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So Dr. Angie Stone says, Brian, I just learned that YouTube now looks into affiliate description links

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and we'll stop promoting those channels because they take views off YouTube.

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Just wondered if you know this or if you if you know this.

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Not known.

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And that's not a word.

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So there's a little bit of truth in this, actually.

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And I get a variance of this question from time to time.

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So I wanted to kind of tackle this, but there is some truth to that.

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Now, YouTube does not literally look into into descriptions and stops promoting channels with affiliate

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links in them.

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That is not true.

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OK.

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They don't.

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OK.

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But what they do do is YouTube's number one goal.

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And if you actually look at the YouTube terms of service and their privacy policy and all sorts of things,

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their number one goal is to keep viewers on the platform watching longer.

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Right.

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Because then they make more money because then they can show them more ads.

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Right.

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That's YouTube's number one goal.

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So because of that, they have shifted the algorithm to reward channels and reward videos that keep

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viewers watching longer and on the platform.

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Right.

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So while YouTube does not look in the end like scan and crawl the each description and stops promoting

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those those videos that are linking to a bunch of affiliate links, it does not do that.

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But what the algorithm does do is if a video has more YouTube or if it has more links in general, not

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just affiliate links that take people and take traffic from that video off of YouTube.

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Well, just because you the whole and the whole reason of the algorithm is to keep people on YouTube

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so that YouTube algorithm is not going to reward that video.

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OK.

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I kind of got a little bit of you know, I kind of touched on that a little bit quickly on trying to

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say is no, YouTube does not scan the links in descriptions and stops promoting videos that does that.

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But if your video has a bunch of links in its description, then chances are there's more of a chance

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that you will drive traffic from that video off of YouTube.

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So the algorithm will not reward you.