If you haven’t heard, video websites are the “in” thing now.  You know, first there were static pages, then flash sites, now it’s videos.

Ok, so we decided to put up some of these HOT commodities to see what all the fuss was about.  The script/program for accomodating this costs like ten bucks (Youtube Video Site Generator).

It actually takes no time at all to put up a website.  In fact, it took me only a couple hours to put up about 20 of these sites.  And that includes the time spent getting new domains, setting them up, etc.  My webhost is REALLY fast with propagation! 

Of course, some of the sites are made using only the script given (travel videos - science videos - entertainment videos - celebrity videos) and some of the others were made by adding on a separate “homepage” since I wanted to break down the categories a bit more (spooky videos - car videos - sports videos - pet videos).

You can fully monetize these websites using any type of affiliate programs that you prefer.  They’re also good for Adsense and Amazon, which are pre-built into the templates that the program comes with.  If you have no experience with video websites, let me tell you, these are REALLY nice.  You can literally put up one website in less than 5 minutes!  Of course, thats with no modifications at all (adsense & amazon is standard).  You just type in a few things like your URL, google adsense & amazon account numbers, your keywords or tags & upload it all using the built-in FTP.  Thats it, it’s really simple.

I’ve had these websites up for about 2 weeks now, and other than submitting them to the search engines, I haven’t done any promotion of them.

Results so far?  The sites without the extra homepages are making about 20 cents a day each via adsense (some a bit more, some a bit less, this is an average).  The sites that I added on the homepage are bringing in 50-60 cents a day.  That’s not huge money, but remember that I haven’t even started promoting them yet!  Amazon income is zero, but they ARE getting clicked on per the analytics at the amazon site.  According to google’s count, the sites with homepages are also getting about 5 times the amount of hits that the ones that don’t have them are!  Could be because these are more popular topics however.

For extra linking power, if you visit any of the sites listed above, you will notice I have linked them all together on every single page of every single site.  You would be surprised at how many people have gone thru one of these sites, then go visit A LOT of the other ones listed too!  Via this linking, ALL of these sites got indexed within 3 days!  :)   I know this to be true, as I didn’t submit all of the websites to the search engines, only some of them.

Realize however, that the “tags” you add on these sites (they are at the top left on the pages) do NOT get indexed (either that or mine just haven’t been yet).  I think they are more or less just for your visitors use, which isn’t a bad deal, since that gets you more website hits, and the possibility of someone clicking an extra adsense ad or seeing some other link you have embedded.

All in all, video websites do seem to attract a lot of attention.  Whether the money is going to follow along…. is yet to be fully determined.

Like any good webmaster, you have to try and use different services every now and again, just to see what works and what doesn’t.

There are various online companies available that will submit your new (or old) websites to the search engines, to get them indexed.  Prices range from free all the way up to hundreds of dollars, and offer assorted levels of service for this charge. 

Now, being on several email lists, I get tons of offers daily for this kind of thing.  Normally, I don’t take any of them up on it, as I have a standard service that I normally use for this purpose.  But I get this one proposal in particular from a (big) RELIABLE newsletter source.  Get your websites submitted to over 68000+ search engines, directories & other websites - a “one-time” blast for just $29.95!  Of course, they also offer a ‘premium’ level where they will do it like 3 or 4 times in a year for $129.95. 

So, after launching this other new site I made, and not having the time to go my regular route, I decide to try it out.  It’s good to try things, right?  Otherwise you won’t know what works & what doesn’t.  Well… what a ripoff this was!  That company sent my website to exactly 30 (yes, THIRTY), search engines.  Last time I checked, 30 wasn’t anywhere near 68,000.  The others were listed as failed submissions or places where this company has the wrong submit page listed for them!  What a joke!  I could have spent 20 minutes doing what they did… and saved 30 bucks!

DON’T use ENTERURL for website submittals!

It’s a blatant ripoff.  I emailed them telling them about this & to date (its been 3 weeks) they have NOT responded.  Got a good mind to dispute the credit card charge!  68,000 listings…. HA HA HA HA! 

DON’T use ENTERURL for ANY services!  If that was any indication of how good their services are, then, well… lol… STAY AWAY!!!

So much for that.  Now, if you want a reliable source for getting your websites submitted, here’s one that I use.  They submit to 34 engines & its free.  (no, its not an affiliate link, just a good source):

http://www.searchenginesubmission.biz/freesearchenginesubmission.html

My real favorite place though, and its free too, well, sorta, as they require a linkback on your site, but well worth it since they submit to 150 search engines (again, not an affiliate link):

Free Search Engine Submission thanks to: Create a Website 

Hey, that reminds me, since I posted their link there, guess I’ll use their submitter!

Finally, in case you haven’t understood this post:

DO NOT use ENTERURL for ANY services unless you like wasting your money!  (and yes, it is nice to have a place like this to tell others about bad companies  :)  )

Resale rights works in such a way that when an owner of an article or a book sells one the authority to sell that book to others then keep the profits. Private label rights however goes much further, efficiently granting the “private label rights” buyer to do what he wants with the articles or text materials.

PLR makes available to you the benefits wherein you have your very own product and without the effort of making it by yourself.

Having ownership rights to articles, you are allowed to do all the revisions or editing that you want. Likewise, you can incorporate any link that you desire, any illustrations or images and add in any additional content and include your byline  after revising the article.

