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12. Skyrocket Your Video Views and Watch Time With Playlists

As you're no doubt catching on, the key to winning the YouTube ranking game is keeping
viewer’s on the YouTube platform for as long as possible. And one of the quickest and
most effective tricks to do this is by taking advantage of playlists.

In simple terms a playlist is a collection of similar videos that you group together that can
be played one after the other automatically.

By grouping similar videos together in sequence, you’re essentially making it easy for your
viewer’s to binge watch your videos, just like a tv series on Netflix. So instead of watching
just one video, they could end up watching 5 in a row.

This can skyrocket your 'overall minutes watched’ and the authority of your channel very
quickly, boosting the ranking and exposure of each video in your playlist.
We recommend ordering your videos from highest traffic to lowest.

13. Tell Them What To Do Next With A ‘Call To Action’

The more people who like, share and comment on your video or subscribe to your
channel the better your video will perform in the rankings. This again is a measure of
engagement and so it’s a good idea to get the ball rolling with a gentle push by having a
call to action at the end.

You don’t need to go overboard, something simple like this can make a big difference:

“If you liked this video share the love and give it a thumbs up.”
“Thanks for watching, why not leave a comment below and let me know what you
think.”

“If you liked this video, hit the subscribe button to receive more like it in

the future.”

$ 14. Videos With Monetisation Enabled Go Viral

It shouldn’t come as a surprise that YouTube’s primary objective is to make money, and
they achieve this by placing advertisements before and during videos. So when it comes
to YouTube’s ranking and promotion algorithm, you can bet your boots that videos
with monetisation enabled are going to take priority over videos that don’t.

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