Keyword research. It's one of those things every video creator on YouTube should have in their skill set. While you may know what your content is about, you need to be able to understand how to tell YouTube what your content is about. So in turn, YouTube can share that content with exactly the people who want to watch what your content is all about. We're going to tell you everything you need to know to get proven results, to help grow your channel. In this post you’ll learn:

Keyword Research Basics: Using the YouTube Search Bar

How to Play the YouTube Search Bar Alphabet Game

How to Drill Down on Niche YouTube Keywords

How to Target a Specific Audience with the Right Keywords

How to Determine Keyword Interest Over Time

How to Analyze the Success of Your Keywords

A keyword is a word or concept of great significance. Or to put it into a YouTube context, an informative word used in an information retrieval system to indicate the content of a video. When it comes to keyword, try and imagine it as the first word, or phrase, or conscious thought, that instinctively comes into your head, when you think of that particular topic.

That’s a very simple introduction to keywords, but it obviously gets a lot more complicated. I'm sure you already know, that if you put in a single word into a YouTube search, you're not going to get exactly what you're looking for. Often, when people search on YouTube, or on Google, they're looking for keyword phrases AKA long-tail keywords. And again, you have to have an instinctive mindset.

If I have a flat tire on my car, my instinct is to search for something along the lines of “how to replace a flat tire.” If I have a sudden urge to play the piano, my instincts might be to search for “beginners guide to playing the piano.” If my toilet is blocked, well, you get the picture. And of course, if you want to grow your YouTube channel, your instinct might be to search for “how to get more YouTube views.”

So before we dive into the details, there are three fundamentals of keywords:

A keyword represents the first thing that usually comes into a person's head.

A keyword is often part of a key phrase - a sentence of three or four words.

And most crucially, think like a human, not a robot, when it comes to researching keywords, and then using them in your titles and descriptions.

As a very simple example, let's take the title, “how to get more YouTube views.” It's keyword rich, but does it have enough of a draw to really entice a viewer to click on it? What if we added a year to the title, to give it more currency? And maybe an adjective to give it more umph, such as how to get more YouTube views fast in 2019. Simple changes like this, can have a really powerful impact on the way a title is perceived by a potential viewer.

1. Keyword Research Basics: Using the YouTube Search Bar

All right, let's go on an epic keyword journey using your best friend, the YouTube search bar. Even if you type in a very simple keyword, such as “how to,” almost an auxiliary keyword for many phrases, YouTube will start to make suggestions.

But of course “how to” is a very broad keyword. So how could we narrow this down? Let's add a verb, such as install. Now we are getting into a more technical landscape, which is all to do with construction, or building something. We're very much in the instructional, or tutorial area of YouTube. But of course, your channel and topic of interest, is going to be very specific to one of these keywords. So let's look at how to install Windows 10.

Now we have a pretty good, broad keyword, for computer tutorials. But again, look at how YouTube is encouraging you to dive even deeper into this topic. Remember, these are the topics people are searching for on YouTube, and that's why YouTube is showing them to you. It thinks, you want to know how to install Windows on a new PC, or on SSD, or with a USB.

So to dip your feet into the YouTube keyword bathtub, so to speak, you should always start with the search bar, and see what auto-complete suggestions is pushing your way, for your topic of interest.

2. Play the YouTube Search Bar Alphabet Game

Another thing you can try is the YouTube search keyword alphabet game. Once you have a keyword you're comfortable with, simply add one character to it, and go through the alphabet. So “how to make slime A”, or “how to make slime B.” And you'll get all sorts of interesting suggestions from YouTube, that people are searching for.

It's amazing how many long-tail keywords you can find doing this process, to really help you niche down, and find a very specific topic that you're passionate about.

Now on to my favorite part of any video, and that's introducing you to some vidIQ tools. Remember, if you want to see any of this on your YouTube pages, download the 

. We're going to take a fairly general keyword here, which is “how to make slime.” And once you press enter, and it shows you the YouTube search page, you're going to start to see some of the YouTube tools that we have. The first one we're going to look at is the subscriber count. Something I'm always interested in, is whether a small channel is having an impact on a search term.

At the time of making the above video, we found two channels with less than 10K subscribers who were ranking on the front page of YouTube for “how to make slime.” WProving that small channels can make an impact with very broad, and popular, search terms. If a channel with 1,000 subscribers, is getting a video with 100,000 views, that tells me at some point in the past, this keyword was right for making content about.

Now, interestingly, the title of one video includes the word cheap. So maybe we can include that in our keyword search term - “How to make cheap slime.” Now at this point, we can riff on the keyword a little bit. Instead of searching for “how to make cheap slime”, how about searching for “how to make slime on a budget?” It means the same thing, it's just worded slightly differently.

