difference between success and failure for a video. It’s not enough nowadays to use a boring still from your video.
Take a look at the image below. The thumbnail on the left has the best combination of text and visual, and outperforms the rest of his content combined.
You need to be upfront and centre in your YouTube thumbnail. But making thumbnails takes time, especially if you need to cut-out your portrait from a cluttered background.
Did you know you can turn a 20-minute task into a five-second one with remove.bg?
remove.bg is a free online tool that cleverly removes the background from your image. Leaving you a perfect cut-out of your picture for you to add the finishing touches.
It’s straightforward to use. Drag an image onto the remove.bg’s homepage and they handle the rest.
Here’s an example.
As you can see, the image size for the free version isn’t the largest, but you can process it a little to fit the resolution that YouTube requires.
You can get a higher resolution image if you buy credits from remove.bg. For each credit you buy, you get to download 1 high-resolution image. 10 credits cost £8.00, or you can get credits cheaper by taking out a subscription.
rev.com – YouTube Closed Captions and Subtitles Service
Closed Captions and Subtitles – what’s the difference?
Closed Captions. These are a direct transcript of the audio of your video. A viewer can use them if they don’t want to listen to the sound of your video. They are in the same language as the one spoken, and a viewer can turn them off if they don’t need them.
Subtitles. Subtitles assume that the audio of the video is still on. They clarify the speech if the audio is poor or the speaker has a strong accent. They are also used to provide a translation of speech in another language.
Obviously having closed captions or subtitles on your videos help those hard of hearing or who don’t speak your language. But, there are also other benefits that land this site on the time saving apps for youtubers list.
One of the most important factors of ranking for your video is Audience Retention. That is, how much of your video a viewer watches. Clearly, having closed captions and subtitles promotes access to your content and will help with this metric.
Another ranking benefit is that your uploaded transcription file also helps with your metadata.
The free AI transcription tool on YouTube is not very good. And if you don’t have the time to transcribe your own videos, instead use the service provided by rev.com.
The service works on a per-minute basis and will provide the output in the .srt format YouTube prefers.
kapwing.com – YouTube to Social Media Content Creation
If you’ve been a YouTuber for long enough, you know that for best results you need to promote your video after you have uploaded it.
Gary Vee is a master at teasing his content. On Instagram and Facebook, you’ll find video snippets with closed captions for easy consumption over mobile.
It’s really easy to one of these yourself, head over to kapwing.com.
Hit the ‘start editing’ button and select start with a blank canvas. Then, input your YouTube video URL, and it will import it for you.
Next, using the easy controls, you can clip the section of the video you want to use, add subtitles, and then change it into the best size for where you will upload it.
A great benefit is that all the processing happens at the server-side, so your laptop won’t feel like a baking tray just out of the oven when you use it.
Kapwing is free to use and even lets you produce media without a watermark by registering for a account. You need a subscription to keep all your work private, get faster processing speeds, and long term storage of your media.
A monthly subscription is $20, or you can make a saving if you buy an annual subscription for $200.
placeit.net – YouTube Intro, Outro, and Logo Maker
One way to stand out from mediocre content and show expertise is to add professional looking intro/outro animations to your videos.
An animated intro/outro that is quick and clear tells your viewer who you are, what you do, and helps with your branding strategy.
To quickly make very professional intro/outro animations, I use placeit.net.
There are plenty of templates to choose from; some are image-based and some are text-based, so you should find one to fit your requirements.
Once you have picked a template, you can customise it to fit your needs. It’s easy to change colours and resize logos, so you get an intro/outro that fits your channel’s branding.
For other elements of your channel, like logo’s and banners, placeit.net works well for these too.
You won’t need to hire a graphic designer to create fantastic looking graphics. Here is a sample of the kind of logos you can use as a starting point.
I picked the cupcake above, then changed the text and the central image to end up with the logo below for my new seafood venture. (OK, it’s just an example – I’ve never even eaten lobster!)
As you can see, it’s easy to change the colours and text to create a professional-looking logo you can upload to your channel page.
priceit.net – costs $14.95 per month for unlimited videos, logos, and designs, or if you take out an annual subscription $99.95.
