How to Get MORE YouTube Views by Building a Community Around Your Content

Rob Wilson · 1 min read · Published Dec 11, 2017
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TL;DR: Here are 10 YouTube Tips to improve engagement, build a better community, save time responding to comments and use YouTube's secret comment weapon! All of which is part of growing your channel to gain more subscribers and better serve your audience with the message you want to spread.

Build a better community, save time responding to comments and use YouTube's secret comment weapon! All of which is part of growing your channel to gain my subscribers and better serve your audience with the message you want to spread.

Here are 10 YouTube Tips to improve engagement:

  1. Read every comment
  2. Reply to all comments
  3. Use the comment filter tool from vidIQ
  4. Use vidIQ comment templates
  5. React to comments by giving a thumbnails up and heart button
  6. Pin a comment from each video
  7. Use the vidIQ pin comment free tool
  8. Use the pin comment for content you want people to see
  9. Use the community tab
  10. Go through the spam tab to make sure real comments were not put in there

Want To Get More YouTube Views?

If you want to take your YouTube channel to the next level then make sure to download vidIQ. It will help you research YouTube, analyze videos, audit your own channel, and take actionable steps click here to install now!

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Rob Wilson

YouTuber-In-Residence

Rob started out on YouTube in 2012, building up a tech channel before joining the vidIQ team. He now educates over 450,000 subscribers on the vidIQ channel which has over 25,000,000 video views. Today he is hard at work sharing everything he has learned on the YouTube platform; educating video creators on how to grow their own channels and turn hobbies into careers - just like Rob did in 2017.

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