One of my fellow blogger friends made $500 from his video blog. This made me put in a serious thought about building up a video blog. How does a video blog makes money? Such questions pop up into my mind often. I decided to do research in the net on how do people make money on video blog. Here is what I found out:
Setting up a video blog is easy. Basically you need to know how to do embedding video code into your blog. You can get a lot video codes from Google Video, Youtube and other video sharing site. Videos are social media friendly. Videos can go viral very easily and are extremely easy to promote through social websites.
I enjoy looking for videos in the net. Most people like video blogs because it relieve stress and make you happy when you come across a video that is hilarious and fun. You don’t have to write a good article, check your copy and constantly think of blog post ideas.
How to make money from Video Blog
Mark Cook created a forum that offers a guide to setting up a video blog. In his blog, Mark offers his free tips freely to two popular forums, Digital Point and Site Point. This ingenious way has brought very good rating to Mark by the forum members.
The articles that Mark posts in the forum are simple and short. The following is a summary what Mark put in his article:
1. Sign up for Google Adsense. This is the first step to take if 11. You’re not already an Adsense publisher.
2. Pick a domain name. This should be short and memorable.
3. Set up Wordpress on the domain.
4. Install various video plugins for Wordpress. These help to speed up the process of uploading videos on your blog.
5. Burn your feed with FeedBurner. This is the first step towards building up defensive traffic through a feed subscriber base.
6. Pick a WP theme and brand it with your logo.
7. Search optimizes your theme. Several manual methods were listed in the section but I would suggest using SEO plugins, one of which is the very essential SEO Title Tag plug-in.
8. Set up your Adsense units for maximal click through benefits. The easiest way to do this is to use Adsense Ready Themes with already optimized ad placement. A little tweaking will be needed but it saves you a lot of time.
9. Source for video content. You can either repost videos or download videos and rebrand them with your site logo and URL.
10. Promote your blog with Stumble Upon. Stumble Upon is really useful in driving traffic to any site and I suggest reading my comprehensive guide to Stumble Upon if you are interested in fully utilizing its potential.
11. Build Links to your blog. Mark only suggests RSS or blog directories and I would suggest linking to the blog from a variety of other places as well: Other sites you own, forum signatures, social bookmaking sites etc.
Mark uses social websites like Stumble Upon, YouTube and Reddit to drive traffic to the blog. He then creates put up Adsense Ads in his blog. Mark made around US $1000 a month, without much trouble. His blog has a 25% CTR.
Mark’s video blog marketing tips were primarily focused on social websites and referral traffic, which inevitably will involve some consistent marketing and promo work everyday before you build up a strong enough feed subscriber base that will naturally pitch or link to your posts.
In terms of search traffic, a video blog might be an interesting way for anyone who is truly interested in exploring the potential of longtail keywords, simply because it would be far too difficult to rank for competitive terms.
I’ve always been wondering if the lack of on-site textual content might affect keyword ranks and a video blog will probably be a good way for me to find out.
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