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  1. I completely understand the pain Jeff. I have had a number of accounts shut down for no reason. The same type of situation with videos of my own unique content. It is not right.

    You may know this, but in the black hat realm there is software that automatically flags accounts and gets people banned. YouTube never verifies complaints and rarely turns accounts back on.

    Good luck!

    Jamison Palmer

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  2. Hi Jeff,
    Google flagged the video I created from the photos from Frank Kern’s seminar where Dr. Mike hired the dancer to perform to roast Frank.

    Google received a complaint of inappropriate content so they immediately sent me the warning, eliminated the video but still left my account active.

    The warning expired after 6 months.

    It is a scary thing when I have over 750 videos in my account with close to 1,000,000 views.

    Google did deal fairly with me. The video of Frank’s roast by Dr. Mike was definitely a little over the top in raunchiness.

    My suggestion is use google.com/wemasters tools and keep updated with the content for webmasters in their webmasters blog.

    I would make an appeal on the webmasters blog for assistance from the other webmasters who use google webmaster tools and have benefited from your excellent training materials.
    Warm regards,
    Ralph

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    • some of the stuff they allow on a daily basis make’s frank’s deal seem like a tea party. But I’m glad it worked out for you!

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      • Thanks Jeff.

        What I believe happened is one or more of your competitors waged a stealth campaign against you by complaining about one or more of your videos to screw you.

        Google does not take the time to evaluate where the complaints are coming from. They are so big, if you get a number of complaints they just drop you account…no questions asked. It is rotten underhanded subterfuge.
        Ralph

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  3. Does’nt suprise me at all. Google is the one that needs slapped.
    They are out of control. They have grown so large that they believe
    they can do what ever they want. And dont even have to have a just cause. They have hurt thousands of people. People who were trying to make a few dollars in some of worst econmic times. Is this the type of company America should put there faith in. The goverment should bust there ass up like they did Standard Oil. I believe your content helped thousands of people.There were no rules broken. Google does this type of crap and are not held accountable in any way. This you can believe what goes around comes around.I’m surprised no one has gone over there and kicked someone’s ass.Seems like the FTC could slap them.
    Good luck Jeff..They have it out for you.. Because you worked your butt off and are a super affiliate. Affiliate marketers put them on the map then they turn there back on them. The corporate world will follow.

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  4. Jeff,

    I have sent FedEx overnight envelopes directly to CEOs of companies before and gotten a 100% response rate using this tactic. The obvious take on this situation is the absolute beating their brand is taking on your site and in Social Media.

    You already have your response nearly written from above so it won’t take long and will only cost $25 bucks from MI.

    Good luck brother!

    Bill

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  5. Jeff,
    It appears that Google, which has, for the most part, its early beginnings under the protection of the United States, has forgotten where they came from or how they got there. While I am sure that some will expound upon this, it essentially is the same set of laws and or ‘system’ that try to make it absolutely certain no miscarriage of justice is allowed. Part of our very system revolves around the right of an accused to face his or her accusers and respond to the accusations. While out justice system is obviously not perfect it is darn well the best thing we have until we figure out something else.
    It is just plain wrong for anyone to take the position that is contrary to our basic fundamentals. We all know of instances in which it has happened, or appears to have happened, but we also know it is normally the exception to the rule rather than the rule.
    For Google, or anyone else to be so righteous as to take any other position, only shows the rest of us what we know is wrong.
    Most of us probably will never know all the true facts but you have taken the time, to explain the circumstances. For them to remain silent at this point, while it probably being the easiest thing for them to do, is not, by any stretch of the imagination, the best thing for them to be doing. (Unless, of course, they have been advised by their legal staff to not respond, which doesn’t make any sense at this early point) I think that those of us who are interested would certainly like to hear their side of the story. Of course, when you have so much money you think you can do what you want, we can only hope that they meet with a power that makes them understand in a little more spectacular way.
    While we see it every day, and we know that it is not fair, it appears that a lot of our biggest entities in this country just don’t feel that they have to abide by the same principals that make this country so strong.
    I have not done, in the past, much more than read your material when I can, but want to wish you all the best and hope that this matter reachs a satisfactory conclusion for you. Your efforts and your fine materials would certainly make one feel comfortable with both your personal and business matters and I would hope that I have the opportunity to cross your path again in someway.

