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Take a look at this faceless channel in less than 90 days.
Learn 9 things the YouTube algorithm hates and how to avoid them to grow your channel and increase views effectively.
Key Takeaways
- Focus your channel on a very specific niche to avoid confusing the algorithm.
- Add human personality to faceless channels via short trailers to improve trust and monetization chances.
- Create specific, urgent, and unique video titles especially when starting out to attract viewers.
- Avoid uploading many videos without learning and improving quickly as the algorithm tests channels fast.
- Consistency is important but must be paired with strategic content and niche focus for growth.
Summary
- Avoid topic chaos by sticking to a very specific niche and sub-niche to build strong audience signals.
- Faceless channels should add a short, authentic trailer with a human voice to show personality and avoid AI-only content penalties.
- New channels must create specific, tangible, and urgent video titles rather than vague, broad topics to stand out.
- Uploading many videos without improving content quality or strategy (late learning) is penalized by the algorithm.
- The algorithm favors channels that quickly find their audience and optimize content early on.
- Topic chaos within a niche confuses the algorithm and reduces click-through rates and video promotion.
- Showing personality, even briefly, helps faceless channels maintain monetization and avoid demonetization risks.
- Broad, generic video titles compete with established channels and fail to attract initial viewers.
- Consistency alone no longer guarantees success; quality and focus are critical from the start.
- Using tools like the Niche Quilting GPT can help generate effective, proven video title frameworks.
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They already started making $58,000 a month, but on the other hand, this channel has been posting the same content for almost a year and they're barely getting any views.
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In fact, they're not even monetized, so why is it that some channels get millions of views even in their first 30 days of starting and end up making tens of thousands of dollars a month?
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While most people upload for months and never really get anywhere.
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Well, it turns out that the YouTube algorithm actually hates certain behaviors and most creators are doing them without even realizing.
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So in this video, I'm going to show you nine things the YouTube algorithm hates that if you stop doing right now, you will have much higher chances of getting views on YouTube and actually getting results.
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So let's start with number one, which is that the algorithm hates topic chaos.
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And this one is not actually quite obvious when you look at most YouTube channels, I mean, obviously we all know that you should stick to one niche and make videos in one topic.
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You shouldn't mix making videos about weight loss and then suddenly making videos about golfing.
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It's not going to work.
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We all know that, but what most people don't know is that you can still have topic chaos.
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Inside a niche, which can kill your channel.
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For example, someone starts a travel channel, they're like, okay, I'm going to be in the travel niche.
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So I'm going to make travel videos like these guys.
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Tour Opia, and on the surface, it looks perfectly fine.
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Like they get 89,000 views, 25,000 views, 24,000 views.
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But they have 1.7 million subscribers.
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When you look closer, these videos are in a topic chaos.
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One video talks about America, one talks about Europe, one talks about islands, one talks about oldest cities on Earth.
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So yeah, this is a travel channel, but someone that is interested in China may absolutely not be interested in Argentina.
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And this confuses the YouTube algorithm quite a lot.
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Here's another YouTube channel over here, they have this format of 33 something.
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But it's chaotic because one video is about 33 mafia members and the other one is about 33 weirdest animals.
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And it just goes up and down.
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And just think about it from YouTube algorithm's perspective.
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They're not really sure who these videos are for, is this for a broke Europe backpacker?
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Or is this for someone that wants to travel to Latin America?
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And because this Europe backpacker is not interested in Latin America or traveling to some islands in the Caribbean, when they get recommended your next upload, they don't click, which ruins your CTR or click-through rate.
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And YouTube stops promoting your future videos, so video views fluctuate quite a lot.
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So every time you upload, YouTube algorithm has to start from zero and figure out who these videos are for.
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They're not sure.
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So if you're going to be in the travel niche, make sure that the topic is also locked in, you have a character anchor that you're making these videos around.
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For example, we could do Europe travel only or cheap travel in Europe or hidden villages in Europe.
