Hi Joshlin,
1) More (real) Views = More Subscribers. How many views? If your viewers like your content, you should be gaining about 1 new subscriber per 185-400 video views. This is the range the top youtubers are receiving. If you're not receiving at least 1 sub per 400 video views it could be A) those viewers didn't like your content B) the views were not real people C) views came from outside of youtube (these views hardly ever sub) D) you need to ask people to subscribe and have sub annotations to click on your video.
2) Where should these views that turn into subscribers be coming from? A) YouTube Search B) Related/Suggested Videos (right hand side of screen) C) Collaborations with other YouTubers.
How to improve on these 3 things?
A) For YouTube search, use https://ads.youtube.com/keyword_tool to find which keywords are being searched the most.
B) Pay attention to what is trending by looking at most viewed videos and http://www.youtube.com/trendsdashboard
C) Put the keyword phrase you want to show up for as your first words in your title, your first words in your description and the first tags in your tab box.
D) If your video has a good audience retention rate, receives likes, comments and favorites, you have a good chance of getting decent keyword placement.
For how to show up on the right hand side of other videos, I have no fricken clue. I'm working on figuring that out right now.
If you haven't yet read the YouTube Creators playbook, it's a must read. Yes, that sounds lame but it is jam packed with 90 pages of a lot of good white hat stuff.
I hope you found some of this helpful.
Interesting. I actually have about 50-100 views per sub. And the A) and B) points were quite interesting. I never knew about that... I learned something new today