A solid gold entry into the time saving apps for youtubers list with so many tasks that you can use placeit.net for, so it is a worthwhile subscription. But if you’re on a budget, you can get all the graphics you need with a single months payment – just cancel your subscription when you have what you need.
photopea – Free Browser-Based Photo Editing Tool
As a visual content producer, you need a photo editing suite. It can be a great time saving app for Youtubers. But, there’s no need to pay for Adobe Photoshop or PaintShop Pro. photopea.com is a browser-based image manipulation tool that is free to use. It works with all the popular image formats, and even handles .psd files.
There are lots of reasons a YouTuber might need photo manipulation software – here are two of them:
1 – Outlining Your Thumbnails. You have possibly noticed some YouTubers using a white outline surrounding their picture on their thumbnails, it’s a good technique to make a thumbnail pop out on the page.
Here is an example made using the image we removed the background on earlier. Drag the image onto the project workspace, then add a stroke effect in layer styles.
Now it’s ready for your logo, title, and branding.
2 – Making Start and End Screens. If you don’t want to pay for placeit.net to make an animated intro/outro, then you can use photopea instead. Use it to create a professional-looking branding image then edit into your video.
There are lots of templates to choose from. Pick one and edit away.
They even have standard templates for promotional images you can post to Instagram, Twitter and Facebook.
Start using these Time saving apps for youtubers today to speed up your production process and make your YouTube videos look amazing. There is a learning-curve with a few of them. But, in most cases, you will be up and running with them quickly and producing professional-looking video in a shorter amount of time.
If you have any questions, please add them in the comments, and I’ll answer them as soon as I can.
And remember to check out my resources page for more useful tools discounts and links!
YouTube video timestamps now come with skippable chapters that can help you rank better in search. Learn how to add chapters to youtube videos with time stamps and why they are so useful for YouTube and Google search results.
The new time stamp video chapters for YouTube videos give you the opportunity to add relevant sub titles to sections of your videos. This means people can skip to these parts quicker, helping them get the answer they want more directly. These snippets can work well for youtube promotion as they can also be found by Google and using in the search results as video snippets or result snippets for quick answers in results.
What Are YouTube Video Timestamps?
Timestamps on YouTube videos give you the chance to skim through the video quickly and find what you are looking for using the mini sub headings.
The timestamps are normally added to the video description by the video creator. You start with 0:00 to show YouTube where the video starts and you add time stamps to important parts of the video with index marks for example “2:53 – Step By Step Tutorial”.
YouTube video chapters can help you find the important part of the video faster.
If you are a creator and you upload videos, the chapters give you the opportunity to add additional, relevant keywords to the description of the video.
Why add keywords to the description?
YouTube search and google works on relevancy and meta data. If you post a video tutorial that has 5-6 different parts to it then you can section it out. Each questions could have a time stamp. Each of those time stamps could be a search term and each could have a chance of dominating search results with google snippets.
What Are Google Snippets?
Google Snippets (featured snippets) are short selections of text or clips of YouTube videos appearing at the top of Google’s search results that are designed to answer a searcher’s query.
The content that appears inside of a Featured Snippet is automatically pulled from web pages in Google’s index or snippets from YouTube Videos with timestamps. Common types of Featured Snippets include definitions, tables, steps and lists.
How featured snippets are chosen?
Featured snippets come from web search listings. Google’s automated systems determine whether a page would make a good featured snippet to highlight for a specific search request.
Get more views on YouTube 2020 with a few methods you may have simply overlooked. There is a lot of things you can do to hook and keep people watching on YouTube but some of these aren’t banged on about as much as meta tags and titles. Today I am going to share with you my 5 Overlooked Ways To Get More Views on YouTube for small YouTubers.
Watch time on YouTube unlocks everything and learning how to get more watch time, increasing youtube watch time on the channel overall and boosting channel watch time from existing video traffic is easier than you think.
Get People Watching For Longer – How To Increase Watch Time on YouTube
There are many tools that are often overlooked in the pursuit of views and subscribers but these will boost your chances of ranking higher and supercharging your viewers watch time. Remember that session watch time and audience retention is key so use end cards, info cards and deep dive into the YouTube analytics, learn how to read the absolute audience retention graphs for your chance to decode the youtube algorithm.
As the 2nd largest search engine in the world, YouTube is a widely used channel to promote, entertain, and educate audiences. YouTube has roughly 22 billion monthly visits and the average session duration is just under 40 minutes.
People like YouTube. A lot.
