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There is no better way to get your account revoked on YouTube than to violate their terms of service.

Each and every day, people are removed from YouTube’s databases for harassing comments, neglecting to follow simple copyright rules or for just acting moronic when commenting on about other videos that people have posted.

If you find that your account is removed because you violated YouTube’s terms of service, you will quickly learn that everything you worked to establish on YouTube has been completely erased.

All of the hard work you spent in trying to turn YouTube into a new advertising route will instantly vanish and you will have to start all over again or move on to something else.

The single best way to avoid violating the terms of service set forth by YouTube is to actually read them when you sign up. Far too many people simply click the “Yes, I agree” box and do not actually read the whole terms of service.

If you are serious about trying to get traffic to your website by using YouTube, you owe it to yourself to read and understand each and every term set forth by YouTube so you do not end up like so many others who are quickly erased from the YouTube databases.

If reading the actual terms is not for you, or you do not have enough time to do so, there are two terms that each and every person should pay attention to. First and foremost, do not post anything that is obviously copyrighted to someone else.

Do not even think about posting that new trailer for Pirates of the Caribbean, and think twice before you stick that hot new music video on YouTube.

Furthermore, when making comments to people on their movies or on their account pages, do not use any racist slurs, do not be exceedingly abrasive, and do not try to spam for your website. These are just three of the ways that your comments can get you into trouble.

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Do you remember that old commercial (I can’t remember what company it was for) that showed two old women buying hamburgers and one of them asked, “Where’s the beef?” The meat that was in the hamburger was so small that it was almost invisible and the meat is what makes a hamburger a hamburger.

A list is what makes an internet business an internet business. It is the ‘meat’ of a business. If it is so small that it is the next thing to invisible you just aren’t going to have an internet business. It really is that simple. You have got to have a list!

There are many ways to build a list...buying a list isn’t one of them so don’t be fooled. You have to work hard at building your list and list building is a task that is never completed.

The biggest internet marketers in the business are still concerned with list building. They always will be and you always should be as well.

The fact it that making a first-time sale to a new customer costs you five times as much as making a repeat sale to a member of your opt-in list.

It is just basically simple math. The cost of a sale is subtracted from profit. The less it costs you to make a sale, the bigger your profit on the sale will be.

There are many, many accepted and proven methods of list-building techniques. There is article writing and marketing and E-Book writing and marketing.

There is advertising (both paid and free). There is posting to blogs using a sig tag that includes a link to your website.

There is starting your own blog on your own website. The list goes on and on and you should strive to use all of the methods available to you to build your own very impressively long opt-in list because that is where the ‘beef’ is!

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Have you ever noticed how some words become ‘buzz’ words? Some of these words are good and some of them just raise red flags. The ‘Blast’ word is one that raises major red flags.

The dictionary defines the word ‘blast’ as: “a sudden and violent gust of wind” or “the blowing of a trumpet, whistle, etc.” or “a loud, sudden sound or noise” or "a forcible stream of air from the mouth, bellows, or the like.” None of those definitions are very appealing or positive, are they?

A slang use of the term ‘blast’ is: “having a very enjoyable time (i.e. “We had a blast!”) Sometimes the word “blast” means “a vigorous outburst of criticism; attack.”

No matter how the word ‘blast’ is used it really isn’t a very positive word and when it is used by companies engaged in internet advertising it often denotes a less than desirable company to do business with because the techniques that they are advocating might just blow up in your face.

There are many companies on the internet that use the word ‘blast’ in the advertisements for their services. You can find advertisements that advocate "Massive Ad Blast” or “Blast Podcasts” or “Fax Blast” or “Email Blast Advertising” and a host of others.

There are also companies that use the word ‘blast’ in their company names. It is simply the best overall policy to avoid all advertising businesses that use the term ‘blast’ although there may be some that are legitimate.

In the English language descriptive words are used freely and often. They are used to tell you what a ‘thing’ is and each one of those descriptive words cause responses in those who hear them or see them. The word, ‘blast’ is one that should be avoided.

The REAL Truth about FFAs and Safe Lists

You have likely heard of FFA’s and Safe Lists. If you haven’t "FFA” is NOT an acronym for ‘Future Farmers of America’ in this case. It is an acronym for “Free For All” links and this kind of free-for-all isn’t as much fun as it sounds like it is and a “Safe List” is only a safe bet that you are going to get an awful lot of mail in your inbox.

In the beginning an FFA or a Safe List was a method by which webmasters helped one another to advertise their goods and services for free by providing space for others to place advertisements on their own websites. It seemed like a good idea at the time and for awhile it was but that is just no longer the case.

FFA’s and Safe Lists are usually divided by category. For example you will see divisions like ‘computers, business, pets, swimming pools, etc.’ The idea was that a website owner could place an advertisement on an FFA or Safe List and when surfers came across that advertisement, they could just click on it and sales would increase for free.

Then two things happened that rendered FFA’s and Safe Lists useless.

The first was automated software that could be purchased very inexpensively that would place advertisements on every FFA and Safe List on the net without a website owner even needing to visit the site to place the ad. This defeated the purpose for even providing FFA or Safe List space on a website.

The second thing that happened was the CAN SPAM act that became law in 2002. Now website owners needed members for their opt-in lists and the FFA and Safe List pages became nothing more than collectors of information for the website owner.

Basically, the only thing that you will get out of an FFA or Safe List is a lot of unwanted mail.