15 YouTube Mistakes New Creators Make (And How to Fix Them) — Are you unknowingly sabotaging your YouTube channel?
In this video, I'll break down the 15 biggest YouTube mistakes new creators make (and how to fix them) to grow faster, gain more views, and avoid frustration.
If your views are stuck, your watch time is low, or your growth feels impossible, chances are you’re making at least one of these mistakes.
Don’t worry — I’m giving you real, actionable fixes that you can apply immediately.
Whether you’re just starting your YouTube journey or trying to reboot your channel, understanding what NOT to do is just as important as knowing what works.
To get the full post on how to fix every step, then click on....
https://www.trustthelink.com/15-top-youtube-mistakes-that-hurt-you-in-the-2025-algorithm/
#YouTubeMistakes #YouTubeTips #SmallYouTuber #GrowOnYouTube #YouTubeForBeginners
In this video, I'll break down the 15 biggest YouTube mistakes new creators make (and how to fix them) to grow faster, gain more views, and avoid frustration.
If your views are stuck, your watch time is low, or your growth feels impossible, chances are you’re making at least one of these mistakes.
Don’t worry — I’m giving you real, actionable fixes that you can apply immediately.
Whether you’re just starting your YouTube journey or trying to reboot your channel, understanding what NOT to do is just as important as knowing what works.
To get the full post on how to fix every step, then click on....
https://www.trustthelink.com/15-top-youtube-mistakes-that-hurt-you-in-the-2025-algorithm/
#YouTubeMistakes #YouTubeTips #SmallYouTuber #GrowOnYouTube #YouTubeForBeginners
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00:00Now, if you're struggling to grow on YouTube, there's a really good chance you're making one
00:07of these 15 mistakes. They're very common. A lot of people overlook them. So let's go into it.
00:14The first big mistake that you can make with a YouTube channel, this is big, it's just not
00:19having a plan. I mean, why in the heck are you making a YouTube channel? Is it to make money,
00:24to help the world, to get attention, to market a business? Whatever the reason, I firmly believe
00:31this, that having an opt-in page, collecting emails can really skyrocket your growth and what
00:37you want to do big time. There's so many benefits to collecting emails. It's insane. And if you know
00:45what you're doing, you don't even need that many views. You really don't. And you could do a lot
00:50of good stuff with emails, okay? All right. So that's the first one. And number two is you want
00:56a big video plan, okay? And what I recommend, I do something like this, is I'll have one video,
01:04right? A big video. And that will direct the viewer to a landing page where I collect emails. And then
01:11I make a bunch of other videos, like this picture here, that all direct people to, well, the viewers,
01:18to that first video. And the reason I do this, and it's a good idea, is it helps the algorithm so
01:25much. Because if somebody watches maybe two of your videos, you know, could be more in a certain
01:30amount of time, YouTube will consider them a subscriber, even if they don't hit the subscribe
01:36button, okay? It's so powerful and it helps your videos rank. So it's a really good idea, okay?
01:43All right. Next up, this is big. It's having a weak hook, okay? You know, the first 15 seconds,
01:54YouTube looks at that big time. If people drop off, it's going to kill your views. So having a very
02:00strong hook can help you get a lot more views, okay? So a couple ideas. You want to start with a
02:07bold statement or a shocking fact. That can definitely help you. Number two is speak directly
02:14to the viewer's pain point, okay? Kind of poke at it. That can help. Use a countdown or time-based
02:20promise, okay? That's the third idea. And number four is tease the outcome without giving it away.
02:26That's another great idea as a hook to get somebody interested to watch more of your video.
02:31All right. And next up is SEO. Yeah, I mean, YouTube's a big search engine. It's a machine.
02:39We make videos for people, but we have to dummy proof it for the algorithm. So this has to do with
02:44your titles, your description, your tags, for your channel, as well as the video. And there's a lot
02:50really to it. And what I'm going to do, because I made this massive post about this, it goes into so
02:55much detail. Just click on the link in the description, and I'll put the link to this post, and you can go in
03:01there, and it will walk you through exactly what to do when it comes to optimizing YouTube for the
03:07SEO to help your videos rank, okay? That's all I could do, because I have a lot of things to cover
03:13here. Next up, having an inconsistent schedule when your upload videos can hurt you. And honestly,
03:20this is the one of the things that I struggle with myself. And what you could do, might not be a bad
03:26idea. Just have one video a week, and maybe like Monday be consistent. And whatever videos you make
03:32after that is like a bonus. So that one video is consistent, okay? All right, next up is how
03:41optimizing thumbnails to get clicks. I mean, if nobody clicks on your video, your entire video
03:47doesn't mean anything. It doesn't even matter. So titles and the thumbnail, I call it the packaging,
03:52is really very important. It's more important than the video itself, okay? And so you want to give
03:59yourself the best edge you can, all right? So again, if you click that link in the description,
04:07I created this whole post about these 10 ways to make your thumbnails more clickable, and I even
04:12walk you through exactly how to do it, step by step, okay? All right, next up is fluff and long intros
04:18can hurt your YouTube channel, and people drop off, man. I mean, I just, people's attention spans
04:24are short. So long intros, not getting the point, it just forces people to click away. That first 15
04:30seconds is everything to your video. And yeah, I used to hate those long intro videos. They're still
04:36like stroking someone's ego. Next up is how no call to action at the end of your video is going to
04:43hurt you, okay? And yeah, I mean, it's the same thing with YouTube. You know, every video at the
04:49very end should have like a call to action. And you could change this call to action. You could
04:53show you like, hey, you know, check, here's some examples of a call to action, okay? Leave a comment
04:59below. Boom, that's a call to action. Subscribe. Boom, that's a call to action. Number two. Three. All right,
05:05well, hey, click the link in that description below. That's another call to action. So anything that
05:10you tell the viewer what to do at the end, it's going to help you. They're more likely to do it,
05:16okay? And that's going to help you in the long term, okay? And you also want to make sure that's
05:21at the end. I usually just have one because if too many will confuse somebody. And I've seen some
05:26people have like call to actions in the beginning, like, hey, subscribe. You know, that's the worst
05:31thing to do. It's like so much, it's pandering. But I can't say anything because I did that a long,
05:37long time ago, okay? All right. Next up is not engaging with comments in your channel. If
05:44somebody leaves a comment, they're honoring you. Even if it's like a troll, like nasty comment,
05:49they help your videos rank. So hey, just respond with thanks for the comment or hard, just anything,
05:55okay? All right. Next up is playlists or series. You know, those are great for your channel.
