1- Polish up your channel profile

Let´s say you already have registered profile or planning to create one. 

Your success and subscribers rate are closely related with how good your page looks. Make it irresistible. Make it so attractive that users would instantly want to buy you lunch.

Create a catchy cover

To become a famous youtube give honest answers on these questions.

Does your cover image grabs the users?

Does it have your face, tag line and call-to-action on it?

You can make a fancy one for yourself fast and free at Canva. Your cover should grab attention from the first glance if you want more folks to stick around.

Let people know more about you

Youtube isn´t the place where you should be shy. Especially if you want to become a famous youtuber.

Fill in your about section with some fun info about yourself and your channel. Tell the world what makes you awesome, what type of content you shoot and share ; how often do you do it, what makes you so special/fun/useful, etc.

Add your other social media accounts and website if any, so that more users could connect with you.

Include a welcome video

An attractive Welcome video can win you additional friends. Keep it short and sweet.

You can either make a funny mashup of your best content or a short intro talking about what´s your channel all about, why it´s awesome and worth subscribing to!

Make sure you add an attractive text description along.

Categorize your video content

If you already have a decent collection of videos, create special playlists and feature them on your profile page, so that new users wouldn´t feel lost and overwhelmed.

Don´t forget you have just a few seconds to grab the attention of your viewer and make them fall in love with your videos.

2- Use some smart tech hacks

Similar to Google, Youtube has it´s own ranking algorithm, placing some videos on top of the search while ignoring others. Same thing with related video users´ seen at the right of their screen.

When you are struggling to gain the initial fan base, these simple tricks can make the algorithm work for you.

Shoot longer videos

Youtube ranks videos of 5+ minutes higher compared to short ones. Leave those for Instagram. 

Use keyword in your video filename

You do know about keywords, right? Those short phrases and words people use to find your awesome videos.

Make sure you use your keyword in the video´s filename.

Crafting winning titles

A good title should:

• have at least 5 words
• have your keyword inside
• be catchy and clickbait

Write descriptions the right way

Youtube can´t view or listen to your video, so it relies on your descriptions when it comes to determining what´s your video content´s all about.

Here are the essential guidelines for the description:

• mention your keyword in the first 25 words
• make the description at least 250 words
• use your keyword 2-3 times

Apart from this, descriptions should be engaging, well formatted and easy to scan for those users who prefer to get the idea of what they are about to watch before clicking play

Tag it!

To create popular youtube channel use tags. Tags help your video rank better + get you to you show up more often as a related video.

Tags should be the variation of your keyword and some extra keyword people may use to find your videos.

Additionally, find videos similar to yours, grab a few of their tags and include to your videos as well to increase your chances of getting into related section.

Youtube ranking factors

To sum it up here are additional important metrics youtube uses to determine the quality of your video and rank it accordingly:

• video retention: the percentage of your video users tend to watch. The more the better
• comments – again the more the merrier. Youtube thinks if people commented, they probably liked the video
• subscribers after watching: if a user subscribed to your channel after watching your video that sends a huge signal to youtube that you have amazing stuff
• social shares the total amount of shares the video got on other social networks like Twitter, Facebook, Google+, etc
• favorites: the number of people that starred your video or added it to Watch later playlist
• thumbs up/ thumbs down

3- Learn to create better video content

Develop your ritual

One of a kind thing you always do in your videos. It could be a signature greeting and signature phrase- basically anything catchy your fans would look forward to.

Start a series

Make your subscribers eager to come back on Wednesday when you post Q&A video sessions or some other type of special content.

Keep them hooked for a specific time of the day

Stay in trend

Watch for breaking news, pop-culture and social media trends and jump in on the bandwagon as soon as you notice something massively popular.

Chances are your video could come up as related next to someone massively popular and you could gain extra exposure and views.

Share a personal story

Help the users connect and relate to you more by sharing your inspiring story of struggle, fails and victories. Talk about universal problems each human or group of people have faced and could totally relate to

Collaborate with other creators

Do you know someone famous in your area who shoots videos similar to yours?

