Video is the hottest media on earth (both online and offline). Video sites are the most visited sites on the net. They are also the most valuable ones: YouTube was sold for over $1.5 billion.

Search Engines have adjusted their algorithms to ensure fresh video-based content that is renewed thousand of times a day is up-to-date and correctly ranked in their results.

Create Instant Video Niche Sites Instantly With Keywords You Select and Monetize Them Using AdSense Or Whatever Advertising Network You Choose!

No Database Required

Just Upload The Traffic-getting Site To Your Domain And Go!

• Script uses an intelligent pagination system to display up to 1000 videos
• All pages are carefully optimized for the Search Engines
• Your visitors can watch each video without leaving the site
• Each video links to keyword-related videos (all links are optimized for search engines)
• The keyword-related videos are, in turn, linked to related keyword videos…thus ensuring a virally-growing web site – all without lifting a finger…and all on autopilot
• The Linking structure is automatically re-generated
• Keyword pages / themes are automatically created on-the-fly and filled with fresh and updated content

• You can configure the number of videos to be displayed on the front page
• You can switch from 1 sorting mode to another (from relevancy to last updated, or to view count, or even to rating)
  You can customize the list of of banned words
• You can choose to only display videos ‘exactly’ related to your main keyword
• You can display comments related to the video and also allow your visitors to add comments
• You can choose not to display related videos if you wish
• Your visitor will be able to share videos displayed on your web site easily, thus creating backlinks for you
• You can fully customize your template or even create your own template

Interested in making your video content available for rent on YouTube?

YouTube will soon allow users to charge rental fees to access their videos.

That means “John Doe” will be able to upload a video to YouTube and then charge viewers to watch it. When the plan is in place it will provide additional sources of revenue for both YouTube and users. Currently, the only way a YouTube user can earn money is through the Partnership Program, where YouTube displays ad’s on popular videos and shares some of the revenue with the video creators.

Few details about the YouTube Rentals plan, like who can charge for access to their videos, how much they can charge and how long rental periods can be are available yet, but this screen shot seems to indicate the obvious.

The YouTube Rentals beta is currently available only to content owners in the U.S.

Here’s the latest information on the subject from YouTube.

Introducing the beta of YouTube Rentals, a pay-to-view model on YouTube. Providing content owners a new way to generate revenue on the site, YouTube Rentals allows partners greater flexibility to monetize a variety of videos, provides full control over their content, and allows content owners to tap into the world’s largest online video community.

• YouTube Rentals
• YouTube Partnership Program
• YouTube Mobile

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Conventional wisdom would suggest that getting your weblog ranked on page 1 of Google for a competitive keyword phrase is easier said than done.

In actuality, getting my weblog ranked on page 1 of Google for the competitive keyword phrase Social Media Money Makers has proven to be easier than expected.

For the past few weeks, I’ve been following a new methodology using both free and paid for Internet Marketing Tools that help me to identify high quality backlinks to prove a point: you can in fact get your weblog listed on page 1 of Google for a competitive keyword phrase, so long as you adhere to a few basic SEO principles..

• Identify and acquire high quality Backlinks from Authority sites

• Leave relevant “anchor text coded” comments on the high PR sites

• Optimize your weblog articles using solid on page SEO methodologies

• Don’t eat the elephant in one bite – drip feed/link to these high PR site

Right before the ball dropped in Times Square to close the decade, I began to deploy my new model. As a matter of fact, I uploaded my last YouTube Video of 2009 at midnight (EST) showing how a single well placed anchor text comment on an Authority site (Mashable) bumped my Alexa Score by over 10,000 in less than 30 minutes.

On December 31, 2009 my Alexa Score was 251 and change. Today (January 12th) my Alexa Score is 219 and change and my traffic has also seen a spike in my visitor count. I know my writing skills haven’t improved dramatically in these past 2 weeks.

I make sure to optimize my blog articles with properly coded H1 tags using All-in-One SEO-Pack. I visit Google keyword tool for search counts and download the TEXT file into Market Samurai and Micro Niche Finder to make sure the keywords I want to get ranked on have the right mix in my 1st and past paragraphs and meet the 2-3% mix, spread through out the entire blog article. I have my special word press plug-in pushing each article to my social networks, using the ShareThis widget and I make sure to track the key metrics to see if this is working as planned. So far – so good.

