YouTube Traffic Sources Explained

[@Morningfame]

Learn more about the 3 most important traffic sources: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eqXJq6VnoLOneLc

[@KlaasVictor]

Hey Nico! Did you read the book "Hooked" from Nir Eyal? It lets me think of your wonderfull software morning fame. The gamification of growing KZbin is adictive! Do you think about including social interaction between software users?

[@Morningfame]

​@@KlaasVictor Thanks Klaas! Yes, I did. It’s probably THE blueprint to design any social media platform. I always wanted to have a social aspect within Morningfame as well and hence the tips functionality for the weekly email. But the direction with the tool these days rather goes in the direction to teach people growth strategies and everything else can happen e.g. on Facebook.

[@KlaasVictor]

@@Morningfame Thank you Nico!:-) You will be huge!

[@BhaktiToday]

I never ever comment anywhere, but this channel is just too good. Thank you so much, I really wanted this video.

[@Morningfame]

Wow, you make my day buddy! :) Thanks a lot! Btw, let me know any time if my videos leave any of your questions unanswered. Cheers, Nico

[@TheHappyPantry]

This is by far THE MOST spot on and clear explanation as most youtubers only focus on a few 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@Morningfame]

My pleasure my friend! :) Indeed, it was my goal to give a full list. I am glad that that helped you!

[@SrinivasaGopalan]

Yep. Totally agree

[@Soleckerundschnell]

I agree❤️

[@TinkerManMick]

Waiting for your channel to explode Nico! This content is gold ✌

[@Morningfame]

Cheers Mick! Fingers crossed. That would be awesome! :)

[@techow]

Hi, great video! I was wondering what the "KZbin advertising" traffic source means? I am not running any ads on KZbin.

[@Morningfame]

Thanks pal! Well, as you expected, this is about advertising. It is actually surprisingly common that advertisers accidentally screw up their ad placement. It is probably the case that someone accidentally placed your video as an ad.

[@techow]

@@Morningfame Thanks for your answer! I guess I got lucky then :)

[@Morningfame]

@@techow Cheers pal! Haha, I am glad you see it this way. :)

[@HatemEleishi]

Thank you so much.. That was enlightening..

[@Morningfame]

Cheers to that Hatem! That’s great to hear. :) -Nico

[@SPrincessbeneficialknowledge]

Great topic. I am highly interested in this. 😊✌watching in full. 👏Nice accompanying images to back up what you are talking about. Analytics pics. Cool.

[@Morningfame]

Thanks a lot! I see that you are taking every chance to take some inspiration. In the spirit of your channel, right? 😃👌

[@ShizzyMcCreepy]

Thanks for this upload! I had a video randomly explode and had no idea why, this vid really helped me understand traffic sources a lot better

[@Morningfame]

My pleasure Shizzy! That must be amazing to see the numbers go up. :) Which traffic source was it for you if I may ask?

[@ShizzyMcCreepy]

@@Morningfame Browse features, mainly KZbin Home. Ended up being 91% of my total traffic. Pretty surreal seeing everything go up not gonna lie

[@Morningfame]

@@ShizzyMcCreepy Wow, amazing! Since it is Home, you now have the opportunity to publish similar videos to the successful ones and with it have the chance to bring those viewers to your channel again even if they didn’t subscribe. Home has this unique behavior to show new videos from channels that people recently watched at the top. Fyi, here is the Home algorithm in detail: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oJnVmp16oLGKbs0

[@audiotoolshed]

Nice one Nico. Always good to get KZbin Terminoligy explained in detail!

[@Morningfame]

Thanks Marlon! Oh yea, there’s lots of terminology. Fingers crossed this will become an evergreen! :)

[@AdamMellor1]

Yeah the analytics can be really confusing, I primarily just look at search and suggested though. I recently stopped promoting my videos on Social media and then suddenly started getting more suggested views so I wonder 🧐...

[@Morningfame]

@@AdamMellor1 Sweet! It’s awesome when KZbin’s algorithms start to do the promotion for us and we don’t have to do the heavy lifting ourselves anymore, right?

[@AdamMellor1]

@@Morningfame yeah but it’s still good to do what we can to make our videos suggestible.

[@Morningfame]

@@AdamMellor1 Absolutely! The more the better. :)

[@CentsibleLivingWithMoneyMom]

I love the detail you give. I see you are from Germany. My Father is from Hungary. I love your videos. You are an excellent teacher.

[@Morningfame]

Thank you so much! You are right. I am from Germany. How did you tell? I guess, I can’t hide my accent. ;))

[@CarsSimplified]

Great thorough video as always! I have definitely seen improvement recently based on an idea I came up with from watching a previous video of yours, so I always try to catch these videos when they come out, even if I think I understand the topic already.

[@Morningfame]

That is so great to hear buddy! Oh yea, I try to always sprinkle in some new thoughts. Although this one of course is very basic and I hope will become an evergreen. :) Btw, what idea did you came up with?!

