More views and revenue by adding a Destination to title

[Cinnamon Sweet Shoppe]

I have a baking channel and therefore most of my videos are about baking. But I also travel frequently so a few of my videos are travel vlogs. My travel videos tend to get double and triple the revenue per 1000 views than my baking ones and many more views quickly. Just by adding the name of a city, state, country, destination, tourist attraction in the title gets the video suggested both in the sidebar of someone else's video or when someone searches the location. This is especially true when the destination is not that common. My Gatlinburg, Tennessee video is one of my most watched videos and during peak travel time, I was getting around 500 views per day and that was a month after I posted it. My cruise ship video got over 1000 views within weeks of posting it and I'm still getting at least 50 per day on it. Travel is constant so even older videos still get viewed.

My suggestion would be to add the name of your city, state, country or location in your description box, hashtags, and if applicable, your title. A friend of mine filmed two videos in Philadelphia. They were vlogs. The one labeled with the word "Philadelphia" in the title, got over a thousand views within a few days. The one filmed in a city park with no city labeling got only 38 views.

So if you're filming a video on a famous street, park, location in your city, make sure you add it to the title as well as everywhere else.

 

[Munchito696]

I have a baking channel and therefore most of my videos are about baking. But I also travel frequently so a few of my videos are travel vlogs. My travel videos tend to get double and triple the revenue per 1000 views than my baking ones and many more views quickly. Just by adding the name of a city, state, country, destination, tourist attraction in the title gets the video suggested both in the sidebar of someone else's video or when someone searches the location. This is especially true when the destination is not that common. My Gatlinburg, Tennessee video is one of my most watched videos and during peak travel time, I was getting around 500 views per day and that was a month after I posted it. My cruise ship video got over 1000 views within weeks of posting it and I'm still getting at least 50 per day on it. Travel is constant so even older videos still get viewed.

My suggestion would be to add the name of your city, state, country or location in your description box, hashtags, and if applicable, your title. A friend of mine filmed two videos in Philadelphia. They were vlogs. The one labeled with the word "Philadelphia" in the title, got over a thousand views within a few days. The one filmed in a city park with no city labeling got only 38 views.

So if you're filming a video on a famous street, park, location in your city, make sure you add it to the title as well as everywhere else.

Interesting.... I always label add the location in my mountain biking videos so people who are looking for a specific trail will find mine, but they don't seem to get many views besides when I post them to applicable forums.

 

[Time Jacker]

So if you're filming a video on a famous street, park, location in your city, make sure you add it to the title as well as everywhere else.

Ohh I like this. It goes to show how important optimisation is. As an aside, the child in me loved your poop emoji video...

 

[Painter]

Interesting indeed. I'm going to test it on a couple videos.

 

[Cinnamon Sweet Shoppe]

Ohh I like this. It goes to show how important optimisation is. As an aside, the child in me loved your poop emoji video...

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Interesting.... I always label add the location in my mountain biking videos so people who are looking for a specific trail will find mine, but they don't seem to get many views besides when I post them to applicable forums.

Perhaps it doesn't work at every location but cities and known destinations tend to bring in more views for me.

 

[Munchito696]

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Perhaps it doesn't work at every location but cities and known destinations tend to bring in more views for me.

Yeah I'm sure if I did a more epic trail more people would be searching for it. Now that I think about it my downhill biking videos are in a better place and one of them has more views than my other biking videos by far. Maybe the location did help on that one

 

[Painter]

So I tested it out and I've had some interesting results. Last night I added my location to all of my video titles and description. Around 9pm last night I noticed a spike in views. Nothing strange because it happens often, but then it slows down after a couple of hours. This is something different though. The sudden view pop started at 9pm and now it's 11:35 am. So far it hasn't stopped. Unfortunately, this is only happening with two videos. I hope my other videos join in soon. I don't know if adding my location had anything to do with this.

 

[WeiseGamer]

Now I'm sure if I add these to my game review videos it won't help much, but basically you are saying on the "location" part of the basic info tab when editing video info, add location there? I guess maybe videos near you would show up that way, and if someone searches for people from Boise, ID (in my case) it may help, lol.

 

[Cinnamon Sweet Shoppe]

Now I'm sure if I add these to my game review videos it won't help much, but basically you are saying on the "location" part of the basic info tab when editing video info, add location there? I guess maybe videos near you would show up that way, and if someone searches for people from Boise, ID (in my case) it may help, lol.

I'm saying that IF it applies to your video content, add a location or destination into the title and description. For example, if you're filming a comedy or prank video in Central Park in New York City, don't just title it "Such and Such Prank. Be sure to title it Such and Such Prank in Central Park, New York City.

If it doesn't apply to your video, then don't just throw in a location for the sake of it. You'll only turn off viewers.

 

[Munchito696]

So I tested it out and I've had some interesting results. Last night I added my location to all of my video titles and description. Around 9pm last night I noticed a spike in views. Nothing strange because it happens often, but then it slows down after a couple of hours. This is something different though. The sudden view pop started at 9pm and now it's 11:35 am. So far it hasn't stopped. Unfortunately, this is only happening with two videos. I hope my other videos join in soon. I don't know if adding my location had anything to do with this.


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Interesting... I'll have to go through my videos where the location really matters and add that info. I'm pretty sure most of my videos have something with location, but maybe I'll get more specific.