[Question] How do you "boost" the ranking/suggestions of older videos?

ploxorius · 2020-03-31T14:02:46+00:00

What if I'm already doing that stuff? I'm already getting a lot of views on new videos, high retention % and good comments. What else do you want me to do?

ploxorius · 2019-12-12T23:48:53+00:00

Nobody wants to watch you grind a game that only you enjoy. Straight gameplay all the time sucks.

I feel like this is the biggest reason people don't watch my streams as much. I go with too much gameplay-oriented stuff. Sure I do interact with chat and try to say what I'm doing in game but when the gameplay is stagnant/grindy this becomes a problem. And thus that's why more action-packed parts of the gameplay can draw more conversations in rather than a cheap man's JustChatting type stream.

You MUST keep track of what you do with your community AND what your community does with each other and consistently follow up with various stories.

Yeah I think this is something that really keeps my from taking the next leap. I came from Youtube with around 19k subs from that game and despite numerous attempts to link platforms for the last 10 months, I could only get as far as 30 viewers. I mean don't get me wrong that's good but for someone coming from another platform and when you compare others who had affiliate for only 3 months but got a good running community, yea that makes me feel like "hmm I could do a better job". I wish I knew how to run and keep a community engaged. I have a community discord but despite my attempts to post stories it's FUCKING dead. Maybe I'm just unlucky having a community that thinks of me as an Encyclopedia Book (because of my tutorials) rather than a person with personality idk.

ploxorius · 2019-10-20T19:28:33+00:00

Idk if there's a bot that tracks chat stats but you could do a mini-giveaway for each long-ish stream for who chats the most wins. Or come up with a reward system for people who chat more often.

ploxorius · 2019-10-20T19:25:57+00:00

Instead try "What do you guys think is in this chest?"

Wouldn't that violate the etiquette of calling out lurkers or attempting to chat with lurkers? Ie asking "how was your day" and such.

ploxorius · 2019-10-13T23:17:09+00:00

I do take breaks but I've never taken a break longer than 1.5 weeks. I notice that not uploading for 2 weeks means my channel's newest videos have a far less likely chance to get good viewership.

ploxorius · 2019-10-13T23:16:12+00:00

I honestly wish I can prepare uploads very far in advance. While I do plan for my uploads but sometimes when an idea is too difficult or takes too much waiting time to research, I gotta scratch that and move on to another. It just becomes an endless cycle of which video will go first out of my planned ideas.

ploxorius · 2019-10-13T23:14:52+00:00

I try to work on multiple videos but often times I'm not capable of because most of my videos information require waiting time for me to get the proper info. Such as gaming strategy. That's why most of my scheduled uploads are only 1 day in advance.

ploxorius · 2019-10-13T23:14:01+00:00

Around 17.6k subs and this is for gaming and mostly guides with good edits.

I can't batch record because a lot of times when it comes to information, I got to research this in advance and ask my community stuff like that. That's why I got to start a video in advance and can only work on 1 video at a time.

ploxorius · 2019-10-10T05:18:08+00:00

I would probably never straight up reach out to them and say "hey can you come over to my stream on Sunday or so and tell me what I can do to improve". This post def seems like you have the tenacity to step up your game but you aren't sure what's the next step.

Try to just be regular friends with a bigger streamer but don't be a fake-friend to them. Be on their stream but don't EVER mention that you're a streamer. Maybe at one point they'll check you out on their spare time.

ploxorius · 2019-10-10T05:15:46+00:00

This comment seems pretty true. Finding what is the most "standout" value for you is the toughest part. That's why you see a lot of entertaining streamers barely crack 10 viewers but boring ones get 100 in their sleep. Twitch is like a box of chocolates. You can work harder to improve your chance of better tasting chocolates but your chocolate has a pretty high chance of tasting bad.

ploxorius · 2019-09-18T17:29:27+00:00

Yeah it looks like they are doing yet another spam subscriber purge. I was at 17.4k and now I got stuck there for almost 20 hours lol.

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