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YouTube SEO: Is YouTube Search REALLY Dead?I always get a bit of a laugh out of the endless "SEO is dead" headlines that you see on YouTube or SEO blogs.Optimizing for the search engines to understand and evaluate your property on YouTube or anywhere for that matter will never stop.It's what they do!Anyway all silliness aside, here's a great video on the real … [Read more...] about The Friday Roundup – YouTube SEO & Transporter Effect

20 Video Editing Secrets from 1000 VideosA lot of people tend to search for tips or tutorials on that "big thing" or that one magic technique that is going to give a final professional polish to their videos.The truth is that if you look carefully at videos that have that professional polish there is no "one big thing" making them look that way.Those kinds of … [Read more...] about The Friday Roundup – Video Editing Secrets & FFmpeg in Audacity

Why Your #Shorts Views Flatline when You UploadShorts on YouTube have been around for over two years now and the bottom line is that people are still trying to work out how to make them work properly.I think part of the problem is that YouTube themselves didn't really know what to do with them so guidance to creators was always a bit unclear.There are many "experts" … [Read more...] about The Friday Roundup – YouTube #Shorts and Text Reveals

Protect Your Channel from Being Hijacked… and possibly deletedAn ever present threat to anyone operating online on any social platform is that of being hacked and having your accounts taken over or deleted.There have been some recent takedowns on YouTube that have garnered more than the usual amount of attention due to the sheer size of the accounts in question.The … [Read more...] about The Friday Roundup – YouTube Security and TikTok Transitions

You're Not Boring… But You Don't Understand CreativityThere is a false idea that has perpetuated probably for thousands of years that creative people are somehow blessed with some kind of creative trait or deviation from the norm that makes them that way.This is why a lot of people think they are not "creative enough" to come up with ideas or feel they have run out of … [Read more...] about The Friday Roundup – Understanding Creativity and Transition Tips