A Guide To Making Money With A Video Blog

useful information,thanx dude
keep it up.

 

good information, I can see videos coming up everywhere - huge market to capture

 

my traffic at worldpolitics.tv just exploded! 250 uniques in a day wowzers

 

Hey an amazing thing happened to me... I've (half) translated one of the vlogs to slovene and added it to slovenian SE (www.najdi.si). I got 2500 visitors in a day and earned 40$ from adsense (about 10 times more than my record )!

Some info:
Most of the traffic comes from digg, but they don't like to click ads
I get around 8$/1000impressions
stumble isn't working for me well
I have been getting more and more visitors from google (first day nothing than about 3 visits per blog per day and now I'm getting 20-30 visits from google)

Manchesterguy: Where is the traffic coming from ?

 

i have uploaded some videos to youtube, there have been only 4 viewers in the past 10 hours. is this normal? the page did not get much traffic neither... yet
ocsi

 

try uploading it to metacafe, you'll get around 500 viewers in first day
and than 4 each folowing day

 

lukaslo, most of my traffic was coming from digg.

now ive got a problem...at http://www.worldpolitics.tv the vipers videoquicktags plugin doesnt seem to be working properly.

can u guys see my videos?

 

Yes I can see them

 

i cant see my videos excepte the Ron Paul one which i hardcoded. The vipers video quicktags doesnt seem to be working..all i see are URLs to youtube!

can u guys see ALL of my videos at http://www.worldpolitics.tv ?

 

Yes, I can see all of your embedded videos

 

That's nothing. If you read the guide, when I launched my blog I uploaded 30 videos on the first day alone, then was uploading 5-10 per day for over a week.

 

cool tips...Keep up the good work

 

Guys, I've been reading a lot about the big battle between blogger.com versus Wordpress... can anyone think of any significant advantages that blogger.com might have?

I think blogger.com is owned by Google, is it? If so, would Google play some dirty tricks to favor their platform, ie: make blogs hosted on blogger.com easier to pick up thru their search engine, etc??

Just wondering, sorry if the question is stupid...

 

Just wanted to post a discussion over the two alternatives that I found. The choice is of course between downloading from wordpress.org and getting your own domain and hosting, versus using blogger.com hosted solution (wordpress hosted solutiuon is OUT if you want to monetize). For me the fact that I have to pay for something so minor as hosting, and the fact that the Blogger.com editor is easier to use, are really minor considerations; for me, the one that helps get the most traffic and monetizes the best is the winner...and that seems to mean wordpress wins.



http://www.blogtrepreneur.com/2006/03/13/battle-of-the-blogs-blogger-vs-wordpress/

Battle of The Blogs: Blogger vs. WordPress
March 13th, 2006 · 13 Comments
Hey Guys.
Well, I thought I should better start writing an article of the best blog around, as Im thinking of changing blogs. Anyone have any recommendations? As you know, I am currently using Blogger made by Google to write all of my articles, however, I found out through forums, that other people had started to talk about other blogging software, like Wordpress. Well, is it really any good? I’ll try and outline the main pros and cons of having Wordpress compared to Blogger.

1)Both Blogger and Wordpress are free! However, with the full (and recommended) version of Wordpress, you need to have your own hosting on which to place your blog. Therefore, you also would need your own domain name, which costs around £6-8 for a .com name, with the hosting which starts off at about £3 per month. Blogger 1-0 up!


2)One of the main things which made me want to try out wordpress was categories. Blogger doesnt have a category feature! Therefore, for all you people out there reading my blog, it probably takes you ages to try and find a topic which you prefer. Wordpress back to 1-1!

3) It is very easy to use Blogger using the WYSIWYG editor, with previews available before you have to publish the article/template. Wordpress, although easy to write articles, does require amateur knowledge of HTML/CSS, which is one of the reasons which I was more inclined to using Blogger. For all you pro’s though who can handle the messy stuff Wordpress is the way, but being realistic, most of the population doesnt have a clue about CSS, and WordPress has no preview, so Im afraid that one will have to go to Blogger, 2-1 up!

4) Blogger has few themes. Most of these although 3 column (with room for adsense, affiliates), are pretty similar, and so you cant get any real personalisation. Wordpress on the other hand now has over 400 to choose from, massive choice! Although these dont have the customary 3 columns, they still look pretty damn good, so WP is back on level terms at 2-2!

Continued....

 

Says who?

Just because you can't put Adsense on it?

 

Thanks for the great info! I am having trouble changing my title tag in my wordpress blog though. Has anyone else had any success changing

<title><?php bloginfo('name'); ?><?php wp_title(); ?></title>

to

<title><?php wp_title(' '); ?><?php if(wp_title(' ', false)) (echo '-'; ) ?><?php bloginfo('name'); ?></title>

I must be typing something wrong because I am getting all kinds of errors.

thetafferboy83 I must be typing that incorrectly. Could you lend a hand with some help? Thanks.

Sig

 

wow thats way to much work for all that id rather have a business thats more turn key and one does exist

 

Try this:

<title><?php wp_title(' '); ?><?php if(wp_title(' ', false)) { echo ' - '; } ?><?php bloginfo('name'); ?></title>

PHP:

Looks like you're missing curly braces.