I Wanna Work Smart not Work Hard (With Little ROI) (YouTuber Rant)
Where do I even start?
Its a Saturday night.I "should" be out finding a dancefloor with my name on it (although the LAST thing i want invading my eardrums is hip hop.i REALLY Truly do NOT relate to it,its not my culture and while there are a few catchy rap tunes I am actively avoiding as much exposure to current pop and hiphop music because it can cause earworms,interfering with the music that is in my head that i'm slowly but surely eeking out onto paper via songwriting.
I cannot be out dancing because i did not get around to uploading today's scheduled YouTube video.
And why, you must be asking, did I get such a late start when I had the video ready waiting,and the thumbnail (cover photo) was chosen days in advance?
I was working out the SEO (search engine optimization) for the video title, and i needed some clarifications on my process.
Without getting too complicated and confusing my readers,wha I did was I had about 6 versions of a title, and i turned my computer on "incognito" so I could search Youtube to see how many results (hits) each title got...the idea in theory is,a high number would be impossible to "rank" in search whereas a lower number is easier to rank for.We are supposed to look for as low a number as possible.
I had a few other questions,and I posited them in a facebook group for content creators.
This was not a group that moderates posts,so there was no need for any delays in getting responses.AND I would never ask a question for a far in advance need.If I ask a technical questkion it most likely is for an immediate need.Why would I ask an SEO question for a specific video WITH the explanation that I need this information so I can upload the video AND reminding them that each day I post a new video it takes me a good 5 hours doing promo for it.I post my videos in a number of Google Plus video promotion communities,this is a tedious manual process involving not just the video link, but at least a full sentence if not more,a description of what the video is about.
If it is a beauty video, those videos take by far the LONGEST time to promote,simply because i belong to more beauty,makeup,hair groups than for any other single subject.I promote in those plus I promote in the general interest Google communities.
If my new video is about cats,I would promote in cat groups plus the general interest promotion communities.If its about KISS merchandise or Hello Kitty etc there are groups dedicated to those things.If (when) I make a video about other music memorabiilia there are rock and heavy metal groups. You get the picture here.
So 2 hours passed,I got no response and then a bit of attitude, and mind you OI only had 2 hours sleep,so I'm kinda burnt out plus everybody in my house is grieving over Ace the Cat's death.And I am getting more and more pissed off that nobody was helping me!And i TOLD them I could not get my Saturday night started until I posted and promoted the new video.
I realise this is the almighty weekend BUT I go out to clubs on most Fridays and Saturdays.And since I post every Tuesday,Thursday and Saturday,and I mostly film my videos in the wee hours when I get back from the clubs.Lots of folks have to work on weekends in my little town.But lots of YouTube content creators in these groups are family people who do not log on THAT much on weekends because it is family time.
I did not know if I was shadowbanned or what.
Long story short.I ended up deleting my posts about it (though not before I posted the identical post on Google Plus,.There are plenty of places to get it up the flagpole to see who salutes.
I asked on facebook.Got no responses.So I deleted THOSE posts so I wouldn't be coming across as a fuckin' lunatic (by now my sleep deprivation and bitchiness was kicking in,it is hard for me to not be sarcastic sometimes.I know that typed out its hard to not appear obnoxious.).
Then I went to show my Mother (who has a college degree-she was a high school English teacher before she married Dad and had me).I explained SEO to her as best I could.Then in 10 minutes, my mother helped me more than anybody else did today.
Whyizzit MOM had no problem understanding the same post the person in the YouTube content makers group could not understand?Maybe I'm NOT so brainded and stupid after all. Maybe my Mom;s College degree proves it isn't me who has a problem communicating. Ahem.
So i deleted my membership in that group. BOY oh boy was I pissed off.
So that is pretty much why I did not get to go out clubbing tonight.
Another decision I made involves a little experiment I am doing.
I said I take 5 hours to do promo.I looked in my analytics tonight.For all the hours I spend on my channel each posting day and how few hits my videos get,it is NOT working smart.It is like working for pennies a day.(Except,I am noit making any money from my YouTube channel.Not as of this writing.YouTube demonetized all small creators,people with less than 1000 subscribers and less than I forget how many hours watchtime.
