Just had my account closed at youtube.

Right I have had a reply back but it is very unsatisfactory.

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This is beyond me. I really have no idea on gods earth why they would say that.
I had one video up there warning people about a camera I bought and some problems that I had with it. That video has been there for about 5 months.
A video with me talking about a free report that I am writing.
Then this week I used some robot software which just talks some articles from my blog.
?????
So six videos in all.
Maybe the camera one broke some rules, but I don't think so. I have seen much worse on there.
If this stands, then I can no longer use youtube and this is a massive blow to me. A lot of my future plans involved youtube.

Sign up to Tubemogul (it's free) and you can upload your videos en masse to lots of other video sites such as Daily Motion and Metacafe.



Lynn

If you use a different email address there's no way for them to connect your new account to the old one.

That's true for most online services. If you get suspended, get a new email address and sign up again.

The thread however shows one thing clearly:
Do not rely on other people's web sites ever to build your business.
Focus on building your own web real estate.

Use other sites like Youtube, Twitter etc. only as part of your marketing, never let any one of them become too important for your business.

Ralf

If this is what you did, it might be the reason why you got nailed.

Just like the assorted programs that made "made for Adsense" sites en masse, YouTube/Google may have decided that the foot print you left with the robot fit their "spammer" profile. Guilt by association.

If that was it, good luck getting an account reinstated. A couple of years ago, I cheesed off a guy that was scraping my sites and stripping the links, claiming the articles as his own. I reported the sites I found doing it and he retaliated by click-frauding me to smithereens. Even though Google acknowledged that I did nothing wrong, they still said I represented a threat to their advertisers. So no Adsense account for John...

There are a handful of sites that, for me at least, merit submitting by hand, and YouTube is one of them...

I know EXACTLY why they terminated your account.

Copied Verbatim from YouTubes Terms of Service:

"You agree not to use or launch any automated system, including without limitation, "robots," "spiders," or "offline readers," that accesses the Website in a manner that sends more request messages to the YouTube servers in a given period of time than a human can reasonably produce in the same period by using a conventional on-line web browser."

I would say they banned you for their part bolded up top.

I do not think it is all bad news. I would try to sign up for a new account on a different computer. If you follow there terms of service they probably will let the new account remain.

Hi Andy

Sorry to hear about your hassles, YT do themselves no favours with this kind of stupidy because people simply sign up again and make the same mistakes, at least tell poeple what the actual problem is so they can improve in my thoughts.

That said, two issues.

1) Video Article Robot is used by a friend of mine to a LOT of video sites incluing YT and he tells me he's had no issues so I just can't see that it got you banned but you just never know. I would wager it was more the content than the process, Tubemogul has a footprint the size of a Yeti and I've had no problems with mass submissions.

2) I would ask YT as to which video it was that got you banned, explain that you have carefully read the T&C and simply can't see any rules you broke and could they please give you some idea as to what element of which video caused the issue

3 You are FAR from banned from YT, simply go grab yourself a half dozen proxies or if you can simply reflush your IP on your router, use a new e-mail address with a new IP address and set yourself up a new account.

Meanwhile on a slightly different note, I work with a guy who does the same thing as Video Article Robot but manually, bottom line how long does it really take to simply talk into a microphone and read your article yourself versus that canned robot version, such a short amount of time in reality and it will get listened so much more and rated so much more highly.

Some short cuts are worth taking, others simply don't really save that much time and you'll get a much better conversion from a static image accompanied by a real voice than you will from metal mickey reading your blog post out.

Danger Will Robinson....

That would of course entirely depend on the article being converted into the video, video "articles" especially those that are done with a little TLC, ie relevent images / diagrams etc to add benefit to the audio are quality content, certainly not crap .

If you simply cut and paste some half arsed blog post into an article to video bot then yeah, crap sort of comes to mind.

I'm really pleased to hear that, Andy. I thought at the time that closing an entire account for what could well just have been one submission that they didn't like was a bit extreme. It seemed to me like they were cutting off their own noses to spite their faces - maybe they took another look and thought the same. It's a bit skanky that they won't tell you what the problem was though. That's a ridiculous way to treat people if they don't want to invite them to do more of the same.

Well done on getting reinstated

Did you send them a second email, or did they just reinstate it out of the blue? I really hate that Google/Youtube is not obligated to tell you why they cancelled an account!

However, from what everyone here says it certainly sounds like the robot articles were the issue, and I agree with the goal of not filling up the internet with spam content of no value.

I just wish Youtube would simply say so, so you could fix the problem.

Were the videos just for your use only or were they videos that others could purchase as well?

If there were others who also had rights to these videos then it's likely that the reason your account was closed was because there were other users out there that submitted the same video.

Making sure everything is 100% unique will sure help in the long run.

Just happen to me today too. Had purchased a bunch of review Amazon videos here. Uploaded a batch of 10 to a new keyword targeted YT account over the course of a week. The first batch of 5 had my own redirect link and a link to a Blog post. Got a little lazy with the second batch and just used a bit.ly link. Uploaded the 2nd batch over 2 days. Got 1 flagged by the 'YT Community?' each day, and they were the recent ones with the bit.ly links. The 'flagging' was virtually within hours of uploading.

I'm suspended right now.

BTW, those videos were not uploaded as is, I had edited them a little, and added some extra content.