However, like all things on the internet getting more YouTube views has been a pursuit that people have started to throw money at–sometimes through shady enterprises–to promote their content. People are buying YouTube views in hopes of either fooling YouTube’s algorithms or convincing people that so many others have watched their video so they should too.
There’s just a few problems with this approach:
YouTube’s bot detection capabilities are getting better and better
The algorithms are paying more attention to user behavior rather than view counts
It can be expensive
If you’re a marketer or content creator wanting to increase your YouTube views for free, then the process will take time and effort; however, if you do it right you’ll be rewarded with more views, a better user experience, and opportunities to expand your content and audience viewership.
With its extensive amount of users, YouTube is one of the premier platforms in the world to reach audiences. Whether you’re sharing recipes, teaching people how to create muppet origami, or spoofing presidents, the platform has the ability to reach billions.
So, how do you generate more views on YouTube and get people to view your content?
Get Views from YouTube’s Organic Search Results
Like Google’s search results algorithms, YouTube has its own algorithms used to showcase the best and most relevant videos to users. Imagine if a blind person had the task of categorizing content by which content was best. Sound difficult?
Thankfully, YouTube has a wide variety of factors in its algorithm to decide which videos are the best and rank in the top of its search results.
1. Use Descriptive and Keyword Rich Titles
This is where your keyword research will come into play. A descriptive and interesting title will do two things: provide keywords for the algorithm to sort for relevancy purposes and attract users and inform them about what the video is about. To conduct keyword research, you can use typical SEO methods like using TubeBuddy or other keyword research tools.
Optimizing your video content for the right keywords will help gain organic views by informing users and the search engine just what your video is about.
2. Have Quality and Keyword Rich Descriptions
The video description is where you can better inform the search engines and users just what exactly your video is about. This will help increase the click-through-rate and thus the views, as users will know what to expect in your video.
Try to both stand-out and remain generic; you should capture interest while still trying to rank for short-tail keywords. Entice users above the fold with your descriptions and optimize them correctly for the YouTube search engine as you would with a normal SEO meta description.
3. Use Tags
YouTube video tags further help distinguish what your video content about and helps the algorithm understand what users will view when they see your video. These, along with your description and title, should reflect the core of what your video is about. Think short-tail SEO again.
If you need keyword help, you can use TubeBuddy, as mentioned above.
4. Optimize Your Thumbnail Image
Your thumbnail image, like a hero-image, can work wonders when increasing your YouTube views whether they’re on the organic results page, suggested videos section, or appearing on social media. Use high-quality images that feature readable and engaging fonts and facial-closeups, if they’re featured in your video.
Captions or transcripts of your videos have been heavily debated as to their ability to increase your YouTube ranking. However, closed captions can help get more YouTube views as they cater to international audiences and the disabled.
Ranking well for YouTube’s organic results can increase your views immensely and provide a sustainable method of viewership traffic. Buying YouTube views may provide a quick boost in views, but it’s not a good long-term solution as behavioral analytics are more meaningful ranking factors in the eyes of YouTube’s algorithms.
Increase Views With Your Video Content
The content in your video is the most important factor in deciding just how many views it will get. Good content will result in better behavioral analytics that YouTube’s algorithm will recognize and reward your video with better organic search positioning.
6. Provide Content that Educates or Entertains or Both
Your video content should provide value to the viewer; whether it’s teaching them how to do or understand something, or simply keeping them engaged and entertained. When users find your content valuable, they’ll return for more and increase the views on your other future video content.
7. Piggyback off of Viral Trends
Create video content that piggybacks off of already existing viral trends. There’s already a built in market desire to view content within the context of a viral phenomenon, so you should tap into it.
A good example is all the YouTube videos that were made in response to the United Airlines PR fiasco.
It’s not always easy or possible to tie your video content in with ongoing trends; however, if you can find a clever way to do it, you can boost your views on YouTube with the help of a hungry public looking for more trending contextual content.
8. Use Guest YouTubers
Similar to guest posting for blog content, guest YouTubers, industry influencers, or persons of note with their own following can do wonders for boosting your views. Similar to influencer marketing, guest YouTubing can entice your users with household industry names and provide a different and unique perspective to your industry’s sphere.
Offer a link to one of their videos or websites in your description and you can form a beneficial relationship built on reciprocity.
Generating Views From the YouTube Platform
YouTube’s bottom line is to keep users on the platform. They rake in a huge amount of cash from advertising and the more users watch videos, the more they’ll increase profits. Thus, there are numerous ways you can be active on the platform to increase your subscribers and video views.