But who's searching for that search term? At the time of writing, the number one result on YouTube for that keyphrase is a channel with only 1,137 subscribers. Scroll down and there are other small channels appearing on the first page for the term.

So we can confirm that there are relatively small channels making a huge impact in the world of how to make slime. And all I did was focus on a particular niche in the area, which was making slime on the cheap, or on a budget.

Funnily enough, you're not the only one doing keyword research on YouTube. There are thousands of video creators, just like you, trying to find those super-rich keywords to help serve the billions of people who watch YouTube every single month. YouTube's been around for 13 years, so many a keyword, such as “how to unblock a toilet”, “how to replace a spare tire”, and “how to get more YouTube views” have had the life sucked out of them, over that period of time.

So what becomes super important, especially for smaller channels, are trending keywords. For example, Fortnite is one of the most popular video games on the planet right now, and is heavily searched for. So how might a video gamer refine the search? Maybe if they looked at how to improve gaming performance on Fortnite in season six and beyond? Essentially raising their phrase per second, or FPS boost.

So now we have a very popular keyword, combined with a trending topic, combined with a sub-genre of the core keyword. Instead of finding just channels of eight-million subscribers, we're finding channels of all shapes and sizes competing for this very specific trending keyword.

A telltale sign of a juicy keyword is when small channels are wrangling for this keyword, and they have far more views than subscribers, on their channel. That means the video's been shared out to a much wider audience.

5. Target a Specific Audience with the Right Keywords

Now for something that is super important to remember. Most of us probably aren't interested in Fortnite, don't have a clue what season six means, and definitely don't understand the concept of frames-per-second boost. But you have to remember that you're not trying to appeal to the entirety of YouTube. You're looking to target a very specific audience, wanting very specific answers, to very specific things. And this is where keyword research is so important.

When you are passionate about a topic you build-up an intimate relationship, knowledge, and interest in the topic. Just like your potential audience. And that's who you want to appeal to. Whether it's for educational purposes, to tell a story, or to draw an emotional response from your audience, that innate passion you have for the topic, will be seen in your videos. And you just need to transfer that into your knowledge of the keywords that surround that content, in your tags, titles, and descriptions.

Because, what you're trying to find here are keywords of opportunity. Those are keywords, or key phrases, with the most search volume as possible, versus keywords with as little video competition as possible, on YouTube.

You can do this with the vidIQ keyword score tool. It tries to simplify this task, as much as possible - the higher the score, the juicier the keyword. But as you might expect, these things do not grow on trees. Which is why it's so important to spend some time doing some keyword research. Anytime you see a number next to a video tag on YouTube (once you have vidIQ installed) that's your keyword score. As you might expect, the potential of keywords can change very rapidly. But as a general rule of thumb, you want to be looking at keywords of a score of 50, or above. For a lot more detail to look into our keyword score, check out this video:

Now let's return to this keyword ‘ “fortnite season 6 fps boost”. At first the keyword score shows that there is still relatively low search volume, but very low competition. So it was a very juicy keyword. We looked again at the keyword two or three weeks later. Search volume increased significantly, while the competition score has remained relatively flat. And this is quite a rare occurrence in YouTube.

Now the landscape of the search results has changed as well. We've got a much larger channel now, dominating the top of the search terms, but look at our second channel. This one has managed to maintain its presence in the search terms , and the view count has more than doubled, and subscriber count has increased significantly. So this channel has really benefited from this keyword. As for the other channel that appears in these search rankings here, we'll come back to him later.

What else can vidIQ tell you? Well, if you enable inline keywords, you can see all of the keyword phrases they're using in their video tags. If we click on one of these tags, it launches the vidIQ keyword inspector. This will give you a mountain of information about the keyword selected, including the keyword score, and interest over time.

All right, one more super powerful vidIQ tool to tell you about. And a lot of people miss this one, because it's found in the vidIQ Chrome extension button. So click on there. You'll see a range of options, and you want to select SEO tags. This brings you into the vidIQ web app, and you will need keyword research tab. Now when you do a keyword search here, not only does it bring up all of the information that we saw on the YouTube search page, such as the search score, competition score, overall keyword score, but all of the related keywords, as well. So, for a combination of all our tools, you can not only find single keyword phrases, all that are significant, but a whole bundle.

The idea with keyword research, is not to spend five minutes finding that golden keyword that you can create maybe one or two videos from. It's to spend a considerable amount of time getting a collection of keywords, that all work together for a video series. That's why we recommend maybe spending a morning, or an afternoon, using the vidIQ tools that we've shown you, to get maybe 10, 15, 20 keywords, that you can create 20, 50, maybe 100 videos from.

