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.
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