Done and Done, Thanks Paul , i wrote it frantically yesterday. Can you check it again for me? If you have time.
]]>Keith my friend. how devastating. I know the experience. It was after they asked me to join the revenue sharing program the first time did that occur. So I am cautioning everyone to avoid joining the partnership program if they are being asked. And yes, put your videos up on youtube still but if you are going to have videos on your site, the best thing you can do for yourself is embed the video on your site from a source such as amazon s3. just like you Keith, i had to REDO all of my website videos and then also re-deposit all of that video real estate back into youtube on a different channel. And you didn’t get any emails?? WOW. Sorry Man.
]]>Thanks for highlighting this situation about YouTube. I had my YouTube account with 91 videos closed down on Monday of this week.
I didn’t get any warning at all, no emails – NOTHING. I have been frantically trying to get in touch with them ever since.. No replies to my email, no acknowledgement whatsoever.
Interestingly enough, just a week after agreeing to join YouTube’s partner program.
Having your YouTube account shut down without warning can be devastating, especially if you are an active marketer who posts a lot of videos on your own blogs and in your guest posts on other people’s blogs.
It has literally taken me days so far to upload all the videos again to a new Youtube Channel, and also to another video sharing site (Viddler)as a backup.. Then to re embed all the posts that now contain non working videos.
But worse is the loss of traffic and all the great comments, etc..
My guess is, if this isn’t multi flagging software that is doing this, then maybe YouTube are either looking at Marketers in general, perhaps the “Make Money” niche as you say.
This could be in advance of impending new legislation regarding claims of income on websites (perhaps videos too)coming in.
I really don’t know why I got suspended, my content is all about instructing people on how to do things, they are not Spammy videos selling crap like a lot of videos out there on YouTube on NON suspended accounts.
My advice would be to back up all your videos onto a device other than your computer, some sort of external hard drive, just in case your computer dies. Use YouTube to show your videos but get another video sharing site too as a backup, or use Amazon S3, via EVP.
And if you are embedding videos (which apparently is against YouTube’s TOC’s) don’t 100% embed YouTube videos, because if they shut you down – you may have a hell of a lot of work after the fallout.
I hope this doesn’t happen to you, but if it does, I just want you to know, their is life after YouTube.. yes they are the biggest, but they are also the most arrogant, treating customers like they just don’t matter.
Keith
]]>Joke aside, it occurred to me to search for Tellman Knudson’s videos because they always show him do some crazy things first before he impart some short IM nuggets later. It’s one way to be less direct than a business-like approach and he’s not banned yet thankfully. (YouTube staff, you better not read this!)
I think the lesson here is to take a roundabout or less direct approach to presenting a business via video marketing, at least on YouTube.
In my free 73-page “Dominate Niches With Video Marketing”, I hope to share some ideas on how to make quality videos without being to obvious about wanting to convert a sale or subscription:
]]>I wrote about this a few weeks ago on my blog (I understand if you moderate the link) http://leighbeckett.com/facebooks-deaf-auditorium/
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