May
25
2010

YouTube Accounts – Worth Purchasing?

Is it Wise to Invest Any Money
Into YouTube.com Accounts
For SEO?

The latest publication on our blog (read YouTube backlinks post here) has feedbacked with lots of great questions. And one of the most common was the one asking…

As YouTube.com accounts can have some SEO value in terms of direct backlinks,
Is it wise to invest any money into purchasing
Established, Old YouTube accounts with high PR?

I will start with my personal point of view and then will give the general “pros and cons” on this SEO strategy.

Personal Opinion – Not Wise.

I wouldn’t invest my own money into established YouTube.com accounts for one reason – THEY are the boss. Not you. They are the owners of each and every page on YouTube.com site. And your account page is also their ownership. I am not a lawyer, but I think a good one might go through their Terms of Service and – most likely – will find more details on the ownership of account pages.

Still, my personal assumption is that THEY are the owners.

And investing any money into something which will never really belong to you is not wise.

For example here – on Buy Web Site page – where people get ownership of established sites with traffic – you can see WHO is the owner, WHO is the person behind the site. And once you have purchased the site – you are its owner and no YouTube.com or Google.com or anyone else can close you. This is important for the long term investors.

And the issue with vague ownership of YouTube.com accounts will, most likely, become a long lasting issue.

Advantages of this strategy.

The SEO advantages are obvious. Just think that for a quite flat fee you can get into your hands the account with PR7. Wow! This is a bargain, real SEO bargain!

Maybe the previous owner of the account is simply tired of the thing, and you are ready to “inherit” it for money. Why not? Even one backlink from a PR7 page on YouTube.com – this is really cool in terms of SEO!!

NOTE: for those of you who do not know how to legally get backlinks from YouTube.com – please read YouTube backlinks blog post for all details.

So, this makes sense. Surely it is all about the price – but if you are ready to risk a little, always remembering that YouTube.com may cut this account down, then surely this strategy is worth trying.

P.S. For safety reasons we would recommend you to use the help of Escrow.com to manage the process of money-and-rights transfer properly. They take a fee for their escrow services and it is ~ 10%, but safety is worth the fee.

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6 Responses to “YouTube Accounts – Worth Purchasing?”

  1. Best IRA Rates said on May 28th, 2010 2:04 pm

    Although it may be tempting to purchase aged Youtube accounts I think that the first point is the most important. People don’t own their Youtube accounts. I would even question whether or not escrow.com would handle the sale for that very reason.

    There would be some short to medium term gain, but I think you would gain more value in creating your own authoratative Youtube channel.

    cd :O)

  2. Kelly said on May 29th, 2010 7:17 am

    Thanks for the excellent article on youtube backlinks. It helps a great deal. I have a couple of youtube accounts and get some traffic from them.

  3. Curtez said on May 29th, 2010 8:12 am

    Interesting, so youtube accounts are higly similiar to blogger and wordpress.com… Ownership is very important, and why pay for something that really isnt yours. Or its yours but only in name, and while is active….

  4. Jason - Affiliate Marketing said on June 7th, 2010 8:10 am

    That indeed is a wise choice. Very useful info. Though why not just try to make and establish a new youtube account rather than purchasing one? is that too hard to build? I mean, yeah PR 7 is really that high, but nevertheless reachable, I believe so. Same goes with twitter, I recently saw lifehacker’s twitter account and its PR is 7. well mine is only PR 2 but with enough work and interaction, I guess it can achieve that same level of ranking. But anyway, this is definitely a great way in building a super high quality backlink :) Thanks!

    Regards to freetrafficsystem team,
    Jason Acidre

  5. JadeDragon@innovativepassiveincome said on June 14th, 2010 11:26 pm

    I’d also think seriously before buying a YouTube account. Now if the account was connected to a larger online business and I was buying the whole business, that would be a completely different deal.

  6. Eric Breeze said on July 29th, 2010 12:23 pm

    Yes this information is superb.It sure showed me a number of points about You Tube accounts that have always been a complete mystery to me.

    Thank you
    Eric Breeze :0))