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We’ve talked before about how to boost your YouTube views and in this episode, we talk about how not to boost your YouTube views or things to do that you should not do in order to not, shouldn’t not, should double triple negatives, never. Yeah, these things will actually hurt you if you do them and a lot of people are trying. Well, this is an odd topic. Are you saying how not to promote? How not to post? How not to boost your views? Meaning there’s bad ways of doing that? There’s actually ways that many people use and try to promote their YouTube videos that I would recommend, don’t waste your time, it can cause more harm than good. Oh okay, I thought you were just gonna stop with don’t waste your time and/or resources but you’re saying it actually tips on the wrong side of the balance. It’s harmful how and what way? Talk to me. Well, the first example I want to give is Fiverr and that you know.. What is Fiverr? Fiverr with 2 R’s. Well I saw the word when you were typing it, I have no idea what it is. I’m you in this scenario if you don’t know anything. Let me just jump into that now. Jump away. Okay, this website is called fiverr.com and Fiverr is where you can hire people to do tasks for you and pay five bucks for a gig so anywhere in the globe there’s people saying, hey, I will play a piano part on a beautiful real Yamaha grand and they’re charting thirty five. I guess Fiverr’s changed because now, it’s multiples of five. It used to, they used to not have this, they used to have to at least offer one gig for five bucks and then you could offer upgrades but now it looks like they’ve modified so that’s cool. Unbelievable. So you’re going here by the way, just for those of you that are maybe tuning in late, the question is, how not to boost your YouTube videos and.. I’m not saying this as a bad website, this is a pretty cool website for projects, to hire out, but you might think what if I want to hire people here to promote a youtube video? Australian voice over. Yeah, this would be a good place for that yeah so if I do a search here for YouTube video promotion, let’s see what comes up. Let’s look at these.. How do I sort them by five bucks? Here’s a price range. I just want to find.. we’ll say zero to even fifteen dollar price range. We’re not seeing that. Okay, this person says I will do organic YouTube video promotion. Oh, organic. That sounds good. That sounds healthy. I will be your YouTube video promotion expert, I will do viral video YouTube promotion and marketing. I will do massive YouTube video promotion. Okay, you do not want to do these. I can’t imagine.
You know, it’s such a big promise to deliver for ten dollars. So here’s what you’ll get.. You will get results in the form of number. Like somebody’s sitting there and just playing your video over and over and over again or whatever just to build the numbers. It’s a bot, it’s a computer or if it is a real person, yeah, it’s not a person that’s really part of your audience, it’s not a real person who’s interested in your content. This is what they do as a job. Now why would that be bad? Can YouTube can they detect that or something? Oh yeah. In the past, no, it was just if a video gets, you know, a thousand views in the first hour then this is a good video but now YouTube is really good and they’ve been good at this for a long time, it just gets better and better but their YouTube can tell if it’s a real person because that person has an account and does this person, has this person ever watched a video on makeup tutorials before and now all the sudden it’s a favorite video or you know, and they’re commenting, do they really you know, they know if it’s a real person and they know what the average user activity is on a channel and so if they see something abnormal, it’s just really easy for YouTube to tell so not only will it not really work and bring in real people but it will hurt your channel. YouTube will just basically shut down that video because they know.. That you’re you try to take them? Yeah, it’s a scam, it’s spam. Wow, ugly word, scam and spam. So Fiverr sucks. Yeah. So don’t.. No, Fiverr is actually awesome. Fiverr, if you want to sponsor me, I’ll do a better video about Fiverr. Fiverr is a really good tool but do not use these. So here’s the so here would be the question then maybe the natural question is, these are five and $10 gigs blah blah blah but even the more expensive ones to boost, people that are saying look I legitimately will do but it’s gonna cost you a grand, still be very careful. Probably gotta be really leery because you want real traffic. I mean, here’s something that would be great.. Let’s say, Will Smith. Okay, he’s got a following on, you know, all the different social media platforms and if I were to pay him to then promote one of my videos naturally to his network and he’d say hey you got to check out Nate’s video, right? Yes, that would be amazing. Now a lot of people a lot of the gigs on on Fiverr will say, hey, I’ve got a Twitter following and I’ll tweet it out but I just I want to be really leery. They can say anything and then they can just have their bots go in and you bought stuff on Twitter and it’s not real people so if you can really get “organic” like this person says, I will do organic YouTube video promotion. The word organic is really what you want, you want natural but I would just still stay leery. Stay away from one, yeah. Because the YouTube algorithm, if it senses any of this scam, your spammy stuff going on, it will just, it will shut down your channel. Yeah, and the fact that these people actually have robots. I mean, that in and of itself is a suspect. So we’ll move on from from Fiverr but the the moral of the story is there, you don’t want, you don’t want to go after any of the spammy tactics to get traffic on your YouTube videos. Makes sense.