[@CarsSimplified]

Oh, it was about making another video on a topic I've already covered; I replied on the other video's comments to follow up on it. But for some more details, I noticed people were discovering my "how fuses work" video using search terms that implied they wanted to know about fuse boxes in general, so I made a video to cover that topic, which was pretty much untapped and was using my first video to fill the void.

[@Morningfame]

@@CarsSimplified Wow, that is an amazing insight! Indeed, when we know where to look then our audiences already tell us quite a lot. 👊😎

[@HarrisonSawyerr]

Hahaha, hey there!

[@quickscience8203]

Finally! That's the video I was looking for! Really good and thorough explanation. Thank you.

[@Morningfame]

You make my day buddy! I am glad you found it helpful. :) See ya, Nico

[@yppahpeek]

Amazing video! Thank you for clearing up (in a few minutes) something that I've been trying to figure out all morning. Be prepared to see more "External source" views of this video... I'm about to share it with my colleagues ;)

[@Morningfame]

High 5 Andy! I am glad I could help. :) And thanks a lot for spreading the word. Btw, let me know if the video left any of your more detailed questions unanswered. See ya, Nico

[@remyakjeevan]

One of the best videos on the topic.... You explained everything so well.

[@Morningfame]

Thanks a lot! That’s great to hear. :)

[@KingTalkLive]

Thank you for information. Because I was so confused about what other KZbin features was. This video really helped.

[@Morningfame]

I am happy to hear that! I am glad this helped. 😃✌️

[@scottsnosleepofficial]

Very good detailed explanation in this video. Thanks a lot!

[@Morningfame]

That’s great to hear! My pleasure Scott. :)

[@DramaLoveSaman]

This is a complete guide and genuine info,thank you sir👍🏻

[@Morningfame]

Absolutely my pleasure Saman! I am glad it shows. It actually helped me a lot to have made such a video a few years back and thus I was able to answer more burning questions here. :)

[@DrSevTalksMoney]

Thanks Nico. Found this video through search while trying to figure out my traffic sources. Very helpful.

[@Morningfame]

Thanks a lot Severine! This is basically an overhauled version of the video that you just watched from Brian. This gave me the chance to collect all open questions in its comments and answer them in this one. :)

[@sanpls]

This is what I looking for to know about youtube. Thank you so much for sharing this important information with us 👍

[@Morningfame]

Absolutely my pleasure my friend! Welcome to my channel. :) Cheers, Nico

[@sanpls]

@@MorningfameOne of my shorts video got a sudden increase of view count in few days, I was wondering how I got those views. I don't really know what trick I did. But suddenly view count reduces in the next day. I also don't know how that happens. When I am searching for answers for that, I came across your channel. Thanks again for sharing the very helpful information with us.

[@Morningfame]

@@sanpls Can you see where these views are coming from? KZbin Studio (desktop) -> Open the analytics for the video -> Advanced Mode at the top right -> Traffic Sources at the top -> The table at the bottom gives you the details. If it shows “Shorts” as the traffic sources then such view boosts are no surprise. The Shorts algorithm behaves weirdly this way. It sends large amounts of views in bursts. And then your views just didn’t grow further (that would be normal) or did your total view count for the video drop to a lower number?

[@sanpls]

​@@Morningfame First of all, I am really grateful for answering me. It is really nice of you. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 Nico, Yes, you are correct, it shows “Shorts” as the traffic sources. My video total view count didn't drops to a lower number. It didn’t grow any further like previously. Thank you so much again.

[@Morningfame]

@@sanpls Absolutely my pleasure! :) Alright, awesome! Yes, that is normal behavior. The Shorts algorithm tends to bring many views on random days and nothing much on others. The fact that you get these boosts is a really good sign. Just keep creating Shorts that excite viewers. The trick really is to create something that people will enjoy and that ties back to something popular. Peachtober seems to be such a thing. :)

[@blessblog3502]

Thank you for sharing. Very informative .

[@Morningfame]

Absolutely my pleasure! Thank you. :)

[@anshpudaruth5549]

Simply put: this guy puts everything simply.

[@Morningfame]

Cheers Ansh! That’s my goal. Thanks. 😃✌️

[@PuroAstrology]

You are helping me so much 😭! I had no idea. And just implementing your tips has helped me rank high on search!!!!! THANK YOU!!!!! 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@Morningfame]

That is so awesome to hear Denisse! You make my day. 😃✌️ Btw, let me know any time if my videos leave any of your questions unanswered. See ya, Nico

[@EkeneJesusVictor]

Thanks for sharing these awesome tips

[@Morningfame]

Always my pleasure buddy! :)

[@JazzEtudes]

I am hoping you, your videos and morning fame are going to help my channel grow. You have already taught me a lot I didn't know despite having purchased courses and books on youtube! Thanks you, I hope your software and advice helps me and my channel.

[@Morningfame]

That is awesome to hear! Let me know any time if my videos leave some of your questions unanswered. Cheers, Nico

[@JazzEtudes]

I will nico. Thanks again I actually feel genuinely excited at the prospect of growing my channel, I did also with tubebuddy too but that never really happened for me!! Here’s to success!!

