... no escape
An old Chinese saying goes like this, “Kill the chicken and the monkey will take warning.”
Last week (5/13/09) a guy named Brian from MLMLeadSystemPRO.com humbly and graciously related in a webinar how his very substantial amount of work promoting his product/service on YouTube was “slaughtered.”
The great YouTube banned him.
After a chuckle for whatever the guy did, we can learn from his experiences and recommendations. Among them were these:
1) Open only one YouTube account using your internet service provider.
2) No keyword spamming in your video titles, descriptions, or tags. Similarly, no uploading of duplicate content. In fact, if you’ve been banned, you can’t put the same videos back. (Email address(es) used and profile links are also virtually banned.)
3) No purchases of YouTube views.
4) Provide value to the viewer, not sales pitches … presumably unless spoofing sales pitches.
5) No automatic software to add friends, comments. Brian even recommended not using Traffic Geyser to add videos.
Of course, some or all of this is common sense and may be derived from YouTube rules, but hearing it from a guy that was busted somehow seems to drive it home to us “monkeys.” You video marketing experience will be better for heeding the warning.
Peter Rubel
Tags: spamming, video marketing, YouTube
