I have a channel with 1.4k subscribers and some videos with 50k organic views from back in the day. However, nowadays I get barely any reach whatsoever when I upload something new. What's a good way to improve my reach? I was using YTMonster and top4smm to buy very small numbers of views just to give videos a little boost but it seems to have done more harm than good. If I upload without buying anything I only get like 20-50 views though.
The content, when it does get seen, is usually very popular with my audience.
I'm using relevant areas of reddit/facebook/instagram etc to promote as well.
reasons for drop in reach or as others call it (shadowbans):
1. long breaks from uploading content.
2. sudden change in niche.
3. controversial content.
4. spam or spam content.
5. botting/fake traffic etc
6. strikes or terminations (as in channels fasely terminated and restored)
(even though youtube claims that strikes dont effect reach, ive seen plenty of cases where it has effected reach on channels)
(terminations do too)
7. content that youtube does not like or sees as low quality.
like some channels who do gameplay without any form of commentary.
(search up "gta high graphics gameplay")
you will see plenty of channels spamming one gameplay per day.
it may look HD and stuff but it is the lowest effort content one can make.
these channels keep milking it. they have sudden growth but after a while of constantly spamming the same thing over and over their channels die.
youtube will allow them to get some views and make money but wiill limit that explosive growth and reach.
known fixes for this(based on testing:
1. if shadowbanned for botting.
return after a few months. like 1 to 2 months.
grind upload until your channel gets revived.
its a good idea to try uploading trend related videos to revive faster
2. if shadowbanned for long breaks.
then keep grind uploading without breaks for several weeks until you see the views are back again.
3. if shadowbanned for niche change (its not generally a shadowban but the fact that the algo is seeing that your audience does not respond to this new content well so does not recommend it further) ,
keep re grinding until algo finds enough of new audience/susbcribers for the new content.
once you gained enough, this new content can start pulling views (might take several months).
4. if shadowbanned for low quality content then stop doing low quality content.
just do HQ content and make your channel like a brand.
for gaming , example make HQ gameplay channels with facecam commentary, you will most likely have non throttled growth.
youtube generally does not like these plain basic video channels, like gameplays without commentary etc and kills their growth by huge percentage at some point.
this is just understood by observing multiple cases.
