How to Rank Up Your YouTube Channel: The Complete Guide

Among more than 35 million channels, ranking your YouTube channel would never be easy. But if you do nothing to rank it up, your channel will certainly fall. Today we are going to introduce you to some tricks and methods to boost your channel's views, watch hours, subscribers, and ranking gradually.

Table of Contents

1. First Things First
   1. Planning
2. SEO Your Videos
   1. In the Title
   2. In the Description
   3. Add Proper Tags
3. Things to Do in Videos
   1. Don't make introduction too long
   2. Add Intro
   3. Call to Action
   4. Duration of Videos
4. Promote
   1. Promote on Social Media Sites
   2. Take Advantage of YouTube's Features to Promote
   3. Other Ways to Promote
5. Make Getting in Touch Easier
6. Other Ways
7. Wrapping It Up

First Things First

Before doing SEO or following any other method, there is an important thing you have to consider first.

Planning

Before creating a new video, arrange and set everything up properly in your mind. Never hasten to create a new video. If possible, note down the topics you are going to say in your next video. A video with no planning results less information than expectation or bad viewer experience. So, analyse and plan what to create that would attract viewers and would be a great video for sure.

SEO Your Videos

Now we come to the most important topic-SEO. Without doing SEO, there is little possibility of standing your videos out on YouTube. Therefore, follow the methods more carefully than others mentioned below.

In the Title

Title is the first thing to find a video out. However, most of us ignore this matter that results in fewer views and watch hours. Keep in mind the following matters.

• There must have a keyword in the title.
• Make the title longer. It has experimented that long title is very effective for SEO. But never exceed 60 characters.
• Type something in the title that may attract visitors.

In the Description

Another most important thing (that affects SEO much) is the description. You can add up to 5000 characters to the description of a video. So, you must take advantage of it for ranking your video.

• Make the description longer (as long as you can). Never leave the description blank. Rather, make it informative.
• Include your keywords as many times as you can. It will rank your video's position upper than other videos with the same keywords. If possible, try to include them within the first 1000 characters.
• You may add a tag section in the description adding keywords with commas (,).

Add Proper Tags

Always add tags to your videos according to their topic whenever you upload a new video. Alternatively, you can add tags later with YouTube studio. To find proper tags, you can use YouTube keyword tool by ahrefs, Rapidtags, and many other platforms.

Things to Do in Videos

Along with other options, your video can be a great option to boost views and subscribers. Here are several methods to do: 

Don't make introduction too long

Every video needs an introduction. But most of us often lengthen video duration by making a long introduction by talking too much about unnecessary matters. For this reason, most of your viewers would skip and go forward. As a result, your video will be marked as less useful (by YouTube) and gradually rank down.

Add Intro

Intro is a great way to introduce your channel to new visitors. Whenever a visitor clicks on a video, he/she hardly reads what the channel's name is. So, presenting your channel's name and logo with a great graphic may help the visitors to remember your channel or find other videos next time. But keep in mind that the intro duration should not be too long. Keep intro duration within 3-4 seconds is the best practice.

Call to Action

"Call to action" refers to request or call your viewers/audiences for doing something. Remind your viewers to like, share and subscribe a couple of times in your video. Alternatively, you can add templates/animations of like, share, and subscribe to your videos. You can also do it by adding text cards to videos or watermark for all the videos of your channel (it can be done from YouTube studio).

Duration of Videos

The more you increase video duration, the more you gain watch hours. But many people don't like to click long videos (mostly >10 minutes) to watch. So, considering both situation, you can make your videos not too long but not too short. We recommend keeping your video duration within 5-9 minutes.

Promote

Directly promoting your channel or videos is one of the best ways to rank your channel faster. You can promote your channel's videos both online and offline. Here are several ways what you can do:

Promote on Social Media Sites

You can share your videos on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, LinkedIn, or any other social media sites. Also, you can create a Facebook page for your page, share videos to groups, or in through messages with your friends. You will surely get a good number of views in these ways.

Take Advantage of YouTube's Features to Promote

There are several ways to promote your videos by YouTube's native features. Here's how:

• Suggest other videos of your channel using the end screen. You can add up to 4 end screen elements to your video.
• Suggest other videos of your channel with cards. You can add up to 5 cards to each video.
• Suggest other videos with their links in the description of videos.
• Include hashtag in the description of all of your videos with a unique keyword. So, if people click on the hashtag, they will find all of your videos and you may get some extra views.

Other Ways to Promote

You can promote your videos by embedding or creating backlinks to your videos on your website. You can also request your friends to promote your channel on social media sites or YouTube.

Make Getting in Touch Easier for the Audience

Add your social links to channel's banner and in the description of every video. Also, try to reply to every comment or at least send a love reaction to every commenter. Always be responsive so that you can get love from your audience and they may subscribe to your channel.

Other Ways

• If possible, upload at least 2-3 videos a week. It will make your channel exceptional to your subscribers.
• Create awesome thumbnails for your videos with visual graphics. Because thumbnail is the first thing that attracts a visitor to reach your video.
• Create polls or launch giveaways often (if possible) to draw the attention of your audience.

Wrapping It Up

All the methods and tricks mentioned in the post cannot rank up your channel overnight. Be patient and keep things up. Continue working with the methods and your channel will boom.