Internet Marketing & Affiliate Ideas

Okay, let’s look at the four types of YouTube search strings.

The first one is “Relevance.” When calling for videos to add to your site, the default is relevance. If you don’t indicate any, this is the results of the search.

I suggest you click on one of the Halloween links to the right in orange as the sites randomly change the front page. Do it on all four so you can evaluate the differences for your own use.

This particular site, as with the other three that will be shown here, has a search box so you can look for specific Halloween content you want to see. Heck, you can search for anything you want. You will only get “clean” content though. You can check it out by doing an ‘adult’ search. You shouldn’t get any results unless YouTube has yet to evaluate it. I have implemented the “safeSearch” query YouTube provides so the content should be fit for all to view.

Let’s look at a Halloween costume site that uses the default string:

HalloweenGoblins.com
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Well, how about that, a site that uses YouTube videos for content got “slapped” by Google. If you don’t know, Google owns YouTube.

Okay, slapped in this case means it is showing content not up to standards which Google sees fit for adword content.

In this particular case, I was using the default requests which would allow for “all” videos to be displayed regardless of content. Google sent a message showing the actual page that was in question and stated it had been unauthorized. I looked at it and found no contend, at least text, that would fall into this category. In further review, there was one video that actually showed nature engaged in reproductive activity. Not a problem until I listened to the audio associated with it. Yup, I would have banned it for that too. I do have a “profanity filter” that I use on sites as well yet would have not worked in this case. Do keep in mind this is a YouTube video.

Finally, something that “made” me figure out the search scheme to eliminate unwanted videos on a site which is meant for everybody. Being just a php hack who has been around programming and computer use since 1980, there is not too much I can’t figure out to do what I want (certainly not in the professional Read More…