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Video: Brian Dean on growing YouTube subscribers and the nofollow link change

Brian Dean has a pretty impressive YouTube channel with almost 275,000 subscribers. He asked to come to my New York office and sit down and chat. So I obviously asked him how he got so many subscribers.

In short, he said it is about making some really good quality videos that get the user’s attention right away and you convince them to listen through the whole video. If you can get a few videos that make it big, it can help grow your YouTube subscriber base. This is something that I am working on my channel.

We also chatted about nofollow link attribute change from a few months ago. It was an interesting conversation and the first vlog I did from my office.

I started this vlog series recently, and if you want to sign up to be interviewed, you can fill out this form on Search Engine Roundtable. You can also subscribe to my YouTube channel by clicking here.

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Barry Schwartz
Barry Schwartz is a technologist and a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics.

In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.

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