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Here’s a quick guide on how to leverage the power of YouTube to cash in.

1. Download a popular music video or viral video with YouTube Catcher (FREE) and save it in FLV format.
2. Convert FLV video to MPEG using SUPER software (FREE).
3. Add watermarks to your videos with your website address on it promoting your affiliate offer using VirtualdubMOD (FREE). Read this tutorial on how to watermark your videos using this software.
4. Cash the checks and repeat!

Here’s a run down of how I personally do this in proper order (to make it easy and understandable for you)…

• Download YouTube video and save it in FLV format
• Convert FLV to MPEG (using SUPER)
• Create watermark bitmap image in Photoshop (read the tutorial mentioned above)
• Import MPEG to VirtualDubMOD, add BMP image to video
• Export and save video as an AVI
• Convert AVI to MPEG in SUPER

The watermark image should simply be text promoting your affiliate offer. I’ve had the most success promoting PPL (pay-per-lead) offers, such as ringtones, or e-mail submits. Make sure you hide your affiliate URL using a redirection service, such as TinyURL.com. It will make it easier for your viewers to remember the URL as well.

Upload the video to YouTube with a descriptive title of the video. In the description field, enter the URL you just created and some text describing your offer. Example: “Get a FREE Ringtone of this music video!”

It’s important to always follow the terms and conditions of each affiliate offer you’re promoting. Some offers restrict you from using the words, “free”, “best”, “guaranteed” etc. when promoting them. Check to make sure you aren’t violating any of these terms. It’s also best to use YouTube videos that are royalty free. Ignoring these rules and uploading a copyrighted video may get your video removed from YouTube and your account deleted. Your affiliate network account may also be terminated if a viewer reports you for promoting an offer in conjunction with a copyright violation. Play by the rules and you won’t have any problems. Your cash flow also won’t be cut off.

A journalist watchdog group criticized Turkey on Thursday for ordering a ban on accessing the video-sharing Web site YouTube because of clips that allegedly insult the country’s leaders.

A court in the eastern city of Sivas on Wednesday ordered the country’s telecommunications company to block access to the popular Web site because of a video insulting Turkey’s founder, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, as well as President Abdullah Gul, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the army.

It was the second time Turkey has blocked access to YouTube, which is owned by Google Inc. In March, the site was blocked for two days after a complaint that some clips insulted Ataturk. The ban was lifted after the offending clips were removed.

“Blocking an entire Web site because of a few videos is a disproportionate measure,” the Paris-based Reporters Without Borders said. “We urge the authorities to reverse this decision.”

The site could be accessed on Thursday, and it was not clear when the ban would come into effect.

But the bans highlight Turkey’s shaky record on permitting free expression.

It is illegal in Turkey to insult Ataturk, a revered figure whose portrait hangs in nearly all government offices.

Several prominent Turkish journalists and writers — including Nobel literature prize winner Orhan Pamuk — have been tried for allegedly insulting “Turkishness.”