[@Morningfame]

Cheers! :)

[@JazzEtudes]

I have some friends that I think will also be very interested in this platform.

[@JazzEtudes]

I did a day of keyword/title research yesterday and came up with SO MANY titles that I know people are searching for!

[@MsDonna]

🙌 the updated info put into greater context is much appreciated, Nico! 😉 i hope the robots reward you sufficiently for all of your hard work!

[@Morningfame]

Absolutely my pleasure! Oh yea, I really hope this will become and evergreen like the same video from 2 years ago did. 😃✌️

[@LetsCookMitJulian]

Richtig schön zu sehen, wie sich deine Videoqualität entwickelt hat 👍

[@Morningfame]

Besten Dank Julian! Ich bin echt total froh, dass ich endlich ein vernünftiges Studio einrichten konnte! :)

[@SaadonAksah]

Thanks for sharing! So glad I have almost a similar traffic source to yours! 😍

[@Morningfame]

Cheers to that Saadon! Oh yea, that’s a good sign. Generally, Search, Home, and Suggested Videos are the most important sources for any channel. Good to be aligned with that! :)

[@GetBusyLiving]

Very useful video -thanks so much!

[@Morningfame]

My pleasure! That’s great to hear. :)

[@GetBusyLiving]

@@Morningfame I have searched for an invite and am in the process of signing up :-)

[@Morningfame]

Awesome! Welcome on board. Let me know any time if you have questions about the tool. Enjoy!

[@GetBusyLiving]

@@Morningfame I will! Thank you so much for extending the offer! The tool looks amazing and super user friendly, and caters for the user (user-centric). I can't wait to get into it more! I think it will help me alot!

[@GingAzaravlog]

Thank you for sharing this ,it's help a lot

[@Morningfame]

That great to hear! Thanks Ging. :)

[@GingAzaravlog]

@@Morningfame salamat

[@SuzyTopAgent]

Awesome Breakdown Nico 👌

[@Morningfame]

Thanks a lot Suzy! :)

[@liftingdermatologist]

Again, learned and enjoyed👌🏻👌🏻

[@Morningfame]

Thanks buddy! I am glad that’s still possible considering that you probably watched all of my video already! 😃✌️

Wow, vielen Dank! Endlich sind mir auch die mysteriösesten Kategorien klargeworden 😅

[@Morningfame]

Super! Sehr gerne Alemán. Haha, ja. Da sind einige dabei, die nicht wirklich auf den ersten Blick einleuchten. ;)

[@theangelstvcanada4022]

Thank you for your clear explanation about this feature. I love the way you explained. Done subscribing!!

[@Morningfame]

Absolutely my pleasure Vivian & Marvin! Let me know if my videos leave any of your questions unanswered. See ya, Nico

[@AJsGreenTopics]

It's great to see you Nico.😎

[@Morningfame]

Cheers AJ old friend! Likewise. :)

[@viralvideobss3324]

Thank you very much for this video.. i learnt lot of things and understand clearly "KZbin Traffic Sources". you explained clearly. i am from Sri Lanka

[@Morningfame]

High 5 my friend! I am super happy to hear that. :)

[@chefrides2673]

finally i watch a very clear explanation thank you for make me understand what is traffic source all about thank you from the chef & rides production

[@Morningfame]

That is awesome to hear buddy! My pleasure. :)

[@Rusbie]

Thank you for this useful information Sir, I been worried about creator studio on traffic sources 😁 cheers ✌️

[@Morningfame]

Cheers Rusbie! I am glad I could help. 😃✌️

[@FascinatingLola]

Thank you very much for this. I will definitely try to focus on these 3 major sources. ❤️

[@Morningfame]

My pleasure Lola! Awesome, it’ll be worth the effort! And if you want an order in which you could learn and apply growing these traffic sources, then focus on KZbin Search first, later Home, and once you grew to maybe 1K subs then Suggested Videos becomes relevant.

[@FascinatingLola]

Morningfame thank you so much. This has to be my newest assignment, I’ll definitely come give you feedback.❤️

[@FascinatingLola]

Morningfame in my analytics, there’s nothing like homepage, does channel page mean the same thing as homepage? Or can the browse feature serve as the homepage data?

[@Morningfame]

@@FascinatingLola You can find it under Browse. Have a look at the timestamps in the description of this video. I actually show how to see your Home analytics in this video. 😃✌️

[@AdamMellor1]

This was a really helpful video, thanks for explaining the different traffic sources. Some of them can be confusing. What in your opinion is the most important thing to do to get your videos suggested by KZbin. For some reason recently I have gotten a tremendous amount of suggested views to my videos. It is my number one traffic source at the moment.

[@Morningfame]

Wow, that is great to hear! The most important thing you can do to encourage more suggested video views is to recommend to watch another video at the end of each video. The more people binge watch your videos because of that, the better!

