Some Simple Ways You Can Help Promote TPW
Hello friends! And you know I mean that with the deepest sincerity, you are all in many ways closer to me than most people in ‘real life’. I know we have a variety of users of different ages using different devices, some who social medialize, some who do not (you smart bastards you), and well… though we are all fairly like minded, we are all quite different. This leads me to the point of ways to promote TPW, which has become one of my main goals (outside all the other ones) recently. Here’s a quick list of easy things you can do if you are able/willing that can increase our traffic:
*Share posts on social media. Either as standalone posts or you can always retweet my @ProgressiveWing posts of the day if you find them agreeable enough. Also, I will become better about updating facebook (I did it today), so if you head over to https://www.facebook.com/TheProgressiveWing you can share a post, or just do as many others do and post the link directly to your page.
*Click links. Any links. If its a link to a candidate, an organization, anything…. click it. You dont necessarily have to spend time reading everything on said site, but if you leave it open in the side browser for a few minutes, it does help. Analysis will show said site owners where the clicks from and how long we stayed there, thus giving them reason to link back to us.
*Like Comments/Posts. Now Im not saying like something you disagree with or just dont think should be here… but if you do enjoy said post.. go ahead and give it a like as that kind of think feeds into a positive feedback loop making content creators more willing to create said content.
*Tell your friends about us! I know for one, I dont talk about politics to many of my friends or coworkers. It ends in disaster. But when I have a like minded friend who is looking for information or who may be misinformed… I send them this way. Most lurk, but hopefully more and more come out of the shadows soon. If anyone has signup issues, send them to the tpwhelpdesk as I can fix the problem in near minutes now!
*Goodle/Yahoo/Bing/Whatever search for TPW, The Progressive Wing, whatever. Click our main links. Once again this helps with keeping us up in the rankings and more likely to be run across.
Any other suggestions?! Would love to hear them!
Thanks for hearing me out! Would love to hear your thoughts/suggestions/etc.
Quick question for now, am running around, but I’ve always wondered if, in the case of the videos, youtube videos for example, whether or not it counts as a ‘view’ if you don’t watch the whole video? For their metrics?
Do they track how many seconds each ‘viewer’ actually watches the video?
Do you know LD?
As always, thank you for what you do LD. I hope you’re almost back to 100%! Much strength to you my birdie friend.
And thank you to each and every one of you who are reading these words rn. Because if you’re reading then chances are you’re cool too.
The youtube algorithms vary, and Ive learned quite a bit about it and the ad revenue models over the years as Ive grown to watch more and more ‘youtube vloggers’ who have made careers out of it.
If you click a video and watch the entire thing, the creator gets a much higher percentage of whatever revenue (if not demonetized for whatever reason). Depending on the length of a video if you skip around its a percentage. If you choose to skip an ad and get back to a video after the 4 second option, the creator does not get as much revenue back.
Theres plenty of youtubers who make millions based solely off of stuff like video game reviews. For a while it was a model that could support people like TYT, Tim Black, Humanist Report, etc… without too many other avenues of income coming in, but thats all changing and it will be interesting to see how things turn out.
Subscriptions and upvotes are a major deal as well so if you like a video…. uprate it and if you like the creator, subscrib you can disable notifications if annoying but it does a lot to help a channel. I dont know if comments are figured into things but it probably does not hurt. When it comes to subscriptions there thare tier syste, 10k, 50k, 250k, a million, etc… that all comes into play, as well as video length itself. If you notuce most videos tend to be right at the 10 minute mark.
One of the people Ive enjoyed watching for some time is Boogie2988 (over 4 million subsribers, more than most major celebrities or networks) , who is just a ‘real person’ who happens to e a nerd like me. He broke down the old model in this video, but it has since changed much less in favor of content creators:
you can always turn the sound off if a part is boring or irritating.
yes, many times even if its a video Im not particularly interested in but its by someone who deserves some income, I’ll open a video in a new tab and let it run through completely with the sound off. This also allows the ads to play through their 30 second cycles instead of the 5 second skippable ones which dont have as much impact.
Thanks! Very instructive.
I think I’ll try to follow pb’s advice and turn down sound for ads so my peeps get more revenue (and try to see it through).
Ditto all of this. I realized I don’t really want to leave cuz it’s like morning coffee with a bunch of friends. (or evening catch up) Love you all!
My camping buddy just asked for your URL–yay!
I’m not cyber agile/nimble like a lot of you are. So I promote TPW the “old fashion” way: word of mouth. Glad to do it, too. 🙂