Commenting on other videos

Squeal... you know I just started as youtuber but I have been a viewer for a long time and I believe that post only for get views is not the way to go but if you comment because you like the video or you have some funny comment (about the video) or something relevant than it is always nice to post :)
But this is only my opinion :)
 
Thanks guys,

I did a bit of experimenting, and I found some results (my personal experience, not general knowledge)

- Commenting on popular vids has no effect. Comments come and go too quickly.
- Try to make relevant comments at vids around 50k+ viewers. Meh, no real effect
- Commenting on new relevant vids with almost no views. Chances that the owner of the channel wil visit you.
- Commenting with general message (aka spamming) on vids around 500 views. Nope, no effect
- try to make relevant comments on vids with 5k+ view counts with alsmost no messages. Had some traffic

My conclusion: A lot of work to try to scrape a few viewers. It's good for starting, but when you have a (small) consistent daily view count, then it's not worth it.
 
Squeal Cat said:
Thanks guys,

I did a bit of experimenting, and I found some results (my personal experience, not general knowledge)

- Commenting on popular vids has no effect. Comments come and go too quickly.
- Try to make relevant comments at vids around 50k+ viewers. Meh, no real effect
- Commenting on new relevant vids with almost no views. Chances that the owner of the channel wil visit you.
- Commenting with general message (aka spamming) on vids around 500 views. Nope, no effect
- try to make relevant comments on vids with 5k+ view counts with alsmost no messages. Had some traffic

My conclusion: A lot of work to try to scrape a few viewers. It's good for starting, but when you have a (small) consistent daily view count, then it's not worth it.
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Your research, while good, isn't very accurate. If you really want to know about commenting on youtube go look at this thread I made last summer. I have like 6 months of experience by now. It still sticks.

yttalk(dot)com/threads/posting-comments-on-youtube-is-bad.133575/page-2
 
Kijana said:
Your research, while good, isn't very accurate. If you really want to know about commenting on youtube go look at this thread I made last summer. I have like 6 months of experience by now. It still sticks.

yttalk(dot)com/threads/posting-comments-on-youtube-is-bad.133575/page-2
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Hehe, You as a master commentor, you know exactly how it should be done :D. Good work, I can see on your channel that your effective method really pays off.
I only had 2 days experience, so I just posted the results. Like a kid who tried to repair an enginge block and post the results :D
 
Squeal Cat said:
Thanks guys,

I did a bit of experimenting, and I found some results (my personal experience, not general knowledge)

- Commenting on popular vids has no effect. Comments come and go too quickly.
- Try to make relevant comments at vids around 50k+ viewers. Meh, no real effect
- Commenting on new relevant vids with almost no views. Chances that the owner of the channel wil visit you.
- Commenting with general message (aka spamming) on vids around 500 views. Nope, no effect
- try to make relevant comments on vids with 5k+ view counts with alsmost no messages. Had some traffic

My conclusion: A lot of work to try to scrape a few viewers. It's good for starting, but when you have a (small) consistent daily view count, then it's not worth it.
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One thing I noticed that if it's a video that will likely get 50K or 100K views but you're able to get a great comment early when it's first published you can get a quite a bit +1s. How this translates to more views I don't know. I would suspect that most commenters are not going to have any uploaded videos and people wouldn't bother to check anyways knowing that they wont find any of the commenter's videos in the first place. I think being a creator puts you well ahead of the standard YouTube user.
 
Squeal Cat said:
Hehe, You as a master commentor, you know exactly how it should be done :D. Good work, I can see on your channel that your effective method really pays off.
I only had 2 days experience, so I just posted the results. Like a kid who tried to repair an enginge block and post the results :D
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The way I found out wasn't from experimenting. It happened on accident. One day I posted a comment which got a bunch of +1's. I got one sub. One whole sub! (This was great because I was use to getting like zero to none a week) I decided to go on youtube's front page and post witty comments on the most popular videos. I got like 10 subs a week. Finally, I learned to master it: Post when the video first comes out, and post on a channel as much as you can. This increases your chances. If you post on a video that has 50k+ views you won't get subs but not because it has too many views. You won't get subs because when videos are first posted on youtube they get the biggest wave of views from current subscribers. After some hours the top comments are already established and it's near impossible to get top.
It's awesome you tried to experiment but there's no way you could possibly test and experiment with every possible variable so I'm helping you out.
 
I comment all the time but I'd never use any of the promotional tactics that bug me to death.
'looking for YouTube friends' is my all time favourite bug bare, it is literally the new way to say sub 4 sub and it drives me mad.
Good comments are fine, people might turn up at your channel and its nice and everyone is happy, promotional comments on other peoples hard work... not so much
 
Kijana said:
The way I found out wasn't from experimenting. It happened on accident. One day I posted a comment which got a bunch of +1's. I got one sub. One whole sub! (This was great because I was use to getting like zero to none a week) I decided to go on youtube's front page and post witty comments on the most popular videos. I got like 10 subs a week. Finally, I learned to master it: Post when the video first comes out, and post on a channel as much as you can. This increases your chances. If you post on a video that has 50k+ views you won't get subs but not because it has too many views. You won't get subs because when videos are first posted on youtube they get the biggest wave of views from current subscribers. After some hours the top comments are already established and it's near impossible to get top.
It's awesome you tried to experiment but there's no way you could possibly test and experiment with every possible variable so I'm helping you out.
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I think you have the most effective way of commenting... Try to be one of the first and get the like-train going.

Commenting is nothing for me:) First of all, you have to be on of the first so you need to check your favorite channels regularly. Or get notified. Secondly; you need to post a sticky post. What I mean is, your post should be funny/strong the get liked, so for me that's hard too :)


By the way: looking at your channel, just 2 and half years old and get on average 3k+ views for your newest videos in 1 week is a terrific accomplishment. Well done so far
 
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