Youtube High Retention Views

Hi Fellas,

I know for a fact that buying YT HR Views alone doesn't help in ranking the videos, Apart from that optimization of Headers and Description + LT Keywords along with YT Video Optimization needs to be done,

Further The 2.0, Social Bookmarkings SEO are some of White hats,

But My question is, What am I further missing here? Any more Techniques Guys?

Thanks!

the authority of your YouTube account over all affects your ranking quite a bit

The thing is, youtube devalued the views because of idiots sending low quality views to thousands of client videos each day in order to make money from the exploit. Yes, Google now favors your overall channel age, engagement and authority in order to determine rankings now. This means offer extremely high quality and targeted content for viewers to engage with you. This includes social factors into ranking as well, but it is not a heavy weighted factor that can ignore the other pieces of the puzzle to help boost your rankings.