9. Create Video Content that Imitates Your Industry’s Best
Picasso once said “good artists borrow, great artists steal.” While I would never advocate for plagiarism of any kind, Picasso’s point rings very true in regard to popular YouTube videos. A potential goldmine for boosting your views comes from the Suggested Videos section that appears on the sidebar and in a grid after a video has been completed.
YouTube’s algorithms will present content here as they would for an organic result with one caveat: the video a user just watched may have less to do with the original query they put in, and more to with the relevancy to the video the user just viewed. Thus, the content presented at the end of a watched video will be similar to the content that was just viewed.
By optimizing your video to be relevant to other popular videos, you’ll increase the chances of driving users to view your YouTube channel and video, fast.
You can target similar keywords and descriptions and create video content that covers the same topic with a more engaging tone or with more information presented in a more accessible way.
10. Use Cards
These YouTube optimization features enable you to promote your other content within your video. You can create cards that can be used to:
Promote other video content
Get more channel subscribers
Donate to a non-profit
Send traffic to your website
Encourage users to participate in a poll
In regard to increasing your video views, you should use these cards to encourage users to visit your lesser watched content and subscribe to your channel. Use your behavioral analytics to see at which points users stop watching your video and implement the card beforehand to ensure it gets seen by more viewers.
YouTube behavioral analytics provide you with a lot of actionable insights and metrics to inform every decision you make to increase your video views.
11. Create End Screens
End screens serve the unique function of doing a little bit of everything at the end of your video. It’s a chance to provide users who enjoyed your content with all the relevant information regarding your channel, other playlists, recommended videos, and your verified website.
Whether you’re gaining more subscribers or linking to your other videos, both optimization features directly or indirectly to boost your YouTube views.
To add end-screens, go to your Video Manager, click edit on the video you want to add to, and click End Screens & Annotations. From there you’ll be able to add the additional features.
End screens are a great way to promote your own content before YouTube’s algorithms recommend other popular videos and pull people away from your channel and videos.
12. Promote a Marquee Video
Having a marquee video on YouTube can help spread awareness to your other videos and to your YouTube channel. A good marker is for your video to have at least 5,000 views so that it will appear in more search results due to its already existing popularity.
As mentioned above, you can create cards, end screens, and other links to your other video content within your marquee video.
Like internal linking on websites, your marquee videos can be a great way to push traffic and views to your lesser-known videos and channel in general.
13. Use Autoplay for your Embedded Videos
Autoplay will automatically begin playing a video when it’s been embedded. You should be careful when you do this, as auto-played videos may annoy some users. If the video content is explanatory, then it might be a good idea to use it as users can immediately jump into the video that’s explaining how to do something.
14. Create Playlists
Create playlists for your content so viewers can watch it consecutively. After the first video ends, your other videos will automatically play, which will get more views for each played video without them having to navigate off the player.
You can embed playlists, post them in your channel, or have users share them to increase the total views for each playlist.
Make each one unique and give them flow and relevancy with the order in which they are played. These are great for educational or entertaining content that tells a story or goes in depth into how different components make up a whole.
15. Be Present Within Your Niche Community
Promoting yourself as an expert in your own videos is one thing, but being an active member in your niche community is another. Comment on other videos and offer your advice or feedback, and if there’s video content that is missing some vital information, link others to your content to provide them with more information.
Try to be as helpful as possible and you’ll be rewarded with more users to increase your subscribers and ultimately, your video views.
Off-page View Boosters
YouTube has the unique ability to be present on a variety of different social media platforms. It can be embedded and shared, sometimes virally, with just a few clicks. Here are some ways to get more YouTube views outside of the platform.
16. Increase Your Video’s SEO Ranking
Traditional SEO is also a viable factor to increase YouTube views as the videos have the potential to even outrank the website that they’re featured on in the search engines.
Video embeds do count as backlinks and in this case, the links are pointing to the YouTube video, which help it’s SEO ranking. With a decent ranking on the SERPs, you can double-down on the traffic your video gets and increase your views.
17. Post Links to Your Videos on Your Social Media Profiles
Cross-platform promotion, especially with YouTube can work wonders in driving users to view it. You can reach your entire base by sharing links on other profiles to funnel them toward your video. Share the link as a post, or put it in the description of your profiles to boost your views.