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  6. The same thing happened to me, my sponsor and his sponsor with our accounts. One letter stating you have received a strike.. and the next minute all of our accounts gone in a blink of an eye. It’s the self appointed nature of self appointed Internet Watch Dog GOOGLE which encompasses their child YOUTUBE to protect all from the evilness of any one trying to earn a dollar .. oh except for them of course.. I personally think that it is an action that has no human hand involved. Meaning billions of videos have to need storage and hardware to maintain .. which cost money .. I think it is self trimming .. There computers go out seeking user accounts that could fall into the commercialistic .. that fits certain parameters .. IE: similarity of videos .. in title for example .. and then just automatically sends out the “strike letter” followed by the chopping off of the head.. sorry it happend to you .. You are in my book one of the most honorable marketers worth listening to online.

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  7. Jeff,

    Get yourself a litigation specialist who will take their case on a contingency basis, threaten them with a $50,000,000 libel suit, and let everyone know what they’ve done to you through the use of press releases.

    I happen to have available the very highly confidential public relations database of over 300,000 journalists and writers in the country.

    Any company hates big law suits in addition to negative publicity and their lawyers and executives will pay attention to negative press and heavy duty legal sites.

    I happen to have beaten Wal-Mart by doing just this and I’ll be happy to help you write the press release which you can send to all of their executives and Board Of Directors. I guarantee you, you will get a response and the appropriate reparations.

    Call me at (number removed for privacy) if you’d like. Only too glad to help you.

    Ron Schmidt

    DICTATED BUT NOT READ DUE TO ABSENCE FROM THE OFFICE.

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    • THanks for the offer but I don’t want to start a “negative publicity” campaign, I just want to get the attention of someone higher up so I can argue my case.

      But I do hear that a press release will help, so I’ll probably give it a try.

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  8. The real pain: lack of alternatives.
    Hi Jeff,
    I can imagine how you feel – like loosing the ground completely.
    Aside from that … to a certain degree you are part of those who made Google bigger and bigger perhaps naively assuming they’d be thankful for all the publicity and talking about them.
    But as always, entities who grow very big become arrogant. It’s kind of human nature and is part of the growth-and-fail-cycle most enterprises (and even nations) go through. Initially they are everybodies darling, doing something differently, being creative and innovative until they discover their own power and increasingly focus on living off this power which provokes contradiction and bad reputation until they get hated like microsoft. Then it’s only a matter of time: does any new idea arise, a competitor who kicks them away?
    Doesn’t seem so currently. This is the real pain: lack of alternatives. Because if there were any, you wouldn’t be nearly as unhappy as you are now, right? You’d simply move on to … whatever.
    So, my recommendation would be: just avoid relying on Google and it’s associates as far as you can because they’ll kick your ass certainly once more whenever they see you in their way.

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  9. Hi Jeff

    I’m sorry you have been treated so badly by YouTube !! Perhaps its time to start your own video hosting site ?? I’m sure that being the person you are you will rise up to make this situation a positive for you ( asy to say I know ) Anyway , come on YouTube , do what’s RIGHT and communicate !

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  10. I’m sure you’re aware that Google is under investigation by the FCC and a couple of other government agencies. I am, to say the least, no fan of the government but it may be helpful in this case to report Google to every agency you can find on the map. This kind of thing is just sour owl crap – they should at least have to tell you why they did it and offer some sort of appeal process. They’ve been too arbitrary with too many people. Maybe we should all transfer our business elsewhere – see how they like it.

    Susan

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