If you’re to believe the hype, the future of traffic generation lies in video.
Beep!!! Don’t believe everything you hear!
In this edition of the Friday Podcast, I compare various channels like text, audio and video and you’ll see that there’s still life in the other channels.
Friday Podcast Episode 18: Tweaking Your Traffic Channels For Maximum Profit[ 8:47 ]Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (726)
Since the official announcement on the Google blog in January, there’s been widespread expectation that video clips would make their way into Google’s SERPs (search engine results pages). But did anyone expect that video clips would rank so highly?
Her video clip shot during the recent JV Alert seminar is a blurb for The Next Internet Milionaire. Yet it comes in as result 4, a little below her MySpace profile, personal blog and LinkedIn profile.
It certainly looks impressive.
Another search for Internet Marketer Anik Singal, shows a clip from Affiliate Summit 2006 East coming in as result 8 out of 69,300.
This result ranks above his ezinearticles profile page. Pretty amazing.
Until now, there’d not been many ways to make money by posting videos online.
Kelvin Hui’s Ambatch.com provided an opportunity for users to embed links to video content services, in exchange for 100% of the adsense revenue. The original video portal is no longer available, although several new sub-portals have been launched.
I’d tried that for a time, although it seemed like the majority of the users were based in Asia and the bulk of users were on the Chinese language interface. English content posters seemed to be in the minority.
Enter MetaCafe, a video content hosting and publishing platform which rewards users for posting original content.
To date, some of the content publishers have done very well:
Lest you think the accrued figure as impossible to achieve, look at (more…)
Friday Podcast Episode 18: Tweaking Your Traffic Channels For Maximum Profit [ 8:47 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (726)
