Boosting Your YouTube Channel
Introduction
- Presenter: Jaon Faria
- Experience: 7 years as a content creator
- Current Channel Stats: 1200+ followers, 15,000+ views, 2 videos
- Goal: Share tips to grow a YouTube channel
Key Tips
1. Automatic Chapters
- Issue: YouTube's automatic chapters can be confusing and reveal too much.
- Solution: Manually add chapters in the video description to maintain viewer retention.
2. COPPA Compliance
- Importance: Designate correctly if videos are for children
- Consequences of Incorrect Marking:
- Monetization issues
- Loss of comments
- Inability to minimize the video
- Best Practice: Only mark as for children if the content is specifically for a young audience (e.g., cartoons).
3. Licensing
- Recommendation: Activate Creative Commons Attribution
- Benefits:
- Allows other creators to use parts of your video
- Provides free views and marketing
- Learn from others' usage of your content
4. Location Settings
- Advice: Disable location settings to keep your location private.
5. Customizing Channel Home Page
- Importance: Increases views and helps organize content.
- Action: Use the 'Customize Channel' section to add appropriate sections for content type.
6. Publishing in Feed and Notifying Subscribers
- Common Issue: Default setting automatically notifies subscribers, which can be detrimental.
- Advice: Manually adjust this setting before publishing.
- Results: May initially reduce reach but improves long-term engagement and reach.
7. Shorts Section
- Recommendation: Deactivate the Shorts section if your main content is long videos.
- Benefit: Ensures new viewers recognize long-form content as the primary focus.
8. Automatic Concepts
- Issue: YouTube-generated concepts can be incorrect and distracting.
- Solution: Disable automatic concepts to avoid distractions and inaccuracies.
Conclusion
- Encouragement: Watch other videos for more tips on growing your YouTube channel.
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