You can have 100,000 YouTube subscribers and not be making much money, or on the contrary, you could have 10,000 subscribers and be making bank. Today, I’m sharing my tips for beginners getting started on YouTube. Let’s go ahead and let’s get into it.

Five tips for beginners getting started on YouTube

 

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1. Have a content schedule

So my first tip when you are starting a YouTube channel before you even hit that record button is to have a content schedule. When you’re planning out your YouTube channel there are at a lot of things that are important. I get it. Equipment’s important, the set up’s important. The background, video thumbnails. All those things are really important, but the most important thing is the actual content, the video.

You want to get in the habit of creating videos consistently, and that may be every single week, that may be twice a week, that may even be biweekly. But you definitely wanna give yourself a schedule. What day are you going to post your YouTube videos? Are you gonna post them at a certain time?

Give yourself a content schedule and stick to that content schedule for at least six months.

It’s so much smarter to post videos on the same exact day at the same exact time, every single week because for one, your subscribers will get used to it. They’ll say, “Okay, I know Breonna Queen posts videos on Tuesday. I know she posts videos on Wednesday.” It kinda gets your audience in a habit of checking your videos ’cause they know your schedule.

Additionally, it’s gonna benefit the YouTube algorithm, because the YouTube algorithm is gonna say, “Okay, she uploads videos every single Tuesday at 2:00 PM” And trust me, YouTube rewards consistency.

I think the biggest thing with my channel, I have not always been consistent with my channel. There were years where I literally published like three videos, and that was it. And I do feel like I was penalized for that.

Definitely having a content schedule and sticking to that schedule at least six months, give yourself six months for anything, especially when it comes to YouTube ’cause YouTube videos, they can take a while to start picking up. Definitely give yourself a content schedule and stick to that content schedule for at least six months.

 

2. SEO your videos

What is SEO?

SEO stands for “Search Engine Optimization.” YouTube is the second largest search engine, followed by Google. What does that mean? Have you ever Googled something and YouTube videos popped up? That’s the crème de la crème. That’s where you wanna be. You want people to find your videos even when they’re not even on YouTube. You definitely want to SEO your videos.

Optimize your videos that they’re more likely to rank

You wanna create videos and you wanna optimize them so that they are more likely to show up in the search results for Google as well as YouTube. My biggest recommendation when it comes to SEOing your videos is through TubeBuddy.

I love TubeBuddy. I’ve been using TubeBuddy for about a year and a half now. I actually paid for the premium version so I can do keyword research. But you definitely want to optimize your videos that they’re more likely to rank.

Let me give you an example. Let’s say you have a YouTube video and the YouTube video is all about Primer. If the title of your video is just primer then it’s not really optimized. People probably aren’t really gonna find it.

For one, that title is very boring. What about primer? Are you gonna be sharing how to use primer? Different types of primer, reviewing a primer? It’s very general,