About Alan Smith’s YouTube Global Domination

Alan, I agree that you have to blaze your own trail and do it by testing, testing, and testing to see what really works (and sometimes only in your niche.)

I AM INTERESTED in your techniques (and love your video's answering most relevant questions) and have been following you journey of how you are ranking in YouTube with interest.

I know how to dominate in Google, they show you everyday in the SERPS what they are looking for, just reverse engineer the top 20 results, it's just data and math.

I am a systems guy, a data-scientist, and I believe in a lot of ways YouTube is similar to Google ranking (just less Google dancing) :

I believe, based on my tests, that it should be easier to work the YT Algo with new videos (due to freshness) that have channel topical authority and are between 4-16 minutes long, have provided transcripts, closed captioning, and have broad keyword relationship with the topic in video title, and tags, and mid-length descriptions with the keyword in the first 100 words.

However, I have found that after four weeks YouTube starts to look at user experience (views, watch time on videos, likes, dislikes, subscriptions) audience topical groups with related co-occurrence keyword specific click-through rate more.

The older the video gets, the more YouTube looks at watch data (keyword-specific watch time, collaborative embedding on third-party authoritative sites, ctr daily view velocity, topical co-occurrence of what videos viewers also watch in the same session,.)

I am always open to following those, like yourself Alan, who have experimented and come up with a repeatable process that can help ourselves or our clients get online success.

I am interested and look forward to hopefully a dialog as more of the group try some of your techniques.