- I'm going to tell you four things
that tons of content creators do
that can get your channel deleted off of YouTube,
which means all of that hard work
and effort that you're putting into your channel, gone!
It will no longer exist.
So pay attention to all
of the things that I'm going to be talking about here.
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Okay so when you look around YouTube
you're going to see content creators
doing all kinds of crazy things.
And the reason that they're throwing all types
of crazy things is because everybody's trying to grow
and get attention and all that stuff.
But in addition to that
people are doing things that they just don't
know are a huge mistake
and can cost them their YouTube channel.
So we're going to talk about those things
because I know you don't want to lose your YouTube channel.
Do you?
Of course not.
The very first thing on this list
that is extremely common
and I don't know why it's so common.
I don't know if it's because somebody made a video about it
and recommended it.
I don't know if it's because there's just not
enough information out there about it.
I don't know if it's because people misunderstand what tags
and keywords and all that stuff is.
I don't know why, but the thing that can get
your channel deleted is called tag stuffing.
Tag stuffing also known as keyword stuffing
is where instead of using the tag box that YouTube gives us
people cram a bunch of tags or keywords
that they're trying to bring attention to the video for.
They will just cram a bunch
of those down in the video description.
YouTube does not like that
in any content that they find that has the tags piled
up in the description like that is
at risk of being deleted off of YouTube.
In fact, YouTube specifically says,
"The following types of content are not allowed on YouTube
placing excessive tags
in the video description, tag stuffing
rather than placing them as tags upon upload."
It's not allowed on YouTube,
so it's probably a good idea not to put
that into practice at all.
Oh, and really quick.
This is my first time making a video
with this craziness going on in the background.
If it's distracting for you,
or if you think it looks cool
or you think it looks bad,
like whatever your thoughts are
let me do it out on the comments below
because if it's too much, I just won't do it anymore.
But anyway, another thing that can get you in trouble,
so to speak on YouTube is using another
content creators channel name in your tags or metadata.
This also falls under misleading metadata.
So it's something that you want to avoid at all costs.
Never do it for whatever reason, with the exception
of if your video is about a content creator, or
if you're doing a collaboration with that content creator
then it's a little bit different.
But if using tags of other channels
in your tag box or in any of your metadata
for the hope of connecting to their channel in some way
so you can get traffic from it, that's a violation
and you can get in trouble for that as well.
So if you value your YouTube channel in any way
shape or form and all of the hours
and hours and hours that you've spent making videos
for YouTube and growing your online presence
or the plan of growing your online presence
through the content that you're uploading
please don't do those things.
Or the ones that I'm getting ready to mention
like spamming, for example.
And I don't mean like spamming
like thumbs up a bunch type of spanning.
What I'm talking about is what a lot
of specifically new content creators do,
where they go to other YouTube channels
and they say things like, "Sub for sub" or
"Hug for hug", that can get you deleted from YouTube
because you are literally spamming the same comment over
and over again on other YouTube channels.
And as a quick public service announcement
on behalf of myself
and other content creators that take this stuff seriously
when you are in the comments and you're doing that type
of activity, and you're saying sub for sub
and then you change it to hug for hug
because you think it's clever, whatever, we identify that.
And when we do identify that we will block you
or we will report you directly to YouTube
for spamming our YouTube comments and just as a heads up
because you know, you're watching my videos most likely
because you are trying to get some activity
on your YouTube channel
or you're trying to learn more about YouTube.
So just as a heads up
that's also like the slowest possible
way that you can grow your YouTube channel,
it's not going to work.
It never works.
It's not something that's going to help you.
This one, according
to YouTube is called Incentivization Spam.
And what they say about it is this.
I'm going to skip all the stuff up here
at the top, and just go straight to,
"This also
includes content where the only purpose
is to boost subscribers, views, or other metrics,
for example
offering to subscribe to another creators channel
solely in exchange for them subscribing to your channel,
also known as Sub for sub content."
Again, not something that you want to get
into the practice of doing or that you want to do at all.
YouTube also says in another section about comment spam
"The following types of content are not allowed on YouTube.
'Hey guys check out my channel/video here!!'
When the channel or video has nothing to do
with the video that it was posted in."
And look, I know if you're a new content creator
maybe you might've seen other people doing this
and you might think, "Hey, you know, this is what I thought
that you needed to do to grow a YouTube channel.
Oh my gosh, I didn't know it was something wrong.
What am I going to do?"
I do want to just let you know
that YouTube does have a resource for you.
In addition to watching my content
and other people who make content like mine
YouTube has a resource
for you called the YouTube Creator Academy.
They built it for their YouTube content creators.
It's 100% free and it teaches you the best practices
about YouTube, including things like this
that you should not be doing.
Moving along,
the next thing that we have on this list is copyright.
Now there's a lot of myths that are out there
about copyright in terms of what's okay to do,
what's not okay to do.
And I just want to take care of one really quick.
That pops up all over the internet
where people are thinking that it's okay but it is not.
Using clips or small parts of music in your YouTube videos
that you do not have permission to use
or that you cannot argue as fair use.
The reason I want to bring this one up
in the first place is because
one of the things that I do
because the type of content that I make is I'm often
on Reddit and on Facebook, I'm looking
around in the communities around new content creators
seeing the questions that you have and things like that,
so I can help you solve those problems here on this channel.
So when I'm some of those communities, I see typically
other new YouTubers that are giving advice
to other new YouTubers saying things like,
"Hey it's okay to use five seconds or a second
or whatever of a song if you want to."
But in reality, that is not okay.
If you do not have the license
or you don't not have permission to use a track
in any capacity, you are not allowed to use that.
It doesn't matter if it's one second or,
the full entire song,
the violation is exactly the same.
So that is not okay,
and I just wanted to make sure that you understand that.
But look, when it comes to YouTube
there are rules that we all have to play by.
And since those rules are
in place as a YouTube content creator
it's really important to make sure
that you do stay up to date with the rules that YouTube has.
So because of that
I'm going to put some links down in the description for you.
That will go to the YouTube terms of service,
to the YouTube Creator Academy,
and of course the YouTube Community Guidelines.
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you want to learn how to become a YouTuber
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Thank you so much for watching.
I'll see you next time.