5 Dumb YouTube Mistakes I Regret Making...
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Published 2024-02-04
And, even after growing two channels, one to 230,000 subs, another to 40,000, getting millions of long-form views, and over 25 million short-form views, these are mistakes I still make, they’re things I have to avoid every single upload, and I am pretty confident if you’re watching this, you’re making them right now… luckily, we can fix them today.
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How To Increase Click-Through Rate For New YouTubers
Look, it comes across as a bit intense but it’s really important that new YouTubers hear that… You do not matter.
The sooner you understand how little you matter, the sooner you can actually start growing your channel… which is ironic because to be a YouTuber you need to be narcissistic enough to believe you’re worth watching
Let me explain… when your thumbnail and title appear on the homepage…. How many people actually recognize your face that you plastered in the thumbnail? Why would someone click on your vlog trip to the beach? Or episode 69 of your five nights at Freddie's playthrough?
So one of the best pieces of advice I can give you is to separate your own personality and understanding of the content, and then instead put yourself in the shoes of someone who has no idea who you are, what your content is about, or anything.
🕘Timestamps:
0:00 5 Dumb YouTube Mistakes I Regret Making
0:38 Why YouTubers Should NEVER Share Their Channel
3:07 Why Viewers Don't Click Your Videos
4:23 How To Get A Larger YouTube Audience
5:25 Why your YouTube Titles are uninteresting
6:43 How To Add Value To Your YouTube Titles
7:19 How I Used VidIQ To Make More Interesting Videos
7:58 How YouTubers Try To Cheat
How To Grow Your YouTube Subs With Community Polls
A major secret when it comes to appealing to the masses, and beginning to grow the audience your content goes out to is actually the Community Posts tool on YouTube… specifically I am in love with the Community Poll tools.
I’ve been using Community Polls here on SSN for over 2.5 years now, I post polls to understand you, your interests, troubles, and it often helps me make content more targeted to your interests…
But it also builds huge impressions on the channel, and after snowballing years of polls back to back, you can go from getting 100 votes, 200 votes, all the way up to 6000 votes per poll… now before anyone says anything, you can scroll back I was using community polls BEFORE Spiffing Brit released his video on how broken and overpowered they are.
Once you have all those votes consistently, you can start adding in your videos that match the Poll topic to boost their views, because a lot of these polls don’t just go to subscribers but also non-subscribers who are interested in the topics the polls cover.
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All Comments (21)
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"and I'll cover that, in a second" ... I know your game, I WAS STAYING ANYWAY! 😆 Another super useful video as always. Thanks!
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Paused at 04:38 because it made me realize I had at least 2 videos i needed to rename, and it made realize what to rename them to!!
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I was wearing a green shirt and freaked out for a sec, but my name isn't Steve, so now I'm okay!
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That explains a lot of video title changes I've been seeing over the years... I had definitely noticed but never understood why those changes were made.
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That feeling when your name is Steve, and you're wearing a green shirt!
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5:45 poofesure too
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Great video! Almost 3 out of 5 mistakes here apply to me to such a degree it just kinda shows me how common these mistakes are. I thought I was the only one still making these mistakes 😅
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Blue shirt, Enrique. Got me lol😂
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This Video Helped A lot thanks
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Umm. How did you know I was wearing a green shirt and that my name was steve??
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I love these! I need to incorporate a lot of these into my channel and redo my titles / thumbnails <3 Thanks for always being amazing
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Thanks for what you do my man
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Again such helpful content 👏 Like others, being new, feel like spamming friends etc with look at me 👀 posts 😆 Have started to be more creative on thumbnails but titles and creating that intrigue is very cool 😎 Keep up the great work and am trying out that extension 👌
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First of all i agree on what you said but i have a question. I understood that youtube algorithm will not advice your videos if new viewers dont watch your videos but how is This bad? Is not that youtube algorithm will block your loyal followers from watching your video, you lost nothing by attracting new people even if they dont watch your videos
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OMG this is gold information and entrepreneurial advice for life as well. Love❤
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Is it a good idea to change titles of videos, i have uploaded months ago, even if they have upwards of 10k views, Also if it is okay to change old titles is there like a range in which it is too late?
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To all the Steves with Green shirts watching this- have fun with that fourth wall break jump scare.
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“How’d he know it was me?” - Steve from Blue’s Clues
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Nice clock peator
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My boi yo hair looks fantastic 😊❤