[@PAZziEVlog]

Wow, well informative. I love the way you explained each traffic sources, direct to the point. It gives clearer understanding. Unlike other videos (Famous Yeah) 🙄however they talks a lot -nonsense already. ☺️Happy for obtaining new knowledge from you ❤️.

[@Morningfame]

High 5 pal! Indeed, I worked hard to make it as informative as possible and I am glad it shows. :) See ya, Nico

[@AdaUnleashed]

The best explanation I’ve watched so far! Thanks!!! But you should’ve shown what a home page looks like, pictorial representations.

[@Morningfame]

Thanks a lot Ada! And good point. I realized that I often forget such things but luckily were able to remember doing so at least in some of my videos. 😃✌️

[@niningartetafamilyjourney7145]

Thanks very clear explanation really appreciate it.

[@Morningfame]

Absolutely my pleasure! I am glad it was useful. Let me know in case it left any of your questions unanswered. Cheers, Nico

[@IkwentoMoVlog031287]

Thanks for the info. sir loud & clear.😎👍

[@Morningfame]

My pleasure buddy! 😃✌️

[@bonnasworld1550]

Thanks you for informative videos...

[@Morningfame]

My pleasure Bonna! :)

[@justdoit3966]

Thanks man helped a lot

[@Morningfame]

Excellent. That’s great to hear. :) Cheers, Nico

[@PG-wv5pv]

I have put a link of my youtube video on external website, what do I have to do to identify traffic coming from there to my youtube video? Are UTMs required, Also, will I be able to see the exact website name(traffic source) in the youtube analytics or it will be counted under external traffic source?

[@Morningfame]

Great question PG! Yes, UTMs are required for that. Namely, add . For my links I use “?A%2F%2Fmorningfa.me” The special characters are uri encoded. But if you don’t use special characters then don’t worry about encoding anything. What you set as the will then appear under “External”. So in the analytics you need to click on “External” and then a list of individual sources will appear where one will be what you set as . Fyi, the other available UTMs are not used. Only . I hope this helps!

[@MoroccoExpert]

Thank you Morningfame for the tips

[@Morningfame]

My pleasure Mohamed! 😃✌️

[@coachLaudiaann]

You explain this so well very helpful to help me grow

[@Morningfame]

I am happy to hear that Laudiaann! Let me know if my videos leave any of your questions unanswered. See ya, Nico

[@jclarkson3865]

Very good video thanks, the 3 important factors you mention search, browse and suggested have increased for me a lot recently but views down a lot, this is confusing? Keep up the good work 👍

[@Morningfame]

My pleasure J! :) What are the other traffic sources that went down for you then? Maybe I can say more about that traffic source once you let me know. See ya, Nico

[@jclarkson3865]

@@Morningfame all external sources down a lot mainly Facebook, do external sources make a difference? My channel has now basically died

[@Morningfame]

@@jclarkson3865 Yes, external is always good! But you said that Search, Browse and Suggested are up for you?!

[@jclarkson3865]

@@Morningfame I don't understand how all external sources have all nearly disappeared? Do you have a video on external sources, how can I control it better?

[@Morningfame]

@@jclarkson3865 There is not much more to say about external sources beyond what I said in this video. What you should do it to filter your traffic sources for a longer timespan to see what external traffic you got in the past. Btw, you can click on “External” and see what particular sources they are. E.g. Facebook, Twitter, etc. Once you know that, you can figure out why they subsided.

[@NapiyaAyLIFE37]

nice sharing

[@Morningfame]

Thanks Napiya! :)

[@BrookePalmer]

Thank you!

[@Morningfame]

Absolutely my pleasure! :)

[@FRANCISCARUSOworld]

Sehr hilfreich, Danke!

[@Morningfame]

Das freut mich Francis! :)

[@Queeter]

Thx!Tip is really helpful!😃✌

[@Morningfame]

Absolutely my pleasure Queeter! You are new to my channel, right? Welcome! Cheers, Nico

[@Queeter]

@@Morningfame I am new here! Just subbed and have notfi on!🙂

[@Morningfame]

@@Queeter Thanks! Btw, let me know any time if my videos leave any of your questions unanswered. :)

[@Queeter]

@@Morningfame Okie dokie!

[@HennessyBoss]

Awesome Nico

[@Morningfame]

Cheers Hennessy! :)

[@charleneavlogs]

Thanks for sharing.may I know the safe traffic source in youtube?

[@Morningfame]

My pleasure! All traffic is safe. There is no such thing as bad traffic. Just traffic that is worth more or less depending on how well the viewers are the right ones for your channel. Does this answer your question?

[@charleneavlogs]

@@Morningfame yes.thanks for your answer.i will keep in mind to that.

[@TheMrB]

You are brilliant thanks.

[@Morningfame]

Awesome! Thanks buddy. :) -Nico

[@richtravels5399]

Thank you for this.

[@Morningfame]

My pleasure Rich! :)

[@AmericanPatriotANomad]

Always looking to improve my Channel All about the Audience Keep filming Everyone Thanks for the Videos

[@Morningfame]

Awesome, keep at it. Indeed, the audience is king! :)

[@MrCastIron]

Great stuff buddy! Thanks again for clarifying the KZbin Studio analytics for us to get a better understanding of whats going on!!

