Guide on How to Grow a YouTube Channel From Zero

 

Guide on How to Grow a YouTube Channel From Zero 

YouTube is the next big thing happening right now and everyone is on it creating and publishing content every single minute. As a result of that competition of growing a successful and sustainable YouTube channel is very high. 

YouTube channel growth is one thing that everyone thinks about when they have just started the channel and grown a YouTube channel from zero. No matter how many articles you read or watch videos about growing a YouTube channel, you will struggle in your initial stages of growth.

How to Get Started with a YouTube Channel?

Even before you create an account on YouTube.com and start a channel, the research of how to grow a successful YouTube channel starts.

Some YouTube channels take a long time to become recognized and successful, but some grow at an exponential rate and reach thousands of followers in a short period of time, but the real question is why?

Why does this happen? 

The answer to this is the ultimate guide we have prepared for you to grow a successful YouTube channel from absolute zero.

Where to start from? 

The very first step towards growing or even creating a successful YouTube channel is to do a strong topic/Niche research on which your whole channel will be based, 

Here are some of the profitable niches for YouTube to start

1. Make money online 
2. Social Media Marketing 
3. Finance and Marketing 
4. Educational videos 
5. Cars 
6. Lifestyle 
7. Fashion and clothing 
8. Entertainment 

If you are from any of these fields you can start a YouTube channel right now and will be successful in the coming years.

Here is an example of an Education Channel The English Mentor which is killing it, despite being in a very competitive field of Education, it's generating a decent amount of videos per day and growing steadily.

Realtime Data of The English Mentor Channel

Go Check the Channel how they format their title, thumbnails, and keywords. 

Now let's dive into the real tactics to use for growing your YouTube channels

STEP 1: WRITING ATTRACTIVE AND SEARCHABLE TITLES

Which title are you more likely to click on? 

1. My tips for YouTube - how to grow a YouTube channel 

Or

2. How to grow a YouTube channel from 0 to 1000 in 2 months 

I will leave the answer for you to give, the main motive is to give an engaging and searchable title to click on. But how to write a searchable title, searchable titles are nothing but what people actually search on Google or YouTube search. 

These are called keywords. Keywords are those words that are typed in a search query most commonly by many users.

Combining those keywords to create a powerful and searchable title so that whenever someone searches your video has an equal chance of getting discovered.

STEP 2 STRONG YOUTUBE KEYWORD RESEARCH  

Now we know that we need to have a strong keyword in our title to make it attractive and discoverable, but how to do that? 

The first option is Google Keyword Planner

Google Keyword Planner 

Here you can find related keywords to your primary keyword to know in-depth on how to do keyword research on google keyword planner read our article How to use Google keyword planner for keyword research.

The second option is Google Search, yes go directly to google search and type in your keyword, when you scroll at the very bottom you can find related search 

Google Related Search Recommendations

Here you can find more related search queries for the keyword,  you can add the relevant once in the YouTube tag section.

STEP 3 ATTRACTIVE THUMBNAIL

The first thing after the title a user sees on YouTube search is the thumbnail, the quality and attractiveness of the thumbnail will improve or lower the CTR of your video.

CTR stands for Click-through Rate, this is the number of clicks your get as compared to the total number of impressions it got on YouTube search and External searchers.

You can use canva.com free version to create outstanding thumbnails for your YouTube video.

STEP 4 WRITING KEYWORD DRIVEN DESCRIPTIONS

Descriptions in YouTube videos play a vital role in the overall SEO of the video, along with the title and the thumbnail of the video the description is shown in the Google Search results and YouTube search results.

How to write a description for a YouTube video?

There are a few tips that you can implement right away when writing a YouTube video description that will show you instant results. 

To start off, always include your focus keywords in the first line of the YouTube description. This will help the video to be quickly shown in the google search result whenever a person uses that focus keyword. 

Depending on the competitiveness of the video title and topic it can take up to 1 day to correctly show your video rankings.

Make sure you include the following in your YouTube video description :

1. Social Media Channel links 
2. Other related video links 
3. A related blog post or article links 

This will help people to interact with your video more and this will give a social signal to YouTube that your video is good and will get more recommended views.

STEP 5 BRAG ON SOCIAL MEDIA  

Sharing your video after 1 hour of publication on other social media platforms will help you get more audience from different platforms. 

Most effective is to use Quara.com to share your video, search for the question related to your video and write a small answer leading them to your YouTube video. 

Once you master all these points for your YouTube video, your channel will grow at a much faster pace than usual.