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RE: Why Bid Bots are Bad for Steemit | Imagine if the NBA Allowed People to Pay to Play in the League?
Instagram has been working super hard to kick like bots off their platform for years, and it doesn't offer as much monetary value for this as STEEM. I wonder how Steemit will combat this.
Yeah it seems every social media platform wrestles with this. Instagram every now and again will do something that stops the like, follow, comment bots for a week or two and then a new site or service pops up or the existing ones figure out a workaround.
I think Youtube has been the most effective of platforms on stopping this and I think it's partly because they are a video platform. They use watch time along with a host of other things like comments, thumbs up and down, engagement, etc.
Buying views on Youtube is really ineffective and honestly it many cases it can actually do more harm than good in that your watch time or retention suffers because these bots visit your video for a few seconds and leave.
It seems the only way to really trick or hack youtube is more through social engineering for lack of a better word ie giving away prizes and money. Most giveaways on youtube are fake, people never actually give away anything but it allows creators to get people to jump through all types of hoops like watch this til the end of the video, hit the thumbs up, say something in the comments.
I do YouTube SEO and My whole job is hacking youtube :D. Fake views can mess up your video, but you can get high retention views with a lot of watchtime that can get through the algorithm ;). A bit more expensive though. Get in touch with me if thats something you want to try ;)
Would you have any interest in doing an interview on my Channel giving some tips and hacks and I'd also be happy to let you plug your service if you have one.
I know some people don't like going on camera so could be a video hangout or even just audio
Okay Its against YouTube Terms to talk about buying views, but I'm game to teach everything else about Ranking YouTube Videos.
I hadn't really thought about that aspect, I'm sure you have some white hat or organic methods you could probably share and if you wanted a plug maybe without spelling out thats a service you offer we could have people contact you for assistance. feel free to hit me up rulesforrebels at gmail and we can set something up