I recently bought an eBook from a smart guy via the Warrior Forum on how to increase my exposure and generate even more organic | free traffic using his link wheel model. Phase 2 of this ongoing case study will entail adding links to:

• Hub Page

• Squidoo Lens

• eZine @rticle

• YouTube Video

adding to my existing inventory of high quality authority backlink sites in social media marketing so I can compete in the competitive social media marketing space.

I’m a member of a few neat Ning Social Networks. I plan to engage other like-minded members with a survey / contest type combination. My objective will be to measure the number of  Facebook Friends visit me Blog vs. my Peers on the various Ning Networks I’m a member of.

As an incentive to provide me input and feedback on my case study, I’ll be offering:

• Google Wave Invitation
• 30 Quality Backlinks (PR 5-6-7)
  
• 50% discount on my new e-Book
• The Grand Prize (all of the above)

Summary

If you found this article via Google, the Warrior Forum or my YouTube Channel then this Conact 7 Form won’t make much sense to you. However, if you did come to visit by way of the Ning Viral Network or Paul Coleman’s Viral Tactix Portal or my Facebook page or the special #195599 source – then you already know the drill, so kindly complete the form below following the instruction set provided and I’ll make sure you receive the appropriate incentive gift for your valued input and feedback.

Feedback Incentive Form

Imagine if you could hire and have a full time VIDEO and AUDIO Producer at your disposal who could turn every article you have written into a fully animated Web Video – bringing to life your article’s messages. Thanks to the tool Article Video Robot™ now you can.

Article Video Robot™ is an advanced software that will convert each and every one of your articles into a LIVE and TALKING video in minutes! All you have to do is Copy & Paste Your Article Into This Software and it converts your article into a Professional Marketable Video production.

The company claims you can do it in less than 3 minutes. Although, I’ve not been able to produce my content that fast yet, but the truth is, after I created a 1/2 dozen pieces, you do get pretty quick at converting your TEXT articles into impressive video marketing articles.

Article Video Robot™ (AVR) is a web based or SaaS (Service as a Software) solution, so there is no installation required. The clean and simple user interface, makes for a very short learning curve, and very easy for even a non-technical people to be able to use it right away.

From an Internet Marketer’s perspective, one of the main reasons a tool like this is so valuable, is how quickly your content gets ranked by Google, mainly because its VIDEO. Plus, the tremendous times savings as compared to the cumbersome steps involved using conventional SEO techniques for getting a decent page rank. You can opt to have the system uploaded your  content to YouTube, Viddler, Vimeo, Daily Motion and a few other major video sharing sites or you can download the file and host it on your own site/server as well. So far, I’ve found that my AVR content generates much more targeted traffic from my Video Articles than that what I usually get from my routine text only articles.

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• Video Articles will yield far more traffic than text only articles.
• Video Articles will yield a superior page rank faster than text only articles.
• Video Articles do not require expensive audio/video tools to produce quality content.
• Article Video Robot™ is affordable, easy to use and produces professional content.
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Twitter Followers and Facebook Friends and Fans are much more likely to follow you on Twitter or become a Fan when you share with them fun, fresh, interesting and relevant content. Watch this YouTube video to see how easy it is to publish interesting, fun and meaningful content to your Twitter and Facebook accounts with 3 quick clicks of the mouse, once you connect the Bit.Ly sidebar java applet to  your Firefox browser and link them to your Twitter & Facebook accounts.

This Social Media Marketing Video Tip will show you how easy it is to share good stuff with your Facebook Friends and Twitter Followers with a few clicks of your mouse.

Note If you’d like a step-by-step PDF on how to set up the Bit.Ly sidebar java applet with the Firefox browser and connect them to your Twitter and Facebook accounts so you can dupe this routine, click over to Contact Neil enter SMMT22 in the Subject area and I’ll send you a detailed “How To” PDF so you can copy this routine.

I recently attended the Social Media Money System webinar. I was one of 12,000 people on this call. My objective for being on the call was to learn more about these FOUR things:

What is Social Media Marketing?

What are the Best Social Media Tools?

What is best Social Media Marketing Software?

How can I use Social Media to help Promote My Business?

