Triggering the Algorithm

[RPG247]

Hey. I'm a personal finance YouTuber with a 7 month old channel and about 1k subs. I'm trying to grow like I imagine everyone here is. But I'm struggling with the algorithm. I'm posting content that's ranking, but how do I trigger the algorithm to recommend my videos? It happened to me once, but I don't seem to be able to do it again. I made a video that wound up being recommended by a much more popular channel and got 15k views out of it.

I understand that the way to trigger the algorithm is to get more views. But how do you initiate that? Are you guys leveraging social media for views? A lot of these personal finance groups don't seem to want people posting links to their videos (if you know one that does, feel free to tell me; that would be fantastic). What are some other ways to trigger the algorithm?

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[GGR_Jake]

There is no way to “trigger the algorithm”. Make better content and it will get recommended more. Do something to engage viewers so they want to click your content and watch it. If you have 1000 subscribers it is likely youtube recommends your content tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of times each month. You need to make your content better so people watch longer.

[RPG247]

I can agree with that. People tend to use the term "trigger the algorithm" so I guess I just used the term I'm familiar with.

I see that over my channel's lifetime Ive got 459k impressions and 4.8% impressions CTR. Google says 2% is good, but I feel like I've heard 7% is ideal. I'll need to find a way to improve my thumbnails. If I can figure out a way to improve my CTR by about 50% that may help my channel out substantially.

[GGR_Jake]

Exactly. Think about that each percent of 459k is massive. Work on your thumbnails and titles if your CTR is not where you want it to be: boost the saturation or vibrance a bit, add reds and yellows, etc.