I came across this cheat sheet from Digital Triggers and I know this can be useful to a lot of people of this forum!
This PDF mentions touches on the major things you need to do to be able to rank in YouTube and in Google. There are 5 steps that are:
STEP 1: DETERMINE WHAT KEYWORDS TO TARGET
STEP 2: UPLOAD AND OPTMIZE
STEP 3: CHANNEL OPTIMIZATION
STEP 4: BUILD BACKLINKS
STEP 5: OTHER YOUTUBE RANKING FACTORS
Get the PDF here: https://s3.amazonaws.com/rvrb/Video-SEO-Cheat-Sheet.pdf
P.S: At the bottom of the PDF, there is a link to a video analysis software called "Viewlio". This little software is extremely useful when working on YouTube.a