Also, by pushing traffic from your social media profiles to YouTube, you’ll gain favor with the algorithms by becoming the source of many session starts, which are sessions that originate on certain videos on the platform. Sessions starting on your video show that your video is bringing users to YouTube, which will result in a more favorable organic ranking and more appearances in suggest views sections.
18. Find Niche Communities to Share Your Video with
There are a wide variety of places you can share your content. Different subReddits on Reddit or Quora topics that are relevant to your video’s interests and share target audiences are a great place to share your content.
There are even places just to share your video with YouTube enthusiasts to increase it’s views like the subreddit /r/GetMoreViewsYT. On this subreddit, people post videos and vote on the ones they like the best. The winner gets stickied to the top of the subreddit for the next week for people to visit and watch.
19. Reach Out to Influencers to Promote Your Video
Influencer marketing is fast-becoming a go-to source to reach audiences for big name brands. They have built in audiences that re-share and post their content, which has the potential to provide a surge in views on a viral scale.
As viewers are already following these influencers and regularly engage with the content they provide, one share of your video can generate a lot of views for your YouTube video and channel.
20. Embed Video Subscription Plugins Widgets on Your Blog
Embedding your video will already gain more views for your video, but supplying a subscribe button to your channel will prove extremely valuable in the long-run. About 50% of views for a video come from subscribers, so increasing your subscribers will give you a good bump in views on your videos .
To install the subscription widget, follow these instructions from YouTube and use the widget on pages with your video embedded.
21. Post About Giveaways and Promotions with the Links Embedded in Your Video Description
Everyone loves a good giveaway. Posting about a promotion, giveaway, or raffle on social media and telling your followers that the link to participate is in your video’s description will send the users to the video’s YouTube page, resulting in an increase in views.
Remember to Be Patient
Getting a lot of views on YouTube takes time. The platform has its own checks and balances to ensure that quality video content is reaching its users always and often. Try building an active subscriber base, and they will make up the lion’s share of your views.
5 EASY Ways To Get More Subscribers on YouTube // Small YouTubers Grow on YouTube with these 5 simple tricks. It’s often the simple things you overlook that can make a huge difference when trying to get your first 100 youtube subscribers and the more you nail these the more you can grow to get 1000 subscribers and more.
How To Get More YouTube Subscribers
1 – Make It Easy For Them To Subscribe – You need to add links in your videos descriptions, on your youtube channel page, on yor social media and anywhere people find you. The easy they can find your link the more likely they are to join find your channel and watch your videos in the long run.
2 – Give Them A Real Reason To Subscribe – This is the value proposition. You need to tell them why they should watch you, how you can and will help them and why YOU are worth their 5-7minutes of their time rather than someone else making the same content as you.
3 – REMIND THEM – If they are already watching your videos then they are already interested in your content, maybe you should remind them to subscribe! I use a little pop up animation in the middle of my videos that act as a small reminder to click the subscribe button and this helps build a very engaged audience that loves your videos.
4 – Grab them before they leave! If they have watched all the way through your video, try and convert them into a permanent viewer by adding a subscribe link to your end screens. This is a great way to funnel them into another one of your videos or hook them into your channel for the future.
5 – Watermark – The little icon in the bottom right-hand corner of your videos. This is a constant reminder to subscribe to your channel but it also works when your video in embedded on other sites like Facebook, Linked or even blogs. Make sure it stands out and people will be more likely to click on it.
How To Get More Views on YouTube in 2019 // More views in 2019 means more watch time on youtube in 2019. If you want to grow your youtube channel in 2019 you need to make the videos that people want to see… and you can do that by seeing what videos that wanted to see from you in 2018.
Get More Views in 2019 – YouTube Views
1 – Boost YouTube Views by researching the videos that did well on your channel in 2018. Go into your analytics, check views, select the last year and look at your most popular videos. Try to remake those, add extra videos in that series or remake them to update them.
2 – Get More Views on YouTube with trends – Trends can be the rocket fuel that will get to grow your youtube channel fast in 2019. If you can make a interesting video on a topic just at it pops, you can ride the wave to the top of the traffic mountain.
3 – Want more views on YouTube in 2019? MAKE MORE VIDEOS in 2019. The more views you have on your channel, the more videos can binge watch or find you in search with. You need to make the spider web of rankings as large as possible to catch as many flies.
