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How To Quickly Get A Ton Of YouTube Views — Who doesn’t want more YouTube views?

YouTube recently changed the analytics dashboard of every channel. The change made one thing clear: YouTube cares more about minutes watched than the number of views a video has. That makes sense. If a video has over 1 million views but the average view duration is just two seconds, then there’s a problem.

There is now a greater need to create lengthy, high value YouTube videos that grab people’s attention. But even after you create those videos, how do you get the ball rolling? Just because you create an awesome video does not mean YouTube will promote it to the masses.

You need to get the views on your own, but not just any views. Quality views are more important. You want people to watch as much of your YouTube video as possible. So how do you get more YouTube views and minutes watched? That’s what this blog post is all about.

Create Videos Consistently And Frequently

The more often you add videos to your channel, the more often your subscribers will check for new videos. Subscribers who like your videos naturally want to watch more of your videos. If you are consistent and frequent with new video uploads, then your subscribers will know to look at your channel a few times each week.

If you consistently publish videos once every six months, then it’s more difficult for you to grow a devoted fan base.

Even if you don’t have many subscribers, it is important to get comfortable with the process now. Not only will this strategy help you grow your overall audience, but consistently and frequently publishing YouTube videos won’t be a problem once you have thousands of subscribers.

Minutes Watched

YouTube changed the entire analytics dashboard to reflect the importance of minutes watched. We as YouTubers need to change our strategy too. Instead of short videos, it is becoming more important to produce lengthy videos.

One of my most recent YouTube videos was over 45 minutes long. I’m sure people are thinking, “Who would ever watch that entire video?” The truth is that not many people watch it for all 45 minutes.

However, my average viewer watches the YouTube video for over 10 minutes. Minutes watched is a valuable metric, and to get 10 minutes per video is a game changer. One of my other videos about scheduling pins with ViralWoot is about five minutes long.

Even if one of my viewers watches the entire ViralWoot video, the total minutes watched will be less than the average minutes watched for my 45 minute YouTube video.

The short-term results are difficult to see. However, in the long-term, your video is gaining an edge on YouTube’s search engine based on minutes watched. Soon enough, your video will get more views from YouTube’s search engine.

Turbocharge Your Videos With AdWords

For as little as $1 per day, you can get over 100 views for your YouTube video. Add a few extra zeroes next to the price per day and the number of views per day, and the possibilities become clear. Spending $10 per day results in 1,000 views per day.

Of course, your video needs to be optimized to get those types of results. Some tinkering with AdWords may eventually result in an optimized ad that gets $0.01 views for your YouTube video.

AdWords is a very reliable platform to promote your YouTube videos.

Breaking Even With AdWords

The video I currently promote with AdWords promotes my writing course. In addition to the social proof, the AdWords campaign also results in the sales of my training courses. You can break even by promoting YouTube videos that promote your products or landing pages. There are other options too, but products and landing pages seem to be the most popular.

Once you discover how to profit from AdWords, it’s just a matter of feeding the beast.

Promote It To Your Audience

Regardless of how large your current audience is outside of YouTube, you can promote your YouTube video to that audience. When I publish a new YouTube video, I always send a tweet to my Twitter audience. I’ll share it on Facebook and pin it on Pinterest.

I leverage the audiences I have built on other platforms to promote my YouTube videos.

Sometimes, I will even use my email list to promote my YouTube videos. If you are willing to provide valuable videos to your YouTube audience, then you might as well share those videos with your other audiences.

If you don’t have an audience outside of YouTube, ask your friends to spread the word. Create a content marketing strategy in which you contact influencers within your niche and kindly ask them to share your YouTube video.

Many of the most successful entrepreneurs state that it takes more time to market the product than to actually create the product. The same rule applies for YouTube videos. Put in more of your time towards marketing your YouTube video than the amount of time you actually spend creating the video.

If it is not possible for you to invest time towards marketing your YouTube videos, then consider outsourcing that part of your strategy.

In Conclusion

YouTube is changing the rules of success on their platform. The change is a good one. Views are no longer the ultimatum. We now need to go after quality views and create attention-grabbing videos.

We needed to follow these rules before YouTube made its changes. However, the new changes YouTube made have emphasized these rules and put them at the forefront of importance.

What are your thoughts about minutes watched being the key metric for YouTube success? Which of these tips was your favorite? Sound off in the comments section below.

Get More YouTube Views

Wouldn’t it be awesome if every YouTube video you publish from here on got over 100 views on the day you published them? For most YouTubers, this would be a dream come true. After crossing this hurdle, it would be easier for YouTubers to cross the 200 views/day hurdle, and other hurdles as well. Getting 100 views on the day of a YouTube video’s publication seems to be the big number that many people go after.

