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I like round numbers: 10 months, 50,000 subs, 30,000,000 views

TheKingCranee said:
This was an amazing little topic about how to get subscribers and get to where you need to be!
First off, Thank you for the pointers...

Second...
- find the keywords you rank for and feed more videos into those
Where do you find keywords that you rank for?
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There are 3 strategies I use:

1. Analytics - Traffic Sources - YouTube Search: shows your top search terms you rank for. Make more videos for those top terms.

2. Tubebuddy shows the tags you rank for. Look at your top videos, and make more with the same tags.

3. Realtime traffic shows real time traffic. what's hot and what's not and dead on your channel. This is where Yt drives traffic to and what your subs watch, but mostly what Yt drives traffic to. make more videos like the ones that have the most traffic, and don;t make any that don't. Unless you are starting a new series/playlist/etc and are experimenting.

That's it.

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I am definitely getting TubeBuddy now!!! Seems really useful, thanks so much for all of the tips. I have been planning a new style of videos coming out to give me a ton more publicity.
 
@KiddieToysReview First thank you for your helpful postings.
I have been researching kids channels and videos for months and, I have seen some amazing things.
Was wondering if you might have a comment or a theory about a practice in the "kid's genre" that defies everything that YouTube and the YT guru's preach that "must be done to find success".

What I'm referring to are a few channels that:
use no descriptions or link listings what so ever in their descriptions.
They're 99.9% Blank.
Plus..... they disable comments !
Which contradicts everything I have read about a channel being a "social" place and interacting with the world.
What is amazing after these channels defy YouTube's advice is, the fact that they get millions of visitors and Subscribers.

My question is: How, why, what, .... how can they be such a powerhouse channel without descriptions and the comments disabled? Any ideas please? It's kind of like looking at a website with no text. Only thing I can figure is that the channels might be several years old. I'll have to search for them again to verify how old they are. I don't recall off the top of my head.
Thanks !
 
Jeff Downfield said:
@KiddieToysReview First thank you for your helpful postings.
I have been researching kids channels and videos for months and, I have seen some amazing things.
Was wondering if you might have a comment or a theory about a practice in the "kid's genre" that defies everything that YouTube and the YT guru's preach that "must be done to find success".

What I'm referring to are a few channels that:
use no descriptions or link listings what so ever in their descriptions.
They're 99.9% Blank.
Plus..... they disable comments !
Which contradicts everything I have read about a channel being a "social" place and interacting with the world.
What is amazing after these channels defy YouTube's advice is, the fact that they get millions of visitors and Subscribers.

My question is: How, why, what, .... how can they be such a powerhouse channel without descriptions and the comments disabled? Any ideas please? It's kind of like looking at a website with no text. Only thing I can figure is that the channels might be several years old. I'll have to search for them again to verify how old they are. I don't recall off the top of my head.
Thanks !
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It's authority.

Bill Gates walks into Google and asks for a job, he'll get pretty much any position he wants, even chairman of the board. An 18 y.o. kid tries to walk in, he's going to have to jump through hoops just to get an interview with first level HR screening.

New channels have zero authority, so must rely on seo and every trick in the book to get traffic. Old established channels have ultimate authority and trust, and a guaranteed number of views from an established sub base and viewers who view regularly but are not subs.

I have found comments are pretty much worthless for seo on a per video basis (can't say much about channel wide comments disabling yet). One of our highest traffic videos has comments disabled, and it's getting more traffic now than when comments were on.

So to answer your last questions directly, these channels have trust and name recognition, and have surpassed the needs of targeting seo (t/t/d/cc) which exists as a way to sort the millions of videos uploaded from small channels, all with virtually zero authority.

Now the only way that a small channel can get authority quickly (based on our channel and others I've studied), is to have high acceleration of watch time. And we're not talking linear, we're talking exponential. Once you have that, you click up a few notches in internal authority rankings, and the algorithm starts placing you in front of "real" viewers (that's the general populace, most of who don't have channels). Of course, seo at this stage is still critical.

I would say if your video can guarantee 200k+ views in 48 hours, you can start paring back seo. If you can guarantee 1M+ in 48, you can go seo naked.
 
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KiddieToysReview said:
Bill Gates walks into Google and asks for a job, he'll get pretty much any position he wants, even chairman of the board. An 18 y.o. kid tries to walk in, he's going to have to jump through hoops just to get an interview with first level HR screening.
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You're good with analogies, if the views ever go down, you should consider writing a book with analogies only :)
 
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