06:03And I'm like you. I used to think, what the heck? What's so cool about playlists? Well,
06:07here's the thing. Playlists will autoplay to the next video and that increases your watch
06:12time and that helps your videos do better. Plus, they can show up in the search engines
06:18and be indexed as a separate piece of content. That's more views. And you didn't even have
06:23to do anything for it. It helps your channel look more organized and it makes people, keeps
06:30people on your content. That's a good thing. And they just work great with this whole content
06:35cluster idea that I have because you can have one content cluster be a playlist with a bunch
06:41of videos pointing to one video and that one video points to your landing page. It's a great
06:45idea. End screens. Yeah, skipping end screens can hurt your channel. And this is that little
06:53box at the very end that it's very easy to click on. And it could be a link to another of your
06:57YouTube videos, a subscribe button, a playlist, or an external link. The bad news is to get
07:03that external link, you need to be involved in the partner program and you need to have
07:06like a thousand subscribers and a shit ton of watch time. Okay. It's not easy. And, but what I do
07:14is I just have a link as a video to another one of my videos. So you can do that. Okay. Next up
07:21is quitting too early after low views. Okay. That's very bad. And the thing is it could take
07:29time for a video pop. And, uh, I know it's the same thing with YouTube, same thing with Tik TOK
07:35with all these platforms. And remember, YouTube is the number two website in the world, a 2.5 billion
07:43monthly visitors. So, you know, it doesn't hurt to have some YouTube videos out there. And what I mean
07:48by that is a normal YouTube video can, can take months to go viral. I've had videos that I've
07:54made insane long ago. They still making like shit tons of videos. And some videos I make,
07:59they just, they just suck. They just die. You just never know. Okay. All right. Uh, yeah,
08:05using short and normal videos can help your channel and they both target different audiences. Okay.
08:11Uh, YouTube shorts can attract viewers quickly through being discovered and long form
08:18videos are kind of better over building relationships, building trust. So you want
08:22both. Um, I mean, every view, like, comment helps your, your video. And it's also watch
08:28time is good too. Um, so what I do, and here's a really cool strategy is you can make one long
08:34YouTube video and then break it up into short videos. So that way you can get both. Okay.
08:40It's a really good strategy, but honestly, if you had to just pick one, I mean, short, you're
08:45better. I mean, you're going to get more views, more bang for your buck, and they're
08:48very easy to make. And these are short 15, 20 second videos. But, um, to be honest with
08:53you, I like to go deeper. It's very hard to, to make a 15 second video sometimes. All right.
08:59Next up is repurposing your videos. Uh, yeah. I mean, you could do a shit ton a lot with one
09:05video and you could post it to more places than YouTube to get even more views. Um, and if
09:11you want to know exactly how to do this, I just, I have a post explains every single
09:15freaking place you can do with it. Just click on that link in the description. Okay. All
09:19right. Uh, next up is audio and video. And I've heard that 80% of a video is audio and
09:26I do kind of buy into this. I do. Cause I've, I've watched this perfect video movie before
09:31and the audio was a little bit off, but had great graphics and I just couldn't do it. I just,
09:36I just, it's like podcasts. That's why we listen to podcasts, right? There's no freaking
09:41video, but they can still, they're good. Right. Um, so if you want to know about equipment
09:48and just cheap stuff to get against in that post, I show you exactly what to do. Uh, this
09:53microphone here, this thing was, uh, it was like $10 and it helps my, uh, the audio
10:00amplifies it. Okay. Uh, viewer retention stats can hurt channel. Yeah. I mean, it's good to
10:07be now, then be brutally honest and see what's working, what's not working. Be careful. You
10:12don't want to go crazy. Maybe once a month, look at it. Maybe once a week at most, not
10:17every day. You don't want to be some, you're constantly looking at your freaking stats going,
10:21Oh, another person watched my video. You don't want to do that. Uh, but you want to see when
10:26people are dropping off. If this is in the beginning, you know that you need a stronger
10:29hook. And if it's, if you see a pattern of people dropping out at a certain point and
10:34that, then you want to fix those points in your video basically. And, uh, lastly, not
10:42being too niche can help a YouTuber. And I've made this, I struggle with this cause I would
10:47just talk about random stuff cause I was interested in everything. So you want to be a little bit
10:52more niche and have content clusters, which can help the machine and your videos rank. So
10:58you know, if your videos are all over the place, you're just going to struggle. Okay.
11:01But there's good news about this. You don't have to be in niche jail. There's ways to slowly
11:07migrate to other topics. Okay. Anyways, there's a lot to this. And if you want to check out the
11:14full post about every detail on how to get better YouTube, just click on a link in the description.
11:20Okay. I'll put it down there. So it's easy. Hopefully this was helpful. All right. You have a
11:24wonderful rest of your day. Bye.
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