As new YouTubers quickly realize, putting a video up on YouTube does not ensure that a video will get hundreds of views, let alone a single view. It your YouTube videos can get over 100 views right when they get published, that would give you good social proof, and in some cases, it only takes a few hundred views to set off a chain reaction of views. If you want your YouTube videos to get over 100 views on the day they are published, follow these tips:

#1: Build An Email List

Building your own email list gives you the power to send emails to a group of people who would love to view and share your content. Promoting my YouTube videos to my email list alone ensures me over 100 views on the day the video gets published. Growing an email list takes a long period of time, but it’s well worth the time. A large email list provides other benefits such as more blog traffic and successful product launches.

#2: Get More YouTube Subscribers

Out of all of the viewers your YouTube videos get directly from YouTube, most of those views will come from your subscribers. That is why the channels with 100,000 subscribers do better than the channels with a few hundred subscribers. You can get more YouTube subscribers through a variety of methods such as including an annotation in one of your videos that asks people to subscribe, asking people to subscribe in your video’s description, and posting valuable videos. You can read this article to learn more methods to get more YouTube subscribers.

#3: Make Your Videos Longer

Video length is one of the most under appreciated methods of getting more YouTube subscribers. Although YouTube is the third most popular search engine on the web, few people think of YouTube as a search engine. Just as you do on Google, you find what you want by typing keywords into the search bar. Then, the search engine brings up results. The only difference is that YouTube exclusively brings up videos in its search results.

What does this have to do with making videos longer? The answer is SEO. In YouTube’s SEO algorithm, they use minutes watched as a critical component to determine your video’s placement for its keywords. If you search keywords like social media tips and self-publishing tips, you’ll see that most of the videos are over five minutes long. Some of these videos are over an hour long.

Most of the long videos are watched for a longer period of time than the short videos. You can skim through an hour long video and only watch five minutes of it. However, that’s more minutes watched than any four minute video on the web (unless you watch that same four minute video multiple times).

With that said, the value that your videos provide is still important. You can’t produce a subpar 30 minute video and expect people to stick around for all 30 minutes. You won’t get any returning viewers that way either. Most of the views people get from their new YouTube videos are from the returning viewers (and most of those returning viewers are your subscribers). The only way your viewers will become returning viewers is if they like the first video they see from your channel.

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#4: Promote Your YouTube Video On Social Media

Let your Facebook friends and Twitter followers know about your YouTube video. In fact, tell all of your social media audiences about the new video. One way YouTube videos spread is when people share them on their social networks. Some of your social media followers may decide to tweet your video or share it on Facebook. All of this sharing results in more exposure for your YouTube videos, and as a result, more traffic.

If you get 10 people who each have 1,000 followers to share your YouTube video, then your potential reach is 10,000 people. Then, some of those people’s followers may decide to share the content on their social networks, and it starts a chain reaction of social sharing.

#5: Submit Your YouTube Videos To StumbleUpon, Digg, and Reddit

Sometimes, the content posted on these three sites can suddenly go viral. One of my blog posts I submitted to StumbleUpon routinely got a dozen or so daily visitors. A day after I submitted that blog post to StumbleUpon, it got over 4,000 visitors in just 48 hours. I used Reddit to promote a free coupon to one of my training courses (it was new, so I needed to have the social proof), and the course got over 500 sign-ups in two days. All of those sign-ups came without an email list, promotion on my blog, or a social media campaign involving my other social networks.

Your YouTube videos have a chance to pick up a lot of views. Although the amount of minutes these videos get watched is just as important, a video with 10,000 views looks more attractive to the average YouTube viewer than a video with 50 views. Submitting your YouTube videos to these three websites is typically a hit or a miss. The YouTube videos will either go viral or only get a few viewers from this method, but getting a few viewers is always better than getting no viewers.

In Conclusion

YouTube, with the help of its users, has made more videos available on the web than any other website. With countless videos uploaded to YouTube, an algorithm is needed to determine which videos get the most attention. Although knowing the algorithm is helpful towards getting more views and subscribers, you cannot rely on the algorithm because they constantly change. What’s stopping YouTube from launching a Penguin or Panda of its own? YouTube’s algorithm updates don’t cause as much panic as the Google updates (the sky is falling, the sky is falling), but its algorithm does have updates. At one point, the success of a YouTube video was measured by its views. Currently, that success is measured by minutes watched.

You need to grow an audience outside of YouTube and promote your YouTube videos to that audience. Some of the most successful YouTubers also have large audiences on their other social networks and giant email lists. Many of these YouTubers get thousands of views on the days they publish new videos.

Which of these methods was your favorite? Do you have any other method for increasing views? Please share your thoughts and advice below.