The mystery behind ranking youtube videos revealed

I think you should have read YT TOS before buying views. Like I said in another
threa, I am tired of the same old same old. People selling views and buying views.
Bad news. But it just won't die.

You should have also realized that people searching on google.com, are
different than people searching on YT. But YT is a google property. The
VAST majority of video searchers do so on YT.

You don't tell us how a video gets authority.

Paul

Sorry if i haven't been clear enough but views don't mean anything on Google, thats what i said. On google, the competition is not that tough but i do have my main competitor who has a very authoritative channel and i have never been able to beat him until now so i assume it still counts as tough considering my test channel only has one fake subscriber. Anything he publishes automatically shows up in google SERPS simply based on his channel authority (has thousands of subs).

As for youtube, the video i ranked #3 the competition is very stiff there, other videos have thousands of views and i am at #3 spot based on views alone. It was at #8-#9 when i first uploaded, ordered views and it is now at #3. I don't know if more views or engagement could make it to top on YT but i can't be arsed really now as YT never has been what i aimed for.

I knew the risk when ordering views and like i said i ordered them because some people advised that helps with ranking on Google. Now i know that was bullshit advice.

I am not at all worried about getting one of the video deleted, if anything i now know a shitty provider who i am going to order more views from to my competitors videos. Isn't that great ?

I don't get the hate, you wouldn't believe how many big brands have fake views.

And by authority i meant channel authority.

Thanks for clearing that up.So then my views come under high engagement because they were high retention (i checked - 90%+ retention). I am not at all bugged about it, it has to do with YT and YT never been much of a source of views even though my own videos naturally are in 3rd-5th position.

By authority i meant channel authority, you know the number of subscribers. Youtube has this thing where if you upload videos related to a specific niche then it kind of considers your channel an authority in that area (obvious stuff i guess). My competitor has close to 10,000 subscribers, has 1000s of videos related to my niche and i have noticed whenever he uploads a new video, it slowly starts moving upwards in google video search until it hits the G front page. Same goes for Youtube but because of those subs he gets views naturally and likes/dislikes/comments so he ranks on YT faster than G.

I have a feeling channel authority does have something to do with ranking on G. I ranked my video with zero authority with backlinks but my competitor doesn't do any kind of backlinking yet hits the front page and the only thing he has going on for him is his channel authority. I think someone also has mentioned this and its one of the hardest thing to achieve.

The unlisted thing is you upload the video unlisted, send fake views/likes/dislikes/comments and then public it after a few days. It will hit the #1 spot on youtube instantly. Sometimes it does on google too but its pure luck. After a couple days or a week at most the video will disappear. I think it has to do with the YT giving new videos exposure so after a while it disappears because its not that new anymore. I got this from a WSO i ordered, it said the video sticks but that was a lie, most of the WSOs have been like that in my experience.

Oh and my video is still there so Yay!.

Also link me to your blog/site or wherever you write about the stuff, i don't mind reading. There's always a thing or two you can learn from anyone

Alright, on it. I didn't at the time because of the whole thing i had you know, but now that i am in the clear, i will give my honest review.

Not really sure about this. The video that got ranked was the one i actually thought was going to be deleted but interestingly it didn't. I have 6 videos now that are alive all with fake views and i don't think they are going down any soon, been close to a month already.

Hey mate

Read my posts in response to nettiapina, i already answered what authority is. How do you build that ? By posting quality videos so people will want to subscribe to you. Authority is harder to achieve than just ranking one video because you have to consistently post videos/content related to a certain niche and make your viewers want to sub to your channel because they want to comeback. This is obviously not for churn and burn or any of that 15 minutes of fame type of methods that are sold here (rank your video instantly on youtube/google for just a few hours/days then disappear for eternity) as those methods violate youtube TOS and the videos are crappy quality but in the long term, having an authoritative channel pays off big time.

I am not sure if fake subscribers count or if there is any service that provides subscriptions, that probably requires another case-study/experiment and as much as i am interested to do that, i am shit outta funds. Besides i am ranking videos like crazy hehe that is bringing me genuine subscribers so no point in testing.

I actually wanted to post an update to this thread as i have more information now that sometime has passed. The video is now #1 on both google and youtube which is just awesome and i managed to rank a few more videos.

Oh and there's a thing i want to add...about on-page seo over-optimization. There is no such thing as over-optimization when it comes to youtube videos, i have noticed the videos that i just spam with keywords and tags rank better/easier than ones without or less keywords. Its actually really weird, some of my videos have ranked without any on-page seo (apart from the title and small description) but that has happened very rarely. So i'd suggest using as much keywords/tags relevant to the video as you can, its making ranking easier. That is what i am doing. May change in future, who knows.