How to Rank YouTube Videos Fast in 2021

1. Keywords

Targeting keywords will help you rank on Google and YouTube so your videos can be discovered by search. One mistake I see a lot of creators making is ranking for a keyword with very little traffic… I recommend choosing keywords with estimated searches of at least 1000 per month. I usually tend to go for 10,000 to 50,000 searches per month.

You can use YouTube specific keyword research tools such as TubeBuddy. A more advanced tool for YouTube keyword research is Ahrefs or SEMrush however these tools are quite pricy if all you’re using it for is your YouTube research.

?Bonus Tip: It’s a good idea to keep your entire channel around a specific group of topics/keywords and create several pieces of content per topic. I recommend  no more than 8 to 10 topics s per channel. Create a Playlist for each of your topics/keywords and add the appropriate videos into the playlists.

2. Similar Content

You can show up on “Recommended” in YouTube next to specific videos by creating videos on the same topic, around the same length, verbally saying specific keywords in the video (which the similar video also used), and using the same/similar tags (more on this below). You can do this by searching for popular videos from a similar creator in your niche and creating a similar video on the topic in your own style.

In case you’re wondering… There is nothing wrong with doing this, it’s common practice. You won’t offend the other creator as long as you aren’t blatantly copying their video.

3. Trends

You can find data on what’s trending around a specific topic using a free tool by Google called Google Trends. For example, I typed in “how to YouTube” and found “how to make a face mask” and “how to make hand sanitizer” are currently breakout trends worldwide (you can probably guess I’m writing this post-covid). So if you made a video about this today you’ll probably get lots of views for it (as long as you continue to follow the rest of the advice in this post).