YouTube Gold Rush: 7 Promotion Myths That Didn’t Work for My Channels
YouTube Growth Myths: Why Popular Advice About Comments and Posting Times Failed My Channels
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YouTube promotion is like a gold rush: you are full of enthusiasm, you believe that you will find your “golden nugget” of success, but in the end, you only see a few grains.
Millions of bloggers give advice on how to get views and subscribers, promising that their “secret” method works. I continue to experiment to find out which of these tips are real nuggets and which are just smoke and mirrors.
This is my fifth series of revelations. And, like last time, I want to tell you about what definitely did not work.
Method #1: The Comment Engagement Myth
If you have comments, respond to them. The algorithm will sense the activity and will recommend videos more often. Almost no one writes comments for me, so I started asking friends and former colleagues to write them for my videos (thank you guys for your patience).
It didn’t work at all. Whether a video has comments or not, the algorithm doesn’t react, and it doesn’t care if I respond to these comments either.
Method #2: Forced First-Minute Activity
For the algorithm to pay attention to your video, in the first minutes of views, you also need likes and hearts on the video. Since people seldom put them in, I also asked friends to add reactions in the first seconds of the video. I sent the link to everyone, so YouTube should have noticed the activity. But no. It doesn’t help.
Method #3: The Hook Question Technique
YouTubers advise asking a question at the beginning of the video and then answering it throughout the video. That’s what I did on my origami channel. I showed the finished origami, asked a question in the style of — how to make an origami hare. The rest of the video showed how to do it step by step. In short videos, I made a time-lapse video, and encouraged people to watch the full tutorial on the channel. Does this work? No.
Method #4: Long Content vs Shorts
Shoot long content, not shorts. Since I have several channels, I have combined channels with both long and short videos and just channels with shorts. So everyone has so many views that, in two years, I haven’t yet reached monetization.
Method #5: Prime Time Posting
Check your prime time and upload videos at that time or an hour before. I tried both. There were even fewer views than when I uploaded at midnight. Why this happens — I don’t know. But it doesn’t work for me.
Method #6: Trendy Templates
Use trendy templates in the Capcut app. Before that, I used other video editing programs, such as Canva and Movavi. I liked Capcut because it’s easy to use, but again, I saw bloggers who use this app, and their video quality was 4k, and mine was 720. When uploading to Shorts, the quality deteriorates greatly. But if on a video with 4K it’s not so noticeable, then on my already poor quality 720 shorts, it gets even worse. Of course, few people want to watch this.
Method #7: Niche Commenting
Write comments under videos in your niche; other subscribers will be interested in them, they will go to your page to see who it is, and subscribe. I have been doing this for two months, and I haven’t a single subscriber. And I don’t write spam, I write exactly for those videos that I really like.
I have seen a lot of videos, many of which are simply meaningless, like squash squash. But the video quality there is very good, they are very bright, and the microphones are also good with self-absorption. People just get stuck on such videos.
I still think that the most important thing is the camera.
While my YouTube channels bring only disappointment, I also create something that makes me happy. And maybe it will make you happy too, if you love animals, look here; if you need something useful, look here.
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