Uploaded December 2014 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago

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http://www.21QuestionsAboutYouTube.comWhat should you do after you publish your YouTube video, to get the most views and traffic as possible? Fact number one is that YouTube weighs their rankings strongly based on how long people watch the video, and they've said this publicly time and time again.

Your strategy is to get as many people as possible who actually watch the video to the end, to watch the video.

Don't do anything silly like buy views or get a bunch of people to click on the video and then leave. If you get a couple hundred people to view the video four to five seconds into a four-minute video, you're directly telling YouTube that people aren't finding what it is that this video had promised. Subsequently, you get pushed into a ghetto of sorts—and you don't want that.

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