[@Morningfame]

My pleasure Mike! Oh yea, understanding KZbin traffic sources is really key. I am glad I finally did a refresh for this video topic. Have a great Sunday pal! :)

[@MichiganStateAlumni]

Is it possible to add utm tracking to a link coming from email and have it report under Traffic Sources?

[@Morningfame]

Yes, it is. However, only is supported. This will then show up as “External” and if you click on “External” to see the different external sources then you’ll see whatever you used as the .

[@MTRelaxation67]

Great job 👍🏻💚

[@Morningfame]

Thank you! :)

[@JohanFitFoodie]

Thanks a lot for a very informative video 😊👌🏻☀️ Great for us just starting out. Got half of my views from creator studio app and was wondering about this.

[@Morningfame]

My pleasure buddy! Awesome. Seeing this is normal. And btw, your thumbnails look really great! Cheers, Nico

[@JohanFitFoodie]

@@Morningfame thanks a lot Nico, trying my best but always room for improvement 😊 thanks for providing fantastic value and content!

[@Morningfame]

@@JohanFitFoodie My pleasure buddy! Indeed, like in fitness so in video creation. 😃✌️

[@DietGuru8]

Thanks Nico, Great Infor as usuail. I have been checking the explanation of "Other KZbin features" on You Tube without success🙏.

[@Morningfame]

Awesome, my pleasure! Indeed, that was a common question that I got on the old video as well. They probably named it this way because they had various sources they didn’t have another place to put them into.

[@DarrensGeneralInfo]

I'm very low on average view duration... What to do?

[@Morningfame]

Here is a trick that works for any channel: kzbin.info/www/bejne/laOyaYeNotqhm80 And here is a techniques, THE technique actually, to find out what you can improve for your own videos in particular: kzbin.info/www/bejne/q6G9iq2npaZ8f7c

[@DarrensGeneralInfo]

@@Morningfame thanks 😊

[@NickyPasquier]

Hi Nico, thanks for another really informative tutorial. I seem to get more traffic coming over from Google search at the moment than I do KZbin search, in fact it's quite significantly more. Is this a problem I need to resolve or is it okay provided I get the traffic? Cheers :)

[@Morningfame]

That is awesome to hear Nicky! That’s no issue at all! Actually, Google has the power to send an insane amount of views your way. It doesn’t happen often of course. The usual experience is that it adds a little bit on top of the KZbin Search traffic. But it sounds like you triggered Google Search big time. Kudos!

[@NickyPasquier]

@@Morningfame cheers Nico! I think it's because I write a corresponding blog post when I have time and add a link to my KZbin video. It seems to work.

[@Morningfame]

@@NickyPasquier Interesting! That makes sense. Having a blog is not a must-have to make our videos rank in Google but you can see that as your special power since you have one! 😃👌

[@INSPIRING19]

Thankyou I am a new youtuber this information is fantastic

[@Morningfame]

Thanks a lot Pearl! :) Cheers to an exciting KZbin journey! -Nico

[@mrvp3944]

Does watch time counts from the views that comes from direct or unknown source ???

[@Morningfame]

Yes, of course!

[@OG_Swift]

I raeally needed to know this. Thanks a lot.

[@Morningfame]

Awesome! I am glad I could help. :) Cheers, Nico

[@DarrensGeneralInfo]

Awesome video😀

[@Morningfame]

Thanks Darren! :)

[@DarrensGeneralInfo]

@@Morningfame 😃

[@NicoleAMcGrath1]

It looks so beautiful on desktop that's a beautiful purple 💜 colour and all the different colours lol 😆 I get search topic but mainly for videos with good seo as you say Nico. External traffic is good for small Channel as mine. I was wondering what Creater Studio Views were. Very good explanation Nico. Home is very important I agree.

[@Morningfame]

Excellent! Good SEO is really the first thing that allows us to get one algorithm to work in our favor. Haha, yea, color can help a lot! I wish they were using the same color for each traffic source all the time. As you probably know from the Algorithm tab, I chose yellow for KZbin Search, green for Home, and purple for Suggested Videos. That is now burned into my brain. 😉✌️

[@AdamMellor1]

I didn’t know you could change the colours, that’s interesting. But yeah that probably helps with staying organised. I love watching videos about KZbin analytics, I’m going to start including them more in my videos.

[@Morningfame]

@@AdamMellor1 Cheers Adam! That’s great to hear. :) Btw, I was referencing the colors in the advanced analytics section of KZbin Studio. But we have no influence over it. It’s just a color coding for the top 5 (selected) videos. Or are we all talking about different colors?! 😅 Anyways, maybe not too important... 😉

[@AdamMellor1]

@@Morningfame oh I just miss understand about the colors a little sorry. But still great video! I’m also looking forward to receiving the footage from you that we talked about, it will be awesome featuring you on my channel.