When you have a focus, a particular niche, that's where you can hammer the YouTube algorithm, time and time again, with content that YouTube will start to see you as an authority, in. And that's when you can start to climb up the search rankings. Especially for search intent. Because when you find your niche, spectacular things can start to happen.

Keyword Research: The Positive Impact on a YouTube Channel

 we briefly saw in the Fortnite search rankings before. In the summer of 2018 this channel didn't have any focus. They were doing random videos on pranks and whatnot. But then, they had one breakthrough video, on the topic of boosting frames-per-second, on Fortnite, on season five. And this is what the channel did next.

They threw all of their content into that one keyword phrase, boosting frames-per-second on Fortnite, whatever season it was. And these went from a few hundred a video, to thousands, if not tens of thousands, of views per video. In just a few short months, this channel has become one of the authorities on the subject, so that now, whenever they post a video on Fortnite, and boosting frames-per-second, they rank at the top of the search terms, instantly. If you want to know more about this particular keyword research story, then check out this video:

I know we've used Fortnite for many examples, and it's because we have a lot of data on the subject. But believe me this strategy can be applied to any video topic. I did exactly the same thing a couple of years ago. It was all on a topic of how to record your iPhone screen, or your iPad screen, or iOS screen. And I was able to successfully leverage YouTube into sharing these videos with hundreds of thousands of people. And it grew my channel from tens of thousands of subscribers to over a 100,000 subscribers.

Use Keywords to Show YouTube What Your Content is About

All you've got to do is take these tips, tricks, and strategies, and apply it to your video topic, by doing the keyword research. But don't leave those keywords in your notebook or in your computer, because those are going to form the basics of your metadata to help your content be more discoverable on YouTube.

The more keyword research work you do for your titles and descriptions, the increased likelihood of YouTube surfacing those videos in search results. To put it simply, front-load your video titles with keywords, include those same keywords in the first two lines of your description, and include them in your video tags and playlist, as well. Give YouTube every opportunity to understand specifically, what your content is about. And stick to it over a series of videos.

Another important reason for having keywords at the very beginning of your video descriptions, is because people can read this when they search for content. So try to think of the beginning of your description, as if it were a classic tweet of 140 characters. Reinforce your keywords, while still making it a readable sentence. Give an enticing reason for the viewer to click on your video, and don't waste space with links and calls-to-actions, that will take the viewer away from your video.

Just before we analyze the success of your keywords in your YouTube videos, I want to step outside of YouTube for a second, and go into Google search, to look at something called LSI keywords. What on earth are they? It stands for latent semantic indexing. And if you still don't understand what that means, it's a system search engines use to analyze other words people use surrounding a given topic. If you don't know what that means, don't worry, I'll show you in Google.

When you do a search on Google, if you scroll to the very bottom of the first search page, you'll see lots of related keywords to what you were searching for. And these are your LSI keywords. So this is another golden opportunity to beef up your keyword collection.

If you scroll to the top of the Google search page, you'll find something else of interest, as well. If you produce good quality content, and have a strong keyword metadata in your YouTube videos, they'll start to be suggested in Google search. Imagine all of that extra free external traffic, being driven to not only your videos, but to YouTube, as well!

Now let's look at how you can analyze the success of your keywords. We're back into some vidIQ tools here, so once you have the Chrome extension installed, you can take a look at our SEO scorecard. This can be found either on the video upload/editor page, or on video watch pages.

You want to pay close attention to the actionable aspects of this SEO scorecard. When you use strong keywords in your tags, titles, and descriptions, and reinforce them throughout your metadata, your score will continue to increase. And you want to try and get to as close as 50 as possible. This gives your videos the best possible chance of fruition on YouTube, and that's reflected by the performance score.

If you want to learn more specifically, about the vidIQ SEO score, we've got the 

When your keywords in your video tags, start to rank highly and consistently, you will definitely see the rewards in your video views.

And for all vidIQ Boost users, don't forget to scroll to the bottom of the video editor page, and take advantage of our recommended tags tour. As you input keywords into your tags, titles, and descriptions, we will advise on further tags you might want to use. But be selective. Choose the ones that really define your video content.

How else can you analyze the success of your keywords? One of our most powerful tools is the Channel Audit button, found on the left-hand side navigation bar once you've installed the vidIQ Chrome extension. It will give you a full report card on your channel, 24/7. What we want to do here, is scroll down to this section that says ‘Top Search Terms’. This will show you all the traffic that's coming to your channel, from keyword search terms on YouTube. And you can click on the view more buttons to see all of the traffic coming from keyword search terms, including views and watch time.

Common sense will compel you to create more content on the keywords that are performing well for your channel. It's what we like to call the double-down strategy.

