💡 I have an idea to help grow your YouTube channels

I want to run it by you all, and would love your honest thoughts.

As you may or may not know, NewTubers is a public community, which means posts here are indexed by Google and increasingly by AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, etc.

Here is an example of a post getting indexed for search (if you know how SEO works already, you can skip ahead):

Whenever someone creates a post in this community, there certain words that will emerge as “key words.” These are the words in the text that say “Hey! THIS is what the post is about!”

So that post becomes a piece of searchable content on the open web. Google sees it. AI tools see it. Then someone searches Google or uses an AI tool, and maybe some words in their search query match some of the keywords in the post. That, along with some other factors like “is the post useful/helpful/accurate/popular/etc,” all contribute to the possibility that the search tool recommends the post as one of the search results.

So, what’s the big idea here?? 👀

What if members could use this community as a place to post write-ups of their YouTube videos? A short summary, some key takeaways, a link back to the video — written in a way that's helpful AND searchable. It wouldn't replace your YouTube SEO work, but it could give each video an extra shot at being found on Google and in AI-generated answers.

Someone searching for the topic you cover in your video COULD land on the post before they even land on the video itself, but then could follow the link straight to the video. Personally when I search things, I am usually not immediately thinking about looking for a video on the topic, but when I come across one in the process I will sometimes choose to watch it rather than keep reading.

From another angle, search engines look for connections between seemingly “unrelated” pages in order to improve search results. Connections are established when there’s a link on one page that takes you to the other page. These are called “back links.”

Take two videos for example. Assume they are on the same topic, similar level of production quality, etc. All things are equal, except that one of the videos has zero back links, while the other video is referenced in blog posts, Reddit posts, and social media posts. So long as all of those posts are more or less helpful and authentic (aka not AI hot garbage or repetitive spam posts), then the search engines see this as positive signals that it MUST be a good video, it must have SOME merit, otherwise why would so many pages link back to it?

But wait… there’s a THIRD way this helps your videos. 😁

Anytime one of the first two things happen (someone finds the post and then goes to your video through the link, OR the search tool directly recommends your video in the search results and they decide to click and watch it), this gives the YouTube algorithm more data on your video. YouTube sees what kind of viewer sought out your video topic, what kind of viewer decided to stay and watch for a while, what kind of viewer engaged with your content by liking, commenting, subscribing, hyping, etc, and all of that helps YouTube know WHO ELSE to promote your video to. You see how this could create a tailwind effect? Do you see how this could help you grow your YouTube channel?

If done right, this could be a powerful opportunity to help boost the long term performance of your videos.

Before I go any further with this, I genuinely want to know what YOU think.

❓ Does this sound useful to you?

❓ Would you actually do it?

❓ Any concerns I should know about?

❓ Would you want help crafting these posts, or would you prefer to do them yourself?

If we decide to implement this into the community, I would start by posting some examples with my own videos to show you what right looks like, and I would also provide some guidance and tools/templates/prompts to help you get the hang of it.

So, what do you think? No wrong answers, all feedback welcome 🙂

-Woody

P.S.

**One thing I'll address upfront:** I know more posts means more notifications, and nobody wants their phone blowing up.

Here's how to take control of your Skool notifications in about 30 seconds:

1. Click the three lines/hamburger (top corner)

2. Go to **Settings → Notifications**

3. Customize exactly what you get alerted on — new posts, comments, mentions, etc.

You're in full control. Set it however works for you.

Looking forward to your thoughts on this!

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