If you truly want to grow your channel and make some revenue, you have to get more Subscribers.. Everyone knows that.
There’s a lot of content out there on this topic, that mostly give you tips that no longer work or you simply don’t need but In this article, I’ll give you smart tips which you’ll use to get more YouTube Subscribers in 2022.
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Tips to get more YouTube Subscribers in 2022
- Create a lot of Engaging Content
- Ask Viewers to Subscribe
- Add Subscribe button to your Videos
- Leverage YouTube Shorts
- YouTube SEO
- Use Growth Tools
- Promote Your Channel
- Use YouTube Ads
- Use Cards and End Screens
- Create a Description Template
Create a lot of Engaging Content
Well, This is pretty much self-explanatory, you should create a lot of engaging content that your audience will love and that will prompt them to Subscribe.
It’s not just pulling up a camera and just recording, editing in 3 minutes, publishing and hoping the gods of viral content locate your video.. it doesn’t work that way.
First things first, you need your videos to be of high quality, so you need a quality and reliable camera.
Once you’ve got a great Camera, it’s time to get a professional video editor, one that’ll cover all your needs.
You now have to create a content schedule according to the free time you have, this is simply concluding on how many video you want to be creating on a weekly, daily or monthly basis and sticking to that.
When I was starting out on YouTube, I created unprofessional videos using my smartphone and I was uploading new content everyday,
I didn’t even decide on the niche I’d be working on, I was just uploading content, for 2 straight years, I had only 200 Subscribers.
By then, I had gained some knowledge on how to make money on YouTube and stuff, so I became serious.
It only took a 10-minute video that got 100,000 views in 3 weeks to get me into the YouTube partner program.
If I recall correctly, that video got me around 5000+ watch hours and 2000 Subscribers.
So what’s the lesson here, you should decide on the niche you want to work on and stick to that, then all your videos should be longer than 10 minutes.
Ideally, in your content plan or schedule, your goal should be to create 100 engaging videos.
Once you accomplish the goal, you can now create content anytime you wish and lessen the hassle.
P.S. You need to purchase a few of the beginner YouTube Equipment, so you can focus on creating outstanding videos.
Ask your viewers to Subscribe
It’s just as it is, when recording your YouTube Content, ensure to take like 30 seconds and tell the viewers to Subscribe.
If you want this to be more productive, give them a reason to Subscribe, maybe to know when the next big content is uploaded or to get access to giveaway, you decide.
The main point here is to leverage whatever it is, the audience in your niche want.
Let’s say I run a YouTube Channel where I teach YouTube, I might promise a Tubebuddy premium account giveaway for 5 random Subscribers.
Since my Audience are all YouTube Creators, they’ll all be interested. Do make sure that you fulfill your promise.
You should reveal that the winners will be announced on your next YouTube video, so that they’ll anticipate.
The only way they’ll be able to know when your next video comes out is if they Subscriber and turn on notifications.
In the description if every video ensure to tell your viewers to Subscribe, it can be in the form of “Subscribe to My Channel here – https://youtube-channel-link?sub_confirmation=1/ “.
By adding ‘?sub_confirmation=1’, any viewer that clicks on the Subscribe link and is using desktop will subscribe 99% of the time.
Add Subscribe Button to your Videos
This’ll help you get more YouTube Subscribers when people view your videos on desktop.
If you’ve watched YouTube videos on your Laptop or Personal Computer, you must have seen videos with something like a watermark at the bottom right hand corner of the video.
That is where you should add you Subscribe button, because when people click on the watermark, they’ll be promoted to Subscribe.
You now need to download a YouTube Subscribe button.
Just head over to Google.com and search ‘YouTube Subscribe Button’ then download the ones you need.
We don’t want the buttons to show with the background, so you should head over to remove.bg and remove the image’s background, then click on download.
To add Subscribe button to all your YouTube videos:
- Open and Login to YouTube Studio
- In the left sidebar, click on Customization.
- Click on the Branding tab and then you should see the video watermark section.
- Upload the ‘YouTube Subscribe Button’ image without background.
- Set display time to entire video and then click on publish.
Leverage YouTube Shorts
Most Creators actually overlook the content distribution power possessed by YouTube Shorts.
After analyzing a couple of content on YouTube, I came to the conclusion that YouTube Shorts is the fastest way to blow up on YouTube.
Yes! Even faster then SEO.
Notice Something here, all these YouTube Channel that create Comic content that make people laugh don’t use SEO but they still have millions of Subscribers.