[@Morningfame]

@@AdamMellor1 Hahaha, cheers buddy! Btw, I just sent you the email. I look forward to your video! Thanks man!

[@cecilia7466]

Thanks for your explanation. I am curious about the External - Chrome App. What's that source exactly? I pay for KZbin promotion service and all the views are coming from there and I'm not sure whether it's targeting a valid audience.

[@Morningfame]

My pleasure! This is the Chrome app on smartphones. So essentially opening KZbin in the browser. If you paid for views and all of them come from this specific traffic source then this sounds a lot like bot automation.

[@MADpack]

Hi bro.. I belive that suggested videos are not the 3rd more important but the kost important. With my new strategy i increase from 6-7% to 10% in suggested.. Thats the only way that you realky grow out of your normal niche (that for me is essencial because is a very small niche but that grows 200% a year).. Beside that essencial making a retention above 4minutes and 50% minimum view, and ctr 10%..

[@Morningfame]

How are you doing buddy! Oh yea, Suggested Videos can of course be the most important traffic source. I am arguing from the perspective of growing a channel and which traffic source to address first and next as a channel grows bigger and bigger.

[@rahulkhandelwal4350]

Hey, what would be the traffic source for KZbin videos viewer remarketing paid campaigns....Would it come under the "KZbin Advertising" traffic source or a different source? Can you please confirm??

[@Morningfame]

Sorry Rahul, I can’t say exactly. But you are probably right.

[@rahulkhandelwal4350]

@@Morningfame Thank you 😊

[@DarrensGeneralInfo]

Can u please briefly explain KZbin SEO

[@Morningfame]

You probably have heard many people talking about “optimizing their tags”. This is part of KZbin SEO. Overall it is the way how we prepare our videos to rank in KZbin Search. Here is a video that goes deeper into explaining just that: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eqXJq6VnoLOneLc I hope this helps! :)

[@DarrensGeneralInfo]

@@Morningfame thank you😊

[@AdamMellor1]

I get it KZbin SEO can be really confusing and there are a lot of tools to help you. I made a video about Google trends for KZbin SEO that got good feedback. I think venturing your whole video around one keyword has been helpful me a lot get suggested views. Hope that helps.

[@DarrensGeneralInfo]

@@AdamMellor1 u deserve more subs. Thanks 😊

[@AdamMellor1]

@@DarrensGeneralInfo thank you, that means a lot!

[@stevegalea518]

i have almost 5k views on one of my shorts... and it says Creator Studio has 100% of my views source... i still don't understand what this means.. i "edit" all my videos in the creator studio before i upload them.. and the other ones don't say that??

[@Morningfame]

This is indeed weird. If you edit and watch your own videos from the Creator Studio then you of course can create a few views but certainly not 5k views. Most likely most of these views come from the Shorts algorithm. But since your analytics don’t say that I can only guess that this is a glitch...

[@stevegalea518]

@@Morningfame yup! and another one that is often listed is "com.samsung.android.messaging" this is on a few of my other shorts under the external sites or apps

[@MargueriteFaure]

This was interesting. So far, my videos are 40% KZbin search. I never knew about the channel pages. Interesting.

[@Morningfame]

Nice! And these 40% sounds like you have built a solid base for you channel! 😃👌

[@crabbiespinkyvlogs7397]

What is the gud percentage for impressions and impressions CTR.

[@Morningfame]

The more impressions the better. Like views we always want and get more the more our channel grows. In regards to CTR I recommend that you don’t focus on that number at the moment. Your channel is still very small and the CTR just isn’t useful at this point. Keep focussing on the various growth strategies that I teach on my channel and are of course taught on many other channels as well. See ya, Nico

[@crabbiespinkyvlogs7397]

@@Morningfame thank you so much 😊😊👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@MartinFriedel]

THANK YOUUUUU! Finally, someone who explains all the sh** by detail!!! Endlich blicke ich da mal durch. 😁 It's nice to get all that stuff from YT ... but if you don't know, what to do with it, it's not very helpful. And the explanations from YT? Phhhh!

[@Morningfame]

Prost drauf Martin! That awesome to hear. :) Years ago I made the same video and thanks to reading through its comments I was able to include all the open questions in this one as well. 😃✌️

[@BirdHub]

Thankyou 👍👍

[@Morningfame]

Absolutely my pleasure buddy. :)

[@RobbsHomemadeLife]

This was very helpful. Can I ask you one question? When I go to suggested videos in my channel analytics I see many videos that are not mine. Why is that?

[@Morningfame]

My pleasure! These are all videos that recommend your own videos. So a viewer watches a video on another channel, sees your video next to it in the list of suggested videos and watches yours next. This is truly what we want to achieve. Good job! 😃👌 Fyi, you can learn all about it here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fJm0iGykZZ17bNE I hope this helps!

