I did some calculations and I figured my video site has good potential. I am currently getting the following per day: 63 unique visitors per day $2.44 earnings per day with adsense. This means I am earning 3.8 CENTSfor every unique visitor that comes to my website. My goal in adsense is $100/day. This means I need 2600 unique visitors to visit my site every day to hit that mark. What are the best ways to generate traffic to a video site? Is 2600 uniques/day attainable within a few months with a viral video site? Can someone PLEASE help me? Thank you very much!
Try pay per click advertising with yahoo. I heard they even display your site's ad on myspace sometimes.
If you want to be creative, add watermarks such as ("More videos at "XXX.com") to videos and submit them to YouTube, Google video, ThatVideoSite, etc.
Yeah I tried that and it worked great, but then I kinda got scared when I kept hearing how I could get sued for that so I dont do it anymore. Im averaging $2.5/day from adsense right now so I dont have THAT much money to throw around into adwords.
dang $2.50 a day with only 63 uniques? DO you mind sharing your site with my i have an entertainment video/game site also. Im recieving around 1500 uniques a day and only making 10-15 a day. PM me if youre interested and maybe we can exchange links in the future. Thanks
Upload it to google video and...google video (youtube), you won't get sued. The worst thing that could happen to you is that they take your video off. Make sure the water mark says "Seen at www.yourdomain.com"; and not " WE OWN THIS VIDEO LOZL! "
The problem is my video site has nothing unique to offer and has no user features so I dont really want to give out the URL. Im going to make a niche video site with higher paying keywords and actualy put some real effort into it and promote it. It made over $4 yesterday and $7 the day before on this crappy site and it's got me thinking, if I actually make a site that people would want to come back to then it would pay out even better. I will still continue to promote this site and see how high I can get my earnings, but if I want to hit that $100/day mark I need to make something really valuable and unique on the web. A few good niche video sites is where its at.
adding your watermark to any video without permission is immoral and a breach of the owners copyright. You can indeed get sued (though unlikely) and this will usually give your site a bad name if you do this. I suggest link exchanges, myspace marketing, and maybe an ad campaign or two. (If you search this forum you can find some free advertising threads)
you can do good with a video/entertainment site, just like any site its about content presentation and promotion. I have a couple of entertainment site as well, one without any user features and my visitor retention is still good. you can always add features like comments, reviews and forums later once you get your traffic going
Sometimes, it just takes time and word of mouth for best results, especially if you are on a limited budget. I'd say you're doing alright at this time, give it a few months, continue to add new videos and work on free promotion of your site ala Digg.com, posting in forums, MySpace, etc. Something I found that helped was coding in a way for folks to add the video they are watching to MySpace or blogs using the textarea box they can highlight the code in and paste it into their MySpace, blog, forums, etc.. This is a decent method of lowcost viral marketing.
Only 60 UV a day and you're already making almost 3 bucks!?!? You're already doing very good! I am kinda in the same situation as you, my target is getting $100/Day from my site also, i would say the best thing you could do now is keep updating more videos/games into your site, add comment box, add more bookmark features like add to Digg,del.icio.us,yahoo and so on, this will make people coming back to your site. I think in order to make more money from adsense, you need more fresh visitors actually, because people might get used to your ads placement and they might not click on your ads, so keep getting more and more backlinks!!! Rank well on search engine...and more traffic should come...! Just my little comments.
Just exchange links with other similar sites there's 100's of them around and some of them get tons of traffic. Also I have a Celebrity site you can exchange with. It's http://sexiestcelebrities.blogspot.com/ There's a Referrers list about 1/4 of the way down if you want to trade.
I reccomend getting a few short videos made, making sure that they are of the niche that you want. Then since you own them, you can watermark to your hearts content. Give it a shot.
I don't know how you can ever get sued for that. If you personally create your own video from scratch and put a water mark of your site on it then it should be alright. If you put a water mark on someone elses video then you could get sued.
Unfortunately, making predictions on 63 uniques that you are getting now is flawed because it is highly unlikely you will be able to maintain the current payout. Many people experience the trend soes not continue as they get more traffic. Things like smartpricing, low cpc are factors.
I'd think the other part of the equation would be to mobilize your 60 to drive that number higher. If you can come up with any goofy, off the wall video clips that you can exclusively create & produce... that's going to make all the difference. The watermarks are a good idea. You might want to try a pseudo contest to turn your visitors in to viral helpers... Give away some video editing software to the highest referrer, or something like that. Cheers,