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Or best cities in Europe.
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So now every video attracts the same type of viewer, someone that is interested in traveling Europe.
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And all videos are about Europe tips, which just creates strong audience signals and allows you to build a brand that you can actually make money from.
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Number two, algorithm hates lack of personality on faceless channels.
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And this one only applies to faceless YouTube channels.
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You'll see more and more of these faceless YouTube channels have these short intros, like less than a minute of an actual human speaking into the camera.
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We can see Felune, which is a famous faceless YouTube channel.
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Because they upload AI generated videos about cats.
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And right now they are making $11,000 a month.
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But now when you go to their home feed, you'll see a short trailer made by some guy.
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Now, that can either be an actual owner of the channel who just pulls a camera, you can pull a phone camera and just speak for one minute.
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Talk about what these videos are going to be about, how you're so passionate about this topic.
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And you can't wait to do research, research just means you're going to chat GPT.
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But on surface, you're saying that you're doing all this research and whatever.
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Or you can also just pay someone.
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So for example, like you just find some random teenager, find some random person online and just pay them 50 bucks to record this short trailer to put there just so it seems that my channel has personality.
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This is for faceless channels.
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Now, that doesn't mean that you will get demonetized if you don't do this, you'll get terminated if you don't do this.
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But it is an extra layer because YouTube really is against AI slop.
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And if all of your videos rely on AI, it's a matter of time when YouTube notices that.
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So if you have this channel trailer where you prove personality, where you prove there is a person behind this, then you have way higher chances of staying monetized and staying on YouTube.
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Also, you don't have to show your face in all of those faceless videos.
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They're faceless for a reason.
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This is only one trailer, which is 30 to 60 seconds where you simply just say what your channel is about.
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How you're passionate about that subject and how much research you're doing to create these videos.
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Just talk to the phone, you don't even need a fancy camera.
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You don't need lighting, you don't need microphones.
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It doesn't matter, it should just seem human.
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The more perfect it is, the worse.
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So for example, this setup that I have is not ideal, it would be better if I'm just sitting in my room.
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Pulling out a phone and speaking for that minute to create a short trailer to again show personality and prove I'm a human.
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Number three, the algorithm hates vague videos on brand new channels.
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And what I mean by that is you have to be more specific and more tangible with your video titles.
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Especially when just starting out.
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Most people start a channel and they immediately go with videos like, how to lose weight fast?
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How to start affiliate marketing?
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How to make money online?
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But the problem is YouTube already has thousands of videos in their library from much bigger and older channels covering these broad subjects.
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There's also no urgency, it's more of a search-based video when you do something like that.
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So there's no urgency to watch like someone should look at it.
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And be like, oh, cow, this is something new, there's a new angle to this.
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It's very specific.
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I want to see what's going on here.
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Now, if you're not sure which titles to use, I built this free custom GPT called Niche Quilting.
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Where when you find a channel that you like, you can just take a screenshot and you can upload it here and it's going to give you better title frameworks from a library of hundreds of title frameworks that have uploaded.
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Title frameworks that got millions of views on other channels and they will apply them to your own niche.
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And it will give you unique titles to use.
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Now, to find this completely free of charge, just go to my free community link below.
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Go to AI systems, click on all you need as a solo founder.
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And then click on Niche Quilting GPT.
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Number four, all right, this one's going to hurt most of you.
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But the algorithm hates late learning channels.
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These are the channels that upload 30, sometimes 40 different videos before they start improving.
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They're just uploading as much as they can because they're like, well, the more I upload, the more consistent I am.
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Eventually, I'm going to get views.
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There was nothing wrong with that two years ago.
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But not today.
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The platform now tests YouTube channels very fast.
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That's why we are seeing more and more people start their YouTube channels and their first upload gets 87,000 views, then 100,000 views.
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And they're already monetized just from three different uploads, they're already making money.
