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So I've been using YouTube for years, but mainly more on the promotion side of it rather than uploading my own and other peoples videos before. I've upped other videos before no problem but today was the first time my video was flagged by YouTube for violating the community guidelines apparently. They didn't specifically state what it was but I think that it might have been that I had put too many links in the description area. I had my main site link at the top above the fold, then I had about 1000 words broken into about 4 different parts with a Goo.gl shortened link at the end of each section. So in total it had 5 links in the description. But a good lot of content too. I got a bit too zealous!
You see this in other videos, and that includes videos of a commercial nature where they have many links in the description area. That includes their main site link and several shortened links as well as links to their social media pages, Twitter, FB and others.
So I can't really understand in full why the video was flagged and and subsequently removed. I can only assume that it was because it literally had too many links in it but again, there are many commercial videos on YouTube that have a lot of links in them.
I assume that was the reason. I did appeal the decision but I've just gone ahead and completely deleted the video now. I'll try to upload it to YT again on a later date and make sure to only include my one site link at the top and perhaps a social media link at the bottom as that doesn't seem to be too bad and is fair to do right? Well at least that's my thinking on the matter!
That said, I've hopefully learned a valuable lesson and it isn't something that will happen again. One thing that's stood out is their message that the video was probably designed to take people away from YouTube more than it was a video that would be entertaining to watch. So that's my next port of call and I'll try again with another video that is more entertaining but still have that affiliate marketing feel to it and not put too many links in it! Not as a new Channel anyway. That's something many YouTubers can live by!
Have you ever had this issue before with YouTube?
Have you ever had one of your videos flagged and removed?
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What's a good content to link ratio to adopt when uploading your video?
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