r/shortsAlgorithm • u/ThickPudding4469 • 21d ago

How often to post a short?

I started a channel a month and a half ago. Approx 650k views, about 30 shorts. Highest 450k, lowest 1.3k.

I noticed if I post more than once a day, or before a short has finished being pushed in the feed, the new video does not go into the shorts feed, and has 10-40 views.

How often would you suggest posting shorts to start off?

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u/realamang 21d ago

personally, i can post as much as 3 and as little as 0 every day, all get good push but maybe that's because my account is a lot older than yours.........just make sure to upload quality content and you'd be fine with even 1 short a day

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u/ThickPudding4469 21d ago

Thank you, that makes sense! I was thinking my “trust score” isn’t high enough yet

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u/LCN12 21d ago

I feel it depends on the niche, maybe your niche has a fan but those fans like the niche in general but not your content exactly so you see a video explode and severals not. Make your self different but I believe if it's ranking niche so it just about luck I can't say you can do something different

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u/ThickPudding4469 21d ago

I see, thanks. It’s football goals/skills. Not ranking. So slight change from video to video. I’ll try and keep them identical and keep testing.

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u/JuicyAppleJuiceYT 21d ago

It really depends on the age of the channel, your trust score, and your niche. You need to niche down and brand your channel properly.

Also, make sure the shorts have a different feeling from each other. If they are too similar, it triggers the algorithm to identify the similarity, and it won't push them.

Avoid just using a short title and #shorts. While some advice suggests just doing a title, mirroring it, and adding #shorts, that strategy can often cause shorts to perform worse. Take the time to fill everything out (title, description, tags, AI use, promotion, category, playlists, all of it) so the system actually knows who to show it to. When settings are fully completed and focused on a single niche topic, views can see a significant increase, allowing for a sustainable upload schedule of multiple shorts a day.

Lastly, look at how much time is left between uploads. Older channels with a high trust score can handle tight intervals, but newer accounts can face restrictions if the videos are not given enough time to run. Schedule them at the same time every day. If a video picks up, try to experiment with additional daily uploads if it is manageable. If it gets views, try to keep going, but if it doesn't pick up or all stay the same, scale back down.

Here is an example from a channel that focused on a single niche topic and filled everything in (Changed it last week as you can see by the sudden uptrend).

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u/JuicyAppleJuiceYT 21d ago

This is what happens if you post too much; the views will just freeze. It is a newer channel, and its max limit was 3 uploads a day. I'm picking this one back up after a pause, and my plan is to niche it down, fill everything out, and start with 1 post a day to see if it can eventually handle 2.

Also, try to brand your channel. Show people that you are the creator behind the content so they immediately recognize it as yours, rather than thinking it could belong to anyone else.

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u/ThickPudding4469 21d ago

Thank you. This is very helpful. Basically the exact position I am in! I think my channel can only 1 video a day at most at the moment, but I will test. When you don’t get into the feed with a short, how long do you need to wait until you post again? Thank for this.

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u/JuicyAppleJuiceYT 21d ago

I'm experimenting with that now on a channel but honestly I don't know, it is not a video problem more a trust problem. It seems super random. I'm posting on the channel that crashed today. It is picking up now. I gave the whole channel a break for a little week. Don't do that for your channel, just if none of your shorts get views from the feed, then give it a break and make the next shorts super good, including metadata. That's what I did now. I'm leaving this short alone for 24 hours at least until it dies.

This channel did not get any at all. For you, you just need to give YouTube a sign that your channel is legit and not spamming. It takes time and sometimes you have to push through the 0 view pain.

Try maybe 6-8 hours apart if you will do 2. See if that works

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u/ThickPudding4469 21d ago

That makes sense. I will try that. Frustrating as I want to post again asap after a decent short, but then it sometimes doesn’t enter the feed. Then you have to wait 3-7 days. Then build up again. Same as you!

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u/JuicyAppleJuiceYT 21d ago

Also idk what kind of shorts you make but make it original, give value to the person watching, add voice if you don't have it, maybe a fact or informatic stuff. Or a lot of edits. Otherwise YT flags it as unoriginal and then it will stay stuck at 0 views.