5 Steps to Viral Youtube Videos

I think everyone would want their Youtube videos to go viral, or become popular over time. Although there is no guarantee of course, there are many things you can do to help your video get those views, likes, and subs. Here are some tips I put together after gathering some information and ideas, and if you're looking to become a famous Youtuber, hopefully this will help.

1. Have good content. No matter how good everything else is, if the material you present in your video is offensive, uninteresting, or second to a better video, your video will not make it far. Good content is hard to come up with, especially because originality plays a big part and as more time passes, the harder it is to be original. The video must also be organized so that viewers can follow along easily.

2. The video quality must be good. By this, I mean the resolution, audio, and cameraman-ship. Even if a video has spectacular content, it will not become popular if it is too difficult to see, hear, and make out what is happening. Shaky hands, a recording on a phone with a poor camera, and annoying background noise are things to avoid.

3. Make it short and sweet. Videos that drag on for 20 minutes aren't likely to gather many views because it is time consuming to watch them multiple times. For example, you can watch a 20 minute video three times in an hour, whereas you can watch a 5 minute video 12 times. It is also likelier that people won't sit through a longer video, unless it is exceptionally captivating.

5. Share your video. Don't rely on people finding their way to the video. Be active- post it on Facebook, on your blogs, and everywhere else you can. The more you can lead people to your video, the more views it will get. Maybe it's embarrassing to share your own videos. But sharing will, without a doubt, raise your video's popularity. Also, share your video during a school year, not during summer vacation time for students. Students, a large source of views, are likelier to go on Youtube during the school year, when their homework is in front of them, and so are their computers. Procrastination will kick in. Mondays or Tuesdays are good too, as students and adults alike are less likely to go on Youtube during weekends. Youtube is not a go-to place when there is abundant time available, so a weekday during an academic school year would be your best bet. Also, make sure you make many tags on your videos, so that they will pop up in many searches. But make sure you don't include unrelated tags because it will lead to more dislikes on your video, and a possible reporting of your video. If someone who wants to see a cat video ends up seeing your rap video, he or she will not like it.

So here you are, 5 small steps. Note that lots of effort will go into each of these steps. Making a video go viral depends on effort, then some luck. 

Botting on Youtube

Continuing from my first post: so before I reapply for an Adsense account, I will probably make more posts so I can have enough material and hopefully traffic on my blog so that my application will be accepted. I also understand that I will not make much money off of Youtube, especially since I will not become a Youtube star. This is for experimental purposes, and even with a few dollars a month, I will be satisfied. Monetization on Youtube is just a subject that interests me, and I'll be getting money from researching what I find interesting, so I do not mind the small payout nor the time I must invest. I have a proper job, so I don't intend to live off Youtube anyways (which is very difficult). That's quite unrealistic. I'll reiterate: this is just an experiment, and I do not expect anything out of it. If you have any questions about the information I provide or in general, please feel free to ask in the comments. Also, I apologize for the misleading URL. It was used for my school blogging, and it needs to stay that way for Adsense, because the URL is stuck on Adsense and needs to match the URL on this blog.

After I get accepted by Adsense, I will let you know, and will continue to blog so I can give you any tips or tricks I learn about or find out.

So, the topic for today is botting on Youtube, which is basically artificially generating views, comments, subscribers, likes, and ad clicks on Youtube videos. Obviously, many people have tried and will try botting for monetization (and even popularity) purposes, but the question is: does it work, and is it effective?

The answer, basically, is no for both questions. I have invested a lot of time researching, so unless you have considerable expertise, please don't bother arguing. Now, if your method does work, I assume you will never tell anyone, especially over the internet, that botting is possible, much less how it is done. Also, I dislike this piracy, and will never do such deeds. I am sharing to you for informational purposes only. 

Years ago, botting seems to have been somewhat useable. However, with monetization now possible with a simple click without a Youtube Partnership, and advertisements abundant everywhere on Youtube, Youtube has obviously bore down on botting. And with a link to an Adesense account, you may as well give up on botting. Now, Youtube claims to confirm whether every view is legitimate or not, but of course, with a mass of people utilizing Youtube, this cannot be true with current technology.

The view counting process itself is not so simple or logical either. From the research I have done, it seems that Youtube does not confirm actual veiws when a video has little to no views, for there is little threat of monetization or a going viral of that video. However, when a video exceeds 301 views, Youtube appears to check the legitimacy of each view. However, each "view" is not simple either. I do not know what exactly amounts to a view on a page, but it is not the number of times the page is loaded. I hypothesize that 7 actual views on Youtube will amount to 1 full, counted view on the video's page. One site mentioned that it is 1/10 views that gets recorded, but further research tells me that it may be slightly more, so I'll stick with 7. This is pretty obvious now, but in case you don't know, refreshing the page no longer generates veiws. 

