More Traffic Tips For YouTube. . .
You don’t need to just stay on Youtube to drive traffic to your Youtube videos.
Here are some Web 2.0 tips to steer traffic to your Youtube videos:
On your blog or website, you should link to your Youtube videos or embed them on your site.
You can create a Squidoo lens, at www.Squidoo.com, that links to your Youtube videos.
Then make sure that you go find other people on www.Squidoo.com who are in your market, and post comments on THEIR Squidoo lens.
This is how it works in any social networking community. When you interact and comment on people’s writing, or posts, or pictures, they will often visit you and go to check out your website.
And people who are visiting the blog or Squidoo lens will see your comments, and the link to your Youtube video or website or both, and go to check them out.
The more you interact, the more connections that you will make.
Hubpages.com is another great place to interact and meet a lot of people in your field. Again, create your own “hubs”, and go comment on other people’s “Hubs”.
Another great place to do this is on Twitter.
You can create a Twitter account, and sign up to follow people in your field. Many of them will follow you back.
To find a targeted market on Twitter, you can use www.summize.com, to search for what people on Twitter are talking about.
You can also go to www.Twittermoms.com, which has lists of mothers who Twitter, broken down into subgroups like mothers who scrapbook, mothers who are into green living, work at home mothers, et cetera, if any of those are in your market.
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Why Use YouTube?
As the title implies, even Playboy recognizes the power of YouTube. This year they are encouraging applicants to submit videos of themselves to Playboy’s YouTube Channel. YouTube Submissions (warning: models aren’t nude, but they aren’t wearing nun’s habits either)
When you create a new website or try to promote a new website, you are joining a huge throng of hundreds of millions of other websites and blogs that are all competing for attention. When you’re trying to establish your site it can be difficult to get noticed in such a vast “ocean” of competition. You need something that will differentiate you from the herd, errr I mean pack.
People who do business on the internet are increasingly adding YouTube to their marketing strategy. It’s a medium that’s difficult to ignore.
However, there’s a right way and a wrong way to use YouTube, and we are going to tell you how to take advantage of YouTube’s massive traffic correctly, so you can steer some of it your way.
When people go to YouTube they are looking for one of two things: information or entertainment.
It’s much easier to create a video whose primary purpose is to inform than it is to make an entertainment style video.
Here are some ways to quickly make your presence felt in the internet.
Learn From Your Competitors – search for relevant topics and while you are searching make comments (making sure to include the URL of your site) on the videos that stand out to you (this will be explained in greater detail later)
Use TAGS PROPERLY – Search Google Keywords Tool for relevant long tailed keywords to use. You can easily stuff the TITLE and DESCRIPTION of your video with relevant tags.
For example:
Title: Tips for Internet Marketing Success
Alternate Title: Essential Internet Marketing Tip
Media Author: (Put URL Here)
Media Description: (Put URL Here)–90% of internet marketing tactics end in failure for one simple reason – Don’t make the same mistake; learn how to get tons of traffic and build a hungry list.
Getting Viewers for your videos – Go where the traffic is. This is where those comments you made to good videos will come in handy.
These comments should be helpful and positive, and should make people want to click on your user name, which will lead them back to your YouTube home page. They will also act as backlinks to your site with is important for SEO as well.
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One of the biggest hurdles new internet marketers face is choosing what type of information product to create.
Since you most likely want to make a profit off of this, you need to create an information product that solves a problem or tells people how to do something.
Solving problems is profitable.
Also, you want to make sure that there’s a decent sized audience for this product, and you want to make sure that they have money to spend.
So you wouldn’t want to create an information product that solves a really obscure problem that is only faced by a tiny group of people. And you wouldn’t want to create an information product that appeals to a crowd that has no money to spend, such as young teenagers or children.
Here is a list of evergreen product ideas where you will always find a hungry crowd. Provide these people with a genuinely helpful solution to their problem and you will have a grateful crowd that will come back again and again:
Weight Loss
Dog training
Pet health
Acne cures
Curing romantic woes
Saving money
Debt Consolidation
Avoiding foreclosure
Fitness
Parenting
Fertility
Making money online
Driving targeted traffic to websites
This doesn’t mean that you should only stick to that list, by any means. If you have a skill and you can teach other people – for instance, as we mentioned earlier, applying makeup or painting a portrait or arts and crafts or home repairs – by all means create an information product around it.
You need to make your information product stand out, so you would want to develop a method that lets people learn how to do something quickly and easily, and emphasize that when promoting your product.
“Learn How to Paint Portraits Quickly And Easily!”
“Take Pictures Like A Pro – Learn How in Just Five Lessons!”
You get the idea.
If you still feel overwhelmed by the thought of creating your own info product then use Private Label Rights material to provide a base for writing your own product.
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The Future of Content in the Age of Information Overload
The decline of newspaper popularity has been attributed to the rise of the internet and the proliferation of web-based content. With an extremely low barrier of entry and variable cost, the web allows anyone with a computer to become an independent publisher: As a result, the amount and variety of content online far exceeds print publications in most fields.
So how can newspapers survive and do well as a business in the future? Perhaps by cutting back and going more niche to provide content that features deeper analysis and investigative reporting. In an article entitled ‘The Elite Newspaper of the Future’, Philip Meyer suggests that the money and audience comes from specialized, not general media.
This particular quote explains in greater detail:
I still believe that a newspaper’s most important product, the product least vulnerable to substitution, is community influence. It gains this influence by being the trusted source for locally produced news, analysis and investigative reporting about public affairs. This influence makes it more attractive to advertisers.