YouTube Channels like Chewkz, Adam W, Anwar Jibawi, DeStorm Power, Bachelor’s Pad TV etc.
Do you know what all these Channels have in common, they leverage YouTube Shorts to reach a wider audience.
Let’s take Adam Waheed for example, he’s published over 300 Shorts over a few years and he now has 6.53 Million Subscribers on YouTube.
To sum it all up, just create more engaging vertical content for YouTube while also creating the traditional 16:9 ratio videos.
Once you upload 50 shorts, you’ll use YouTube Studio to analyze the Shorts that are getting you more Subscribers, you then have to create more of those content.
YouTube SEO
Am sure you must have been hearing about SEO, whenever you search for terms like how to get more views on YouTube and How to Grow on YouTube.
YouTube SEO can simply be defined as optimizing your content to rank higher on Google and YouTube.
I normally use tools like Tubebuddy and VidIQ to leverage SEO on my YouTube Channel.
I have also created a free resource on the best YouTube SEO Tips to get higher rankings on 2022, make sure you read and implement.
Use Growth Tools
There are several tools which will help you get more Subscribers and Grow your YouTube Channel out there.
I’ve managed to gather around 15 of them, check them out >>HERE<<. Some of these tools will help you create content automatically, create thumbnails, analyze your competition etc.
Promote Your YouTube Channel
You know, there’s a 110% percent probability that everyone who has Access to a smartphone watched videos on YouTube.
However, most of your audience might not have a chance to discover your great content due to the number of competitions out there.
It’s now your Job to promote your YouTube Channel on other platforms where your audience might be present.
This may be Social Media, Forums etc, here’s a guide on how to promote your channel for free in 2022.
Use YouTube Ads
This tip requires that you spend a lot of cash, you may have to budget spending $1000 on ads, of you want to see results as fast as possible.
With YouTube Ads, you’ll pay only when your video is viewed – it’s now up to you to scale your advertising strategy.
Before you even venture into adverts, you might wanna create a professional intro video that’ll be displayed on your channels homepage.
That’ll be the video you’ll use for your adverts, once you’ve created something professional and that’s of high quality,
You should now read this article, it covers how I got around 10,000 Subscribers and a lot of watch hours advertising my content on YouTube.
Use Card Teasers and End Screen
You should use the Card Teasers and End Screen feature to get your viewers to Subscribe.
Using those two elements, the user can Subscribe without leaving the video. It’ll also help you get more views and watch hours by promoting your videos.
To add Card Teaser to a Video, you’ll have to:
- Login to YouTube Studio.
- Click on Content (on the left Sidebar).
- Click on the Video you want to edit.
- From the Left Sidebar click on Editor.
- Add Info Cards and select the display time.
You customize the message you want to display to the viewers and stuff.
Note that YouTube allows up to 5 Cards per video, so you can link to Playlists, your Channel and your videos.
To add an End Screen to your video, follow these steps:
- Go through Step 1 – 4 of adding Card Teasers.
- Then click on End Screen, select the elements you wish to add.
- That’s It, save the video.
With Tubebuddy, you can create an End Screen template and apply it to all your YouTube videos, even the new ones without hassle.
I personally use it and it saves me a lot of time, I think you should use it too.
Create a Description Template
All these YouTube Creators don’t have time to create Unique YouTube Description, so they simply create a template to simplify their workflow.
Your templates could start like and about me section, Subscribe to my channel, Link to Website, Link to Related Content etc.
Here’s an example below:
[ ABOUT THE VIDEO UPLOADED ]
—-----------
About [Name of Channel]
[Channel Name] is dedicated to blah blah blah [Channel Description].
Subscribe for more content - your-youtube-channel-link
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Follow [Channel Name on Social Media]
Facebook :- your-fb-page-link
Instagram :- your-instagram-page-link
Twitter :- profile-link
Here are Some of my Best Content, I know you'd love it:
Video 1 :- link-to-video
Video 2 :- link-to-video
Video 3 :- link-to-video
[Replace Video 1, Video 2, Video 3 with the titles and add the link to the videos]
Video Keywords: [ Paste Them Here ].
The Template Above is the same one I used back in the day, and it helped me save a lot of time. You can create your own template or use my own template.
Conclusion on How to Get More YouTube Subscribers
If you implement all the tips in this article from now till the next 60 days, I assure you that you’ll have over 1000+ Subscribers and 4000 watch hours.
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