The UGLY TRUTH about the YouTube Community Tab

there is an ugly truth about the youtube community tab that many people just won't tell you but that's what i'm here for today everyone strives to get the youtube community tab this is the thing where you can post a load of comments post a load of polls post loaded pictures advertise your videos people are excited they feel that this is their golden goose this is their golden silver bullet that will skyrocket their channel they think because it's locked behind 1 000 subscribers and previously it was even more that this is the thing that could possibly skyrocket their channel to the moon but i'm here to tell you a few home truths about the community tab one it can be completely useless and dead if you let it be why are some community tabs so successful why are some social media platforms so successful why are some youtubers more successful it's because they're more active on their social platforms one of my big benefits and one of the things that grows my youtube channel even outside youtube is my blog my blog has about 120 150 odd articles all teaching you how to do youtube there's a link in the description down below by the way and that gives me the benefits of pushing people to my youtube channel via the community that i build elsewhere the blog i started around about a year ago is now getting around about 25 to 30 000 page views per month organically something that if you want me to teach you how to grow a blog to that style then leave a comment down below say yes maybe and then i can figure out how needed it happens to be and i can start making videos on that as well but if you don't interact with people if you don't make content if you don't share them people won't be able to interact with you they can't communicate with you now yes there was that weird rumor that there was an exploit on the community tab that if you posted daily and you posted with random words and polls that it would explode this has since been debunked by many youtubers but the aspect of the community itself it still remains true it's a place to communicate it's a place to share it's a place to push out content and interact if i upload two videos a week and then post a poll every day not only are you going to interact with those two videos but then every day youtube sees that every poll that i post every day gets interacted with two or three or 400 people maybe even more rather than the no poll being there and no hundreds of people and no people at all what do you think youtube's going to want more interaction or silence okay alan i get it i get it don't i need a post stuff right but what do i post this is the secret little source right some people just spam their latest video go check this out go check that out but what that does is it doesn't garner much attention in fact if anything it looks like an advert and people ignore them flat out so this is the order that you need to think of one polls because everyone has an opinion everyone wants to share even if it's just a quick vote a funny vote something weird or they want to share their opinion directly on the the niche that you've lured them to they're engaged with you because they've subscribed they they want to share their opinion pictures a picture paints a thousand words it also takes up a clump of real estate on the feed when you're scrolling through your phone if it's a good well thought out picture that might pull people's attention in and make me make them click onto a link or comment text post i know you're now thinking hang on alan why aren't i promoting it no no no a text post still performs better statistically than a video in itself because for a video with the well would the the generation that we happen to be the world that we live in on the internet i scroll through the internet now and i can see the ads at the top of the page and i ignore them it's the same with the video if you're going to promote a video flat out with a video link it's gonna do worse in fact here's some examples polls polls polls lots of engagements there's hundreds of votes there and in fact on my second channel that's got seven thousand subscribers i was able to get polls with two or three hundred subscribers that had tender thousands of votes the way this works is that youtube will push it out to a like-minded community that thinks people have searched similar search terms before and put that in front of them as well luring people in from outside your subscriber base and maybe to a video but when i posted just a video people see that as an advertisement and flat out ignore it you don't get anywhere near as much as engagement but there is a way around this what i do is i combine the most engaged thing with a video link and as you can see here working very well on my crypto rookie channel i post a poll i give it a a question and then link a relevant video and then that video as you can see here even gets a pump in traffic you can see it on the graph you can see it in the engagements now 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