1. Design an eye catchy thumbnail icon for your channel
2. Create a video flow plan before you record
3. Upload more frequently
4. Use right software tools ( tubebuddy, vidiq )
5. Record long videos ( more than 10 minutes)
6. Use Meta Tags
7. Make sure you have an engaging content
8. Put other reference video links
9. Give away gifts for viewers and commenters
10. Edit your videos, remove empty or ear disturbing parts
11. Use keyword search tool to optimize your description and tags ( tubebuddy, vidiq )
12. Have a short beautiful intro music and video
13. Promote your channel in other social media platforms (twitter, facebook, instagram, etc)
14. Work with other youtubers, put links to their videos and vice versa
15. Have a blog and put your channel links in that blog, also put your blog’s links in your youtube description
16. Answer comments and questions
17. Announce upcoming videos to your followers
18. Ask viewers to subscribe and like
19. Ask viewers to share your videos
20. Ask your viewers for content ideas
21. Ask viewers to subscribe your email newsletter, send them new video notification via emails