[@RobbsHomemadeLife]

@@Morningfame Thanks so much for the helpful reply. I was confused because I saw both my videos and videos by others, so if I see a lot of my videos it is good because YT is recommending my videos to people who watched my videos. It may be random, but in July I decided to try different things to improve my videos and channel and have seen a slight decrease in views and subscribers but an increase in revenue and RPM. I appreciate your clear videos on understanding KZbin and am a very happy subscriber. Thumbs up.

[@Morningfame]

@@RobbsHomemadeLife Awesome, I am glad I can help! :) Btw, what changes did you do if I may ask?

[@RobbsHomemadeLife]

@@Morningfame I saw I had some views coming from a couple of links I left on Pinterest 2 years ago so I added a bunch of photos from my videos to Pinterest with links. Oddly, I then saw my views from Pinterest go down. I then bought a program to help me make better thumbnails and I changed the thumbnails for the top 30 of my best videos. I then immediately saw a huge decrease from external links which I never understood but they came back up in a week to two. Then I began to focus on better photos for thumbnails and better titles and also started to try and find video subjects that would both appeal to me and to as wide an audience as possible. Then, since my channel is eclectic and covers too many areas to be sucessful, in order to give the viewers at least some idea of what my channel is about, I now do food videos only on Friday, review videos only on Sunday, and wild card videos which can be about anything on Wednesday. My review videos are the most watched. Food videos are the least weatched but provide me a lot of fun. KZbin has demonetized some of the subjects I was doing like BB guns and firearms so some of my most watched subjects I no longer do much as I worry about KZbin killing my efforts. I also have tried to figure out how to increase the value of my videos to my viewers as i think since I am not a celebrity or have a team or company the only way for me to compete is to try and provide as much value as I can. This is harder than it sounds but increasing value for viewers is probably the best thing I can focus on. Finally, I identified a few channels that are popular but eclectic and diverse like mine , such as the channel Atomic Shrimp, and have tried to see why they may have more success and use them as a model in ways that would agree with me. I started getting serious in July. My views and subscribers are down around 5% which might be seasonal, but my RPM has gone up a lot and I have seen a steady but modest increase in revenue.

[@Morningfame]

@@RobbsHomemadeLife Oh wow, you didn’t just change a few things! All of the things you listed check so many things in my book. Amazing! Keep it up buddy. You obviously have a deep understanding for what matters. 👊😎

[@fem1813]

Hi I can’t see the sources of external traffic.

[@Morningfame]

You can click on “External” to see further details? Maybe you have too little views from external yet and hence it’s not available. Try selecting a larger date range to see if more details show then.

[@randomshowbiz8498]

Hello if you have a direct and unknown is this affect of your channel monetization? Hope you reply..tnx

[@Morningfame]

No. It‘s all good. :) It doesn‘t matter where the views come from. KZbin happily shows ads to everyone. ;)

[@randomshowbiz8498]

@@Morningfame thank you for your response.. I already monetized and I have direct or unknown in my traffic resource because of your reply i'm OK now..keep it up😊

[@Morningfame]

@@randomshowbiz8498 Awesome! Enjoy your channel growth journey! :)

[@designerlines-fashionfooda6814]

My students watch my videos in university but on their own cell phones. They are all on the university WiFi. So do I get all the view time hours? Or since they are all on the university WiFi, their come from the same IP Address?

[@Morningfame]

Nice! These are valuable views. :) Don’t worry about the IP address. It doesn’t matter in this context. Views are counted normally like you want them to be counted.

[@asdfg3102]

How u make your thumbnail, which application do u use?

[@Morningfame]

I am using OmniGraffle for it. It’s actually designed to create charts, diagrams and such. But it’s what I already had an know. Not for this thumbnail but for others I also use Affinity Photo for some special effects like blurs, making the background transparent etc.

[@asdfg3102]

@@Morningfame Thank u very much for reply, your content r great n helpful.

[@Morningfame]

@@asdfg3102 My pleasure Ajay and thank you! :)

[@chrissycanvasart]

Thank you nico

[@Morningfame]

My pleasure Chrissy! Have a great Sunday. :)

[@timmypabz]

how about KZbin Advertising???

[@Morningfame]

Indeed, one more source. What would you like to know about it?

[@GenshinDeviant]

Super Video. and yes new channel don't get recommend the only way to get views is search results. I'm doing for 8 months and youtube dont even recommends my videos

[@Morningfame]

Thanks, I am happy to hear that you enjoyed it! :) Indeed, it takes time until the recommendations kick in. The first algorithm that works for small channels is like you say the Search algorithm. The next one that starts working for you is the Home algorithm. Or often called “Browse”. Here is a tutorial about how to get it working: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oJnVmp16oLGKbs0 Cheers, Nico

[@swagnexttuber-boombeach7092]

I do amazon affiliate program.. how do i know what video should i make next. ?

[@Morningfame]

Can you elaborate a little further? Why do you ask about the affiliate program and video ideas at the same time? What is the link between the two for you personally?