There was a scandal involving a famous YouTuber named Logan Paul who filmed in a forest in Japan known for suicide, and i THINK he filmed a dead body, and folks in Japan got understandably upset.To the point that advertizers got upset that their ads were places alongside this controversial content. (Keep in mind Logan Paul is a young man who I don't know but I don't think he meant any real harm.And who among us didn't let loose too much when we were young?
Ever since this happened, YouTube decided a good way to prevent these scandals from happening would be to demonetize slall youtube channels if they could not reach the new higher threshholds in a month.
By February 20, 2018 we all got our ads pulled, and now we are not earning ANY adsense revenue.
So thanks to this,we all suffer.
Remember this and then consider all the hours I spend on my videos and on promo, and how little hits they get.
I love myself and ...isn't time the most important thing any of us has?
Do I really WANT to waste all those hours and get so little views from all that effort?
So today I only posted my new video on Google Plus, and on MySpace.
I hinted on my facebook timeline that i was gonna post,and about my little "experiment".
(Facebook recently made it so if i post a link, they do not show graphics.Nobody sees my picture on the video.)
IF they cannot see it, if facebook is discouraging people from posting outside links,what is the POINT of using facebook to promote my content to the world?
Hey I've only been on fb since the start of November!If my BFF hadn't talked me into it I'd STILL be that facebook hating outlier.
I joined facebook because i know that i NEED to be found by the world.
The bloom has lifted off THAT rose,in my opinion!
So lets see if my video does appriciably worse than the others.If not promoting as much has little to no effect,I learned something new tonight.
It's time to work Smarter not Harder.
(I did not work on my dayjob today for the same reason.Why stress out for pennies?)
It is 4:50 AM now.I think I will go to bed.
Tomorrow has to be a better day.
Although if you had to live where I live with the noisy neighbors you would want to escape.
And the noise,slamming doors,and "straight out of a rap video,urban scene" is right outside my window.
Unless I time it so perfectly that I manage to sleep through it.That rarely happens.They hoot and holler in an uncivilized manner and some of my neighbors have NO respect for people who aren't just like them.
Alright then,.
Thats all I have to say tonight
Its a Saturday night.I "should" be out finding a dancefloor with my name on it (although the LAST thing i want invading my eardrums is hip hop.i REALLY Truly do NOT relate to it,its not my culture and while there are a few catchy rap tunes I am actively avoiding as much exposure to current pop and hiphop music because it can cause earworms,interfering with the music that is in my head that i'm slowly but surely eeking out onto paper via songwriting.
I cannot be out dancing because i did not get around to uploading today's scheduled YouTube video.
And why, you must be asking, did I get such a late start when I had the video ready waiting,and the thumbnail (cover photo) was chosen days in advance?
I was working out the SEO (search engine optimization) for the video title, and i needed some clarifications on my process.
Without getting too complicated and confusing my readers,wha I did was I had about 6 versions of a title, and i turned my computer on "incognito" so I could search Youtube to see how many results (hits) each title got...the idea in theory is,a high number would be impossible to "rank" in search whereas a lower number is easier to rank for.We are supposed to look for as low a number as possible.
I had a few other questions,and I posited them in a facebook group for content creators.
This was not a group that moderates posts,so there was no need for any delays in getting responses.AND I would never ask a question for a far in advance need.If I ask a technical questkion it most likely is for an immediate need.Why would I ask an SEO question for a specific video WITH the explanation that I need this information so I can upload the video AND reminding them that each day I post a new video it takes me a good 5 hours doing promo for it.I post my videos in a number of Google Plus video promotion communities,this is a tedious manual process involving not just the video link, but at least a full sentence if not more,a description of what the video is about.
If it is a beauty video, those videos take by far the LONGEST time to promote,simply because i belong to more beauty,makeup,hair groups than for any other single subject.I promote in those plus I promote in the general interest Google communities.
If my new video is about cats,I would promote in cat groups plus the general interest promotion communities.If its about KISS merchandise or Hello Kitty etc there are groups dedicated to those things.If (when) I make a video about other music memorabiilia there are rock and heavy metal groups. You get the picture here.