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Which didn't happen before, but now the algorithm is really testing fast.
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In fact, I actually have a list of over a thousand faceless channels that started 30 to 60 days ago and are making over $5 to $10,000, sometimes $15,000 per month.
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Again, very, very fast.
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From only a few uploads.
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So your first three uploads will give you more data than you need to know exactly what to improve and what to change.
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And if you're not listening to that data, if you're slow at learning about what you should do next with your uploads.
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Then you're never really going to grow that channel.
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So you're going to look into your CTR, your click-through rate.
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You're going to look into your impressions.
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You're going to look into your watch time, all of that is available inside of YouTube Studio.
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YouTube gives you that data so that you can improve with your next uploads.
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But if you just start posting blindly and you don't even look at the data and you don't improve based on data, you will not grow.
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You will stagnate.
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If you're not sure how to read your YouTube analytics, the first metric you should look at is again, CTR or click-through rate.
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It's available to you inside of YouTube Studio when you go to analytics.
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You can then go to reach.
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And it will show you impressions and click-through rate.
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If your click-through rate is over 5%, that is average, there is some room for improvement.
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But if it was less than 5%, that means you have to change title and thumbnail fast.
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There's also AVD or average view duration.
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We have the audience retention graph, all of this again, available in the studio.
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And you will improve based on it.
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Number five is that the algorithm hates low session impact.
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What that means in plain English is YouTube is looking into what happens when your video ends.
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Does viewers leave the platform and go somewhere else?
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Or do they keep watching more of YouTube?
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Because from YouTube's perspective, the best creators that they want to reward the most are the ones that keep viewers on the platform.
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They're competing with Netflix, they're competing with TikTok, with Instagram.
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They don't want people going to those places.
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They want people on YouTube.
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So therefore, if you can keep people on YouTube, you will be rewarded for that.
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And the best way to do that is with end screens, so when you upload your videos.
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At the end, you can add 15 seconds of end screen where you're going to point people to another video.
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But you're not going to do it randomly.
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You will try to tie it back to what the video they were watching is already about.
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For example, if in this video I spoke about how you need protein in order to build muscle.
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At the end of the video, I could say, if you want to see my high protein cake recipe, click on this video next.
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This is already something they were interested in.
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And I'm just guiding them to the next video.
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Number six, the algorithm hates low trust channels.
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And this is something I've already shared inside of my private community and students inside are already getting incredible results on YouTube because of this.
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You see, when a brand new channel starts on YouTube, YouTube doesn't trust it right away.
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It assumes it could be an AI slop channel.
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It could be a bot, it could be a farm.
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So instead, you have to actually build this trust score first.
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Now, there are a lot of conspiracies out there and questionable protocols for building a trust score, if anyone tells you that you should be buying some specific devices or spending money to build trust on YouTube.
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Do not do it.
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It's that's not how it works.
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The only way and the best way to actually build a trust score that is free, is straightforward, that anyone can do from home.
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It's literally just spend the first three or four days acting as a real human.
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That's what YouTube wants.
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YouTube wants you to be a real human.
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You don't need to go out there and buy specific laptops in order to do this.
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Buy specific devices or whatever.
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You literally just have to sit at home.
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Create a YouTube account.
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If you already have an aged account, if you already have some account that you've been using to watch YouTube.
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That's great.
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Use that account.
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If not, just create a new YouTube channel.
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Don't stress about it.
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Go out there, spend some time consuming content in your niche and act as a human.
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That means open up videos in your niche, if you're making videos about golfing, search for golfing videos, like some of those videos, engage, comment.
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Watch some until the end, watch some leave.
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Just act as a human, you're trying to prove, hey, I'm not a bot.
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I'm actually consuming content.
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If you can, then invest in YouTube Premium as well.
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Buy the subscription.
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Again, just showing that, hey, look, I'm actually investing in this YouTube channel.
