How to Grow Your YouTube Channel Subscribers (For Free)?

How to Grow Your YouTube Channel Subscribers (For Free)?

Every segment in the market is saturated. So, while it’s certainly doable, growing your YouTube subscribers is far from easy; trying to do it without investing in ads, that’s even more challenging.

No more just publishing high-quality videos is enough. There’s already someone who is possibly doing whatever you’re doing better than you.

But then don’t let that stop you from starting and growing your own YouTube channel.

After all, in midst of high competition do great opportunities lie.

Here are 5 quick tips to help you grow your YouTube channel subscribers organically:

1. Don’t Hack the Algorithm (Hack The Audience)

Creating irrelevant videos just because the topic is trending, stuffing keywords in the description, adding unrelated tags – these practices meant to “hack” the algorithm unscrupulously will only going to get you in trouble in the long run.

Instead of focusing on “what does YouTube algorithm wants”, you should heed to “what do my target audience wants” or “how can I bring more value to my audience”.

As ambiguous as it may sound, hacking viewers’ attention and emotion is the ultimate pathway to grow your YouTube subscribers.

2. Learn a Thing or Two About YouTube SEO

With the above point made, it doesn’t mean you shouldn’t care about YouTube SEO. The platform is the second largest search engine!

If you don’t know much about optimizing your videos to perform better on YouTube searches, you should spend some time learning about it.

Here’s a video by Brian Dean on YouTube SEO:

EMBED VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oR3DQRDoTVI

3. Get Louder on Other Social Media Platforms

At least in the early days, you won’t necessarily get a lot of views through YouTube search; SEO takes its time in returning with good results. So, you’ll have to look at other platforms to funnel down the views on your YouTube videos.

This is where being very active on social media gets important.

Build your followers on key channels like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn. Share your YouTube videos regularly. This can help your YouTube channel gain significant traction, eventually helping you increase the number of Subscribers.

4. Have a Thoughtful Content Calendar

This is quite basic!

You can’t just wake up every morning and wonder “what do I post today”. You need a thorough and systematic plan. Every video you publish on YouTube should ideally be a part of that plan, which is centered on your small and bigger goals.

Having a thoughtful YouTube content calendar is essential to keep you organized, strategic, and progressive in growth. Know on which day will you publish which video and for what purpose.

5. Be Very, Very (and Very) Consistent

A content calendar will keep you consistent, but it can only help you so much. A lot depends on your character and work ethic.

If you’re not ready to punt leisure and work harder every day, growing your YouTube channel will almost be an impossible task.

Those big names you see on YouTube who often make it to the list of “fastest growing YouTubers”, most of them aren’t an overnight success.

Mr. Beast, for example, who now has over 40 million subscribers on the platform, he started posting videos in 2012. His first 50,000 views on the channel came after 567 days, which maps to 88 views a day. Even after posting hundreds of videos, he still didn’t get his first 1,000 subscribers.

So, just like success in anything, consistency is the cornerstone even here.

Ready?

These are 5 quick tips on how you can grow your YouTube channel organically.

Of course, there are plenty more ways and tips and recommendations. But the key is to get started. Once you start, you will figure things out yourself. And this path of self-learning will be more rewarding and impactful than reading an article and watching a video on “how to grow YouTube channel subscribers for free and fast”.

So, take the first step… and pieces will fall in the right places.

Good luck!

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Have a YouTube channel and want to increase the number of subscribers organically? Here are 5 essential tips to grow your YouTube for free.

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