There are a number of important ranking factors that YouTube considers when surfacing your videos.Watch Time is the mother of them all.In the first days of the platform, a large amount of views to a video early on was a signal of success to YouTube and in turn they would promote it further. However it […]
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How To Drive Your Facebook Audience To YouTube
**Editor’s Note**I suck at Facebook. There, I said it.My Facebook Page is no where near as active as it should be and my main goal for this year is to master Facebook video as it grows in importance to Creators.I don’t know enough about the platform but what I do know is that it is […]
How To Connect Your YouTube Channel To Twitter (Update Oct 2016)
This is part 8 of my How To Start A YouTube Channel Series. As YouTube has changed it’s user experience over the years it has become increasingly harder to get your new uploads (let alone likes, comments etc) in front of your subscribers. This means that you have to work harder to get your videos […]
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Should I join a YouTube MCN? ( Multi Channel Network ) | FAQ #7
This question comes from Aire English School who are doing some fantastic work in the educational space on YouTube. I’ve been approached by YouTube Network X to become an affiliate channel. I’ve always been sceptical of these, but just wondered what you thought of this. How does it work? Multi Channel Networks (or MCNs) are a […]
How Do I Send & Receive YouTube Messages? | FAQ #6
This FAQ Tube community question comes from Soapluvva who is working on a very focused niche on YouTube – something that I always encourage. Here’s the question: YouTube changed their messaging system. What, exactly, do I have to do so that a “Message” button will appear on my opening page or on the “About” page? […]
Get More YouTube Views For Your Old Videos | FAQ #5
This question comes from @salemiscreative via twitter. Do you have any advice about how to get an old popular video that is stale more attention? The freshness of a video is a huge ranking factor for the YouTube algorithm and because of this it can be easy to get hung up on your latest video. […]
Can I Copy & Paste YouTube Annotations? | FAQ #4
This community question comes from Leek Rarebit who is starting out some channels in a very interesting niche. Is there a reliable method to copy annotations from one video to another? The short and not so sweet answer to the question is unfortunately no. That is apart from having all of your details such as […]