[@swagnexttuber-boombeach7092]

@@Morningfame i have multiply account yt account... gaming, amazon account, how to account... so on.. so i had problem amazon affiliate account i didnt get any views on my amazon review channel. Thats why i asked

[@Morningfame]

@@swagnexttuber-boombeach7092 Ah, I see! Do you make sure that you do your keyword research before you buy and review products? This way you can be certain that your own videos don’t get lost between all the other videos that review the same product.

[@swagnexttuber-boombeach7092]

@@Morningfame do suggest any video for amazon keyword research.?

[@Morningfame]

@@swagnexttuber-boombeach7092 It is actually not about Amazon imho. Rather focus on KZbin to ensure that there is not too much competition for the product you want to review. You can learn more about KZbin SEO - which looks at the competition like I suggest - here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eqXJq6VnoLOneLc

[@SlappinBluesLou]

Thank yu sir!

[@Morningfame]

My pleasure Lou! Cheers, Nico

[@brahimibrahim9551]

Sir, my video got 200 views from KZbin advertising traffic source, and I don't know anything about that, please reply

[@Morningfame]

That’s when someone pays for views. Sometimes it actually happens that marketers accidentally buy views for the wrong video. No worries btw. These are views from official ad placements on KZbin. Not these bought views from dubious sources in case you wonder.

[@casualenglishwithamy6951]

The cards were not added to the video. You point at them but, they are not there. I still don’t understand what the traffic sources mean. 🙁

[@Morningfame]

Thanks for letting me know Amy! I just double checked the cards and they are actually there. But I heard that KZbin is sometimes acting up and doesn’t show them. That must have been what has happened. Traffic sources are a fancy way of saying “WHERE your views come from”. Do your viewers search videos, find yours and watch it? Do they see a tweet with your video and watch it because of that? And so on...

[@casualenglishwithamy6951]

@@Morningfame Can I send you an email? I have typed out 2 response here. They will not post.

[@nsb7090]

Wats localhost means in external source

[@Morningfame]

That was most likely a bot.

[@yobiwolrd07]

Can external growth hurt your You Tube channel?? I get more traffic from external growth

[@Morningfame]

Not at all! It can even boost your other traffic sources if people who arrive on your channel via external subscribe or watch more videos. However, depending on the kind of external traffic this may or may not happen. However, in both cases it is only positive.

[@awkwardoccurrencelatenight2151]

My favorite part of analytics is traffic sources

[@Morningfame]

Oh yea, I agree! Knowing where our views come from give super valuable insights. :) Btw, did you spot something particularly interesting in the data before?

[@drgeraldineokpara9305]

Does having too much external traffic hurt your KZbin channel and reduce your video being recommended.

[@Morningfame]

Not at all! Depending on what external traffic you get, it may even boost your recommendations. :)

[@drgeraldineokpara9305]

@@Morningfame thanks

[@SashiGuidance]

Thx.

[@Morningfame]

Cheers Sashi! I hope both videos answered everything you wanted to know about traffic sources. If not, feel free to ask. See ya, Nico

[@tompamucho]

90% of my traffic source is youtube advertising. Why that? I didn't subscribe to the ads. Can you help me and explain. Thank you

[@Morningfame]

Funny thing! Did you ask the same on another video of mine with a different KZbin account by any chance? If not then coincidentally someone else had that happen to them as well. Maybe someone accidentally put money on the wrong video and you are the lucky one!

[@tompamucho]

@@Morningfame I didn't ask of other channels. This is my first question. I don't understand my source.

[@tompamucho]

Wenn some ohne has wrong pay he will now that. And my Woch hours is not added to my account for monetize. Why that?

[@Morningfame]

@@tompamucho Views from ads are an entirely separate thing. It’s normal that they are not added to your watch hours. Enjoy the free outreach!

[@Morningfame]

@@tompamucho Hahaha, well then that means someone else had this happen to them as well. Funny coincidence!

[@cigarts331]

Why does it say my traffic source is google photos like how does that even work

[@Morningfame]

Mmh, that is indeed weird! Is it maybe possible to add links to the photos? At least it wouldn’t surprise me if Google added all kinds of features that go far beyond just uploading and viewing photos.

[@Ex3oP]

You forgot to put the cards in for when you point to the corner.

[@Morningfame]

Unfortunately, KZbin doesn’t show the cards sometimes. They are actually configured. So there is nothing I can do. Which one were you interested in. I can give you the link to the video here. :)

[@Ex3oP]

@@Morningfame I was able to find it. Was just letting you know. Thanks!

[@Morningfame]

@@Ex3oP Thanks pal! :)

[@WTLoveYouAll]

Can you help me figure out Why I got many views from notifications. Like 300% more than I have subscribers... Thanks for the help!

[@Morningfame]

Great question Jan! This is very rare to happen and a really big sign that you do a lot right! Like you imply, notifications usually mostly go out to our subscribers. But sometimes a video is very successful and if it also has broad appeal then the notifications algorithm will push it to even more people e.g. via a “Recommended for you” push notification on the phone. You have probably seen these notifications from time to time as well about one of the videos from a channel that you sometimes watch. Do you think this explains what happened for your video in particular?