By news, I don’t mean stenographic coverage of public meetings, channeling press releases or listing unanalyzed collections of facts. The old hunter-gatherer model of journalism is no longer sufficient. Now that information is so plentiful, we don’t need new information so much as help in processing what’s already available.
Just as the development of modern agriculture led to a demand for varieties of processed food, the information age has created a demand for processed information. We need someone to put it into context, give it theoretical framing and suggest ways to act on it.
Scaling back on the all-you-can-eat content buffet in favor of more exclusive material does not just appeal to a hardcore audience. People get their information from one another, not just through the direct consumption of media. Catering to the leadership audience, the well-educated news junkies and opinion leaders, will help spread your content in the long run.
Will this topical specialization make newspapers profitable? Maybe. If newspapers can’t compete with blogs and online news sites in terms of speed and variety, perhaps they can trump them in terms of depth or trust. After all, feature-length content with solid, investigative reporting is not something you’ll often find on most blogs or personal sites on the web.
Daily newspapers will always be around, although they will be read less as more people come to have persistent access to the internet. A newspaper gives you the opinion of the journalist, but a blog throws in the comments of other readers. The web also gives you instant social interactivity, which is appealing for people who want to connect over what they’ve read.
To be able to share an opinion on what you’ve just read is enormously satisfying. Good content can be one-way but I think its increasingly important to socialize information and make it a facilitator for communal interaction. Print publications of the future would do well to consider developing some form of an online component to complement their offline product.
On the other hand, the problem of information overload is very real. Just think about it. More and more online/print publications are created everyday: to track and read many of them is very time consuming. People will be forced to pick and choose what to read. Some blogs will get dropped from a feed reader, others will remain. It’s easy to predict who survives.
Blogs that just repeat information already published elsewhere are providing value that can be substituted. To put it another way, these sites are completely dispensable. They lose out when a choice has to be made due to time/attention scarcity. These sites are usually the ones that just regurgitate content released on mainstream media or other larger blogs. Their identity is virtually unrecognizable. A great logo and design won’t save them.
Sites that serve as a comprehensive and reliable filter of information on a topic will be read, but they’ll always have to compete with other fast-paced news publishers. To aggregate information is incredibly easy. To process, analyze and situate it within a big picture context while offering an intriguing/unique perspective is considerably more difficult.
Those who can do so will be trusted: they are a valuable knowledge asset for any reader.
Detailed, unique content immediately stands out on its own, even without extensive marketing efforts. People don’t just want to be informed, they want to better grasp a topic in all its nuances. The joy of consumption lies not only in the skimming of a news story but the processing of new perspectives to enrich a personal worldview or professional need.
Publications that provide such content will always have an audience. In the end, it’s just a natural consequence that results from the consumer’s problem of information overload.
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Don’t Go to the Slammer Like O.J. – Check the Reseller Rights
Selling ebooks with resell rights can be quite lucrative as well as a great source of content if you happen to be suffering from some block. However, Be sure to check the rights of products that you intend to resell first or you might end up like this guy.
Remember, always comply with the original seller’s requests and you won’t have any problems selling products with resell rights.
What Every Shrewd Marketer Should Know About Selling Their Product
This is equally as important as creating your product. You can create the best, most useful product in the world but that doesn’t do you much good if you don’t know how to sell it, does it? Your product doesn’t make you any money sitting on your hard drive.
There are numerous ways to sell an information product online and you may end up choosing to use several of them.
Adwords are the advertising links that you see in blue on the right side of Google Search pages.
If you had a dog training ebook you would bid to have your adwords ad appear when people typed in relevant search phrases like “Dog Training” or “How To Teach My Dog To Sit”.
Some people make their living entirely by selling information products through adwords, so that is certainly an option. If you want to learn about adwords, read through all of Google’s own tutorials on the subject, and then buy some books on Adwords as well.
Another place to sell an information product is on The Warrior Forum, a popular internet marketing forum.
Then, you can go to the section of the site titled “Warrior Special Offers” and start out selling your information product there, if it is appropriate.
This works better if your product is related to internet marketing. Also, you need to offer the product at a price better than is offered to the general public, which is why it’s called a “special offers” section.
It currently costs $20 to post a Warrior Special Offer.
Another very popular way to sell your product is through Clickbank.
Clickbank only (at time of writing) specializes in downloadable products.
Then, you can encourage affiliates to sell your product for you, in exchange for a generous commission.
To entice affiliates you are going to have to offer a really large percentage of the product price, at least 50 percent and preferably 70 percent.
The affiliates will do all of the hard work for you, paying for adwords to drive traffic to your sales page, writing articles for article marketing directories that link to their pre sell page or to your sales page, creating pre-sell pages that link to your sales page…and the more you pay them, the more incentive they have to work hard to sell your product.
Never undersell your affiliates. Do not offer your product for $25 if you have set the price they will promote it at $37.
Offer good affiliate support. Offer them artwork to put on their sales page, showing your product; several different product pictures would be ideal.
Offer them a free squeeze page that they can put their affiliate link on.
Offer a cash bonus for every 100 copies of your product sold.
Make sure that the terms and conditions of your affiliate offer are clear and specify what the affiliates can and can’t do: no misleading ads, etc.
So you know know how to create an information product, how to price it, and where to sell it. The only thing left for you to do is get cracking and start building your profitable information product empire!
