actually, it's still throttling, just not up to 301. mosh pit song says 230+ hits - because that's the reach i've got. that was almost 100 yesterday. but they're only counting 13 of those.

they may have changed their metrics. the trailer ought to count as a hit because somebody clicked the name, indicating interest. somebody at youtube may have decided otherwise.

but, as i mentioned, it's the exposure that is important - not the hits. if they want everything to sit at 301, so be it. but that doesn't imply i'm getting less exposure, it just means the site is now useless at measuring it. i mean, the 231 number measures something more *valuable* to me than the 13 number, whether youtube employees think otherwise or not.

so, that's really the conclusion: i should keep trolling, because i'm generating a lot of traffic, but the google analytics are now entirely worthless in measuring that traffic....

i mean, the hit count only meant anything to me in the first place *because* it measured traffic. if it doesn't measure traffic, why would any musician care about it at all?

what i'll say, at the least, is that it breaks the psychological block. i don't care at all anymore because it doesn't mean anything...

if anybody from youtube is spying on me, though, answer me this: how am i now supposed to have an understanding of how many people i'm *reaching* through my youtube advertising?

again: i'm not thinking there's any real conspiracy here, but i do think that the people that work for the company may be living in some kind of lalaland where they think they're running a site where everybody aspires to be that fucking moron with the lightsabers or something.

it's just a lack of any real connection to reality.

marketing reach is important. how many people explicitly clicked the link is not important.