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I'm not just going to be pumping out AI slop.
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I want to build something long-term here.
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I'm here to stay.
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Another thing you can do is you can go to your YouTube channel, go to settings on the left hand side.
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Go to channel settings.
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Select country of residence.
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You can also enter keywords related to your YouTube channel.
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Go to feature eligibility and make sure all of these are completed, you verify your account.
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Again, proving you're a real human.
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In the advanced settings, you can select that no, these videos are not going to be made for kids, if you're not making videos for kids, which most of you are probably not going to do that, which I also recommend, do not do that.
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Number seven, the algorithm hates weak hooks.
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Take a look at this video, for example.
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It is from a channel that has 31,000 subscribers, but they only got 1,000 views.
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This video flopped completely.
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And it's based on a title framework, which is why you can't do a certain thing the way you think and then the fast learning formula.
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But that only works when audience has strong opinions about the topic.
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For example, why you can't build muscle the way you think would work better.
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That works because people already debate fitness methods all the time.
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But no one really wonders, oh, am I learning wrong?
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You know, you usually think like when you go to the gym, you're like, am I working out wrong?
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Like, why am I not building muscle faster?
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Am I doing something wrong in the gym?
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So this audience is actually thinking something different.
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They're maybe thinking, how can I learn faster?
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How can I improve my learning?
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They don't think about, I'm wrong, the way I learn is probably wrong.
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So a better hook might be something like the fastest way to learn anything according to science.
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Or the easiest way to learn hard skills in X days.
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Number eight is that the algorithm hates irrelevant packaging.
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And by packaging, I mean title and thumbnail.
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For example, I saw this video, you're probably making these golf mistakes.
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Here's the fix.
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1 million subscribers, only 8,000 views.
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You see why?
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It says AI picks the lesson.
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Golf viewers who are interested in golf mistakes, don't really care about AI.
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They really just want to get better at golf.
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And then a massive chat GPT logo, do you think most of these golfers know what AI is or care about it?
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So when someone sees this, they're like, wait a minute, is this about golf or is this about AI?
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What is this about?
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So if the thumbnail was more like showing different grips and then the title was more of you are probably holding your grip wrong.
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Or this is the exact mistake you are making.
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Then that would actually be more appealing.
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Then a chat GPT logo and AI picks the lesson.
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Number nine is that YouTube's new AI algorithm hates misleading content signals.
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So most people don't really know about this, but YouTube recently added their Google Gemini, which is their version of a chat GPT.
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A very powerful AI model.
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That is able to scan your videos, most of the times, it can actually see visuals.
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So for example, it can actually see what I'm wearing at the moment.
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It can not only analyze the script and see what I'm saying word for word.
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And instantly know whether I broke any terms of service.
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But it can also see what I'm showing.
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In other words, YouTube's AI system can now analyze your videos instantly.
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Same as a human viewer.
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Which means the tricks that used to work a year ago and before no longer work.
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For example, if your title is how to make $10,000 on YouTube, but then someone opens up the video and it's vague and you're just speaking to the camera, some generic stuff from chat GPT that most people have already heard about.
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And it's not really unique advice and not specific.
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And you're just talking to the camera, there are no visuals on the screen.
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And it's boring.
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YouTube will know that.
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And you will not be promoted.
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It also learns that your packaging is misleading because again, it can see what the title is about instantly.
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And then it can see what you put in the thumbnail.
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So you can see visuals and text on your thumbnail.
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And it can also match it to the script.
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It will analyze the script and see like, wait a minute, his title and thumbnail are about golfing.
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But in this video, he talks about AI.
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That is a complete mismatch.
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Let's not confuse the audience by promoting this video.
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Let's just push it down.
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Let's give it low impressions.
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For example, in this video, I spoke about this new AI algorithm, how YouTube has completely changed in 2026.
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And exactly how to adapt as a YouTube creator if you want to get views, so you can click right here to watch that right now.
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