What to do if YouTube affiliate earnings are deemed invalid?

As a Youtube creator, after working hard to create, you find that your alliance income has been declared invalid. This feels terrible. Today I will list some common reasons for this situation, as well as some practical solutions to help you restore normal Youtube alliance income.

I. Reasons for invalidation

1. Violation of YouTube Community Guidelines

YouTube's community guidelines are very strict and cover all aspects of content publishing. If your content violates these guidelines, such as inappropriate speech, spoofs, violent content, or other violations of platform rules, YouTube may suspend or cancel your advertising revenue.

2. Copyright infringement

If you upload unauthorized music, video clips, or film and television content, your advertising revenue will be invalid, and your video may even be removed from the platform.

3. Deemed as invalid traffic from Youtube

There are situations where users are induced to click on ads/paid to increase traffic/using robots to simulate real users. If your traffic is judged as invalid traffic, the platform will refuse to pay the revenue.

4. Violation of AdSense for YouTube policies

If a video is detected with a large amount of invalid traffic (impressions/engagement), it will be judged as malicious clicks, and the account may be suspended, resulting in invalid earnings.

5. Account information issues

Ensure your account's personal information is accurate, update your payment information promptly, and check your tax information for any anomalies.

6. Regional restrictions

Content creators in some countries or regions may not be able to participate in YouTube's advertising revenue sharing program, or advertising revenue in the region may not be distributed correctly.

7. Account association issues

If your YouTube account is associated with other advertising platforms or accounts that do not comply with the policy, YouTube may suspend or cancel the related revenue sharing

8. Policy Updates

YouTube sometimes updates its cooperation terms or revenue rules. Creators may not understand and comply with the new rules in time, resulting in invalid revenue. Pay more attention to the new platform rules to avoid this situation.

II. How to solve the situation of being judged invalid

1. Comply with platform rules

• Follow up the latest rules and policies of the platform: ensure that the content published complies with the community guidelines and revenue rules

• Optimize video content: If you are not sure whether a video meets the guidelines, it is best to check it carefully before publishing, or use YouTube's review function to assist in checking to ensure that there are no potential violations

2. Avoid copyright infringement

• Use legal content: Make sure you have copyright or permission to use all videos, music, and footage you upload. YouTube offers a library of copyright-free music from which you can choose free music and sound effects.

• Handle Content ID claims promptly: If you accidentally use copyrighted content, the copyright owner may file a Content ID claim against your video, which may result in your video being banned or have its revenue generation restricted

3. Optimize content

• Optimize your video content to avoid ads that are too blunt or do not comply with platform rules. You can use YouTube's "Ad Suitability" tool to help you review the content of your video before publishing it. Through this tool, you can determine whether the video content is suitable for advertising and avoid affecting your income due to content issues.

4. Establish a suitable operating environment

• Before you start the YouTube Alliance, make sure you are in a location that supports joining. If not, switch your location in time to avoid discovering this problem after creating content. If you are a matrix account user, you should especially avoid account association. Abnormal association will not only result in multiple accounts being banned, but will also cause great losses to your initial operational investment.

• It is recommended to use IPFoxy dedicated static residential proxy to help establish an independent and isolated account environment to reduce the probability of invalid revenue due to IP issues during the Youtube Alliance revenue generation process.

5. Prevent invalid traffic from Youtube

• Stay away from low-quality traffic-boosting behaviors, especially traffic-boosting services using server room IPs. Once identified by the platform, your account may be blocked.

• If the same IP address frequently performs a large number of views, comments, likes, etc., YouTube may consider these actions to be robot behavior.

• It is recommended to use the  rotating residential proxy provided by IPFoxy to simulate real-person browsing behavior and improve the authenticity of traffic.

  

III.Conclusion

Solving the problem of YouTube affiliate revenue being declared invalid requires multiple approaches. As long as you always abide by platform regulations, optimize content and account management, I believe this problem can be solved soon!