Should we move old videos from 1 YouTube channel to new channel , so that old videos ranking does not get affected?
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I would not recommend doing this.
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Huh, that's a very clever idea. I don't think it will work though! What you are saying is that, only a few videos on a channel sit on that channel's main feed, which is where the channel most prominently links to them. Once videos get older, they kind of 'fall off' the channel's front-page feed, and thus get less link-juice. Is that right?
The thing is, your main (first) channel has inbound links pointing to it -right? And some of those videos also have backlinks too, if they are very popular. That's what makes them rank well (that and YouTube internal metrics like comments and shares and stuff).
If you move popular videos to a new channel, their URLs will change. That means that any backlinks pointed at your video (or the channel which links to the video) will be 'cut off' from the videos new placement. As such I'd expect this move, to see even worse rankings (not better ones)
It's a clever idea, I can see what you are saying - but no I wouldn't recommend it and I don't think it would work out as you had intended
Keep thinking in that way, it's smart. But on this particular occasion, no don't do it
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