Now, the view counting cannot be a random counting event. Youtube must be looking for certain criteria that allow a view to be counted as an actual view on the page. This may also mean that Youtube does indeed check every view that is recorded on the webpage, because each view goes through a process to be counted as a view. This is why videos with many views may take hours to display an updated number of views. So, if a bot artificially increases the view number, even by 1, Youtube will be able to detect that artificial view. BUT, since Youtube is lax about the first 301 views, botting may not be detected for the first 301 views. Past 301 views though, botting will be detected, public botting sources especially. Public, free botting will be detected. 

I will go over paid botting briefly. Unless it is done on a tiny scale in the beginning and you rely on "organic" sources of views and ad clicks for the remainder, and luckily strike gold, it is not worth it. You will be losing money. Views generate pennies, so paying for view bots will not net you money. Ad click bots are similar. Generally, the bot site makes money from the money you pay them, and you end up losing money. Ad click bots are also harder to get away with, because those bots are now scamming advertisers, as well as Youtube. Obviously, advertisers don't want to be scammed (even if you think their products are scams anyway).

If there is private botting going on, and there is private botting that works, don't bother trying. You'll generate a few dollars at best, and the pay is now so small that if you try to make a large amount of money, the botting will be obvious. Since monetization is now enabled with a simple click, the pay for views and ads has gone down considerably. So, any botting done to generate even a dollar or two is obvious.

Some people claim that they have used public, free bots to make money on Youtube. My hypothesis on this is that (if they are not lying) the extent is so small that Youtube deems it unnecessary to crack down on the tiny scale botting. These claims are about view generating bots, so perhaps Youtube does not check every view. But no matter. Since botting, if even possible, can only be done on such a small scale, it is not worth your time (and money, if you spend any), to try and gain from Youtube. These people can also be lying, so it's all the more reason to avoid bots.

So to conclude for now, botting is only possible before 301 views, and not realistically applicable past that view count (there may be more boundaries for more stringent checks). The only possible realistic, profitable way is to bot comments, likes, subscribers, and views until organic popularity accumulates. Also note that Youtube can detect botted likes, subscribers, and comments, so even this may not work. If your account gets banned, you only have yourself to blame. Not the free software, or anyone else. Just your greed.

A final conclusion: botting will not earn you the money that you want.

And a word from myself. Please don't soil the Youtube community. People want to enjoy real content and see real judgments of videos. Even those spam comments- just stop. No one wants to see them. Imagine all your videos cluttered up with only spammers. You won't like it. No one does. Respect the community. If you want money, get a real job. It pays so much more. Or at least, make videos people will actually appreciate so maybe you may actually become the next nigahiga.

Google Accounts: Adsense, Youtube, and Monetization

So recently, I've been looking into Google Adsense to monetize my youtube videos. Little did I know that I would stumble across so much trouble.

First, it is very inconvenient that youtube accounts and google accounts are permanently linked (that is, youtube accounts made after 2009). This is very annoying, as my youtube account is associated with a yahoo mail, and I also have a gmail account as well. Whenever I log out of the gmail and log back in, I am logged into youtube with that gmail as well. Very annoying, and there seems to be no way to separate the two, since my youtube account was made after 2009.

Now, the monetization with Google Adsense is very irking as well. My sole (intended) source of monetization is my youtube account, but when I applied for an Adsense account, it seems that the URL I provided for monetization was for blogger, even though I did not choose this. I never saw this option when I was filling out my application. Maybe I just overlooked this section, but now when I try to change the URL, Adsense will not let me change it. The problem with my blogger was that IT NO LONGER EXISTED. I used blogger for school purposes, but when the year finished, I stopped using it, and now adsense wants me to verify a domain that no longer exists. Very irritating. Moreover, because my youtube account is permanently associated with my yahoomail, there was no way I could change the URL on adsense so that my youtube account would be the one for inspection. I also can't put my youtube account under a different email and resubmit an application because the youtube account was made after 2009.

So now, I'm doing the only thing possible to get my Adsense application accepted and link Adsense to my youtube account. Since my youtube account is connected to my yahoomail, I copied the blogger URL and made a new blog with that yahoomail... which then, explains the purpose of this blog.

Hopefully this blog will generate enough traffic so that I can resubmit my Adsense application and it will be accepted. And once it is accepted, I can add my youtube channel's URL to Adsense and everything should work out.

I'm still very peeved that Google has made things so complicated though. I hope things change so that this doesn't happen to many others. If some of you are stuck in the same situation, I hope this helps you to some and any extent.