a single source, nothing corroborates it
Never buy views or other vanity numbers
Purchased views misrepresent demand and teach you nothing about who is actually watching. The number goes up and the information you needed from it disappears. Anything you cannot act on is not a metric, it is decoration.
The method
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Never buy views or other paid vanity numbers, they misrepresent demand and teach you nothing about the audience.
Sources
- @levelsio's blogPieter Levels · levels.io · Why buying YouTube views is bad · 2012-07-05
the second source
Three plays a week, for the phase you are in
No roundup of links, no news. Three tactics more than one builder arrived at separately, with the numbers each one returned and the disagreements left in.
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