Journey to get $500,000 USD

Bubble5 said:

Big goal go for it!

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Thanks bro, this is pretty challenging.

nobodyelsein said:

While YouTube Adsense isn't really my thing at all I'm really enjoying how well you are thinking this out and sharing.

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@nobodyelsein this isn't adsense, I doubt this is too close to the line. This is YT and CPA. Although going through this and seeing how to rank real competitive keywords on YT today, I have a great idea for a pure whitehat channel with YT and adsense. I will create a thread about that and my goals in about a week.

Update
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My last channel got nuked again, I think I know why but to be honest YT can nuke your channel if they feel you might be a problem in the future. My new channel is up, and running again. It's been alive for about 30 minutes now and these are the numbers:


The great thing about YT nuking my channels is that I get to refine my bots that process my content and upload it to YT. Now the whole content pipeline is automated. I throw my bots at some folders and it goes through processes the content, grabs the data from a local file, login to YT uploads my data, properly puts in the metadata.
There is still some manual work that I haven't automated yet, mainly editing my YT profile to make it look real and not just some default YT page.

Thoughts
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I really think the best way to get traffic on YT is to provide great content, even though this content is skirting the copyright line pretty close and probably that's why my channels get nuked. I also realize that having good tags will allow YT to split test your content with your competitors. That's the only way that I can get views so soon into my channels life.

Once you start getting views, YT will then rank you based on your viewing time, engagement, etc... but all that starts from having great tags. <---- all you YT guys out there, think about this sentence.

This channel might get nuked, only time will tell but I have twist and a great idea to start a pure adsense centric channel.

hongdou said:

I guess a hard deadline would add more spice to this mix. I wasn't thinking of anything more than a year. $500,000 in under a year should be more than doable, especially after what I explained in my last post.

UPDATED GOALS
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$500,000 USD with proof before December 1, 2016
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I am pretty confident that I can reach this goal.

Looking around at the journey threads I see a lot of people who quit. I think it's once they realize the amount of manual labor that's required to "build a dam" in front of a raging waterfall or river. Although I've seen many people even fail to find the river or waterfall to power their dam.

What's interesting about the second picture in my above post is that, even though I have other YT accounts that are white hat and done out of just passion for the subject. I do not upload so often and my content is very technical, not a lot of people understand or search for these topics. With that being said, a 6 year old YT account I have never seen a real time report, it has always said not enough data and just showed the static analytics.

With this one new channel w/ grey hat content, I am getting consistent views, real time reporting, and even estimated views for the last 48 hours. The image above was showing an estimate of 470 views in the last 48 hours. It is now up to an estimated 500 views for the last 48 hours. Even though the estimated views for the last 60 minutes dropped from 26 to 22. This is an estimated 500 views every 2 days from 13 pieces of content, I have thousands of pieces of content that I could optimize and upload. I will continue to do a few by hand but once it's all sorted out, the next thing I will do is write tools to just grind through this process. It's a hunting game with YT for now and I am working on my Ghillie suit!

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Just for comparison I went to my total white hat 6 years old YT account to look at the real time stats. Here they are:

as you can see that's pretty pathetic, especially compared to a YT channel that's less than 1 day old.

I haven't made any money with this journey yet but I'll go ahead and say this now. To make money you need to find a river and put a dam or windmill in it so that the natural movements of the current throws off a little energy in your direction. I think that should pretty clear to anyone with a brain.

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You are confident that you can reach $500k with 500 views on youtube per day? Good luck, I am confident you will need it.

hongdou said:

Before
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Initially I wanted to create unique content to make money on YouTube. I did 2 videos and realized that I just don't want to waste time on that right now. After making two videos with amazing content that moved up to top of the second bottom of the first page in about 1 week. Adsense seems lame and while I can always go back to that later;
1) I don't like my voice being on the internet
2) I want to get $500,000 USD

Journey
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I realize that to make big bank on YouTube you need a lot of content that a lot of people are looking for. It took me 8 hours per 15 minute video, I don't want to spend the resources to do that for hundreds of videos.

I plan to use copyrighted materials that people are looking to get a hold of for free along with CPA. This method isn't revolutionary but it works, the main issues as I see it right now. Quality content and massive amounts of it.

We can all find copyrighted material online but the problem is YT content ID and whatever, therefore I have to first figure out a way to bypass YouTube automatic copyright and manual copyright system.

