Tim’s agency. VideoCreators.com. provides video strategy and is the premier online community for YouTube creators and entrepreneurs. Tim’s work with Disney. Warner Brothers. HBO. eBay. Budweiser. Twitch. and even YouTube themselves. Together. Tim’s help his clients to generate over 18 billion organic YouTube views. You can watch the video on this topic at the top of this post. to listen to the podcast episode. hit play below. or read on for more… In this post. you’ll learn. The #1 thing all YouTube video creators should know How to optimize your YouTube thumbnails How to humanize your videos with storytelling .
The challenge for video creators
The thing all YouTube video creators should know Tim often works with people trying to use their technical SEO knowlge of other platforms europe email list to succe on YouTube. But the practices that get your blog pages rank on Google may not necessarily work for your videos on YouTube. He points out that most people ignore how the platforms differ. They might be the two biggest search engines in the world. but they’re not us in the same way. Compare the two homepages. for example. Google’s design nes you to input information to find what you’re looking for. but YouTube encourages you to browse a selection of content. “What it really comes down to. in order to win on YouTube. is to have a different mentality.
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what is the secret sauce to SEO success on YouTube? “Optimize for humans. not for robots” – Tim Schmoyer This is Tim’s key piece of information for any video creator. Forget the algorithms AO Lists and robots – you should be prioritizing who’s really consuming your content. Tim’s advice is to focus on the human element of your videos. Titles and thumbnails spark your audience’s curiosity. and you can use these to create tension for the viewer between what they know and what they don’t know. It’s the human way of grabbing attention because you’re effectively telling your audience pieces of a story – but they ne to make that click to get the whole picture. YouTube’s job is then to get your video in front of the right person at the right time. It does the heavy lifting from the technical side.