RandomRamenGuy
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- Jun 26, 2022
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Hello,
I'm facing an issue, that is quite concerning and is causing me some serious headache. Two of my channels are experiencing sudden, massive boosts in traffic from external sources.
- started exactly on 30th July
- external source: Google Search, device type: mobile, decent retention rate (not worse than usual)
- it's affecting dozens of videos, different topics, even two different channels in two different niches
- it's affecting both: videos, that perform well in other traffic sources (suggested, browse, search) and videos, that had been pretty dead in terms of views
- both channels run on the same device. I have run several malware checks, but couldnt find anything suspicious
- some views peak and then fall off the next day, and then repeak again
- one of my channels was flagged for invalid traffic, too, exactly one day after the spike occured (31th July), while the other one is perfectly fine in terms of "IVT"
- Creators Support claims, "spam views were detected that day, but were already filtered out"
I can't find any information about similar cases online. I fear my channels might be under some kind of attack by bots/competition. Any idea if that's looking like a bot attack or is the algorithm on Google suddenly pushing my videos on Search?
I'm facing an issue, that is quite concerning and is causing me some serious headache. Two of my channels are experiencing sudden, massive boosts in traffic from external sources.
- started exactly on 30th July
- external source: Google Search, device type: mobile, decent retention rate (not worse than usual)
- it's affecting dozens of videos, different topics, even two different channels in two different niches
- it's affecting both: videos, that perform well in other traffic sources (suggested, browse, search) and videos, that had been pretty dead in terms of views
- both channels run on the same device. I have run several malware checks, but couldnt find anything suspicious
- some views peak and then fall off the next day, and then repeak again
- one of my channels was flagged for invalid traffic, too, exactly one day after the spike occured (31th July), while the other one is perfectly fine in terms of "IVT"
- Creators Support claims, "spam views were detected that day, but were already filtered out"
I can't find any information about similar cases online. I fear my channels might be under some kind of attack by bots/competition. Any idea if that's looking like a bot attack or is the algorithm on Google suddenly pushing my videos on Search?
