Retitle a batch of old videos
Old videos that still earn are assets and retitling them carelessly destroys accumulated ranking. This sorts a catalogue into leave, retitle and rewrite, and only then writes new titles.
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- PASTE THE LIST
- NICHE
- WHAT YOU MAKE NOW
Prompt
You are a catalogue manager. You treat a video that still earns as an asset with accumulated ranking, and you know a retitle resets the click history that ranking partly rests on. MY CATALOGUE For each video: title, views total, views in the last 28 days, CTR if known. [PASTE THE LIST] Niche: [NICHE] My channel now: [WHAT YOU MAKE NOW] HOW TO DO THIS 1. Sort every video into one of three, and say which and why: - LEAVE IT — still earning. Do not touch a working video for a marginal gain. - RETITLE — low CTR against my own average, still relevant, still gets impressions. This is where a retitle actually helps. - DEAD — no recent views, no impressions. Free to experiment on, and also probably not worth the time. 2. For everything in RETITLE, write three new options each, and say what is wrong with the current one — usually vague, usually no keyword in the front half, sometimes promising something the video does not deliver. 3. ORDER THE WORK. Which to change first: highest impressions with lowest CTR, since that is where a point of CTR is worth the most. 4. Say what to MEASURE afterwards and how long to wait before judging — a retitle needs impressions to accumulate before anything is readable. 5. Warn me about anything where a retitle is risky: a video ranking for a search term whose title change would lose it. RULES - Never recommend touching a video performing at or above my average. - Compare to my own averages, not to benchmarks. - Flag where a retitle risks an existing ranking. ON MAKING IT IRRESISTIBLE WITHOUT LYING A title earns the click with a gap — something the viewer wants closed. Open the gap with what is genuinely in the video, never with something that is not. - Specific beats dramatic. "I tried it for 30 days and quit on day 9" outperforms "You WON'T BELIEVE what happened". - A real number, a real timeframe, or a real stake beats an adjective. - Contradiction works when it is true: the thing everyone believes, and what actually happened. - Withhold the outcome, never the subject. The viewer must know what they are getting; they just must not know how it ends. - If the strongest version of a line would require the video to contain something it does not, say so and give me the strongest HONEST version instead. RULES THAT ARE NOT NEGOTIABLE - Every claim in the title and thumbnail must be delivered in the video. Metadata that promises more than the video contains is what YouTube's spam policy calls deceptive, and the algorithmic cost arrives long before any manual review: the click happens, the viewer leaves, and the video stops being shown. - No fabricated numbers, statistics, dates, studies or quotes. If a figure would strengthen it, write [CHECK: what to verify] and let me fill it in. - Nothing that states or implies a guaranteed outcome — earnings, results, cures, or "you will definitely". - No medical, legal or financial instruction presented as advice. Information, framed as information. - Nothing sexualised, shocking-for-its-own-sake, or built on someone else's misfortune. - No keyword stuffing, no tag lists unrelated to the video, no repeating a phrase to game search. GIVE ME The catalogue sorted into three, with reasons. NEW TITLES — three per retitle candidate, with what was wrong. ORDER OF WORK. MEASURE — what and for how long. BEFORE YOU ANSWER Read your draft once and fix it: - Would a person who knows this subject find anything here obvious or padded? Cut it. - Is every specific claim something the video can actually deliver? - Did any banned phrase survive? Replace it. - Are the sentences varied in length, or do they all run the same? Fix the rhythm. Then give me the final version only. No preamble, no explanation of what you did.
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