There are reports from all over the Internet that people have seen an Adsense page on YouTube stating that soon you will be able to sign up and create a custom player for video content that will contain Adsense links. The page for this is reported as being here, yet for some reason the page redirects to the member page.
It does load for a second though, so you can actually see it. What does this mean? Well it appears that Google has pulled the page from view shortly after it went live. Maybe it was launched too early and we’re not supposed to have seen it. Maybe Google has had a rethink entirely at the prospect of earning Ad revenue off potentially copyrighted videos.
Whatever the reason it’s not live on the YouTube site at present.
The big question of course is what would this mean for affiliates and publisher websites if this does happen, as clearly Google had intended at some point? The option of choosing and customising a video player for your website to display content and then earn revenue from it seems too good to be true – especially if the video content is automatically selected based on the content of your website.
How would the revenue model work as well? Would it be Adsense style text links within the video player framework that relies on a click through to earn commission? Or better yet; an earnings-per-play system whereby you earn commission every time a visitor to your website watches a clip. The second option is by far more enticing from my point of view, especially if you owned a movie website and clips from the film were displayed via YouTube. The traffic viewing the clips would be highly targeted, making for some very high conversion rates.
Darren
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One of the hardest parts about being an affiliate is keeping the links, banners and products on your website up to date with the merchants. If you’re still showing banners for products the merchants are no longer selling you’re wasting valuable real estate on your website. Worse yet, when someone clicks through to buy the product you’re promoting and they find it doesn’t exist; you’ve lost the chance of a return customer.
Worse even still, if you’re a PPC affiliate you’re paying for clicks to drive traffic to the merchant, only to find they’re not selling what you’re paying for; so you might as well be throwing your money out of a moving train.
Luckily the network provider Affiliate Window has a solution to all of these problems. Their new Shop Window is now in Beta testing and it allows you to promote every product within their database, dynamically.
I say solution, but things like this have existed for years such as Amazon’s product feed that offered affiliates the chance to build applications to promote any product within the Amazon database. The problem there was that Amazon stores were difficult to set up and unless you used third party scripts such as the one from Mr Rat anyone without serious developer knowledge was alienated.
Affiliate Window however has created their Shop Window to be as simple as installing Wordpress. Actually, it’s easier than installing Wordpress because you don’t even need to set up a database. You simply sign up with Affiliate Window, download the Shop Window script unzip it and then upload it to your web server.
That’s it. No configuration required. You now have a working store that contains products from every merchant that offers a product fee in Affiliate Window. That’s over 3.5 Million products!
Of course doing this isn’t going to make you the next Amazon. You need to target niche markets and filter out the products you don’t want. For example, you could choose a domain name about Star Wars, upload your shop and create static pages that display only Star Wars products. As the Merchants include retailers like Toys R Us there will be hundreds if not thousands of Star Wars products, from toys to DVDs to Video Games.
Then you promote your new Star Wars store with some natural SEO, or some PPC for specific product names if you’re feeling confident, and wait for the money to flood in.
Obviously there’s a little more to it than this, but we’ll go into specifics for setting up the stores and promoting them in later blogs. Plus the code is still only in Beta testing, so things may change; but the principal will be the same and the potential is there to see.
Darren
Affiliate Marketing
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