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Originally Posted by isteve
I am very sorry to say this, but you are wrong. Most big tubes receive 10-15% of their traffic on their homepage and their category/tags pages. Everything else is on their video pages... and that traffic builds up if you have more videos that target more longtail keywords.
In 1999, people were building sites that were targetting some keywords, submit them to link list and forget about them... to gain SE traffic. Tubes are not different in that aspect: they build up their content to target multiple long tail keywords and get more SE traffic.
If you delete old videos from the tube sites, they will lose the long tail keywords in SEs.
Oh, and you can't expect a tube owner that have a site worth multiple million dollars to change its business model just because you want to. They will simply stop doing business with you.
However, I believe your idea is very good for a different type of site: mine. I currently don't allow video uploads for legal reasons but will do again in the near future... and you will be able to add/delete videos whenever you want.
The reason why I want to do it that way is that I promote my site in social networks, not in search engines. That means that people visit a particular page because it is CURRENTLY hot and trendy. Your idea fits perfectly with this. Have a look in my signature to see the site.
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I agree with most of this, but I am not sure about this.
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Originally Posted by isteve
"Oh, and you can't expect a tube owner that have a site worth multiple million dollars to change its business model just because you want to. They will simply stop doing business with you"
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A lot of multimillion dollar tube sites are spending a lot of money reaching out to content producers to satiate their surfers consumption. If they didn't have to reach out, they wouldn't be. That act of reaching out means that there exists a negotiation, I just hope that the content producers of this business are smart enough to realize that and take advantage.
Tube sites have a low barrier of entry, that is a scary place to be if you are on the internet and what to keep operating and billing (even advertisers) in countries that you want to spend time in or have your money in.
Evolution is possible.