Pushing The Envelop with Affiliate Videos?

Recently, I talked about tools that you need to get started with making your own killer affiliate videos. Videos are the present and the future of this business. Every-time you are planning to promote an affiliate product, you can get more attention from your leads if you provide them with a video demonstration or review. Think about it. If you are hoping to sell that $1000 guitar on Amazon to your leads, wouldn’t it be better if you could find a video that show how it works? If you can afford to buy the guitar or convince the guitar manufacturer to sponsor your business. You’d be surprised how many of these manufacturers would give you the opportunity to at least test drive their products for a while to create a review or produce tips videos around their products.

Videos that are informative or provide unique value to your visitors can be especially helpful. If you are building a portal about a specific product, it always helps to have videos about it on your website. Besides, if you put your videos on YouTube and other video sites, there is a good chance you can drive a significant amount of traffic back to your website  (as long as your video is decent enough to catch fire on YouTube). The search engine part of the equation shouldn’t be ignored either. YouTube videos can rank high on Google if you play your cards the right way. If you tag your videos the right way and use the right keywords, there is no reason you can’t get a boost in traffic from your videos.

As you can tell, there is a right way to produce affiliate videos. But there is a wrong way to do just that as well. Blackhat affiliates know no bound, so it is not a surprise that some of them are using copyrighted material to push traffic to their website. Here is how it really works. These folks will steal and submit a copyrighted video to YouTube but stick comments all over videos so you can only see a part of the video. Then, they ask you to support them by clicking on their link and in return watch your video without those annoying comments. Of course, they never actually send you to the right location. They always send you to a CPA offer page or squeeze page. You don’t have to be a genius to realize that this approach is very wrong and unethical.

Using copyrighted material to push traffic to an affiliate site can kill your business quickly. If you own a reputable site, you should never use such an approach as it will permanently damage your site’s reputation. Even if you don’t own an affiliate site, this practice can get you banned from affiliate program. And YouTube and other video sites will catch you sooner rather than later. So this approach is not only wrong but may only work for a very short period of time.

There are many black-hat affiliates that go for the money without knowing any bounds. Blackhat affiliates are not business individuals. They are more like pirates. Pirates may end up making money in the short-run, but sooner or later they are going to have to face the music. There are plenty of easy ways to create killer affiliate videos, so you don’t really have to damage your brand and your business by using copyrighted videos to push your offers. It will not only get you banned, but it’s a waste of time in general.