Internet Marketing | YouTube Video Sites NOT Worth The Trouble

I’ve had a couple of emails recently promoting software that allows you to automatically build video blog sites by grabbing YouTube videos, author info, and comments, and throwing in a heap of Adsense ads around them…

Now if you think that seems like a good idea and could generate a lot of traffic/clicks for your Adsense ads… PLEASE remember one thing before you go ahead and buy (and especially even resell this software):

Aggregating a bunch of embedded YouTube videos with the intention of earning ad revenue from them, is AGAINST Google’s Terms of Service.

Specifically…

What kinds of commercial uses of the YouTube website are prohibited, and which aren’t?

We’ve recently updated our Terms of Use to clarify what kinds of uses of the website and the YouTube Embeddable Player are permitted. We don’t want to discourage you from putting the occasional YouTube video in your blog to comment on it or show your readers a video you like, even if you have general purpose ads somewhere on your blog. We will, however, enforce our Terms of Use against, say, a website that does nothing more than aggregate a bunch of embedded YouTube videos and intentionally tries to generate ad revenue from them.

See the original here.

Now I don’t know about you… but I do NOT want to risk getting the biggest Google slap of all and getting my Adsense income stream canned!!!

(Stephen Spry is the proprietor of Come On Aussie Internet Services, an Australian web design business. His main blog is the Internet Marketing Toolbox.)

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