My traffic from the video I posted on YouTube has gotten me more exposure for my site than I had even imagined. It has been 6 days, and I have gotten almost 16,000 hits on you tube. The traffic on my site keeps doubling everyday, it is like a virus, and just keeps spreading. There are several videos on YouTube of the exact same commercial. It would seem there is enough room for some competition. We shall see when things level off. For now I need to figure a way to convert all of my new found traffic.
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I recently realized the power of YouTube. I saw a commercial that I found hilarious and was relevant to one of my blog themes. I copied the commercial from my Tivo and hosted a copy on YouTube so I could easily post it on my blog. I put my website name on the bottom of the video, not even a link, just text. In 48 hours, I had over 3000 views at YouTube, and had a large increase in traffic to my site.
This really opened my eyes to the advertising power of YouTube. I was lucky enough to get in on this commercial right when it was released, being in the front of the line has to help before the market gets saturated. Now the key is to stay on top of it and find more new content I can video and get on YouTube for promotion.
I would love your comments on success with YouTube.
I did a lot of research on Monday, and had to take last night off to think about it all. Before we get into all of that let me finish my story to get caught up to today. Last I posted I got signed up at several affiliate sites, I had a site script I wanted to use and was ready to go.
I started posting up sites. I didn’t really like the default layout of the DomainZaar software. I have some php skills so I went to work modifying it to my liking. I do like this script package because it creates links and searches based on keywords. The search engines should see this one active page having a large number of links to other pages, and some content. Those pages don’t really exist, but when the links are clicked, the index.php is refreshed with the new keyword. I am no master of Search engine optimization ( SEO ), but this site shouldn’t get immediately overlooked by Google. There is also a news and blog search which returns some content for the page.
I am probably doing a terrible job describing this so just have a look.
www.cheesymeat.com and www.300kmph.com are 2 examples.
As you can see I have Google ads inserted, and I also have a area where I put ads I choose from Click Bank or Commission Junction.
At first this seemed like a good way to go, today I am not so sure. More on that later. As I mentioned before I have around 40 domains I wanted to setup. When I had around 12 of them done, I accidentally overwrote some key files that I hadn’t backed up recently. It never fails, I can screw up just about anything. So I had to basically start over at the first site. Note: BACKUP EVERYTHING AND OFTEN.
As of today I have 14 sites hosted this way. Before I go any further, I wanted to do more research and thinking to determine if this was the most effective use of time and for returns.
Next — the incoming cash flow
I left off last needing ads for my new site. The package I am using comes ready for Ad Sense. How do I sign up for that you ask? Well either go to google.com/adsense or my preferred method, HubPages. HubPages is a not only an easy way to get your Google affiliate account set up, but an excellent place to find and deliver information and articles for exactly what we are trying to do here. Affiliate marketing. I am still exploring HubPages, and find it more intriguing the more involved I get with it.
Google limits the amount of ads allowed per page, and you tend to get repeating ads if you have a very specific niche anyway. So I need a different outlet for affiliate ads. Now what do I do? Well I did what most web savy do. Searched Google. I came up with 3 affiliate sites I am content with for now, and some I may sign up to in the future.
First ClickBank. At first I was confused as hell at what ClickBank was trying to do. I was baffled by their website. I was green and couldn’t fully grasp affiliate marketing yet. Once I understood what I was doing and where to get it, I was un-impressed by the product offerings. Just check out some of the sales pitch pages. Some of this stuff is garbage (to you and I, maybe not to Mr. XYZ), and some of this stuff sells itself. I even found things that I have been interested in buying in the past.
Next Commission Junction. Commission Junction makes it kind of hard to get where you want to be. To CJ you and I are Publishers. We are publishing the ads and the adveritisers are the people who want their products sold. Once you fill out an application for a publisher you are set.
I also signed up at Paydotcom.com. This site is similar to ClickBank, and I have not used it much as of today.
There are tons of sites for affiliate marketing, Ebay has one (they rejected my application), LinkShare, LinkConnector, and alot more. You can find a pretty solid list with reviews here http://www.affiliatetips.com/online-channels-affiliate-program.html, and several pages worth at http://www.affiliateseeking.com/netwo/23000002/1.html (I am not “affiliated” with these sites)
Next time — what do I do with all these ads?
