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Social Media Rings?
I have a buddy who is starting a Youtube channel, and they are wanting to hire an SEO resource to help optimize their videos and overall channel. He found someone highly rated on Fiverr, and this candidate sent him a document of all the things they would do to optimize the channel. My buddy sent me the document to review and give him some advice, as I am relatively tech savvy so he comes to me for advice/assurance on certain things.
In the document, this candidate mentions using "social media rings" in order to give his videos backlinks. He describes social media rings as "creating fictitious personas with Gmail/Google accounts, with each having several accompanying social media accounts." Then each of these personas will work with the Youtube RSS feed, thus generating backlinks for the videos.
I have never heard of social media rings before, and didn't find much on the internet about this. Is this a common technique? Is it legitimate? Just looking for some advice on what I can tell my friend.
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Doesn’t sound like a very legitimate service. I have never heard of the term Social Media Rings either.
Also Fiverr isn’t a great place to find SEO help or services.
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not sure how you can trust someone from Fiverr. you really need to know exactly what they are doing and pay for actions taken vs. pie in the sky results. hard to trust SEO firms as there are a lot of scammers out there (I’m not saying there aren’t very reputable, upstanding firms and many of those are on this sub).
I think you came to the right place to ask this question and I wouldn’t think anyone here would advise to give them money. maybe you can start talking to someone here who has a firm with a track record and find an affordable, trusted solution.
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I run a hobbiest VR channel and while small I recently crossed 2 million views on long form content (saying that not to brag but so you could trust me as a legitimate source) Anyways, YouTube SEO is bullshit. It comes down to making high quality content that people want to watch. You can look over data from the analytics section, for example I often find their recommended “content gaps” to be very helpful but regarding hiring anyone on Fiverr, it will be a waste of money and time.
Backlinks don’t matter for YouTube videos, only quality content that people want to watch does.
Furthermore, any type of false behavior is extremely harmful to a channel and could even result him not being able to monetize it.
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“YouTube SEO” is mostly based on “social signals”, but WITHIN YouTube.
Social signals within YouTube will merely be things like likes, shares, upvotes, share embeds, etc.
And the only other thing is that the videos are optimized for keywords correctly.
So realistically, to do well on YouTube you need to be “popular”, which mainly comes about from great content that people in that niche actually want to learn about, and a consistent publishing schedule.
What this freelancer is describing is something that I may do for a Web 2.0 “PBN” for backlinks to a website/blog.
So, as an example, you would choose a few high authority web 2.0 platforms, e.g. medium, wordpress .com, tumblr, blogger, weebly, LiveJournal, etc.
In terms of PBNs, whether website or web 2.0 related, you’ll want to “hide” any way of connecting them to each other and to your main money website.
So, you would open various email accounts, sign up with different names, and then treat each web 2.0 property as your “main money site”, therefore add content regularly, and only occasionally link to your website, as well as linking to other relevant content on other websites to make it look more “natural”.
This is fine in terms of backlinking to your main website but will have little effect on a YouTube channel.
As I say, and others have mentioned, YouTube SEO is mainly down to “popularity”, which can be seen by how people “react” to your content.
Sure, many people “fake” or “blackhat” popularity through things like fake traffic and fake interactions, but the way to improve a YouTube channel will always be through finding topics your audience is interested in and having a consistent publishing schedule.
Sounds like yet another “fake” Fiverr SEO!
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