Promoting your youtube channel is something you will just have to do in your early days on youtube, by the time you've created the awareness and gotten some subscribers, you'll have little work to do henceforth regarding the promotion of your youtube channel.
Anyway, below i have written down 10 best ways to promote your youtube channel.
#1 CREATING A FACEBOOK PAGE AND GROUP:
You should never undermine the power in the social media, and especially when facebook is mentioned, this is a platform that recently hit a Billion active users in a day. So you can imagine how many views your video can get if you promote them through facebook.
#2 GETTING A TWITTER ACCOUNT:
Twitter is another social media platform that can generate you thousands of views if you promote your youtube channel through its platform. It's also advisable to get a different twitter account for your channel instead of using your personal account.
#3 GOOGLE+:
Google plus is another powerful way to promote your youtube channel, although it's not a very popular and cherished social media platform like facebook and twitter in Africa, but never underestimate the potentials in google+ communities. Mostly when meeting with professionals and people in the same field with you matters.
#4 OPTIMISING YOUR VIDEOS AND CHANNEL FOR BETTER SEO
You may be asking yourself now, what is seo?
This simply means Search Engine Optimisation. This is done in order for your videos to appear on google and other search engine results(i.e when a topic related to your video is search on search engines). This is done by;
a) Giving your videos good and search friendly file names (i.e before uploading them to youtube)
b) Giving your videos titles that are search friendly and that vividly tells the content of your video.
c) Giving a good and clear search friendly descriptions to your videos.
d) Add search friendly tags and keywords to your videos.
e) Choose a good category for your video (in the about section of your video)
f) Give your youtube channel a search friendly name that clearly depicts the videos it contains.
g) Give your channel a good and clear description.
h) Try uploading consistent contents.
All these not only help for better SEO. They also help your videos appear at the top of youtube search result.
#5 WORD OF MOUTH:
Another effective method of promoting your youtube channel is by telling family, friends, loved ones and colleagues about it.
#6 CREATING QUALITY AND CONSISTENT CONTENTS:
It's one thing to get viewers for your videos and it's another thing to keep them coming back. And this can only be done when you create quality and consistent contents.
#7 BLOGGING:
Another effective and powerful method of promoting your channel is through blogging(i.e if you have a blog). You can add the subscription button for your channel and can also embed videos for your visitors to watch on the go. In this way you are converting your traffic to views.
#8 INSTAGRAM:
This is another powerful social platform used by youtube creators to promote their channel. This is very effective when you have thousands of instagram followers.
#9 EMAIL MARKETING:
If you are an e-mail marketer, then this is a very powerful method of promoting your channel, more especially when you have thousands of e-mail subscribers. You can mail them when you have a new video on your channel.
#10 FACEBOOK POST PROMOTION/BOOSTING:
If you have this on your budget, then this is a very powerful method of reaching the whole world with just $5. You can generate thousands of views and suscribers with this method.
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