YouTube Description Tutorial and Template

YouTube Description Tutorial and Template
- I'm gonna tell you how to get more views by using your video descriptions on YouTube like a genius and we're starting right now. (upbeat hip hop music) What is going on? My name is Nick, welcome to another video. If this is your first time here and you want to learn how to grow your channel, make videos, and all types of other YouTube related stuff, start now by subscribing and clicking the bell so you don't miss anything. And real quick, I'm recording this video live on Twitch right now so for behind the scenes stuff of what's going on here on this channel, and our live streams, and all of that, make sure that you head over and you follow me on Twitch.
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Check this out.
So one of the things that I do in my spare time because I'm just weird like that. One of the things I do in my spare time is I go to my comment sections, then I'll just open up channels and I'll look to see who's watching my videos. And a lot of times when I'm doing that, I'll go and I'll look and I'll see, hey what's their About Me page look like? What's their videos like? You know, I'll just look at everything and I'll say hey, what are they doing in their video descriptions?
And a lot of people, all they're putting in their description is a description.
You're missing out. So I'm gonna tell you step-by-step how to take advantage of your video descriptions. At the very top, the very first thing that you need to add to the very top of your video description is the actual description of the video but here's what you wanna do with it. Of course, you want to type in what the video is about but you also want to make sure that if you are trying to rank your video for search that you are putting your keyword phrase towards the front of your description.
This is actually a recommendation from YouTube. Another thing you can do that can help in terms of ranking is you can also look for other ways that people might search for what it is that you're trying to rank your video for and use different versions of that but make sure, listen, make sure that you're doing this in natural language instead of just stuffing in a bunch of stuff. Make sure that you're doing it in a way that you would communicate normally if you were writing something out. So you have that at the top to actually tell people what your video is about and to help you rank in search. From there, you want to move down and you want to add a link for people to subscribe to your YouTube channel.
So it reminds them hey, I click on here to subscribe to the channel just in case for whatever reason I overlooked that big humongous red button. For this, for people that are watching your videos on a desktop or a laptop, something that's not a mobile device, I recommend using the auto-subscribe link which we'll have right up on the screen right now so that you can copy this and you can put that down there and how that works, if somebody clicks on that, it works just like the subscribe button does and it will subscribe them to your YouTube channel after they say okay.
From there, what you want to do is you want to say, okay, how can I get more people to watch my videos and generate more watch time? So you do that by adding links to more videos and more playlists.
So how you want to approach this is you want to say, if somebody is watching a video on how to fix a muffler on a Ford Mustang, for example, then what you want to do is you want to say, they're interested obviously in fixing stuff on a Ford Mustang so if you had a channel like that, you would say okay, the videos that I'm gonna put down in the description, I'm gonna put three videos down there and I'm gonna put three links to playlists about fixing Ford Mustangs.
And the reason for this is relevance. You want to make sure that the stuff that you're putting down in your video description is relevant to the content that they've already clicked in to watch. Right, you've already got them, you've already got their interest, you already know that they're interested in this particular thing so you want to make sure that you're recommending things that they're likely to be interested in.

 
Now if you just have a video, right, let's say that you only have one video about that particular thing that they're coming in to watch a video about. So you've got that video and one other video like it.
Then in that case, just link to a video. But if you happen to have an entire playlist of videos that are about that specific topic, go ahead and link to that playlist because if you're linking to that playlist, then the people that are coming in are more likely to watch more videos in that playlist as well which would get you more views and more watch time and if they watch your videos more, then there's a really good chance that you're also gonna earn a subscriber from it. Now to take this up a notch, another thing that you can do is once you have those playlists that are directly relevant to the specific thing that they're looking for is you can say okay, now what else do I have on my channel that I can link them to that's still related to what it is that I'm talking about in this video but it's not the exact same thing or on that exact same topic base? So let's say that you're a gamer and you're making games on Call of Duty for example, and the video that they came in on was something about Call of Duty and then you have another playlist on your channel that's something else, that's some type of fighting game as an example that might not be Call of Duty but it's another Call of Duty type of game.
So think about it and say okay, if somebody's gonna be watching this particular video, they're playing Call of Duty, then that means that they're into that type of game so what other type of videos do I have on my channel covering other games that are like this that I can link them to?
And what you've just done there if you can figure that out, what you've just done there is you've created things that are specific to the video that they're watching and you're creating things that are similar to that so that you can be tapping into their interest for the general umbrella so to speak of the type of things that they might be interested in.
From there, if you're doing any type of affiliate marketing, then that's a great place to put links and recommendations to other things depending on what it is that you're trying to do on your channel at any specific time, you might want to rearrange how these things are so let's say for example, you're like hey, it's really important for me to try to get some affiliate commissions off of this, then in that case, maybe you want to put the affiliate information above the additional playlist and the additional videos and then you put those underneath. So it just kind of depends on what it is that you're actually trying to accomplish but from there, put any links to any affiliate stuff that you have. The next thing that you want to do to help you generate more views in the long game, right, long term, is you want to add your social media stuff.
So if you are growing your channel and you have everything focused on your YouTube channel, that's excellent.
Once you start getting some momentum going, go ahead and start putting your Twitter links, go ahead and start putting your Instagram links down in your descriptions so that people can follow you on those platforms so that when you upload new content, you can drop it on Twitter and say hey, come check out my YouTube video. And the funny thing about this is this sounds so simple, I know as the words are coming out of my mouth, you're thinking yeah Nick, yeah, that makes total sense, of course I would put my Twitter stuff down in my descriptions.
But for a lot of people that are gonna watch this video, you're gonna look at your descriptions after you're watching this video and you're gonna say, wow, I'm not doing any of this. I need to get on it right now. This video is for you.
From there, if you have an opt-in of any kind to where you're leading people into an email list, you want to make sure that you put it there and of course, if you're doing any type of affiliate marketing from your channel or any type of affiliate links, you want to make sure that you also put the affiliate disclaimer down there as well.
And I know what you might be thinking. You might be thinking, hey Nick, this stuff doesn't even matter, how is this, you know doing this on a couple of videos gonna make a big difference? On a couple of videos it's not gonna make a huge difference unless those videos do really well but where this will make a huge difference is at scale. So as your content library grows, as you're getting more views, as your channel is swelling up, when you have all of this stuff put into place for your entire video library, it can make a humongous difference on all of that internal traffic that you're generating to your own channel and when you're doing that, you're generating all this internal traffic, you're creating this trap of watch time and this trap of views that people get stuck in, YouTube's gonna love you for it.
I'll put a link at the top of the channel right now to another video that I made on how to generate more watch time on your channel by creating a watch time trap. Really interesting video and you should check it out if you're trying to get more watch time and views and just overall influence from your YouTube channel. and if you want to learn more about growing your channel, making videos, and all types of other YouTube related stuff, start now by hitting around subscribe icon so you don't miss anything. Thank you so much for watching, I'll see you next time.. https://elacmoneybasy.es/0u29
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