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 then make sure to download vidIQ. Join over 1 million other users and use vidIQ to help you research YouTube, analyze videos, audit your own channel, and take actionable steps 

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In this post, we're going to guide you on the journey to 1,000 YouTube subscribers, but first, answer this question - why do you want 1,000 subscribers?

If your answer is because you want to monetize your YouTube channel, well, don't forget, you need 

 too. Don't forget that you also need to apply for the YouTube Partner Program and be accepted into it, because YouTube will be checking whether or not you're trying to buy subscribers or manipulate the metrics.

8 Ways to Get to 1000 YouTube Subscribers

If it's because you want to monetize your YouTube channel, then you're not thinking about your audience. Can you see where I'm going with this? Let's kick off the 8 ways you can build those first 1000 subscribers.

#1 Put Your Audience, Rather Than Revenue, First

Now, if it's because 1,000 people represent a huge community that has put their faith and trust in your content to inspire and educate them, then you're on the right YouTube path.

We've uploaded over 600 videos on the vidIQ YouTube channel now, and we've had over two million comments. I haven't read every single one of them, I must confess, but the overriding theme of a lot of these comments is a lack of understanding of the YouTube platform.

Most new creators naively, and understandably so, are thinking more about what they can get from the YouTube platform rather than what they can give to their audience. And I've said this already in videos that we've made in 2020. Stop thinking about the metrics and how you gain things from the content that you create, and think first about what's valuable to your YouTube audience.

I can almost guarantee that when you shift the mindset from you to your audience, your channel will grow so much faster and so much more easily that you'll hit 1,000 subscribers before you even know it.

That's because your content, your daily interaction with your community, becomes far more important than any milestone that you're trying to achieve.

Now, while I did say that milestones aren't necessarily that important, especially to your audience at this stage, they probably still do rattle around in the back of your head. So let's touch on this to help with your mental welfare. Getting to 100 subscribers is one of the hardest things you will do on the YouTube platform. We know, we were there to help guide you through it, and if you weren't there, then here’s a video that you should definitely watch:

Now, let's say theoretically that it took you three months to get 100 subscribers, and then, your next target is 1,000 subscribers. That might be a bit of a stretch, but at the same time, it's not going to take 30 months to get to 1,000 subscribers because, like with any YouTube channel, you will be gaining momentum.

So you want to have incremental increases in milestones. So going from 100 subscribers to maybe 250 subscribers, then maybe 500 subscribers, 750 subscribers, all the way up 1,000 subscribers.

As long as you're aware of a reachable goal somewhere in the distance and you keep track of your incremental steps towards that milestone, whether it be two or three subscribers a day or 10 or 20 subscribers a week, that will nourish you as you nourish your audience with the value from your content.

If you have over 100 subscribers and you're working towards 1,000 subscribers, for the typical channel you've probably done a few dozen videos and you have some experience and an understanding, generally, of what your audience likes on your channel. So it's now time to solidify your value proposition.

#2 Define Your Value Proposition on YouTube

What does that mean? Let me put it very simply. Describe your channel in five seconds or less in a catchy, memorable fashion. For example, our value proposition could be ‘YouTube growth channel’, but in order to make it catchy and memorable what do we say our channel is about? ‘Educating your YouTube journey.’

Now, let me give you a couple more made-up examples. Fortnite gaming channel. There are literally hundreds of thousands of these on YouTube already, so how do you describe your channel in a catchy, memorable way if you're a Fortnite gameplay channel? Well, it could be something along the lines of your channel is all about how to improve the gameplay performance of Fortnite or any other first-person shooter game. It gives your channel more focus, your audience knows exactly what your channel is about, and it's memorable.

What about a channel all about European travel?. Now, it's too generic, we've heard it all before. Let's try this though; Euro-penniless traveling nomad. All right, it's not my best effort, but I came up with it in five seconds. That defines your channel as content all about an individual going around countries of Europe, most likely on an extreme budget. And what type of content is that going to appeal to in terms of a target audience? Young students.

So you've sold your channel to your audience, not explicitly and functionally, but through a catchy, memorable value proposition. Now, this can change over time. There is nothing wrong with that, but if your channel has a core theme, you always know the value that you're trying to deliver to your audience, and your audience, whether they be new visitors or regular subscribers, will always know what to expect from your content.

#3 Double Down on YouTube Content that Works

When it comes to starting and building a YouTube channel I always say that nothing beats experience. Hopefully, by now you should have some videos out on the platform and you've got some views and some subscribers. So what you've gained from that is social proof.

You will have certain videos that have performed better than others. You'll have videos that have some engagement and some feedback asking you to make followup videos or asking you general questions, which you could potentially answer with future content.

