Yeah I was one of the many who received this shitgram in my email from YouTube.
It's not that big a deal because I don't rely on YT for any kind of income, but it's still a kick in the nards, eh?
Mindset and Motivation
With anything worth doing we will get knocked back and question why we even try.
Things like this can be amplified in our minds.
But that is because we look how far we have to go rather than how far we have already travelled.
Digital Sharecropping
Never tie your fortunes to any one platform (including/especially Steemit).
The rules can change over night and what was previously a mainstay can become a liability.
Without the Steemit income potential would you still blog here? For most of us I doubt it. My metrics have never included any click throughs from my Steemit posts in my top 1,000 traffic sources so I stopped including links out, which makes it self fulfilling. I have never seen a Steemit post in a google search.
At least even without monetization, YouTube still ranks and allows you to be discovered.
That said, both should be used to attract an audience to your home base, and from that home base build a list.
Never rely on a platform you own for
- Traffic
- Monetization
- Engagement
- Loyalty