4 – YouTube Views can be easy to find FAST if you string them all together into a series. Think of a topic you can break into 5-6 steps and make into a series playlist. The series playlist guides people into a watch time session loop that can boost views and watch time, and help you get more subscribers.
Why YOU Have SUBSCRIBERS But NOT Getting Views — Get More Views On YouTube // How To Get More Views on YouTube in 2018. You may have the subscribers but they don’t seem to be converting into views. Getting views on YouTube can always been a awkward balancing act of trends, video seo and trying to keep your existing subscribers entertained while hunting for new ones.
Many people ask me how to get more subscribers but for some small youtubers its not subscribers they find hard but trying how to get more views on YouTube and how to increase YouTube watch-time
How To Get More Views On YouTube
1 — HAS YOUR CONTENT CHANGED? — You channel maybe a few years old and you have started with one type of video but over time you have moved to a new topic or style. For example a new game or gaming vs vlogging.
2 — ARE YOU STILL MAKING THE VIDEOS THEY WANT? — What gets you the subscriber and what gets you the views? Do you get more views from a certain topic?
3 — DONT CONFUSE THEM — Pick a type and style of content and stick with it. Random topic uploads could scare return viewers away.
4 — NICHE DOWN — If you get more views and engagement from a certain type of video you might want to consider drilling down into that. if you build a consistency to your videos and deliver what they seem to watch then you will build a loyal viewer base.
5 — TRENDING TO HARD? — Did you get most of your subs from a trend video and now the people are confused what you do and why they should stick around to watch? Or maybe you are chasing trends too much and need to start building your personality and community more.
6 — YOUR AUDIENCE CAN OUT GROW YOU — If you channel has been around for a while and you have a certain audience age range, they might have outgrown you or not need you at this exact moment in time.
We can grow together, We can learn together… Start Creating!
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How To Get More Video Views On YouTube // Getting more views on YouTube — Get more video views by maximising the traffic you already have. YouTube views can be hacked if you funnel people into Playlists, End Screens and Mobile Cards. Get more views on YouTube to increase channel watch time and boost rankings.
Every small YouTuber would love to find a way to YouTube view hack their way to the top but the secret is that you can hack your own youtube views by maximising how big your own personal channel target is.
6 Tips To Get More Video Views On YouTube in 2018
1 — Publish More Videos — It’s easy for the YouTube Algorithm to find you if you have 1000 videos rather than 5.
2 — YouTube Playlists — You have one them over and they have clicked on your video… now its time to hook them in and make sure they stick around. Playlists can help with auto play videos and watch next suggestions.
3 — Cards — Why not link and suggest a video for them to goto. GOt a video that is related to what you are talking about, then let the viewer see it!
4 — End Screens — This is your last chance to push them where you when them to go before they stop watching your video. In the last 20 seconds of the video use the cards to add interesting links, playlists or videos they can choose from and boost your view counts.
5 — Blog Your Videos — Open a blog or start posting to Medium/Wordpress. This helps you pull in views from outside the YouTube bubble and start new session watch time. YouTube will reward you for bring them a new victim to a new binge watch session of tips and kittens.
6 — Get Savvy, Get Sexy, Get Social — No I don’t mean be Amy Landino! I mean start mingling on social media. Facebook, Twitter and Reddit can be great sources for niche traffic.
How To Get More Views on YouTube FAST – How To Get More Views Fast – Getting more views fast on YouTube is the holy grail for some YouTubers. Getting more views faster with TubeBuddy, or getting more video views fast is all down to laying the foundation work and pushing the right topical content.
There is not sure fire way to get more views fasts, get more youtube video views fast in 2018 but if you apply 4 tips to your videos you increase your chance of getting rapid real and free fast youtube views.
1 — Quality SEO Foundation — Make sure you focus on a key phrase in the titles, description and tags. Make sure the thumbnail is EYE CATCHING!
2 — AGGRESSIVELY Attack Trends — Is Pokemon Go the new thing? Make 5–10 videos about that topic within a 1–2 week period, optimise the video and chase that trend. You might get related video traffic and explode.
3 — Predict Trends — There is always a new trend to ride, you just have to find it. Some trends are predictable — Christmas, New Year. Spring Fashion, Summer Hauls…
4 — REACT To Topics — Have an opinion on what’s going on. Has your favourite celeb just been caught up in the news? Is there a YouTuber being an idiot? RAGE about it or LAUGH about it.