So my advice to you now would be to start researching your channel, even if it is the simplest trick in the book, which is to go to your video tab on your channel page and sort by the most popular videos. If there are any patterns in the top five or 10 videos that are telling you a certain type of content works, then make more of that content, whether it's about a particular topic or a video style.

It may be that you've already chosen your video topic niche, whether it be sports, gaming, politics, wrestling, beauty, etc but from the content that you have you should by now be able to find a sub-niche in that particular topic. Now, it might be predictions or tutorials or reaction videos or when you're in front of the camera and you're giving your personal stories.

When you start your YouTube channel, there is nothing wrong with experimenting 80% of the time, but as your channel grows, you'll get to a stage where you are serving your audience the content they want to see 80% of the time while you can experiment with the other 20% of the content.

Know more about your own channel and discover what works for your audience, and it's pretty simple, do more of it. If you drill down into that concept a little further, if you want more subscribers, then look at the videos on your channel that bring in the most subscribers and make more content based on those videos.

 to do this, as we have a column which shows you which videos on your channel bring in the most subscribers. Funnily enough, it's our video tutorials that are all about how to get more subscribers, hence, why we're doing this followup video on how to 1,000 subscribers in 2020.

Do you know what we're also likely to do in the future? Based on the data we're getting from our Channel Audit tool, which is also telling us that we're making successful gaming content, we're going to make a video on how to get 1,000 subscribers as a gaming channel. It just makes sense.

#4 Create an Engaging YouTube Channel Trailer

Now, this next thing may be way down your priority list as you build out your YouTube channel, but maybe you want to start thinking about creating a channel trailer. We've already talked about your value proposition. A channel trailer should essentially encapsulate that value proposition in a video of no more than 30 to 45 seconds. By all means, look at how successful creators have already used channel trailers to introduce themselves to an audience.

This is an excellent example from the Apartment Therapy channel. It includes their value proposition (Own Your Home), plus a good call to action (Subscribe to…), and is bursting with clips to give the viewer a taste of what they can expect:

What you're generally going to discover with channel trailers is that you have 1,000 fantastic ideas, but you only need to put one of them in that video or else it's too long. With all that being said, there is an alternative to a dedicated channel trailer, and that is to use the video that converts most subscribers on your channel and use that as your channel trailer as it's already proven to work with your audience.

It's time to start taking search engine optimization, or SEO, seriously on the YouTube platform. After all, it is the second-largest search engine in the world, and most creators get their start on YouTube by having discoverable content through search. This means extensive keyword research into your topic to find out what people are searching for, including those keywords in the titles, but also, making those titles intriguing to click on.

This also includes expanding your keywords out to your video descriptions and video tags, if you want to. And try to include keywords in the vocabulary of your video content because YouTube is watching and listening to everything you put out on the platform.

Now, some of these things, admittedly, are marginal gains, but remember this. If you're a channel with 100 subscribers versus another channel with 100 subscribers, would you rather be the video content creator that is giving YouTube as much information about their video as possible, or the one who's just throwing stuff onto YouTube and expecting it to be discovered?

As you might expect, keyword research is a huge learning topic in itself, so we've done a deep-dive into it with 

This next point is true for every single video creator no matter where they are in their YouTube journey, and that is that they have pain points that are preventing their progress. Now, that could be thumbnails that just aren't clickable or keyword research that doesn't match up to what people are searching for, or you're just absolutely terrible in front of the camera, which means that you have to retake every single shot 10 times.

Now is a good time in the early stage of your YouTube journey to start identifying these pain points and facing them head-on. The longer you ignore that pain point, the more brittle that foundation on your YouTube channel will be to a point where it is jus, handicapping your channel completely.

Now, I don't suggest trying to tackle all of your pain points all at once. Identify which you personally feel is a thing that's holding your channel back the most. Usually, at this point in a creator's journey, it's thumbnails. Now, if it is thumbnails, again, we've got a really big 

Whatever it is, spend an extra half an hour or an hour per video trying to improve on that pain point by 1%. If you start to improve on something today, in two or three months you'll look back at where those videos were and you'll think, yeah, that was horrible, those thumbnails were terrible, but I'm so glad they look like this today because I'm getting a higher click-through rate and more views. Whatever it is, start tackling it today, whether it’s presenting in front of a camera, or improving your video editing.

#7 Stay Weird: Be an Innovative YouTube Creator

A lot of what I'm telling you in this video about how to get 1,000 subscribers is foundational strategies that are going to put your channel in good stead as you move forward as a video creator. Hopefully, you're taking a lot of this on board along with all of the other tips, tricks, and advice you're getting from other YouTube educators, but what I would also encourage is to stay weird.

