If you’ve been marketing online for a while, I bet you’d have a couple of unused domain names and perhaps even some deleted sites for which the domain itself still gets traffic from your previous efforts.
Here’s a good way to make money from all that traffic – create automated video sites.
I found a script that does this effortlessly, called “YouTube Video Sites in a Box“. All you need to do is install the software, enter your Google Adsense and Amazon ID, select your keywords, and upload the files to your web server. You end up with a site that looks like this:
This is a pretty useful tool to have, and you can basically create as many video sites on any number of sites, using as many niche keywords as you want. I was really amazed by how easy it was to do this, so I made a test site for music videos, deleting my WordPress blog and replacing it with the turnkey video site.
Earlier last year I had this brilliant idea to go out and create a dozen or so WordPress blogs on different topics but by the end of 6 months I started to realize how difficult it was. Now I’m replacing those “wasted” sites that get average traffic with these videos sites.
Please note however, that you still need to do what it takes to get traffic to your new video blogs. It’s not a great idea to bank on these sites to generate a lot of income (some income is possible) unless you mass-generate a lot of blogs and work on getting one way links to them.
Get it: YouTube Video Sites in a Box
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This is the easiest script to install, and it’s pretty awesome. I actually bought a domain name to use it on:
http://www.election-videos08.com
And, used it on an existing site:
http://www.realauctionincome.com/ebay-videos/
Thanks!
This script sounds interesting, rather can be turned into a money machine if trafficulated
Gobala – I have to repeat my BIG WARNING about implementing this type of site!!!!
If you have Adsense on them, then you are actually breaching Google’s Terms Of Service and run the risk of having your Adsense account terminated!
Specifically… “We will, however, enforce our Terms of Use against, say, a website that does nothing more than aggregate a bunch of embedded YouTube videos and intentionally tries to generate ad revenue from them.”
See the original here.
or view my original post on this problem.
IMHO, if this type of product continues to be advertised without a warning of this possibility, then the seller should be legally liable for any lost commissions! A disclaimer is not good enough!
Cheery thought!
Regards
Stephen Spry
I am not sure if my first comment did not reach you or it’s just got deleted but nevermind.
What I think about this script is, we might be able to build an automated website but it’s important for repeating users that they have interaction with webmaster. After a while, visitors might lose interest in such automated sites. Even after saying this, if you could still manage to maintain the traffic, this script can be a money machine for you.
There will be no “repeating” users to websites like these. The main purpose is not to build a serious website for branding, but rather to capitalize on whatever traffic you get or used to get.
The link you gave goes to YouTube’s Terms of Use, not Adsense, and even that page does not mention anything about Adsense.
Just because Google owns both you can’t just assume things – it’s a different story if you referred me to Google Adsense’s TOS.
Plus your post is vague and not based on any of your own experience so I have to dismiss your comment as “misguided”
Now that’s a true capitalist
I wished I thought of that!
Well..worth a try huh? It’s reasonably priced too..
Hmm.. I need a project.
Sorry if I might have suggested that there could be a potential problem with this type of crap scraper site that really doesn’t add anything other than even more information pollution. As a video version of the older “made for adsense” content sites… it’s not the type of product that serious business builder’s would look at implementing.
YouTube’s TOS refers to “advertising”… this script uses Adsense… OK – so this “misguided” soul put 2+2 together and came up with a vague (but still fairly valid) “possibility” that no-one should just dismiss so casually, especially the owner of a highly popular Internet resource who is actually promoting the stuff!
Did YOU ask Adsense support if I was wrong BEFORE you dismissed my comment so bluntly?
Hmmm… maybe a “We should check into this and clarify the situation” might have been a more appropriate early response, as I’m sure you would hate anyone to be put at any sort of legal or financial risk by using a dodgey product that you sold them!
So, to clear the issue up… I’ve specifically asked Adsense support the question, and will let you know their response as soon as I have it.
Despite all of that, such sites are STILL in breach of YouTube’s TOS because the sole intention of them – according to the sales letter – is to make money from advertising.
Again, I might be speaking out of my hat here since (thankfully) I don’t have any direct experience of what action YouTube might take against you… and I don’t want to find out either
Stephen
Before read this on this post I had been implemented this script on my site http://www.internetMoneyFormula.com/video
No worry about what will happen, but now.
Keep positive….
Be blessed
Hello Gobala
As promised… here’s the response from Adsense Support (bolding added by me):
Hi Stephen,
Thank you for your note. I appreciate your efforts to remain in line with our policies.
In addition to the YouTube policies that you’ve noticed, I think you should read over the following:
Publishers may not place Google ads on pages that violate Google’s webmaster quality guidelines (
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35769#quality
). While we’ve included the following excerpts from these guidelines, we recommend that you take the time to review them in their entirety.
* Make pages for users, not for search engines.
* Don’t employ cloaking or sneaky redirects.
* Don’t load pages with irrelevant words.
* Don’t create multiple pages, subdomains, or domains with substantially duplicate content.
* Don’t participate in link schemes designed to increase your site’s ranking or PageRank.
* Avoid “doorway” pages created just for search engines, or other “cookie cutter” approaches such as affiliate programs with little or no original content.
* Avoid tricks intended to improve search engine rankings. A good rule of thumb is whether you’d feel comfortable explaining what you’ve done to a website that competes with you. Another useful test is to ask, “Does this help my users? Would I do this if search engines didn’t exist?”
* If your site participates in an affiliate program, make sure that your site adds value. Provide unique and relevant content that gives users a reason to visit your site first.
I hope that outlining the policy items above helps to answer your question.
Considering that they referenced several sections of Google’s webmaster quality guidelines in the response, I believe my earlier “assumption” was pretty close to spot on.
Use such programs if you want to put your Adsense earnings at risk.
And if you sell them without warning customers of the risk… well… tch tch!
Stephen Spry
Sorry… I stuffed up the bolding – it was supposed to end after the “with little or no original content.” bit.
No problem, I edited the codes to highlight the correct lines of text.
So basically the problem here is with duplicate content, either text / video it’s the same to Google.
All I can say is if you’re worried Google will come after you, then by all means don’t try it.
There are a lot of duplicate content sites / syndication sites that run Google Adsense, and I have some too which encounter no problem.
But if you really want to be cautious, then you should not do these kind of stuff.
It’s a grey area, so do it if you want.
Bickering aside, to me it would seem that this could be used to provide additional resources for site visitors. What would be wrong with pointing visitors to a gardening site to a page/subdomain of videos about gardening?