Add chapter markers
Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2025 10:38 am
Tools like Canva and Fotor have high-quality YouTube thumbnail templates to create your own images, though some affiliate marketers find the investment in a graphic designer pays off.
“I have always taken a search-driven and quality-first approach to my content,” says digital marketer Alex Tucker. “But for the first few months that I focused on YouTube, my click-through rates were terrible (under 2%) because I was making my own thumbnails and I’m a poor designer.
“When I started working with a professional germany telegram screening designer, my click-through rate jumped to over 5%, which means more than twice as many people were giving my videos a chance.”
?Pro tip: Update your YouTube thumbnails regularly, especially if your content is evergreen. Add the current year to your thumbnail to prove your content is still relevant—and therefore, worth clicking.
Ever clicked on a YouTube video to figure out how to solve a problem, only to swipe through 15 minutes of the creator talking about something you are uninterested in? People arrive on your YouTube video looking for short answers. Help them find them with chapter markers, which are timestamps that mark sections of your video content.
Wandering Aimfully, for example, created a YouTube video sharing the items the hosts packed for their year of travel. Each section of the video uses chapter markers. Viewers can pinpoint the section where the creators talk about roller suitcases and travel backpacks without sitting through the entire 49-minute video.
“I have always taken a search-driven and quality-first approach to my content,” says digital marketer Alex Tucker. “But for the first few months that I focused on YouTube, my click-through rates were terrible (under 2%) because I was making my own thumbnails and I’m a poor designer.
“When I started working with a professional germany telegram screening designer, my click-through rate jumped to over 5%, which means more than twice as many people were giving my videos a chance.”
?Pro tip: Update your YouTube thumbnails regularly, especially if your content is evergreen. Add the current year to your thumbnail to prove your content is still relevant—and therefore, worth clicking.
Ever clicked on a YouTube video to figure out how to solve a problem, only to swipe through 15 minutes of the creator talking about something you are uninterested in? People arrive on your YouTube video looking for short answers. Help them find them with chapter markers, which are timestamps that mark sections of your video content.
Wandering Aimfully, for example, created a YouTube video sharing the items the hosts packed for their year of travel. Each section of the video uses chapter markers. Viewers can pinpoint the section where the creators talk about roller suitcases and travel backpacks without sitting through the entire 49-minute video.