Do things that you wouldn't expect to normally do. 80% of the time you want to deliver content to your audience and create thumbnails that are consistent, but there's nothing wrong with experimentation because if you don't test new things, you'll never know if you discover a brand new niche or a certain thumbnail that defies all logic, but really appeals to a certain demographic who want to click on it because it's different to anything else on YouTube.

 was me experimenting with different content on the channel, and it turned out to be highly successful. What a lot of regular viewers didn't realize is that it didn't impede on our regular vidIQ content. I was still pumping out hundreds of educational pieces of video content, and the PewDiePie versus T-Series content took up about 10 to 15% of what we did in 2019, but at the same time, those videos brought in millions of views and tens of thousands of subscribers, many who have stuck around to now watch this type of content to grow their channels.

Had I stayed strictly within the educational content that we provide here at vidIQ we may not have reached 450,000 subscribers and 30 million views in the last year. Now that the PewDiePie versus T-Series story has come to an end, what have we come back to? Our core value proposition. Educating you on your YouTube journey. It's just that 20% of the time I like to entertain you on your YouTube journey.

#8 Always Be Engaging with Your YouTube Fan Base

Now, because of something called audience retention, not everybody who started watching the above video is still watching right now, but for those of you who are 15 minutes into this content, thank you very much for watching. I value your time, and because you're watching the entire video, I hope you're getting the whole value from this content that you're going to use on your channel to help you get to 1,000 subscribers.

You are the core members of this community, the brothers and sisters of the vidIQ family, and you will have those same people who are not just subscribers, but super-fans. Those who already care deeply, not only about your content, but about you as a video creator, and they want to see you succeed, which is why you should engage with your community as much as you can in your videos.

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Birinin kanalınıza abone olması harika bir duygudur. Ama sorulması gereken asıl soru şu: Abone olan kim ve kanalı ne kadar büyük?

YouTube'da oturum açtığınızda, kanal logonuzu YouTube ekranının sağ üst köşesinde görmelisiniz. Bu logoya tıkladığınızda, YouTube içerik stüdyosuna gitme seçeneğiniz var. Bu şu anda beta versiyonunda mevcut ancak 2019 yılı içerisinde standart hale gelecektir.

İçerik oluşturucusu stüdyo kontrol panelini göreceksiniz ve burada yeni ‘Son Aboneler Paneli’ni bulacaksınız. Daha Fazlasını Gör bağlantısına tıklarsanız, ekran tam açılır ve en son 28 gün içinde kanalınıza abone olan 100 abone gösterilir.

Kanalınıza abone olan yeni abonelerin yalnızca kendi YouTube abone hesaplarını herkese açık olarak ayarladılarsa burada görünebileceğini unutmayın. Ve şu ana kadar fark etmiş olabileceğiniz şey ise, abone listesinin kanalın büyüklüğüne göre düzenlenmesidir. Bu noktada yapabileceğiniz iki şey var, ya kanalın adına tıklayayarak sayfayı ziyaret etmek ya da abone ol işlemini kullanarak doğrudan kanala abone olmak.

Şimdi YouTube'da çalışmış olsaydım, bu araç için birkaç geliştirme yapardım. Bunlardan ilki, en son abonelere göre ve ,sadece en büyük kanallara göre değil, kanalımda kaç video izlediklerini ve kanalımda kaç yorum yaptıklarını bilmek isterdim.

Şimdi elbette, YouTube için çalışmıyorum, vidIQ için çalışıyorum ve abone analizinde size yardımcı olacak birkaç aracımız var (https://vidiq.com/features/) Birisi YouTube'a yorum gönderdiğinde, vidIQ size bu yorumu gönderenin kaç abonesi olduğunu söyleyecektir. Belirli sayıda abonesi olan kanalları seçmek için bir filtreleme bile yapabilirsiniz.

Ve eğer işleri bir üst seviyeye çıkarmak istiyorsanız, abone analizi aracımız, abonelerinizin YouTube'da hangi videoları görüntülediğini ve hangi kanallara abone olduklarını size söyleyecektir. Bu, hedef kitlenizin kanalınızdaki onların hoşuna giden içeriğin türü hakkında sizi bilgilendirmenin yanı sıra yeni içeriğinizi yayınlamak için en iyi zaman konusunda da yardımcı olacaktır.

Çok Youtube Görüntülenmesi ve Abone mi Elde Etmek İstiyorsunuz?

YouTube kanalınızı bir üst seviyeye çıkarmak istiyorsanız, vidIQ'yu indirdiğinizden emin olun. VidIQ, YouTube'u araştırmanıza, videoları analiz etmenize, kendi kanalınızı denetlemenize ve uygulanabilir adımlar atmanıza yardımcı olacak [yüklemek için şimdi buraya tıklayın!] (https://vidiq.com/signup/|_blank)

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Son zamanlarda kanalına kimin abone olduğunu kim öğrenmek ister? vidIQ'dan heme şimdi buradan kontrole edebilirsiniz.