Reach out, offer friendship and ask about the potential collaboration.

Make sure you already have a winning idea to make it clear you have something worthwhile to bring to the collaboration and you don´t plan simply to capitalize on someone else´s success.

Contact bigger Youtubers, contact smaller you tubers. Make sure you don´t turn down offers coming your way as by the end of the day the youtube community is all about helping each other and sharing the wealth.

Create parodies

Capitalize on someone else´s success by doing a parody video. When users would search/ watch the original one, yours would appear somewhere near.

Make video responses

There´s a buzzing issue in the society about X talking Y? Make your statement on too!

Same as with parodies, if your response is smart/ witty/ funny and timely, it could generate a massive buzz.

Additionally, you can make video responses to famous Youtube´s statements. 

4- Promote your videos

On youtube

Contribute to the community and it will give back to you. Here are a few things you can do to keep your audience growing.

Watch and subscribe to similar channels

Another great tip of how to become famous on Youtube is to leave comments on the videos, uproot them and save to favorites. Unless you are targeting someone huge, chances are the youtube will return you the favor and check out your channel too.

Create attractive video thumbnails

Youtube allows uploading custom video thumbnails.

You can speculate on that with some provocative things like featuring a busty girl o get more views. Or simply, create something attractive and explanatory e.g your video title + short description+ your face

Add popups in your videos

Reminding folks to subscribe, check out another video, comment, like or do some other actions.

Popups are incredibly effective unless you overdo with them to the point when it gets freaking annoying!

Hold a competition/ giveaway

Another way to become famous on Youtube is to announce you´ll be giving away something pretty cool to a random folk that: 

• follows your channel
• commented on your video
• shared it on social media

Interact with your audience

You do remember Youtube makes it a big deal out of comments, right?

Always thank back to folks who´ve commented. Answer users questions and try to trick them into discussion.

If you are not afraid of potential haters – sound controversial. Make your unique statements; yet do not insult the people you talk to.

Outside youtube

Youtube is not the whole internet right? If you want to become famous on Youtube you need to tap into all potential opportunities of promoting your video content anywhere to anyone. 

Attend youtube meet ups and conferences

Those are hosted plenty and often at different places around the world. Why it´s worth to step off your laptop and go into the real world?

• you can meet other cool you tubers, make friends and arrange potential collaborations
• you can meet active fans who spend a lot of time on youtube and might wanna know more about your content too
• you can learn tips/tricks/hacks from the best about editing/shooting/creating better videos

Engage on social media

And by that I mean not just regularly posting links to your videos on Twitter and Facebook, but participating in discussions, answering comments, sharing content from other awesome folks you know.

Ask your fans questions, offer them to suggest you a new video idea, ask for feedback and reach out to other relevant communities on Facebook who might be interested in sharing your content.

Share your video on Quora and/ or other Q&A sites

Made a fine tutorial or a how-to explanation video? Great, now find people who are trying to solve the problem you´ve just broke down for them!

Get on Quora, find a relevant question, write a short text reply and embed your video and voila- targeted viewers heading your way.

Add a link to your Youtube channel/ video to your email signature

5- Get first 100 subscribers on Youtube

Winning the first hundred fans is the hardest. Yet, remember, those would be your tribe- a unique group of fans, friends and followers who resonate with your worldview.

A few simple steps to build your tribe:

• be as personal as you can
• stay relevant to your audience
• show up when you say you will, do what you say you plan to do, and always leave people an easy escape out of the community

6- Hit the first 10.000 views on Youtube

Another important milestone defining your success within the video making community.

Here are a few more legit tips to help your video gain the initial 10K views:

• upload it in HD. HD videos usually generate more clicks and views
• change your thumbnail to something particularly baffling
• promote it like it´s nobody´s business with all the means you have
• share it on respective thread on Reddit to get a massive leap if it takes off
• test various types of video content and identify the best performing ones

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