YouTube SEO: How I Rank #1 on YouTube in 2024

anyone can rank number one on YouTube you just have to know about the what I like to call KVs strategy a freestep blueprint that I've used the last 4 years to rank over 1,000 videos on YouTube resulting in over 140 million views Decay stands for keyword before you make your video you need to know which keyword you want to rank four the biggest mistake you can make is recording your video and then deciding your video keywords at the moment of uploading instead you want to research keywords to analyze if you can rank number one and

then make your video now here is what a 10 out of 10 keyword would look like first of all low competition there shouldn't be big channels ranking everywhere for this keyword number two good search volume you don't want to rank for a keyword that no one searches for because that's not going to get you views anyway number three no matching keyword this is the key to ranking number one quickly even with a small Channel what this means is that there's no other video that has the exact keyword that you search for as their title here's

how I find keywords like that for this I use vid IQ I go to research and then I start off by searching for a main broad keyword in my Niche let's say I make videos about editing I can search for editing as that main broad keyword then hit search you want to ignore all of this and click on matching terms what this will do is that VI Q will now show you more keywords that include the initial keyword that you search for so I have an entire list of keywords that include editing scroll through and

find something that looks interesting to you to me right now that is reals video editing click on this and then once again click on matching terms this is now going to show you even more specific detailed keywords that we can potentially make a video about and rank for 3D reals video editing once again matching terms and there we go right now we're very specific 3D after effect video reals editing once you found a keyword that looks interesting copy it Go to YouTube and search for it then to do research properly you want to make sure

that you've got the vid IQ extension installed we're now looking at competition search volume and the matching keyword number one ranking videos from a Channel with 10 ,000 subscribers that is pretty decent but it's not insanely big then we've got 16,000 subscribers in number two 20,000 subscribers 27,000 so overall the competition for this keyword is not extremely big then you want to open up all the videos that are ranking in the top four or five spots in a brand new tab once you've done that with VI IQ you're able to see how many views per

hour this video is getting as of right now you want to confirm that for the ranking videos the number of views per hour is pretty significant which is an indication of people are still actively searching for this keyword which for this keyword is definitely the case this video is at 50 views per hour this one close to 100 the third video is also around 50 views per hour and the lowest ranking one is at 16 views per hour we've now confirmed the competition is not crazy the search volume is good as well these videos are

getting good traffic which means all there's left is to see whether someone is actually using our keyword as their title so you want to copy the keyword then crl F paste the keyword in there and then you'll see how many results there are which in this case is is just one which is our search phrase right here which means there's no one that is using this exact keyword phrase as their title which means we have just found a keyword that we can easily rank number one for simply because there is traffic the competition is not

big but mainly there's no one that has this exact keyword as their title which means that if we make that video with that title we're going to show up when people search for this which brings us to the second letter of KVs the v stands for video and this is where 99% go wrong having a good keyword is only the beginning your video needs to be good you have to make exactly what the viewer wants to see so here's what I recommend you do to increase your chances of ranking your video first of all research

the currently ranking videos watch all of them for the entire video to see what they're doing and what you can improve then you want to read the comments for feedback that you can Implement on all of those videos you can learn a lot from the comments under a video yet no one is doing this someone has already made a video there's feedback given on that video in the comments which if you apply that to your new video yours is going to be better than the currently ranking ones which brings us to the final letter which

is the S stands for SEO first of all we must make sure that the exact keyword that people are searching for makes up the majority of our title which means that if I want to rank for 3D after effect video reals editing I'm going to make my title look like this this includes the entire keyword that people search for and I've just inserted tutorial at the end so that the title is still natural and easy to read you can also add brackets to make it more enticing to click that might include the year or something

like stepbystep to help them understand that this is going to be a full step-by-step tutorial all right title done now we need to do the description first of all what I always do is I simply copy the keyword in my title and then I put it at the top of the description next up I want to include a few related keywords to our main keyword in the description how we do that is I go back to vid IQ I click related keywords and I'll get to see a list of other slightly related keywords that people

search for and I want to include the relevant ones in my description we do this to tell YouTube what our video is about but also to potentially rank for these other keywords so I've selected these four keywords which I'm going to use in my description so here's what I've got in this after effects tutorial I will show you how to do 3D after effects video reals editing even if you're a beginner this will help you make Motion Graphics and overall be better at video editing so I've just included these four related keywords naturally in my

description next up is our thumbnail all this needs to be is better than the competition make sure it's clickable and easy to understand once again go back to the keyword see which videos are currently ranking and make sure that yours is better what you'll see here is that all of them are very similar 3D viral reels 3D viral reels 3D viral reels 3D viral reels no I'm not bugging they're just saying that on every thumbnail which means it's proven to work but you should probably slightly switch it up all that's left now is the tags

now this doesn't really matter at all so what I always do I take the keyword that I want to rank for I copy it I go to a website called rapid tags.io I paste in my keyword I search these are the results that show up I copy this and then I paste it directly into my video I've actually made a step-by-step Word document describing how you can rank number one following all the steps I just gave you I'll leave a link down below for you to download it and also if you want my full 1hour

breakdown of how this works and see me do it live on camera click the video on the screen right here it's probably the best video I've ever made so I'll see you there