The moderators were two well known guys who (if you keep score by dollars & cents) are Rock Stars! The statement was made that by the end of this 90 minutes teleseminar, I was going to know more about Social Media Marketing than 99% of the people who actively participate in the Social Media wave.  In retrospect, I’m not so sure I know more than 99% of the people out there, but I did come away with some good info I can use to improve my social media persona and just as importantly, how to contribute to my social media network in a meaningful way.

THE DO’S and DONT’S OF SOCIAL MEDIA

I took copious notes during this 90 minute call, I hit the screen capture button more than thirty times and after reviewing my notes, I documented a few dozen key lessons from this event. In some ways, the things I learned NOT to do were as valuable as learning what I should be doing. For example, I learned that Social Media Marketing is NOT about posting a Click Here Affiliate Link every 30 seconds on Twitter. I learned that it’s critical to establish a casual and mutually beneficial relationship with your Twitter followers and your YouTube Fans loooong before you try and get them to “Buy My Stuff” or subscribe to your newsletter.

THE SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING PLATFORM

There seemed to be an over simplification of what the key Social Media platforms to be involved with. The main speaker kept referring to his concept of the “Triangulation” of Twitter, Facebook and YouTube all pointing back to his Money Page (his Word Press Blog) when in reality, the social media platform includes a few dozen properties. The diagram below shows just how expansive the social media platform really is and it will probably be twice as large one year from now.

TOP 10 SOCIAL MEDIA SITES

Twitter

Facebook

YouTube

USTREAM

Flickr

DIGG

Stumble Upon

My Space

Squidoo

The speakers gave us a couple of very useful social media tips and tricks when it comes to getting major exposure to your quality social media content. I won’t list them all in this single post, but what I can tell you is that making a fun and informative 4-5 minute video and posting it to YouTube with your website link coded into the description is something you should do on a regular basis.

SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING BRANDING

If I had an extra $3,000 lying around, I would have signed up for the MASTER MIND program that was offered. Not only would I have gotten access to the DVD video training and the one-on-one  coaching, but this Platinum Package provided a customized “Branding” of all my social media properties with the same look and feel. That’s why McDonald’s doesn’t one day decide to paint a new Franchises store Purple. It’s important to have your Facebook page have the same “branding” as your Twitter background you’re your YouTube Channel.

SOCIAL MEDIA TRAFFIC (Embed & Comment)

Keep this in mind when posting to your Blog. Make sure you “push” your content to ALL of your Social Media properties (see the list above).

Besides using your RSS feeds, I find the “Share This widget to be a very effective social media marketing “promo” tool. As a matter of fact, let me shamelessly invite you to use Share This right now!

Simply click the flashing “Share This” icon below this post and if you like this content, send it to any of the 30+ social media sites listed. You might ADD this widget to your Blog site if you haven’t already done so.

Lastly, it would be GREAT if you could Leave a Comment about this post (be it good, bad or ugly) just tell me what you thought and if this was a good read for you or not?

SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING TOOLS

In my next post, I’m going to include a video on How you can simply “mouse over” a Bit.ly link on Twitter or any social media site to quickly determine whether or not its worth investigating further, using a free Firefox add-on. This one technique alone saves me a ton of time culling through the hundreds of Tweets I read  every day from a bunch of very smart social media marketing people.

To create a successful website or blog, you must have web Traffic or visitors to your site. Without traffic, your perfect site is useless; it might as well not even exist.

Moreover, because web traffic is an essential element of any successful site, many novice webmasters make the mistake of believing all traffic is created equal.

Huge mistake.

For if traffic is King; targeted Traffic is God. All traffic is good, but there is a great distinction between ordinary traffic and targeted traffic. Someone clicking on a link to your site who is looking for the exact information or product you have displayed is said to be a targeted visitor. These are the kinds of visitors or traffic you must try to obtain in your marketing and link building.

Why?

Because targeted traffic is often the key to building a successful site on the web. Targeted Traffic will greatly increase your sales conversions, bring back repeat visitors and help your site gain a prominent online presence.

So here are 10 targeted Traffic building steps you can take:

1. Google Is God!

Only half-kidding but at least where targeted traffic is concerned, Google is still the all important being you should be worshipping online. Don’t ignore the other two major demigods Yahoo! and MSN, but Google will deliver most of your traffic. Your website stats will point this out to you daily, so you must optimize your site for Google.

