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Dusty Santos

Dusty Santos

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Like I said above, ignore this rant.

I am just one of hundreds of YouTubers who are feeling frustrated. I have great thumbnails, I'm posting 2 to 3 videos every week. I have an intro that shows all members of our family. I've given my subscribers a name to make them feel included in a club/special. I'm commenting on other videos with out spamming. I take advantage of Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and Vine. I'm told that my content is good.

With all of this going on, I'm not getting the subscribers I feel the work deserves. Is it because I don't put on makeup or do my hair? Is it because I don't post false click bait? Am I not being patient enough? What does a girl have to do to see some real growth?

Anyway, feel free to ignore this post, I just had to rant a little. I feel better already!
 
Well, you have the potential to be a decent click-baiter with this thread title haha.

On a serious note, just checking your first video, and the titles of the rest, you seem to be going too niche. Which means very few people are searching for the majority of things you make. Clickbait is needed to an extent. Literally 90-100% of every BIG youtuber does it these days in one way or another. Not saying you need to strip down and put cursor bars on the places you'd otherwise get banned for showing, but your titles/thumbnails can't give the viewer everything... in a sense.

That's my general advice.

For you specifically, you need to try and get search engine traffic. Which means NOT leaving your description practically blank, having very few "long-tail keywords" and the tags you have (most of them) are useless. You won't be ranking for "Multiplying Memories, collaboration, collabs, v loves collabs, cooking, salad, corn salad, light, refreshing, summer, recipe, family vlog, soup, food" anytime soon. Well, corn salad maybe, but if tags still matter (debatable) corn salad should be the FIRST tag. You should also have it in your description somewhere.

I'll post more if you're interested. I can ramble too much so I'll leave it off here.
 
Mogawty said:
Well, you have the potential to be a decent click-baiter with this thread title haha.

On a serious note, just checking your first video, and the titles of the rest, you seem to be going too niche. Which means very few people are searching for the majority of things you make. Clickbait is needed to an extent. Literally 90-100% of every BIG youtuber does it these days in one way or another. Not saying you need to strip down and put cursor bars on the places you'd otherwise get banned for showing, but your titles/thumbnails can't give the viewer everything... in a sense.

That's my general advice.

For you specifically, you need to try and get search engine traffic. Which means NOT leaving your description practically blank, having very few "long-tail keywords" and the tags you have (most of them) are useless. You won't be ranking for "Multiplying Memories, collaboration, collabs, v loves collabs, cooking, salad, corn salad, light, refreshing, summer, recipe, family vlog, soup, food" anytime soon. Well, corn salad maybe, but if tags still matter (debatable) corn salad should be the FIRST tag. You should also have it in your description somewhere.

I'll post more if you're interested. I can ramble too much so I'll leave it off here.
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Thanks, that is all great advice.[DOUBLEPOST=1469805870,1469805808][/DOUBLEPOST]
notjamie said:
It seems your most viewed videos are about your twins. Maybe you should make more videos about that and have the kids as your thumbnail.
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Thank You! That does make since. I knew I could count on this community to understand :)
 
well nowadays you pretty much need to clickbait to stay relevant on youtube because if you just put "My Craziest Experience" nobody is gonna click on that, but on the other hand "THE CRAZIEST THING TO EVER HAPPEN TO ME!" then its guaranteed to get some clicks
 
I'm sorry you're frustrated. I've learned that making good videos and making videos that people want to see are often two entirely different things. One of the more popular videos I saw recently was a ceiling collapse in an apartment caught on a vertical iPhone camera in terrible quality. Why is it so popular? Well, because it's a real event that's scary and interesting and something that people worry about and you never see actually caught on tape, except perhaps in closed circuit television in stores or something. So being a good filmmaker and being a popular filmmaker are in no way related on YouTube for many videos.
 
Dusty Santos said:
Thanks guys! I guess Click Bait is just a dirty little product of being a YouTuber. I don't feel so bad about doing it now since EVERYONE is doing it to.

Off to change "York Beach" video into "Buried My 3 Year Old Alive!" video.
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ROFL - true click bait is a must even though I done none of that
 
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