We all know the impact video has made on the internet marketing scene and with the advent of youtube, google video etc it has now gone beyond the realms of fantasy. Gone are the days when we received internet marketing ebooks and guides (good or bad…. mostly bad!) for our hard earned cash. Nowadays it is all done by video. Personally I think this is a great thing. Video packages are much easier to follow and with the high speed internet connections available today, either downloading them or watching online really presents no problem.
The question is where will this all lead? Are the days of the internet marketing article over? Can you see the day when ezinearticles becomes a youtube type site full of videos submitted by the public? With the recent advances in video creation software being able to create your own video is now a breeze, there are even sites where you can create your video online. So how long will it be before there is a video site version of article directories? Youtube is almost there already although you might say it is more entertainment based ( well some of it) rather than information based.
Article directories themselves have become devalued in the search engine’s eyes, with a few notable exceptions, probably due to the thousands of article directories that sprung up over the last two years, trying to cash in on the article marketing niche. I certainly would not suggest setting up an article directory now, the train has truly left the station. I have actually revamped two article directories I created and sold another one. The traffic has dried up and more importantly the income has dropped dramatically. So how about setting up a youtube clone? There are several software packages out there but the big downside is the amount of space the videos take up and without paying for a very expensive hosting option or preferably a dedicated server.
So how can we cash in on the video craze? I have actually been trying to get a script created by programmers to create a video site using the videos from other site, notably youtube and google video but none of the results achieved the required format, so when I received an email form JPS about a scritp he had created I was obviously very interested. I jumped aboard and tried it out but to be honest the results were very basic and the click through test on an adsense test I ran were very disappointing. I contacted him and he informed me he was releasing a new updated version so I sat back and waited.
I got Niche Video site Builder V2 a little in advance of the general release and have to say it is a great improvement. It is probably the easiest website creation script I have ever seen for an ordinary site let alone a video based site. All you have to do is input your Keyword and adsense details and upload it to your site and your done! It goes to youtube and grabs relevant videos to your keyword. I have not bothered optimizing the site yet although you do get some great instruction videos and have already noticed a very healthy click through rate and even more importantly I am getting very high dollar amounts per click. This probably is helped by the fact the visitors are spending a decent amount of time on the site while they watch the vides and we all know how much google loves time spent on site.
There are other scripts out there that do a similar job but the great thing about Niche Video site Builder V2 is it delivers closely related videos unlike the others which end up with you getting some really weird and NOT wonderful results. Anyway if you looking to start creating some new sites I highly recommend you check it out. Video is definitely the way forward both from a human visitor point of view as well as the Search engine bots and as mentioned gives some really good results from adsense. You can actually use other ad formats to like yahoo or msn and even put affiliate links instead, it just requires a quick and easy edit of the template.