Okay, here’s what else not to do.. Don’t use other social media sites that are mature to promote your YouTube videos and when I said the word mature, you’re like, what does that mean? So it used to be.. No, it’s not that I don’t know what it means, I’m just, I’m trying to understand it in the context. So Facebook.. Facebook will say five years ago, I’m just thrown an arbitrary number out there but five or so years ago out there, you could post a YouTube video on Facebook and it would do well to promote your YouTube video. If you do that now, what it doesn’t work because Facebook will not send visitors to YouTube videos, if they watch a YouTube video on Facebook, the views don’t count, somehow Facebook’s figure that out but YouTube and Facebook are enemy. Mortal enemies. They really are, they’re in combat with each other. If you post a YouTube video, a link to a YouTube video and people are leaving to go to YouTube, Facebook doesn’t like people to leave and so it’ll hide your posts from your future post, that post and future posts, so don’t do it, you’ll get penalized on Facebook. I mean if it did work and you got more views on on YouTube, I guess that couldn’t hurt to say, ooh, we’re getting traffic from Facebook, yeah. But that doesn’t work anymore. Yeah, but if even if you get up so let’s say you get the max 5,000 friends on your account and you’re starting YouTube with your channel with 10 subscribers or none or whatever, it just seems like a natural that somehow you’ve got to be able to leverage these 5,000 people. Is there a way to do that? Well, if you’re really building a following on Facebook or any social platform, they want real content that’s meant for them, they don’t want you to, the people that are there to enjoy a Facebook experience or watch a facebook video don’t want to have to say, oh, go over to YouTube to watch the very thing so don’t put any teaser videos. Hey, if you want the full video, go over here. Don’t do that. So in your Facebook video, you could mention, yeah, and we do this on my youtube channel as well, you just drop seeds to let people know that you have a youtube channel so that they want to go visit you on YouTube now they know you have a youtube followings. But you have to do that without putting the link to it, right? Yeah and I would even go further to say that yeah, obviously, don’t put links but don’t use Facebook to try and get traffic to YouTube. Don’t use Instagram. I would say don’t use Twitter. Twitter is kind of borderline, you can get away with it cause I don’t know, I’m not on it but I have some friends that have hundreds of thousands of followers on Twitter and still the results from it just, it’s not worth my time so I don’t think there’s as much penalty on Twitter but there doesn’t seem to be as much of a benefit. So when I talked about mature, that’s what I mean by my facebook, facebook has now matured where they’ve changed their algorithms to a point to where it hurts you. It can penalize you. There are sites that aren’t as mature yet that I think you can get results from a site like Quora where people are asking questions and you can go in there and answer the questions. If you post a YouTube video there, it does seem to send traffic to your videos.. But that probably will also mature over time. I believe so. LinkedIn, LinkedIn I think is one of those mature sites. They seem pretty rigid about what can and cannot be. Yeah. Yeah, at least from my experience. So my recommendation is if you’re going to use Facebook, we’ll just use that one first.. Create content that people enjoy and will want to watch on Facebook and that will build a Facebook following and what do you do from there.. What do you do with that following? You send them to your website, same thing on YouTube, you’re gonna send people on websites when you want them to go some recenter to your website or to that landing page where they get a free gift and they they join your list, they give you their name and their email. If you’re building a following on Instagram, send them to your website. Yeah, makes sense.
Now YouTube’s the same way, YouTube doesn’t want people to leave and go to Facebook so don’t you know, this is maybe, this would be common sense but don’t say, hey, go check out my Facebook page. You only want people to leave YouTube if it’s really gonna benefit you. I mean, you want to have a strong reason because people leaving YouTube in the algorithm, you’ll actually get a penalty if people leave YouTube to go somewhere else however, if you have an approved website.. So you have your landing page or your own website and you get it approved in YouTube, the penalty is significantly reduced so you’re still penalized a little bit but it’s worth it because that person is now becoming a lead of yours, you’re getting their name and their email address. How do you have an approved website though? We’ll make another video about that. I thought we did. You go in the settings and there’s a system you go through, there’s some hoops you have to jump through to prove that you own that domain and that the website is legit but once you do that, then it’s approved and you can send traffic there and it’s obviously worth it. Yeah, for sure because once they’re on your site, hey baby, game on. So Scott, I could tell you learn some things in this video. I’m always learning things, Nate, truly. I’m an absolute here yeah I’m a waif. I don’t even know that word. I’m innocent. I don’t think a waif applies to me though. Be sure to subscribe and like the video if you think it deserves a thumbs up and we’ll see you tomorrow.