Never make this mistake

astro2014

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For years I have lived a "love and hate" relationship with YT. I've fought for years to get the damn YT algorithm to take my videos into account and while at one time I succeeded, the joy didn't last forever and my efforts on that platform went into the trash can.

However, I have never stopped trying to succeed on that platform and from trying so hard, in August of this year, I came up with an idea for a YT channel that could perhaps become successful.

I started the task of creating a channel from scratch, without having very clear the approach I wanted to give, but uploading at least one video per day, from Monday to Saturday, and what a surprise I have taken, when I see that people start to like the videos.

In less than a month, I went from zero views, to having an average of more than 60K views per day, and even had several days with averages of 150K views per day and more than 500 followers per day WITHOUT DOING ANY KIND OF CHEAT.

Wow I thought, I had finally achieved what I had been looking for for so many years.

Well, on Sunday October 24th and seeing how well I was doing with the channel, I decided to link my YT account with a tiktok account that I had created to help "boost" the visits to the channel.

The day after I created that association between YT and tiktok, I went from having 65K visits to having 40K visits, and less than a week later I went to having an average of only 1500 visits per day, that is, in less than a week, everything went once again, to the trash can.

It was not a coincidence, I don't think it was a coincidence. It was a clear penalty from YT for having linked the channel to tiktok.

After this, I have written to YT commenting the situation asking them for forgiveness (literally I did) for having linked the YT account with tiktok, I told them that I had already unlinked the two accounts, I swore not to do it again and obviously the answer of those damn bastards is that "the shitty algorithm" that they manage, checked that the visits were not made with bots or software and that surely they had detected that in my channel and for that reason, the visits had gone to the ground, which is TOTALLY FALSE BECAUSE I HAVE NEVER BUY A SINGLE VISIT NOR HAVE I USED A SINGLE SOFTWARE TO GENERATE VISITS.

Anyway, it's not worth arguing with those bastards who must surely get excited and have orgasms with the power they have to screw others.

I don't know if anyone else has had something like this happen to them, but my advice to anyone thinking of linking YT to tiktok or kwai or any of these apps, is to NOT EVEN TRY, because YT will shit all over you like it has done to me.

I don't know if the channel will recover. I have continued to upload videos with the same intensity I have been uploading them, but nothing happens. The views are a total pittance.

Believe me that if one day I had the opportunity to be alone and face to face with the person who decides how YT works, I would not hesitate for a second to break his face on behalf of all the people like me, we have struggled for years to earn a place on that platform without being able to achieve it and no matter how hard we try.

Damn YT and damn their damn policies.

And in advance I apologize for the bad words, I just wanted to vent the frustration I feel.

However, I'll keep trying and if for some reason the views pick up, I'll be back to tell the tale.
 
I feel bad for you OP...
But please don't overdo next time, if you see that something is going well let it go.
 
Many people share videos or say that external promotions will work, but YouTube now works effectively only as an internal traffic source.

Rather than attracting new users to an already established platform, YouTube retains users of the existing platform by adding and improving new features.

For effective growth, do not leave YouTube or Google. The only useful external promotion is Google, not other social media.
 
if you see that something is going well let it go.
And how is that done? Right here you see hundreds of examples of people who say they do a thousand things to achieve the success they are looking for.

Nobody says "ok I already have XXX visits, I'm going to leave it at that", no, most people say (and I include myself), "ok I already have XXX visits, now I'm going to get XXXX visits".
Many people share videos or say that external promotions will work, but YouTube now works effectively only as an internal traffic source.

Rather than attracting new users to an already established platform, YouTube retains users of the existing platform by adding and improving new features.

For effective growth, do not leave YouTube or Google. The only useful external promotion is Google, not other social media.
It's a bit similar to the answer I gave to @breakcode.... if one comes to a forum like these, or any other similar, and looks for information on, for example, "how to grow a YT channel", one finds any amount of information where it is recommended to use a thousand possible alternatives to achieve that goal.

In my case the only thing I did was to use one of those "possible alternatives" that, if I had suspected that it was going to cost me so dearly, not even in the worst of my nightmares would I have even tried to do what I did.
 
Thanks for sharing your experience. I am sorry that you have been through this injustice. It is very disappointing to not see profit in something you have worked very hard for.
 
Sorry you went through this experience.... as I was reading, I was thinking.... at least you know how you've done it once, you can easily do it again, rebuild back bigger and stronger than before!

I believe everything happens for a reason too!

Something better is next.
 
I feel sorry for you mate. Don't lose focus just because of this failure. Learn, Grow and Conquer!
 
Sorry you went through this experience.... as I was reading, I was thinking.... at least you know how you've done it once, you can easily do it again, rebuild back bigger and stronger than before!

I believe everything happens for a reason too!

Something better is next.
Sounds good to keep moving, but like the OP said, their algorithm is confusing, and the policy can be used against you any time any time. For me, consider putting most of your effort building an asset you can control, email marketing.

Think about it for a second, if you had been building your lists when your traffic was good this won't affect you much.

So, what ever the traffic source you use next time please be building your lists.

Accept our empathy And keep moving forward.
 
I feel bad for you bro.
May i know how actually you grow your channel from 0 to 65K visits/day.
PM me if you can't here
 
That was really hurtful to read. It's hard to rely on Youtube these days. The algorithm just messes with your channel. Recently I got my revenue cut for no reason. Really don't know what to do about it.
 
In less than a month, I went from zero views, to having an average of more than 60K views per day, and even had several days with averages of 150K views per day and more than 500 followers per day WITHOUT DOING ANY KIND OF CHEAT.

Sounds like the channel was doing great, what type of videos were you uploading?
 
That was really hurtful to read. It's hard to rely on Youtube these days. The algorithm just messes with your channel. Recently I got my revenue cut for no reason. Really don't know what to do about it.
When a company grows so much they don't care if the users use their platform or not
 
The only downside of the internet is consistency.
When you believe a project is going steady and growing, some moron in the other side of the screen can click a button and your project is gone.
Still, you had a good experience and you know the formula to make this happen again op.
Best of luck on next project.
 
Sorry to hear about your experience, but YT's doing is quite chilling...
 
How did you link your channel with TikTok? Is there an option available or did you just link to TikTok in your video description / channel links?
 
I'm not that top expert in YT, but I have some experience...

Even if we think that YT behavior is only algo driven, I think there is still a lot of randomness leftover.
Anyway, in such complex systems it's very hard to keep track of causality in general.

When you do X, the outcome will be Y may be true for you, but most likely can not be generalized.

Even if there is causality, the algo is for sure optimized to leverage the gain for YT, and not for the content creators...
 
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