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Şimdi yapacağımız şey, tüm bu klavye kısa yollarına değinerek onların tam olarak ne işe yaradığını ve ayrıca fazladan birkaç tanesini göstermektir. Başlayalım öyleyse:

Klavyenizdeki K düğmesine basarak video oynatmayı başlatın ve durdurun.

Boşluk çubuğuna basmak da aynı şeyi yapar: videoyu oynat ve duraklat.

Videoda 10 saniye ileri gitmek için L tuşuna basın.

10 saniye geri atlamak istiyorsanız, J düğmesine basın.

Bir sonraki videoya geçmek için Shift N tuşuna basın. Şimdi bir sonraki videoya geç deyince, oynatılmakta olan oynatma listesindeki bir sonraki videoyu veya önerilen video sütununda sıradaki videoyu oynatır.

Önceki videoyu oynatmak için Shift P tuşuna basın, ancak bu sadece bir oynatma listesi izlerken bende işe yaradı.

Bir videoda tam bir kareye almak istiyorsanız, önce videoyu bir duraklatın ve ardından kare kare ileri sarmak için noktaya veya tam durdurma tuşuna dokunun.

Kare kare kare geriye gitmek için virgül tuşuna basın.

Bir videonun oynatma hızını artırmak istiyorsanız, Shift tuşuna basın. Video oynatma hızını tamamen iki katına çıkarabilirsiniz.

Bir videoyu yavaşlatmak için, Shift virgül tuşuna basın; Video oynatma hızını tamamen çeyrek hıza kadar çekebilirsiniz.

Sayı tuşlarını kullanarak bir videoda %10'luk artışla ileri atlayabilirsiniz. Örneğin, beşe basmak sizi videonun %50'sine götürür. Videoya %90 gitmek için dokuza basın.

Sıfır basarak videonun başına dönebilirsiniz.

Videolarda altyazıları açmak veya kapatmak için C tuşuna basın.

Bir metnin parlaklığını ayarlamak için O tuşuna basın.

Altyazıların arka planlarının saydamlığını ayarlamak için, W tuşuna basın.

Yazı tipi boyutunu küçültmek için eksi tuşunu kullanın.

Altyazıların boyutunu artırmak için artı tuşunu kullanın.

360 Derece Sanal Gerçeklik için: W, A, S, D sanal gerçeklik videolarında 360 dereceyi görmenizi sağlayan kamera kontrol tuşlarıdır.

360 Derece Sanal Gerçeklik için: artı tuşu yakına zum yapar.

360 Derece Sanal Gerçeklik için: eski tuşu uzağa zum yapar.

Artı ve eksi düğmeleri yakınlaştırma ve uzaklaştırma kontrolleriniz için kullanılır.

M tuşu, videolarınızın sesini kısar ve açar ve video oynatma boyutunu değiştirmek için üç kontrol vardır.

F tuşu videoyu tam ekran moduna sokar veya bu moddan çıkartır.

T tuşu videoyu sinema moduna sokar veya bu moddan çıkartır.

Son olarak, videoyu sizi video izleme sayfasından çıkaracak şekilde mini oynatıcı moduna geçireceğim: i tuşu.

YouTube'da Çok Görüntülenme Almak İster misiniz?

Youtube kanalınızı bir üst seviyeye taşımak ve [YouTube'da çok görüntülenmek almak] istiyorsanız (https://vidiq.com/how-to-get-more-views-on-youtube/|_blank) vidIQ'yu indirdiğinizden emin olun. vidIQ, Youtube'u araştırmanıza, videoları analiz etmenize, kendi kanalınızı denetlemenize ve uygulanabilir adımlar atmanıza yardımcı olur 

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Youtube kısa yollarıyla ilgili bilinecek her şeyi öğrenmek istiyor ancak sormaya korkuyor musunuz? vidIQ sizin için cevaplıyor.

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YouTube kanal adınızı değiştirmenin en basit yolu ile başlayacağız, ancak bu pek de basit bir yol değil.

 YouTube'da, ekranın sağ üst köşesindeki profil resminize tıklayın ve 'Ayarlar'ı seçin. Bu ekranda, Youtube kanalınızı isim ve resminizle birlikte göreceksiniz.

 'Google'ı Düzenle'ye tıklayın ve pop-up'ı görün. Şimdi, kulağa her ne kadar tuhaf gelse de Youtube kanalızın adı adınız ve soyadınızdan oluşur, bu yüzden kanalınızın adını değiştirmek istiyorsanız işlemi buradan yapabilirsiniz. Takma adınız, Youtube kanal adınızı temsil edemez.

