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YouTube Slap

Never did I expect to be hit by the YouTube Slap. YouTube Videos, now currently the 3rd most popular website in the world, gave me the slap just before the New Year. Since then, I have practically stopped all internet video marketing and am caught in the lurch. Having been busy with the New Year as well as the Chinese New Year baking cakes and cookies, I have not been able to share my experience about my YouTube problem till now.

Once YouTube gives you the slap, they seem pretty high and mighty. I received an email from them on 30th Dec stating that “The following video(s) from your account have been disabled for violation of the YouTube Community Guidelines. Your account has received one Community Guidelines warning strike, which will expire in six months. Additional violations may result in the temporary disabling of your ability to post content to YouTube and/or the termination of your account.”

Just by reading that email, I never expected anything to happen to my YouTube videos. All I thought was that well, the video in question would be disabled and I’ve got to be extra careful in the next 6 months so as not to cause any temporary disabling or termination of my account… Until a good friend of mine asked me what happened to my YouTube account. Then and only then, WHAM! did I realize that my account had been suspended.

Sending emails to YouTube saw no response at all. When you are doomed, that’s it! I urge all of you to read the YouTube Community Guidelines carefully. It is better to be extra cautious rather than allow YouTube a reason to give you the slap.

At the same time, I have done some research and understand that YouTube has been on the rampage and looking for any and all types of “suspicious” activity so that they have reasons to shut you down. This is especially so for network marketers and those involved in direct sales and online sales. YouTube is aware that this group of members is making money via YouTube video marketing and since YouTube is a free internet site, this means that they are doing it all for free.

I am absolutely sure that after all the efforts of building up your brand and your YouTube channel, you do not want the hundreds of videos and thousands of subscribers you have on YouTube to disappear from the face of the earth. Trust me! It is not a good experience at all, especially just before the New Year. Here I was looking forward to a fantastic year ahead on the one hand and getting slapped right smack across my face on the other.

At the same time, another lesson I take with this is never to upload YouTube videos on your blog. I had done that and now have to get back into my blog to check for any YouTube videos there as they are all not functioning and worse still, when someone clicks to view the video, they see the message “This video has been removed due to terms of use violation.”

So if you want to avoid any YouTube problem especially if you are doing lots of internet video marketing, my suggestion is that you be fully aware of and abide by the YouTube Community Guidelines. Look out for my article “Youtube Videos – How To Beat The Slap” next Monday to avoid getting caught by the YouTube Slap.