A Guide To Making Money With A Video Blog

I think the length of the article was lost on some people, who scan read it hehe

 

I've followed these steps... even spent a whole lot of time exchanging stumbles, submitting to directories, posting on forums, etc... everything I can think of.

My site is a hosted site with wordpress 2.1 installed, not the free wordpress.com blog.

I did setup a free blog on wordpress.com to do commentaries on the posts from the video blog site... with an pingback between them. I setup a free squidoo page to help try to promote it. I even started a community on bumpzee for funny videos.

The site has been live 2 days. Today I had 6 hits, one from a friend of mine.

So today I'll be adding like 10-15 videos, (probably 10-15 more tomorrow too) to build content. Right now I have like 6-7.

I haven't branded any videos yet... will that suddenly start getting me more traffic?

Thanks for this post btw, hope things start to pickup.

 

As said in the article, youtube is key to instant traffic, definitely don't waste your start time with dir subs.

 

Very good info. Thanks for the post.

 

I'll have to give that a try. I'm also going to develop a WordPress template based on the site and provide it for free (with link back to my site of course).

 

it appears to me that google is turning a blind eye towards this youtube scraping, but i asked adsense support anyway... after a week of email exchanges:

Q: "...i want to put adsense
on the same pages as embedded video clips from youtube, metacafe,
break.com, google video, etc...what is google's specific policy on this issue? video is no longer listed in the adsense tos."

A: "...Unfortunately what you wish to do is not allowed under our policies.
Publishers may not display Google ads on web pages with MP3, Video, News
Groups, and Image Results or other copyrighted material for which they are
not the copyright owner or for which they have not received permission
from the copyright owner to publish.

Please note that it is our policy to respond to notices of alleged
infringement that comply with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).
For AdSense publishers, if we receive a notice or otherwise have reason to
believe that your site is infringing, we may terminate your participation
in the program. More information about our DMCA process is available here
http://www.google.com/adsense_dmca.html."

 

i've branded 30 videos and added them all to youtube. no traffic increase. still jsut 20 hits a day =(

 

so we are not allowed to put adsense beside a video?

 

Yes you are, we've covered this, check earlier in the thread. Danimal has been trolling this post for ages, please ignore him.

 

that is correct, per the adsense tos.

why not ask adsense support for yourself?

i think that there is too much at stake here to be listening to noobs and scammers who don't care about your adsense account... notice how they never quote the adsense tos directly?

the critters thread used to be legal, but google cracked down on that... will they crack down on this youtube scraping as well?

 

/yawn. back to the n00b cage with you

 

these advices are good for every type of video blog!

 

Any way that your allowed to advertise you should take advantage of.

 

Like I said over and over, when it is uploaded to youtube, Youtube has permission from the uploader to show it, and anyone who uses youtube videos to embed, if that person doesn't want their video to show on other sites, they simply have to uncheck "allow others to embed"

You are given permission by the person checking "allow others to embed"

 

not for commercial gain, per the tos of many video sites:

5. User Submissions
You also hereby grant each user of the YouTube Website a non-exclusive license to access your User Submissions through the Website... as permitted through the functionality of the Website and under these Terms of Service.
F. YouTube permits you to link to materials on the Website for personal, non-commercial purposes only. In addition, YouTube provides an "Embeddable Player" feature, which you may incorporate into your own personal, non-commercial websites.
3. Website Access
A. YouTube hereby grants you permission to use the Website as set forth in this Terms of Service, provided that: (i) your use of the Website as permitted is solely for your personal, noncommercial use
http://www.youtube.com/t/terms

12 NO RESALE OF SERVICE
You agree not to reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, trade, resell or exploit for any commercial purposes, any portion of the Service (including your Yahoo! ID), use of the Service, or access to the Service.
http://info.yahoo.com/legal/us/yahoo/utos/utos-173.html

3. Website Access
Metacafe hereby grants you permission to use the Website, provided that: (i) your use of the Website is solely for your personal, noncommercial use;
5. User Submissions
You also hereby grant each user of the Website or other viewer of the User Submission a non-exclusive right to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display and perform such User Submissions, all for non-commercial and personal use.
http://www.metacafe.com/terms/

 

adsense isnt a commercial gain
a video blog is not a commercial website
millions of videos are ebedded from youtube on pages which have adsense and many other types of advertising

you should tell google that myspace is breaking TOS by letting users embed videos from youtube for commercial gain
they will laugh at you
google video probably has a large percentage of copyrighted videos

so whats your deal anyway danimal
its like you have something against these sites
do you run some type of video site and dont want compeditors or what?
wheres the scam?

 

It's not commercial gain, commercial would mean that your selling the videos

 

prove it... show us where any relevant tos defines "commercial" as selling videos only, while allowing adsense.

lol... adsense pays you money and it isn't commercial gain? are you donating 100% of the money to charity? are you a non-profit organization?

What is Non-Commercial Use?
http://www.archive.org/iathreads/post-view.php?id=111591

 

its not commercial gain because your site is not meant for adsense. it's meant for entertainment.

 

You should not have copy righted videos on your site. Look what happened to Youtube they got sued by Viacom.