15 Oct '12, 1pm

Time Watched Now A YouTube Search Ranking Factor

patrick sexton 10/15/2012 01:23 pm of course it can be spammed. it is only a matter of time... here are some ways to spam it... 1. Pay people to watch it 2. Watch it using proxies 3. Use a cliffhanger... "at the end of this video i tell you how to make a million zillion dollars or you could... Wait for it.... Here it comes... Make the thing interesting enough to actually watch Travis Van Slooten 10/15/2012 03:22 pm I always suspected that time watched was a ranking factor. It's nice to see it's "official." As Patrick Sexton has noted, now that this is a known factor, it's going to get spammed to death. Looks like I'll have to start a new Fiverr gig (only kidding...lol). Travis Van Slooten Syed 10/15/2012 03:49 pm If it wasn't already part of the Youtube algo I would be really, really suprised

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