Your video title is a very important part of optimizing your video. The video thumbnail and title are what people see first, so these need to encourage people to click through to view your video.
Using Unicode Symbols
One option is to use Unicode Symbols in your videos title and description to attract more clicks and views.
Here’s some more popular symbols.
Copy any of these and then paste into your video title or description.
Arrow: ►
Example Usage: ► My Hot Video Title
Heart: ❤
Example Usage: I ❤ My Hot Video Title
Smiley: ☺
Example Usage: ☺ Video Title ☺
Star: ★
Example Usage: ★★★★★ Video Title
You can give yourself 5 star rating to attract attention.
Or a 4 Star Rating: ★★★★☆
Example Usage: ★★★★☆ Video Title
Arrows: ▶◀
Example Usage: ▶Video Hot Title ◀
Pointing Finger: ☞
Example Usage: ☞ Video Hot Title
Copyright: ©
Example Usage: © Video Hot Title 2008
Rights Reserved: ®
Example Usage: ® Video Hot Title
Including catchy words
Also using words like: ‘Exclusive’, ‘Part 1′ or ‘Leaked videos’ can get more people to click. You will only want to use these ideas if they suit your video, otherwise it might back-fire and get you hate comments and/or Dislikes.
Using Keywords
It’s important to include your related keyword(s) in the title as this is what helps your video be found in Youtube’s search.
Youtube gives more importance to the keywords at the beginning of the title, so make sure your most important ones are first.
Searching for title ideas
To get ideas what other videos use in their titles, you can do a specific title search on Youtube.
Doing a standard Youtube search will show the results based on the keyword used in title, description, and tag which can return a lot of unrelated videos.
To just search the video titles, type in “title: keyword”
For example: title: fishing
This will only return results with that have ‘fishing’ in the video title.
You can also narrow your search by excluding a word by entering the – before it:
For example: title: fishing -reel
This would result in displaying fishing videos which don’t have keyword ‘reel’ in the title.
