 Spam Deceptive Practices and Scam Policies Know all about them so you can keep your channel safe and monetized. Welcome to Freedom Quick Tips where we provide N95 level advice to keep your channel safe and strong against demonetization. Spam Deceptive Practices and Scam Policies Try saying that five times really fast are part of the community guidelines that deal with attempts to mislead YouTube's search and recommendation systems, aka the algorithm. Players or frequently both. Here's what YouTube has to say about it. YouTube doesn't allow spam, scams, or other deceptive practices to take advantage of the YouTube community. Also don't allow content where the main purpose is to trick others into leaving YouTube for another site. So what are these policies? There's a lot to learn so let's just dive into it. First up, video spam. Here are some examples of what YouTube considers as spammy content. Content that promises viewers they'll watch something but instead directs them off site to you. So no videos that bait and switch viewers to click on a link for the actual video. Posting the same content repeatedly across one or more channels. This also includes mixing and matching clips from your own videos to create other videos which are then presented as new videos. We've seen channels terminated. Yes, terminated for this. Take note that this is different from compilation video that are uploaded as such with the appropriate commentary. To learn more about how to properly reuse your own content, check out our previous videos about repetitious content, link in the descriptions below. Massively uploading content that you scraped from other creators. The main difference between this and the reused content policy is scale, otherwise they're pretty much the same. Trying to get viewers to install malware or directing them to sites that might compromise their privacy. This is pretty self-explanatory. Auto-generated content that New Peters posts quickly without regard for quality or viewer experience. Promising money, product, software, or gaming perks for free if viewers install software, download an app, or perform other tasks. Different from contests in that this is a direct exchange or quid pro quo. Massively posting affiliate content in dedicated accounts. This is also a matter of scale. Putting a channel upload almost nothing but affiliate marketing content is not allowed. Next is misleading metadata or thumbnails. Placing excessive tags in the video descriptions or tag stuffing rather than placing them as tags upon upload. Don't put random keywords in the descriptions guys. A thumbnail with a picture of a popular celebrity that has nothing to do with the content. Thumbnails are very important metadata and should genuinely reflect the content of your videos. Using the title, thumbnails, description, or tags to trick users into believing the content is something it is not. Especially when there is a serious risk of egregious world harm. Misrepresenting the nature of your content through your metadata like presenting your videos as fact when it's actually opinion is not allowed. Manipulated media. These examples as well as the next ones for voter suppression and candidate illegibility are pretty specific and straightforward. Like safety warnings and products. These scenarios have happened often enough that they're used as examples. So no excuse. Inaccurately translated video subtitles that inflame geopolitical tension creating serious risk of egregious harm. Note that this deals specifically with subtitles. The video could be fine but if the subtitles are wrong and the matter stated it would violate this policy. The videos that have been technically manipulated beyond clips taken out from context to make it appear that a government official is dead. Video content that has been technically manipulated beyond clips taken out of context to fabricate events that there is a serious risk of egregious harm. Misattributing a 10 year old video that depicts stuffing of a ballot box to a recent election. Voter suppression and suppression of census participation. Telling viewers they can vote through inaccurate methods like texting their vote to a particular number. Giving it up, voter illegibility requirements like saying that a particular election is only open to voters over 50 years old. Telling viewers an incorrect voting date. Giving incorrect instructions on how to participate in the census. Candidate illegibility. Claims that a candidate or a sitting government official is not eligible to hold office based on false information about the age required to hold office in that country. Claims that a candidate or a sitting government official is not eligible to hold office based on false information about citizenship status requirements to hold office in that country. Claims that a candidate or a sitting government official is ineligible for office based on false claims that they are deceased, not old enough or otherwise do not meet eligibility requirements. Scams. This is well established but bears repeating. Scams or videos supporting them are not allowed on YouTube. Examples are making exaggerated promises such as claims that viewers can get rich fast or that a miracle treatment can cure chronic illnesses such as cancer. Promoting cash gifting or other pyramid schemes. Accounts dedicated to cash gifting schemes. Videos that promise you'll make $50,000 tomorrow with this plan. Incentivization spam. Videos where the purpose is to encourage viewers to subscribe. To be clear this refers to videos with no other content but a call to action to subscribe. Sub for sub videos. Videos that offer likes for sale. A video that offers to give the channel to the 100,000th subscriber without any other context. Comments spam. These refers purely to your comments and not your videos. You may have a perfectly clean channel with no issues but if you post comments similar to the following examples you could lose your channel. For warned is for armed. Comments about surveys or giveaways that promotes pyramid schemes. Paper click referral links in the comments. Comments that falsely claim to offer full video content. This could be content like movies, TV shows or concerts. Comments to malware or fishing sites in the comments. OMG just got tons of bucks from here. Scams.com. Comments with links to counterfeit stores. Hey guys check out my channel video here. When the channel or video has nothing to do with the video it was posted in. Posting the same comment repeatedly with a link to your channel. Livestream abuse. We've all been there guys you want to do a watch party but not everyone has a subscription to the streaming service. What to do? You'll just live stream it from your YouTube channel. This way everyone can watch. Genius. Yeah no. Even if it's private or unlisted you're likely going to get a community guideline strike with a resulting 90 day suspension from live streaming. And your stream taken down if you use your phone to stream a television show. Use third party software to live streaming songs from an album. That was a lot of brown we covered and it wasn't even a complete list of examples. Any rate the TLD or is let your content speak for itself and don't try to gain the system. Operate from a position of good faith. Utilize best practices that you learn from other content creators. Sources like YouTube Creator Academy or Freedom. And don't try to look for loopholes to exploit. At least not if you value your channel. 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