As a general rule make your pages Google friendly by only using one topic per page, include your keywords in the title, meta description and url for that page. It would also be helpful to have your main keywords in the first headline on the page and most experienced webmasters try to place their keywords in the first 90 words and in the last 25 words. Sprinkle your keywords and variations throughout the copy but don’t keyword spam, just let the engines know this is what your page is about.

2. Target The Right Keywords

You must target the right keywords in order to get useful traffic to your site. You must first check the number of searches and amount of  competition for your chosen keywords. You can use software like Keyword Elite or sites like Digital Point which will give you the Overture and WordTracker monthly stats to help you pick the right keywords for your site. Instead of picking highly competitive keywords, take the middle road and milk the ‘long tail keywords’!

Most webmasters create a master keyword list for their site then branch off into sub-categories from this master list. For example, if you have a site on laptops your sub-keyword categories could be laptop accessories, laptop batteries and so on. Similar, most webmasters only develop their sites in a simple hierarchy with the homepage as the center with their major keywords as separate pages and then sub-categories branching out from these. Your webpages should not be more than three clicks away from your homepage as this will really displease the search engine gods!

3. Have Relevant Content

Perhaps what will appease the SE gods the most is relevant content. Your content has to be relevant to the topic of your site. Keep everything on topic and within the scope of your site.

Relevant, helpful content will also be the biggest magnet for targeted Traffic. Surfers are usually looking for information, give them what they want and your site will reap the rewards. Original high quality relevant content will draw in targeted Traffic to your site so make sure your have Traffic. Surfers are usually looking for information, give them what they want and your site will reap the rewards. Original high quality relevant content will draw in targeted Traffic to your site so make sure your have some good content to satisfy your visitors and the search engines.

4. Let The Search Engines Find You

Instead of submitting your site to the search engines, let them find your site. One of the best ways to do this is by placing your links on high traffic/spidered sites: on online forums matching your site’s content, on social networks such as MySpace, YouTube, Squidoo… and on articles directories like Ezinearticles, Goarticles, and Ideamarketers. The search engines will follow these links and index your site before you even know it.

5. Use Traffic Modules

One of the most effective ways to bring in targeted Traffic is to create traffic modules: whole areas of your site devoted to one sub-topic. For example, if you have a general site on cars, you could develop a whole section on a car-buying guide. Another section could be on car accessories, link all these pages together into a neat Traffic cluster on your site. The search engines will love these closely grouped pages and reward you with lots of targeted Traffic.

6. Use Articles

Don’t forget article marketing, just because it has become extremely popular doesn’t mean it has become any less effective. Writing short helpful informative articles on your site’s topic is still one of the best ways to get targeted traffic to your site. Place your links with your targeted keyword anchor text in the resource box.

Article marketing is an invaluable source not only of targeted traffic but also one-way links to your site. These links will help increase your rankings, especially in Google which considers each link as a democratic vote for your site and ranks each page with a PageRank PR 0-10.

Articles are also extremely important for pre-selling to your potential customers. These articles warm or soften up your prospective buyers to your sales pitch before they even reach your site.

7. Build Opt-in Lists

Most marketers and webmasters use opt-in lists to bring targeted visitors back to their sites. Instead of just receiving that visitor once, you can get repeat visits by using a simple follow-up system with an autoresponder. Studies have consistently shown it might take 6 or 7 follow-ups before a potential customer buys.

Building a subscriber list will also be helpful in creating a web community around your site. These community members may become your most targeted of all your visitors. Likewise, you should have a bookmark feature on all your pages, any repeat visitor is a targeted visitor!

8. Have Blogs & RSS Feeds

Make sure you have a blog and RSS feed attached to your site. This will not only bring in targeted Traffic but your visitors can also subscribe to your RSS feed. This will bring targeted visitors back to your site. Use a free site like Google’s own www.blogger.com or better yet create your own blog using free software such as WordPress.

9. Use Social Media

Build links and contacts in all the important social media networks such as MySpace, YouTube and Twitter. These social networks are a great source of very targeted Traffic.

10. Use Multimedia

Perhaps the biggest opportunity to build targeted traffic is using video and audio media on your site. These will help personalize your message or content and build trust with your visitors. Video clips also have a great viral potential which will bring in traffic.

