How to Promote YouTube Vlog Easily, 11 Smart Ways

 How to Promote YouTube Vlog Easily

How to Promote YouTube Video

Promotion plays a big role in the success of any YouTube channel. You won’t magically gain a million subscribers overnight after you post your first vlog so you need to promote your YouTube channel to grow. Here are some best tips for promoting your vlogs.

 

Commenting on Vlogs and Blogs

A great way to promote your channel is to participate in the conversations in your niche by commenting on blogs and vlogs. Participating in the conversation does not mean spamming or shameless self-promotion!

Leave insightful comments that contribute to the discussion, constructive feedback or your own viewpoint/opinion. When others in your niche regularly see you commenting and participating in discussions they are more likely to check you out.

It’s also a great way to build a relationship with other vloggers, bloggers and influencers in your niche.

 

Use of Social Media

Use the power of social media and other similar platforms to promote your vlogs and YouTube channel. Share your content on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, tiktok and any other social media websites you use.

 

Collaborate With YouTubers

Once you’ve build an audience you can also collaborate with other YouTubers to cross-promote each other to your audiences. This works best when you collaborate with YouTubers with a similar sized and type of audience.

A vlogger with 300.000 subscribers doesn’t want collaborate with a vlogger with 300 subscribers because it’s not mutually beneficial. So find a channel with a similar amount of subscribers.

 

 

Keep Hustling

It can take a long time before you gain any traction in your niche and on YouTube. It can be very demotivating to put in a lot of effort to create vlogs and promote them and only gain a few subscribers but don’t give up yet.

Getting started is the hardest part of your journey. Once your channel gets bigger it will rank better in YouTube and you’ll grow faster with less effort. Just keep hustling for the initial growth!

 

Complete Your YouTube Profile

Make sure you’ve completed your YouTube channel to enhance your brand and rank better in YouTube.

Add your social media accounts, write a channel description, add a channel thumbnail and banner, create a channel trailer. This helps make you look more professional and help your channel grow faster.

 

Video Titles and Thumbnails

Once your video goes live you only have two ways to convince users browsing YouTube to click on your video. The title and the thumbnail.

Getting these two rights can be difficult but it’s worth it to spend time on. Try to make the viewers curious about your video so they want to watch it (without being misleading!). Making your video titles misleading can actually get you banned from YouTube while abusing the custom thumbnail system might mean your thumbnail privileges get revoked, so make sure you follow YouTube’s guidelines.

Keep your title short, to the point and try to include keywords you want the video to rank for. See my Vlog a best Example of this.

 

Look for Feedback

There is always room for improvement. You can learn how to improve your vlogs in two ways.

First, listen to the feedback your viewers give you. Read their comments and see what they like and dislike about your vlogs. You can also ask your viewers what they want to see you change in the vlogs to make them better. Your viewers will really appreciate that you value their opinion.

The second method is to check your YouTube analytics report. You can get a lot of valuable information by going into Creator Studio and look into things like the drop off point. The drop off point is where your viewers stop watching the videos. If they stop watching after 15 seconds, try improving your intro. If they stop watching at the precise moment you vlog about a certain topic, stop including footage about that topic in your vlogs.

You can find the drop off point of your videos by going into your account > Creator Studio > Analytics > Audience Retention. Remember that this information is only valuable once your audience is big enough. If you only have 50 viewers this data can be skewed because of the small sample size.

 

Try Other Mediums

Just because vlogging is your main medium doesn’t mean you can’t do anything else. You can also start blogging, live streaming or build an audience on social networks like Instagram. This is an opportunity to attract a new audience and you can promote your vlogs to that audience when it grows.

 

Call-To-Action

At the end of your vlogs always ask viewers to like, share, comment and subscribe if they liked the video. A lot of viewers will forget to do so if you don’t remind them to do it.

When you receive a lot of likes, comments and subscribers on a certain video YouTube will see that the video is well received. This can have a positive impact on your ranking in suggested videos and search.

 

Use Royalty Free Music

YouTube’s content ID program will automatically check if you use any copyrighted songs and will take action if you use any. This can mean you are unable to monetize the video, the audio will be muted but after three strikes they can also ban your account.

To prevent any of this from happening you should always use royalty free music in your vlogs.

 

Test, Test, Test

And our final tip is to just keep on testing. Keep trying new things: long videos, short videos, different topics etc.

Don’t be afraid to try out new things. Evaluate and adjust if necessary. Use feedback in the comments and YouTube analytics to analyze the success of these changes.

 

Hopefully these tips and tricks were helpful for you!