”Private label materials” include information products, graphical files, software, and more. Ebooks, reports and articles are the easiest to work on.

PLR Disadvantage

The only downside of PLR articles is that these series of articles that you purchase are not unique, since these are often sold to several individuals, although the numbers of articles sold are limited.

However, because you are permitted to alter the articles’ content, you have the capability to make the articles unique, and even arrange it in a very different manner and tone that will result to be an original piece.

Simply put, if you have a smart thing with words and the talent for writing, the outcome of the article that you will sell is totally different from everyone else’s and instead of competing with some 400 other individuals who have the very same “private label rights” as yours, by simply changing the content, rearranging the chapters, adding new sections, deleting some irrelevant paragraphs, constructing a catchy title, changing the author’s name into yours, then you have an original article.

PLR advantages

1. Saves time. For a well researched, informative and good quality article to be written, containing several chapters and comprising of about fifty pages, it can very well take at least fifty hours of your time and effort.  With PLR contents, you easily get instant content access.

2. No “outbound links”. With PLR articles, you are not obligated to incorporate “outbound links” at the ending of your articles.  No distracting advertisements means your readers can concentrate well on your articles.  Take note that you can add links to your website or your affiliates.

3. Cost efficient. Hiring someone to write articles for you can be expensive, costing around $17 a piece; so then if you need a 50 page article, then it will cost about $850.  Whereas PLR articles are much cheaper generally available for $29 - $30 for 200 PLR articles.

4. PLR articles can be revised or altered. You can add some chapters and delete some too.  You can rephrase words and add your preferred keywords, which is a great influence in achieving high search engine rankings.

5. You can brand your own name. Almost anybody purchasing something prefers to buy from someone they trust and know.  With your PLR articles, you are able to display your name in the article as the author then you are supplying clients with important information. Then when prospects are pointed to your site, seeing your name once more, they instinctively have that certain feeling of knowing and trusting you.

6. Complete in themselves. PLR articles are entirely complete.  At just a glimpse, “private label articles” articles offer one with the whole “view” of the contents issues and elements involved.

7. Well written by experts. Generally, almost all “private label articles” are professionally written and compiled or collected with the most up-to-date research, investigation and information done by experienced writers.  When you purchase and then use “private label articles” from a trustworthy seller, then you are guaranteed that you are purchasing quality.  Just keep in mind that you look into the terms, making certain that you are allowed to alter the content, as this is the only way that PLR articles can be used with full advantage.

Private label rights articles and ebooks fill a webmasters requirement because they are written purposely to answer specific questions as well as problems within a position on a “well-searched” market. If properly and correctly marketed, they produce steady sales.

Normally, if you want to have professional designers custom build your site, you must be prepared to dish out at least a few hundred dollars. All this can change if you know where to find the best deals, the best designs for the lowest price. Here’s a rough guide:

First, you must understand that it is a rip off to get companies to design websites for you. Have you ever seen those advertisements in newspaper classified ad sections that offer a 5-page website at $500? These companies are established companies with physical locations, therefore they have to increase the amount they charge to pay off some overheads: office rent, designer’s wages, advertising costs and so on.

Therefore, it would be wise to find freelance designers who work from home. These people are often working from home so they do not have a high operation cost like that of a company. On the other hand, they will be able to design images with quality similar to those of designers from big companies, so it’s a “no-brainer” choice.

However, choose freelancers with care. The best way to do this would be to go to elance.com. There, you can post the abstract of your project and get thousands of freelancers to bid on your project, so you will surely get the best deal. On top of that, you will be able to choose the designers based on their experience, past transactions and ratings, so your value for money is secured.

Another route you can take is to design your website yourself. Think about it, if you only need 5 simple pages to present some simple information, why waste hundreds of dollars for it? Just spend a little time to sit down and do it yourself. You’ll be able to design your own sites even if you do not know a single line of HTML code with the help of WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) programs such as Microsoft Frontpage, Macromedia Dreamweaver and so on.

Your website is where your business resides — it’s like the headquarter of an offline company. Hence, it is important to practice good design principles to make sure your site reaches out to the maximum number of visitors and sells to as many people as possible.

Make sure you have clear directions on the navigation of your website. The navigation menu should be uncluttered and concise so that visitors know how to navigate around your website without confusion.

Reduce the number of images on your website. They make your site load very slowly and more often than not they are very unnecessary. If you think any image is essential on your site, make sure you optimize them using image editing programs so that they have a minimum file size.

Keep your text paragraphs at a reasonable length. If a paragraph is too long, you should split it into seperate paragraphs so that the text blocks will not be too big. This is important because a block of text that is too large will deter visitors from reading your content.

Make sure your website complies to web standards at www.w3.org and make sure they are cross-browser compatible. If your website looks great in Internet Explorer but breaks horribly in Firefox and Opera, you will lose out on a lot of prospective visitors.

Avoid using scripting languages on your site unless it is absolutely necessary. Use scripting languages to handle or manipulate data, not to create visual effects on your website. Heavy scripts will slow down the loading time of your site and even crash some browsers. Also, scripts are not supported across all browsers, so some visitors might miss important information because of that.

Use CSS to style your page content because they save alot of work by styling all elements on your website in one go.