 Değişiklikleri kaydettikten sonra, YouTube kanal adınızı güncellemelisiniz.

 YouTube konusunda ciddiyseniz, şimdi bir marka hesabı oluşturmanın zamanı gelmiş olabilir. Bunu daha sonra açıklayacağım, ancak bunu yapmak için daha önce olduğu gibi aynı ayar ekranına geri dönmeniz gerekiyor, yalnız bu sefer 'Tüm Kanallarımı Gör’ü tıklayın veya yeni bir kanal oluşturun.

 Şimdi bu ekranda yeni ve harika bir şey olacak. 'Yeni Kanal Oluştur'a tıklarsanız, başka bir ekrana yönlendirileceksiniz.

 Google hesabınızdaki ad ve soyadınız yerine hesabınızın adını kanal adı olarak kullanacak bir marka hesabı oluşturabileceğiniz yer burası. Ancak bu sorununuzu çözmeyebilir, çünkü şimdi iki kanalınız var, kişisel YouTube kanalınız ve bu marka hesap kanalı. Bu noktada akla gelen fikir ikisini birleştirmenizdir.

 Bunu yapmak için Hesap Ayarları sayfasına tekrar gidin ve bu kez 'Gelişmiş Ayarlar'a tıklayın.

 Geçerli kanalınızla hesapta oturum açtığınızdan ve bu kanalı marka hesabınıza taşıma seçeneğini gördüğünüzden emin olun. Buna tıkladığınızda, şifrenizi tekrar onaylamanız istenecek.

 Bir marka hesabı oluşturma işleminde, o marka hesabında bir YouTube kanalı da oluşturmuş olabilirsiniz. Bu nedenle, marka hesabı kutusunu tıkladığınızda, o anda marka hesabında bulunan YouTube kanalının silineceğini söyleyen bir uyarı görünebilir.

 Bu uyarıyı sıfır aboneye ve sıfır videoya sahip olacağı için onaylamalısınız. Sil'i tıkladığınızda, bir sonraki ekran kişisel YouTube kanal hesabınızı marka hesabına taşıdığınızı tekrar onaylar; sağ alt köşedeki 'Kanal Taşı'ya tıklayın.

 Şimdi, dürüst olmak gerekirse, bunun kanalınıza bazı olası sonuçları var. Verilerinizin tamamı taşınamaz. Yine aynı videolara, görüntülenmelere, abonelere ve kanal URL’sine sahip olsanız da yorumlarınız taşınmaz, kanalınızdaki doğrulama etiketi, topluluk filtresi ayarları veya varsa özel URL’niz kullanılmaz. Yani, eğer kanalınızı daha önce kurduysanız, bu almanız gereken büyük bir karar olabilir.

Neden Youtube bu işi şekilde yaptı? Bence cevap Google+'ın YouTube'a nasıl entegre edildiğiyle ilgili olabilir. Her şeyi okuduğunuzdan ve ne yapacağınızı %100 anladığınızdan ve tabii ki her şeyin kendi sorumluluğunuzda olduğu sürece, 'Kanalı Taşı' düğmesini tıkladığınızda kişisel YouTube kanalınızı marka hesabınıza taşımış olacaksınız.

 Ve şimdi yapmanız gereken, daha önce yaptığınız gibi YouTube profil resminizden 'Ayarlar'a gitmek, 'Google’da Düzenle' bağlantısına tıklamak ve kanalınızın adını, marka hesabınızı şimdi değiştirebilirsiniz, Google kişisel hesabınızın adını ve soyadını değil.

Ve belki de aklınıza şu soru gelecek: Olası bir sıkıntıya sebep olacak tüm bunları yapmaya değer mi? Ancak, YouTube kanalınızın bir marka hesabına sahip olmasının başka yararları da var. Google’daki kişisel adınızı değil, kanal adınızı değiştirebilmenin yanı sıra, bir marka hesabına sahip olmak, topluluk yöneticileri, sizin adınıza video yükleyen kişiler gibi YouTube kanalınıza başka kişiler eklemenizi sağlar.

Temel olarak eğer bir şirket veya daha büyük bir kanalın br parçası olursanız, size yardımcı olmak için başka insanlara ihtiyacınız olacak. Eğer YouTube konusunda ciddiyseniz, muhtemelen bir marka hesabına ihtiyacınız var.

YouTube'da Çok Görüntülenme Almak İster Misiniz?

Eğer Youtube kanalınızı bir sonraki seviyeye taşımak ve 

 istiyorsanız vidIQ'yu indirdiğinizden emin olun. vidIQ, Youtube'u araştırmanıza, videoları analiz etmenize, kendi kanalınızı denetlemenize ve uygulanabilir adımlat atmanıza yardımcı olur.

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