A significant percentage of YouTube video views come from the platform’s recommendations, including the up-next feature.
That’s why you want YouTube to look favorably on your videos and channel. The algorithm factors heavily on audience retention and watch time. A YouTube SEO strategy can help those numbers along with other analysis factors.
Here are some best practices to inform your strategy. (They assume you’ve done all the work necessary to find your keywords.)Continue Reading
Do you remember the teacher in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off who had that monotone voice?
Instead of engaging his students, Mr. Robotic tranquilized them. Heads tilted, mouths open, drooling.
As content marketers, we can’t afford to have that same sleep-inducing effect on our audiences. Even readers give sound to the voice, cadence, and tone of our words, also known as their “inner reading voice.”
The antidote to monotone content? Conversational writing.
Why conversational? Conversations feel more personal, less academic. As Donald M. Murray once said, “Effective writing is a conversation with a reader.”Continue Reading