So 2 hours passed,I got no response and then a bit of attitude, and mind you OI only had 2 hours sleep,so I'm kinda burnt out plus everybody in my house is grieving over Ace the Cat's death.And I am getting more and more pissed off that nobody was helping me!And i TOLD them I could not get my Saturday night started until I posted and promoted the new video.
I realise this is the almighty weekend BUT I go out to clubs on most Fridays and Saturdays.And since I post every Tuesday,Thursday and Saturday,and I mostly film my videos in the wee hours when I get back from the clubs.Lots of folks have to work on weekends in my little town.But lots of YouTube content creators in these groups are family people who do not log on THAT much on weekends because it is family time.
I did not know if I was shadowbanned or what.
Long story short.I ended up deleting my posts about it (though not before I posted the identical post on Google Plus,.There are plenty of places to get it up the flagpole to see who salutes.
I asked on facebook.Got no responses.So I deleted THOSE posts so I wouldn't be coming across as a fuckin' lunatic (by now my sleep deprivation and bitchiness was kicking in,it is hard for me to not be sarcastic sometimes.I know that typed out its hard to not appear obnoxious.).
Then I went to show my Mother (who has a college degree-she was a high school English teacher before she married Dad and had me).I explained SEO to her as best I could.Then in 10 minutes, my mother helped me more than anybody else did today.
Whyizzit MOM had no problem understanding the same post the person in the YouTube content makers group could not understand?Maybe I'm NOT so brainded and stupid after all. Maybe my Mom;s College degree proves it isn't me who has a problem communicating. Ahem.
So i deleted my membership in that group. BOY oh boy was I pissed off.
So that is pretty much why I did not get to go out clubbing tonight.
Another decision I made involves a little experiment I am doing.
I said I take 5 hours to do promo.I looked in my analytics tonight.For all the hours I spend on my channel each posting day and how few hits my videos get,it is NOT working smart.It is like working for pennies a day.(Except,I am noit making any money from my YouTube channel.Not as of this writing.YouTube demonetized all small creators,people with less than 1000 subscribers and less than I forget how many hours watchtime.
There was a scandal involving a famous YouTuber named Logan Paul who filmed in a forest in Japan known for suicide, and i THINK he filmed a dead body, and folks in Japan got understandably upset.To the point that advertizers got upset that their ads were places alongside this controversial content. (Keep in mind Logan Paul is a young man who I don't know but I don't think he meant any real harm.And who among us didn't let loose too much when we were young?
Ever since this happened, YouTube decided a good way to prevent these scandals from happening would be to demonetize slall youtube channels if they could not reach the new higher threshholds in a month.
By February 20, 2018 we all got our ads pulled, and now we are not earning ANY adsense revenue.
So thanks to this,we all suffer.
Remember this and then consider all the hours I spend on my videos and on promo, and how little hits they get.
I love myself and ...isn't time the most important thing any of us has?
Do I really WANT to waste all those hours and get so little views from all that effort?
So today I only posted my new video on Google Plus, and on MySpace.
I hinted on my facebook timeline that i was gonna post,and about my little "experiment".
(Facebook recently made it so if i post a link, they do not show graphics.Nobody sees my picture on the video.)
IF they cannot see it, if facebook is discouraging people from posting outside links,what is the POINT of using facebook to promote my content to the world?
Hey I've only been on fb since the start of November!If my BFF hadn't talked me into it I'd STILL be that facebook hating outlier.
I joined facebook because i know that i NEED to be found by the world.
The bloom has lifted off THAT rose,in my opinion!
So lets see if my video does appriciably worse than the others.If not promoting as much has little to no effect,I learned something new tonight.
It's time to work Smarter not Harder.
(I did not work on my dayjob today for the same reason.Why stress out for pennies?)
It is 4:50 AM now.I think I will go to bed.
Tomorrow has to be a better day.
Although if you had to live where I live with the noisy neighbors you would want to escape.
And the noise,slamming doors,and "straight out of a rap video,urban scene" is right outside my window.
Unless I time it so perfectly that I manage to sleep through it.That rarely happens.They hoot and holler in an uncivilized manner and some of my neighbors have NO respect for people who aren't just like them.
Alright then,.
Thats all I have to say tonight
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