Once that's sorted out, I can then write my own tools to scale up the operation. There's a link in the description that redirects to Google and from 30 views I received 4 clicks.

Troubles
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I've already tried uploading different attempts at bypassing YT algorithms. First few attempts I immediately got worldwide blocked.

After worldwide blocks after a while typically 20-30 views I received a manually review block.

Then I received a copyright block for sections [time stamp start to time stamp stop] of the content. That let me know that YT algorithm automatically do some audio reverse engineering such as removing pitching of audio, revebs, etc....

I did some custom manipulation of the audio in these pieces of content the video has been up for about 2 days and it's constantly getting views and no more copyright issues at the moment.



Technique
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Since this is copyrighted material competition is very tough, I checked and my 2 day old video is on page 26 but it's still getting clicks and seems to be moving up the ranks because of it.

Once I get past YT automatic algorithms I can mass edit, chop, upload media to build a YT channels with links in the description.

The monetization will go like this:
YouTube description url shortened link -> adfly -> CPA Locker -> zip file with adfly link -> CPA Locker -> Amazon.

leading to amazon in the end might be bit harsh but I don't want to directly link to anything that will actually break coypright laws. Although I could write up a little tutorial to show how they can find what they are looking for online.

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i'm continuously getting copy right issue , is it possible to make 500,000$ through youtube

Might nuke you if they think you could be a problem in the future? YouTube becomes the minority report

Adsense was GREAT, but many years ago. I still have an Adsense income but nothing too thrilling.

I'll be so pleased for you when you hit your target. You're putting in the groundwork that most don't bother with. The only people who fail at Internet Marketing are the ones who give up.

nobodyelsein said:

Might nuke you if they think you could be a problem in the future? YouTube becomes the minority report

Adsense was GREAT, but many years ago. I still have an Adsense income but nothing too thrilling.

I'll be so pleased for you when you hit your target. You're putting in the groundwork that most don't bother with. The only people who fail at Internet Marketing are the ones who give up.

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Thanks, the just about sums up what I was going to write in reply to the two posts above yours but you said it pretty well.

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I left my account for the weekend to hang out with the family came back and the channel was again nuked. I think having 20 pieces of content up is too problematic, I will upload my top 5 best performers just so if the channel gets hit 5 shouldn't take my channel down.

With 20 the account gets totally nuked, I mean not even a chance to recover my password with a real phone number. So the next step is to upload the top 5 best performing pieces of content. Have it get looked at and try to see what YT human review is hitting me for.

And yes I do believe that they are minority report like with the way they act. If you are too close to the line they just get rid of you.


This has been a pretty fun journey so far and while the channels keep getting nuked, I have steadily developed some tools [bots].
1) I throw it at a bunch of content and it tags, organizes the content on my local machine.
2) It uploads the tagged and organized content directly to a YT account of my choosing, doing proper tagging and all metadata things on the website.

Those are two really awesome pieces of tech that I developed for myself.

There's still a bit of manual labor involved the first time which is to go get all the metadata and information that I want for the content but after that it's fire and forget it.

looks interesting bro. you are using any other methods or only ppc?

Okay, time to fire up my bots again. This is a fresh start I am trying to figure out exactly what makes YT human reviewers mad and nuke my channel. Right now I've just uploaded 4 pieces of content


No traffic or anything yet, they will go live right after I finish this post. I'll watch and see, in the past right as I reach around 2k estimated views per 48 hours my account gets nuked. I think that's because I had 20 pieces of content, with 4 I'd like to see what reasonings they give but for now slow steps. If I get past this manual review process I'll be golden.

Let the games continue YT.

with only 4 pieces of content views are low but this is a quick update, pretty much real-time since my last post, these are my stats:


It will take a bit but let's hope YT humans come and slap a few of my videos w/o NUKING the damn channel so I can reverse engineer their methodology. Once that's done I'll scale up massively!

Another quick update before I am off for today. I would like a YT staff to go look at my channel. At this pace it might take a few days but patience is the key.

Like watching paint dry at this moment.....

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couldn't help looking again, as you can see the channel was just created and only have 4 pieces of content but the views are coming in.

A long way from 2k though but for now I just have to be patient to try to figure out how to NOT have YT staff ban hammer my channels.
There are links in the descriptions that lead to a page that I can track, so far I have had 3 clicks.

I've been pretty anxious this last go around. My content is still up and getting views:


real-time analytics are still showing decent view estimates:

This is from only 4 pieces of content.

