How to Create a Thumbnail for Your Videos

I like to think now about my thumbnail working in conjunction with the title, because I think as human nature, we look at a thumbnail at the image before we look at the title. Early on, I was very strategic with my titles to make sure that they did have keywords in them. And I still have keywords in my videos, but it isn't as much of an intention as it was early on. But I found that using text on my thumbnails, using some amount of curiosity in my thumbnail and using certain words that do evoke curiosity that people do want to click in is helpful.

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