Advice for a small gardening channel?

gardenwithjenny

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Hi-ya fellow yttalkers! So I was wondering what the best promotional advice would be for a small gardening channel on youtube like myself would be? I know it's a very small niche compared to video game channels and stuff of that kind but what would you do to kick start things? I've been at it since February now and I'm trying to make great quality gardening videos. I've seen some channels out there that have more subscribers than myself and they grow rather rapidly. I've asked a couple of people how they do it, and basically said "keep pumping out content." Well cool. Is that the best advice that could be given?

Jenny
 
Best advice i could give you is to use the search bar or Google. There are soooooooooooooooo many related threads about this subject on this forum. Its incredible!
 
You need to optimize your videos, content, descriptions, use social media, search around these forums. There's SO much good advice. Good luck!
 
That's awesome! I've never heard of a gardening channel before but it's totally awesome for an idea! :D Best of luck! And yeah just follow the advice above! :p
OMG you'd be surprised at how many gardening channels there are! I thought the same thing. I thought maybe I'd be one of the only ones, but my gosh there are so many! I can't believe it! Some have a lot of subscribers too![DOUBLEPOST=1403816457,1403816358][/DOUBLEPOST]
You need to optimize your videos, content, descriptions, use social media, search around these forums. There's SO much good advice. Good luck!
Can you give me an example of optimizing my videos and descriptions? I use social media, the problem is I don't have a ton of followers on twitter and most people over look my posts on facebook LMAO :D :giggle:
 
Best advice i could give you is to use the search bar or Google. There are soooooooooooooooo many related threads about this subject on this forum. Its incredible!

Yes but not all of those will apply to gardening, I believe a few other approaches could be taken with gardening channels.

Have you tried any offline advertising? I dont know exactly what you do in your gardening videos but it could be a good thing to network and meet up with local gardeners regularly and share your channel with them, who is your target audience? If you figure that out and its say newcomers to gardening and your channels goal is to help people get into gardening with easy to follow gardening tutorials and tips you can focus your content on that as well as your optimisations.

As Derral mentioned optimising your titles and descriptions would really help, how you do this is on a per video basis, you want to think about how others are going to discover your video. For example if you had a video on planting garlic bulbs indoors and it was a how to kind of video you could have the title as "Planting garlic with Jenny", now that title isnt awful but it doesnt take into account what people could be searching for, for example How to Plant Garlic Bulbs Indoors or How to Grow Garlic Indoors For Beginners. Consider who might be looking for your video and who would find it useful and title it based off of that. You can also research what people are searching using the Google Adwords Keyword Tool/Planner.

For your descriptions make sure to write about the video you have made and place the title within it or at least a portion of for example:

How to Grow Garlic Indoors For Beginners - Jenny the gardener shows you how to plant garlic bulbs just in time for Summer, following these indoor gardening tips you will discover the easiest way to have lots of garlic every Winter that you can crush and put in your favourite dishes.

I have bolded some examples of optimisations for searches that could be relevant and highly searched :)

I hope that helps.
 
Yes but not all of those will apply to gardening, I believe a few other approaches could be taken with gardening channels.

Have you tried any offline advertising? I dont know exactly what you do in your gardening videos but it could be a good thing to network and meet up with local gardeners regularly and share your channel with them, who is your target audience? If you figure that out and its say newcomers to gardening and your channels goal is to help people get into gardening with easy to follow gardening tutorials and tips you can focus your content on that as well as your optimisations.

As Derral mentioned optimising your titles and descriptions would really help, how you do this is on a per video basis, you want to think about how others are going to discover your video. For example if you had a video on planting garlic bulbs indoors and it was a how to kind of video you could have the title as "Planting garlic with Jenny", now that title isnt awful but it doesnt take into account what people could be searching for, for example How to Plant Garlic Bulbs Indoors or How to Grow Garlic Indoors For Beginners. Consider who might be looking for your video and who would find it useful and title it based off of that. You can also research what people are searching using the Google Adwords Keyword Tool/Planner.

For your descriptions make sure to write about the video you have made and place the title within it or at least a portion of for example:

How to Grow Garlic Indoors For Beginners - Jenny the gardener shows you how to plant garlic bulbs just in time for Summer, following these indoor gardening tips you will discover the easiest way to have lots of garlic every Winter that you can crush and put in your favourite dishes.

I have bolded some examples of optimisations for searches that could be relevant and highly searched :)

I hope that helps.

WOW THANK YOU! <3 That was so nice of you to take the time and type all of that out for me! :D I really appreciate it! I think I will start to implement that advice into my videos right now! Thanks again![DOUBLEPOST=1403818875,1403818828][/DOUBLEPOST]
Just using keywords and terms in your title and descriptions. Make sure not to just repeat keywords or paste them in, use them in a real way.
Ok thank you so much! :) The help is really appreciated and thank you for taking the time to share your knowledge with me! :D
 
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