I am going a little insane watching things move so slowly but at least until now the channel is still alive. I am getting bored though, this is like watching paint dry. I think while I test YT limits I'll start another journey doing something that I can be more proactive about.

If I can find out what causes YT human review to nuke my channel then I can fix it but at this pace I'll probably have to wait 2 to 3 days. What is really strange is the last time my channel was nuked vs this time, the only difference is there's less content on the channel now. 4 vs 20 on the nuked channel..... Actually there is one other thing that is different which was the images that I used for my custom thumbnail, could that be it? Could it be that using copyrighted thumbnail images will get your account banned? Like official art or something like that?

Right now it seems like that's it but that seems really strange to me. I will let this channel continue to rack up views and see how things look in a couple of days. Until then, I will continue to give these types of updates but I will start another journey soon.

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I finally baited this sucker out! Now I have submitted my counter-claim against them..... Let's see where this goes because fcuk them man, damn YT copyright trolls:


At least my channel didn't dissolve into the ether, now it's time to turn up the fcuking heat. Win lose or draw, I'm all in. These people are just blindly firing copyright claims and YT auto nukes channels. My beef is still with YT but now I have my eyes on these "claimants" as well. Damn cohnts.

Also since I am now in this copyright battle w/ these fcuktards no more new views are coming in.

This is really going to turn into a waiting game, if I lose this case I am done w/ YT. If I win then like I said a freight train is coming!

I'll make a video in front of a youtube picture...

Yes he was right if you need some subscribers first to start promoting .

Thoughts
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Since I was getting my channeled NUKED to hell, I figured that it was some bogus copyright claims. Now why do I say that if I lose this I will be done with YT until they change the way the system works.

I setup a honeypot for these copyright nazi..... How did the honeypot go?

I created fake videos with a black screen but I tagged, titled, SEO'd the content like it was legitimate content from a copyright holder. <---- This is shady I know.

But if the above statement was caught by YT for going against it's YT Community Guidelines for spam or misleading content sure, I can chalk that one up as a loss on my part and figured something else out. That would be the reasonable thing to do but that is not what happened.

What happened was I got a copyright strike from some "claimant" who said that they MANUALLY DETECTED me infringing on their copyright.


How can you manually detect content that IS NOT THERE?

All I did was create a fake video that was all black video stream and a sound of a sine wave, that matched the length of some copyrighted material. Now answer me this, how can a video of a certain length that's all black and have the sound of a sine wave, for those of you who don't know what sine wave sounds like, listen:

So how can they manually detect a video that's a recording of nothing with a sine wave playing as their copyrighted material?

My Theory
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I feel like these huge copyright nazi just have bots roaming the web but specifically YT in this instance and if they come across some metadata that matches something in their system they send out a copyright claim because YT system is automated that means that your channel gets a copyright strike and then basically is crippled. Like a mobster taking a baseball bat to a guys kneecaps.

So they lied in their copyright claim stating that they manually detected me infringing on their crap when it was a recording of a sine wave and a blank screen. So if they win man fcuk YT not even legit people should make content on YT because these copyright nazi can kneecap your legit channel and there goes all your income.

Again like I said, if this was something from YT because I violated their community guidelines for spam or misleading content sure I could accept that BUT this is not that. This is copyright nazi just mass sending out copyright claims on videos because of what's in the content's metadata, claiming they "MANUALLY DETECTED" and that aint right.

so all in all, it's still a waiting game but man fcuk these copyright trolls.


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YouTube should make it so that these bahsthards should have to put up some escrow funds to throw around these damn copyright claims and if they lose, those funds go to the people being attacked. Why do they get to accuse you of doing wrong and then there is absolutely no downside to doing that when the accused has all the burden to prove innocence and has major downside potential!?

Very good luck with this. Wishing you all the luck and success that you deserve.

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Currently I am still waiting for YT to review my counter-claim before they send it off the the "claimant". This whole copyright thing is so one sided but like I figured, it's a waiting game.

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YT finally decided to forward my counter claim to those counts. Let's see what happens next, fcuking manually detected copyright violations on a black video w/ sine wave sounds. I guess it's more waiting.

Imagine if you had a video that was taking off, going viral and then bam, copyright claim, you're basically dead in the water, your hopes of going viral passing and so all your chances to make a buck on YT.

I don't trust YT, these "claimants" have too much power to sheyt in your soup.

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