WHAT ARE THE BEST THIRD PARTY TOOLS AND SERVICES FOR YOUTUBE?
Important to notice: I have a full chapter on “YouTube Automation” that goes into the topics in here in much greater detail.
I also have Mecri Favorite Tech” blogger that puts everything together in one place (with all the links that matter).
If you aregoing to enter the world of automation, and I highly recommend that you think about doing so, you’ll want to check out that chapter as well.
This “little” tool is a simple plugin
for Chrome that enables some of the most sophisticated YouTube Marketing I’ve ever seen.
It is, in short, the perfect integration of the automation YouTube allows with the human elements required. The company that produces TubeBuddy is one that I highly recommend and this tool is one of the most powerful third party tools I’ve ever seen.
Because they are browser based, they follow all of the YouTube rules and requirements I explain in this blogger You may have searched the internet, seen videos or read articles claiming that there are third-party tools and services that you can use with YouTube. To be honest, there was a time when many of these tools worked surprisingly well.
There are still a few out there (and new ones that pop up now and then) that produce some interesting results; but it is, at best, a murky river to play in.
Remember, YouTube can shut down your account if they feel you aren’t playing by the rules.
Should you consider third party tools? Avoid them? What should you do? What should your strategy be?
Consider this: at the time of publication of this book, YouTube terms and conditions say specifically that you cannot use any software that accesses their servers faster than a human can in the same amount of time.
They are not against robots, mechanics or automation, but they are against automation mechanics that act faster than a human. I link to the YouTube Terms in the “Additional Web Resources” so you can see this for yourself.
This area of the terms hasn't changed in years.
Those are YouTube’s rules – and it’s something that you can debate until the end of time if you wish – but you have agreed to play by them. Break them, and YouTube can, and will, shut you down. YouTube doesn’t want your tools to go faster than a human can, so quite simply, don’t use anything that goes faster than a human can.
Don’t use tools that don’t act like a human does. at least until YouTube changes their terms. Register your book, as described at the beginning For this blogger, and we’ll make sure to update you if and when they do.
YouTube has an API for users that freely admit they are a machine
YouTube is fine with machines and software, but you definitely need to use their API, because you don’t want to pretend to be anything other than what you really are.
This one isn’t specifically in the terms, but in my experience, don’t use a tool that doesn’t use the YouTube API.
What is an API? API stands for Application Program Interface and it’s a way for one computer to talk to another very effectively. That’s it. You don’t need to know how it works, you just need to know that any tool you use ,for publishing or anything else, uses the YouTube API.
Basically, you don’t want YouTube to ever start to think, “Is this viewer not real in some way? Is there something else we need to worry about?” You don’t want any question marks associated with your account; be transparent with them, as you would any partner.
Based on my experience I’m not a lawyer, and I don’t play one on TV either
anybody who follows the rules of YouTube’s Terms of Service and uses the API for third-party software doesn’t experience any problems. Again, that’s my experience.
However, you still need to think smart. If you use a tool with the API to upload a bunch of videos that are viewed for five seconds, that will only result in a low quality score and could bring you more damage than good. You might get 1,000 views, but if your video never comes up in the search results for those 1,000 views, does it really matter?
More important than any tool, you need to match the right audiences to your videos, the ones that will actually be interested in viewing your content. Don’t just try to bump up your numbers to make mom feel proud of that click count.
Using third-party tools and services is one method to boost your click count, but use it wisely and follow YouTube’s rules to avoid being blocked.
In terms of the key question - which are the best ones to use - I list them all in the Mecri Favorite "Tech" blogger.
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