Sites such as YouTube, Google Video can help you get your message or content in front of millions of eyes overnight. Savvy marketers are already exploiting the traffic potential of this new multimedia trend overtaking the web, why should they have all the fun? You too, can take advantage of these free media sites and pull in targeted Traffic to your site.

Of course, there are many more ways of getting targeted Traffic to your site. But just using one or two of these techniques should increase your targeted traffic in the coming months. Appease the traffic gods by putting these steps into practice and see for yourself.

The author is a full-time online marketer. For the latest and most effective web marketing tools try: Internet Marketing Tools Or why not try these excellent free training manuals and videos: Free Internet Marketing Courses

Add Video To Your Website with VideoWebWizard 2.0

VideoWebWizard converts all the popular video formats and a few, even the comparable software programs don’t support. VideoWebWizard supports AVI, WMV, MOV, MPG, FLV, VOB, ASF, and MP4 video formats.

VideoWebWizard automatically converts your video into Flash format, it generates a small web page with your video on it, complete with a player and controls (play, pause, volume, and so on). Upload this page to your website, and you’re done!

VideoWebWizard comes pre-loaded with  14 video players in version 2.0! These players will load and play the video on your website. They’re all professionally designed and have basic controls like Play, Pause, and Fast Forward. Some players even have full screen features.

Brand Your Videos With Your URL, Your Logo, Or Any Image!

When using VideoWebWizard, you can set a “Completion URL.” With this special option, viewers watching your video will be redirected to the website you set as the “Completion URL.” This doesn’t sound like anything much at first, does it?

It’s actually a really powerful feature.  Just think of all the ways you could use this…

• To redirect people to an order page after your video ends
• To redirect people to an affiliate link & get a percentage of their purchases
• To redirect people to your newsletter subscribe page
• To redirect people to another section of your site or another video

The beauty of this is your viewers never have to type in a website URL or click a link to go to the website you want them to visit. Believe it or not, some people may watch a whole video of yours but never visit the site you want them to go to. (People are lazy! What else is new?) This feature does the work for them and guides them to the page you want them to go to. This little feature is the “secret weapon” of many online marketers!

With VideoWebWizard, You Can Do All of This

• Convert Almost Any Video To FLV (Flash) Website Format(AVI, WMV, MOV, MPG, FLV, VOB, ASF, and MP4 Video Formats)
• Automatically Download & Convert Videos From YouTube
• Create Video Playlists & Convert Multiple Videos At Once
• Manually Control The Quality Settings Of Your New Video (With Video Resolution, Video Bitrate, Audio Bitrate, Video Frame Rate, & More)
• OR  Simply Use One Of The Easy Presets Such As “Cable” Or “Dial-Up”!
• Brand Your Videos With Your Own Logo, Website Address, or Custom Text
• Choose From A Total Of 14 Video Player Styles
• Make Your Video Pop Out With Any Of The 13 Video Skins Included
• Automatically Place Your Video On Any Of The 10 Web Page Templates Included
• Put Video On Any Existing Web Page Instead Of Making A New Page

Automatically Redirect The Viewer To A Website Address After The Movie Has Ended Using the “Completion URL” Feature (To An Order Page, Affiliate Link, And So On! This Is A Powerful Feature!)

5 Reasons You’ll Be Forever Glad You Decided to Get VideoWebWizard Today…

You’ll get more visitors and traffic to your website. Put up a video that’s “cool” or viral, or that’s interesting or useful, or that’s shocking or scary – it’ll get passed around and you’ll get more visitors to your website!

Your visitors will stay on your website longer. No longer will people land on your site, scroll around for a few seconds, and leave. If you get them to watch a video they’re interested in, they’ll be hooked!

You’ll get more email subscribers. If you get more visitors and they all stay on your site longer, chances are they’re much more likely to notice and sign up for your email newsletter.

You’ll have better conversion rates of visitors to sales and leads. Videos have some psychological effect that plain ol’ text just can’t generate, and they let you connect with your visitors in a way text can’t. If you’re selling products or services and you use both text and video, you’re sure to make more money with your website.

You’ll have a more impressive site. Not only that, but you will be one of the smart webmasters and marketers who are taking advantage of the “online video” phenomenon and are adapting to the new “video” era.