Thanks for the insight Tiffany. Now that you’ve said this in the way you said it (wait, did I say that right? ), I can now fully understand the “Double Standard-ness” (I can’t spel “Hipokrusy”).

I WILL take your advice, and it was in good timing too, coz as you know I’m “Planning” on doing some free SEO Tips Video stuff. I might just use Amazon S3 more than originally planned.

Gary Anderson II
aka- @GanderCo

I found this link that may help you appeal the video removal:

http://help.youtube.com/support/youtube/bin/request.py?contact_type=tou

Good luck, Tiffany. Your videos are always helpful!

U N B E L I E V A B L E !

What the heck is going on with all these web2 entities nowadays??

They rely 100% on the free contributions of their members for their very existence. Only for as long as we continue to do all the hard work to create their online content, can they continue to earn their advertising revenue.

They create their business on the backs of the members filling the sites with the content they spend time and money creating, without it costing the website property ‘owner’ a cent to get and earn ad revenues from your work …

*YET* … at the blink of an eye, they can delete accounts, freeze pages/blogs, change guidelines that had been studiously followed by honest members …..

I wonder how much longer all the people who spend their time creating content for these sites will continue to bother?

In my cases I have had an account of 87 squidoo lenses frozen, and all the lenses deleted, because they didn’t like a ‘natural skincare’ (!?!?) lens, so the punishment included deleting all the lenses on dozens of other subjects also in the account. At the same time I had yet more Angel Blessings, and even two more nominations made on my behalf for me to become a Giant Squid… all this while they were deleting my account….

This has happened to many, many, many other lensmasters I have spoken to who were shocked to find years of hard work gone because suddenly one lens was re-classified as being a new DON’T subject.

Google Knols were fantastic when first started and I still have my first knols online, even though they are promotional, yet nowadays they will also kill an account without consultation, at the whim of some overzealous ‘hall monitor’

Both Docstock and Scribd all wanted our free ebook content online to be shared, but now will delete books or whole accounts if anyone snippy decides your document has links to a website in it…. so why would you bother creating and publishing these free ebooks if you can’t have a link to your website in it as the creator and publisher of the document?

I have had professionally created videos, that were also loaded to 5+ video syndicates as part of the service, deleted by YouTube and a few others for ‘violation of terms’ that I and the creator have no idea what they are offended by.

Now according to Tiff’s experience Blogger will delete your blog and account without consultation if you only link back to your own site (so does that mean you just have to have other website links, not just your own.. or what the heck was their problem with the Beardy blog. WTF?!?)

Then for the ABSOLUTE cherry on top, Tiff gets her Xomba account deleted by the official ‘moderator’ who later on has to confess that she didn’t even know that you ARE allowed to hyperlink images…. when the *bleep* can uneducated, ignorant so-called moderators massacre someone’s work, when they don’t even know the TOU for that web2 property… WTF!?!?!

Who gives them that power and authority without first making sure they at least know what the heck they are doing before they wreak their havoc on members accounts?

I spend my days doing seo work for my sites and my clients, and the websites being seo’d are all great, and rank super-well, get fantastic SERP for their keywords, and I do everything I can by hand, and not much software created stuff is involved in anything I outsource either.

I heavily use all the web2 properties out there to create linkbacks to the money site and put quality content wherever I can, as it pre-sells the visitor before clicking to the money site, and I also want to provide quality content as my “thank you” to the web2 properties that are making their site available …. but after the ad hoc slash and burn mentality out in these web2 properties, I now tend to instead spend my money and time buying space and access to websites that will guarantee my content goes online and STAYS there.

The day someone offers me a Docstock, Scribd, YouTube, etc. type of website that you can ‘buy’ your posting space on them, I’ll be all over it.

Article directories are now so precious about themselves they are hardly worth the effort. Your Eza article will feature in SERP for a few weeks but then they stop showing up often, while other article directories (and blogs I pay to guaranteed my article gets posted to forever) continue to be featured in the SERP for months to come.

Wise marketers will soon realise there is a huge market open to them to provide us with the seo value on their own mega sites, and we will pay if its cheap enough eg: $1 or less per submission to a #range of blogs owned by the operator, to buy the online billboard space for our free ebook download, free videos for public view, articles, mini-site content pages….

As usual we will keep providing great quality free content for all these sites, but in return for a small submission fee, the sites will guarantee that your contribution stays online. You don’t have to buy a website, just pay for your ’space’ on the site for your content to stay live and available for sharing with others.

And if they get paid a contribution for submissions they can afford to have human editors scan all submissions BEFORE they are accepted and put online, which will save deletion of content you have just organized a huge linking or SB campaign to.

The business of web2 properties deleting your contend and changing their terms RETROSPECTIVELY is what suck the most I think.

Get it right the first time…

Don’t accept our submission in the first place if it isn’t what you want, but don’t go and change your mind later and use a hatchet job on good content.

I just can’t get my head around the fact that THEY RELY 100% ON YOUR FREE CONTENT CREATION and then beat up you good guys when the black hat brigade abuses them.

*bleeping* U N B E L I E V A B L E

… taking a deep breath again.

Yes Tiff, much better now that I have stopped hyperventilating!

I think what really got my goat was that apart from expecting us to create all their content for free, when something goes wrong we end up being too afraid to even question them or their actions:

Quote:

Tiffany says:
March 9, 2010 at 6:12 am

I thought about appealing John BUT – I’m also worried that bringing attention to my account might make them ban my whole account or something.

Unquote.

*THAT* is what really kills me, that even after giving them the free content that creates their very business, we are too afraid to even ask them what is going on with OUR creations … working under an atmosphere of fear like that is what most IM’er quit their jobs for in the first place, and now they have that fear hanging over their heads that their income could be gone tomorrow, that they are powerless again.

I really do think that apart from all the hobby players and teen ego pages on web2, there is going to be a massive backlash when the committed genuine IM’ers (like yourself) stop putting their content on these sites, and tell others to stop doing it too.

All these sites are going to once again be crammed with nothing more the unprofessional, truly pathetic one module garbage that most teens and homebody amateurs create for their own egos or because they simply have absolutely no skills or ability. There will be nothing left on any of these sites to make it worth visiting any more…

Professional white-hat Internet marketers like yourself have set the standard in the past, and set the bar very high, for anyone following your trainings.

You would single-handedly have recruited and trained thousands and thousands of good quality lensmasters for Squidoo to benefit from … via your videos, tons of free books, squid flip books, your 4sale squidoo manuals, and your blog…

Then the rot started to set in while you were teaching us all by example for the ‘get your ex back’ squidoo sessions, and they decided that the ‘ex’ subject and products were also now a DON’T, and its all been downhill in the past 12 months, with web2 properties across the board.

And I think that seeing the pounding you have taken over the past few weeks or so with a wide variety of web2 properties has simply stunned me… It simply beggars belief!

I’m going to be all over your new info, looking at it right now. I am already an addicted SiteSell website owner with over a dozen in my portfolio, but finding a ’super simple’ and cheap site service to teach newbies or to create and flip again would be great.

Squidoo used to be so much fun and so profitable!

*taking another deep breath* lol!