I'm feeling the pain. So here is what I recommend...

You see, although Mike and his team at Traffic Geyser do their best to keep ahead of Google, as soon as methods of promotion like this become more mainstream, the less effective they are for all of us.

As with any of these techniques, the more people that jump on board, the easier it becomes for Google to spot certain patterns and update their algorithms to counteract.

I have used Traffic Geyser and still do, it's a great service, but I also know that youtube is an important part of my traffic arsenal. For this reason, and the fact that Google (who now owns Youtube) we know is always on top of their game, I will always submit my Youtube videos manually.

So do a manual submission of your videos on the important video sites, the ones that are brining you the most traffic like Youtube, Google video, etc, and then use a service like Traffic Geyser to help with the mass submission of all other sites.

That way your content is still getting the same syndication however you are removing a lot of the risk with your most valuable sites.

Just a thought...

Do you use "free" viddler, or the paid account?

Google is going to have a large degree of control over any of it's partner sites, or any site that gets some of there revenue. Squidoo is going through a major face lift as well, due to the 'Google Crack Down'. As they evolve, we will as well!

Of course that may not be the case with your situation, just an opinion.

And I also agree with Dennis on the whole 'Make lemonade out of these lemons' gesture.

Best Regards

I have spoken to a couple of other internet marketers banned from YouTube also for no reason (BJ Min and Alvin Phang) and they weren't even using Traffic Geyser, so it looks like you are right. For some reason YouTube is cracking down on some of the marketing videos, but only a select few, and there isn't anything wrong with them.

The blog, social bookmarking and podcast stuff sites weren't bringing me any traffic, but that could be because my videos are internet marketing related... who knows.

I would really like to see TG submit to Viddler but I don't mind submitting to one extra site.

And we continue to monitor this situation very closely. One user today wondering if his video was dropped due to an ip issue, we did some research and found that YouTube had thought that he was using copyrighted material.

That's pretty common.

I've seen them do the same thing with the free background music that we provide to our users, which I had created SPECIFICALLY for Traffic Geyser users to put into their videos.

We've never been able to find an issue with IP numbers being a problem other than rumors.

In another comment, a user suggesting using one of the "Free" video submission services. Look at the sites that they submit to. Things like stupidvideos.com doesn't really fit very well with most of OUR customers or the readers of this blog.

And it's important to also cover the blog sites, the social bookmarking sites and the podcast sites, not just video.

Frank Sousa
Co-developer
Traffic Geyser

I hope you read this ...

A free alternative for Traffic Geyser :

http://www.tubemogul.com/about/features.php

"Founded in 2006 by online video buffs who met while in graduate school and won the UC Berkeley Business Plan Competition, TubeMogul's objective from the start has been to empower online video producers, advertisers and the online video industry by providing publishing tools and insightful, easy to interpret analytics.

Through its acquisition of Illumenix in October 2008, TubeMogul is also able to offer rich engagement and performance metrics to video sharing sites, content creators and advertisers."

They support this videosites (25 sites):

http://www.tubemogul.com/about/video_sites.php

Hope is usefull ..

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