I paid a guy in India

I forgot to mention last week I was contacted by a guy that worked for a company that specializes in optimizing SEO (search engine optimization) for YouTube channels. After vetting his work and having him tweak one of my existing videos I agreed to pay for his services. He said it was $75 a month. My thought was if the tweaking he does helps the growth of the channel and subsequently the income it produces by more than $75 I would be ok with the service. In order to do this I had to give him edit access to my channel which meant he could tweak titles, descriptions and tags but could not do things like delete videos. I was skeptical but willing to give it a shot.

So the guy gets to work, optimizing 20 of my videos to increase their SEO. He showed me the before and after SEO scores which was a big difference. I told him that was great but I I now needed to see if it changed the views or money output of them. He said he could do another 50 videos for $100. That was when I slammed on the brakes.

I told him that his services were presented as a monthly service where he would go into a new content I posted and do the tweaks. Instead it had now mutated into a per video pricing structure. I told him I did not appreciate the games. He tried to say that he was not misleading but he obviously was. I removed his edit access and blocked him.

The interaction however did open my eyes more to things I could be doing to make the channel perform better. I have signed on with a site that contains tools to do exactly what this guy was doing for way less. We will see if it bears any fruit.