What techniques can I use to position a youtube video in December 2018?
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Here's an example of a video ranking strategy that incorporates a variety of the popular ranking methods in an easy to execute way:
1. Make a good video, optimize metadata, create title and thumbnail better then your competitors video so that if your videos were side by side your click through rate would most likely be higher.
2. Upload video and schedule live event or premeire. Boost video with livestream viewers or pre-premeire waiting viewers services as per method you chose.
3. Immediately after conclusion of live streamed video or premeired video, make sure video is published publicly then send fast views, likes, dislikes, comments, and social shares to match your competitors metrics, then do a slow drip feed for 1-4 weeks of views, likes and comments spread out as evenly/consistently as possible.
4. After the video is published, do some manual promotion. Reddit for example is a great platform for driving video viewers; find a niche relevant subreddit, post link, buy upvotes to boost your links visibility. Facebook and Twitter can be viable platforms for video promotion as well if you know how to use them. It's a good thing to mix some organic traffic in with the fake views; makes shit more legitimate.
5. Make playlists that feature your video on top, with your competitors videos; one that targets a ranking for your main keyword and the others for long tail variations of your keyword. Vary amount of videos in each. Try to add videos from your competitors that use the keyword the playlist is targetting in their titles; this can help with playlist rankings. Playlists won't typically rank however there may be a relevancy factor that the playlists can help with. Plus, it probably isn't natural to have a video with tens of thousands of views that is in no playlists; creating several playlists and adding the video you boosted to them is a good idea for that reason alone.
6. If you create a lot of videos, you could also implement a playlist silo technique into your video seo strategy. Too complicated to explain here but do your own research, lots of info on Google on the subject.
Very basic strategy, easy to learn and implement
