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I have multiple video that are #1 in search. For example imagine having a video about baseball tips and when you search "baseball tips", you are first. Or maybe you are first for "car review". Those are super generic terms with tons of competition so I'm proud to top lists like that HOWEVER....I never seem to get the full benefit. I have videos with around 30,000 views from 2013 that are top in youtube search.
Case in point right now I'm number 1 for "how to lane split" but only got 20k in a year. A video like this on my channel should be near 100k by now. The video UNDER mine has 759k views. I did the math and the rate of subscribers/view on my video are WAY higher than the other video. They got 2600 and at that rate, I'd have 7000 new subs on 700k views. It also seems like everybody who liked my video subscribed so I'd get around 7000 likes in theory. They did get just under that so it's liked at the same rate as mine but not enough to get the same subs.
All those stats are pointless however because I'm not getting the views. I got 50 views in last two days. It averages 800 a month. I have 70 videos right now that get more views/month than this and they are probably not as highly ranked in search.
Here is the reality I've found, search helps but it can be very limiting. MOST of my views are GIVEN to me by YouTube. YouTube algos decide my videos will want to be seen by you folks and they essentially promote it. So not matter how good my video is, if YouTube does not think it's good, it does not go anywhere. Another idea is kind of like a gun. A gun alone does nothing. A gun in your hand has great potential to kill. A gun in your hand WITH a bullet in it CAN kill. So:
having the best bullets does nothing
Having the best gun does nothing
The best gun and bullets on a table does nothing
Having the best gun and bullets in your hand CAN be VERY lethal
So is it then:
A great video may not do well
A great video with great SEO may not do well
A great video with great SEO on a popular topic will do well
Like I saw a video that was well hated got 80k in a day. My video was better and uploaded first BUT my SEO was horrible. For whatever reason it ranked horribly in search. I had tags in keywords, title and description. Guy with 500 subs destroyed me with my 2k subs AND people hate his video. I got more thumbs up. Stupid algo!
Case in point right now I'm number 1 for "how to lane split" but only got 20k in a year. A video like this on my channel should be near 100k by now. The video UNDER mine has 759k views. I did the math and the rate of subscribers/view on my video are WAY higher than the other video. They got 2600 and at that rate, I'd have 7000 new subs on 700k views. It also seems like everybody who liked my video subscribed so I'd get around 7000 likes in theory. They did get just under that so it's liked at the same rate as mine but not enough to get the same subs.
All those stats are pointless however because I'm not getting the views. I got 50 views in last two days. It averages 800 a month. I have 70 videos right now that get more views/month than this and they are probably not as highly ranked in search.
Here is the reality I've found, search helps but it can be very limiting. MOST of my views are GIVEN to me by YouTube. YouTube algos decide my videos will want to be seen by you folks and they essentially promote it. So not matter how good my video is, if YouTube does not think it's good, it does not go anywhere. Another idea is kind of like a gun. A gun alone does nothing. A gun in your hand has great potential to kill. A gun in your hand WITH a bullet in it CAN kill. So:
having the best bullets does nothing
Having the best gun does nothing
The best gun and bullets on a table does nothing
Having the best gun and bullets in your hand CAN be VERY lethal
So is it then:
A great video may not do well
A great video with great SEO may not do well
A great video with great SEO on a popular topic will do well
Like I saw a video that was well hated got 80k in a day. My video was better and uploaded first BUT my SEO was horrible. For whatever reason it ranked horribly in search. I had tags in keywords, title and description. Guy with 500 subs destroyed me with my 2k subs AND people hate his video. I got more thumbs up. Stupid algo!
