It is nothing new about “Slap” thingy. Either Google Slap, WordPress Slap or YouTube Slap, as long as they feel that you are not adhere to their Online terms and conditions, they would terminate your account immediately without any warning. Many internet marketers’ accounts have been terminated in this case. I think I should blog a little bit about it and let you have a better idea when want to do video marketing at Youtube.

Video marketing is very powerful marketing technique and Youtube is definitely the first choice of channel for uploading the videos. However, following by the Youtube slap, here are few things you must know before doing video marketing at youtube.

If you are a new user with no account at youtube at all
1) Only 1 youtube account on your ISP (internet service provider). If you have ore than one account, then you are asking for trouble!
2) NEVER spam your video description, title or tags with keywords
3) NEVER purchase youtube views
4) NEVER use software to add friends, comments, ratings automatically
5) NEVER upload duplicate content
6) Use your channel for more than just marketing… provide real value and don’t make your channel look like a sales pitch
7) Think long term with Youtube.. You are going to be using Youtube strictly for branding purposes

If you currently have 1 or more active Youtube channels
1) Shut all but one down account ESPECIALLY if you created them all with the same email address!
2) If the one Youtube account you’re going to keep has the same email as any other account you’re deleting, create a new email address and change your Youtube account’s email address immediately
3) Call your ISP and see if you can get a new IP address (remember, only 1 youtube account per IP and if you have multiple accounts, you will want to change your IP address immediately)
4) No spammy videos, no friend adders, no buying views, no using software to automate anything, no duplicate content, and only provide value with no sales pitch

IF, if your account has been suspended by youtube (victim of Youtube Slap!), then you have no choice but to start over on Youtube again!

Basic Youtube Guidelines
1) Provide value and build your online presence / brand
2) No more auto-software
3) No more spam
4) No more friend stealers
5) No buying views
6) Only 1 account with 1 email address

So, next time when you see a video that prompt you the sentence like “the video has been removed due to violation of terms and conditions”, then you know what happened. ;)

I’ve talked to my sis once and I knew that some of them only want to share their blog to few of the close friends and they are not intend to “market” their site. In this case, I recommend you don’t read the following suggestions for building a high traffic website. In fact, I believe when the time they saw my title of “build a high traffic website”, they don’t even click on this post. :)

Recently, I have some friends ask me about how to attract more traffic to the website. Remember, build a site for your business is only the very first step. After you have a website for your online business, the process won’t just stop there but now is just the beginning. I still remember why I want to learn about internet marketing. When the time I joined some programs, I thought everything was just so simple like stated in their site that I don’t need any experiences or knowledge. But after I’ve explored more, I found that many things I needed to learn about and one of the thing I needed to know is how to build a high traffic website or blog.

Here are my 3 simple basic suggestions to attract more traffic to our sites.

1. Create valuable content
Strong content is universally valued. It’s always hard work to create it, but in the long run it generates lots of long term referral traffic. It’s not easy for me to understand the sentence of “create valuable content” when I was just get started. It seems so easy yet so difficult. I don’t know what content should I write about for this blog. I have then decided to share my learning experiences on internet marketing and hope others may gain some ideas from my blog.

Every time I write my content, I would assume that I’m writing for my friends who are interested to know what have I learned in internet marketing. Assuming they are reading my blog and they will get something from the reading. It’s very important when I have this in my mind. It’s kind of motivation and also my way to have better content articles.

I believe when you focus on providing real value content, your readers will notice.

2. Create timeless content
It is always better for us to write about something still providing real value and may still be read by people after many years. Unless your site is doing about news or current events, otherwise you should try to write content that is intended to be timeless.

I always try to have content that may be readable in future and at least when people read about my post one year later they still feel that it’s useful.

3. Know why you want a high traffic site
Only knowing the way to attract traffic to your site is not enough and it’s only a bridge to your main purpose. What is your main purpose of having the high traffic? You must know very clearly what kind of traffic you want and what the traffic can bring you.

If you have a business website that offer some products or services at your site, you should know that once you get the high traffic, the traffic must be able to bring you sales. Otherwise the high traffic would means nothing. Therefore, if you succeed in building high traffic website, you must respect this position and serve the best.

Of course there are many other factors to take into consideration for website traffic. However, I think the above are the most important and basic rules that we should take care of. If we could consistently apply the above to our sites or blogs, I believe it helps in long run.

I would like to share with you the two videos about website traffic that I find them very useful.

For more about website traffic, you can read my posts at Website Traffic at Mompreneur Asia.

Google Alerts is very user friendly and it is kind of email updates based on your choice of query or topic. From the form, you just need to key in the search terms that you would like to receive email updates. For example, you want to know the latest relevant Google results for SEO. So, you just need to key in SEO or Search Engine Optimization in the Search terms . “SEO” and “Search Engine Optimization” would give you totally different email updates from Google.

There are few types for you to choose from. The choices included News, Blogs, Web, Comprehensive, Video and Groups. You may wish to choose the type of information you like to get based on the search term and your niche. Also, you could receive the mails on daily or weekly basis.

I’ve read an article by Saikat Basu about “10 Uses of Google Alerts For A Freelancer”. He has very good points about why we should use Google Alerts and also some tips to manage Google Alerts.

Make Google Alerts your virtual research assistant

Google Friend Connect is very user friendly and it allows you to sign in with your Google, Yahoo, AIM or OpenID account. You can interact with other visitors by making friends, sharing media, posting comments, playing games, and more. Another great thing is you may invite friends from other social networks and contact lists to join your site or blog.

Here is the video by Google

If you have joined this social site,  I would like to connect with you too. Just leave me a message here and I will join yours.

Happy Connection!

Google SEO Webmaster Help Center

Google Webmaster Tools at Youtube – Total 14 videos

Matt Cutts joined Google as a software engineer in January 2000. He is currently the head of Google’s Webspam team.

Google guru Matt Cutts discusses how best to optimize your site for Google

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