Can you help with this one?
As you know, youtube videos are limited to 10mins in length.
What I’d like to do for this project is post a video that is longer than 10mins, but still host it at youtube.
The plan is to split it into several pieces (all under 10 mins), host over at YouTube and ….
then by some magic, play them one after another (in the right order) ‘as one’ over on our target site…
Can you help with this? I just haven’t found the right player yet that works in wordpress. If you know of such a beast, please let me know so we can share it with everyone and use it on the lesswork-project.
thanks
Veit
Ok,
we’re good to go
Slight delay, apologies, I was baby-sitting
all weekend, so being lazy (read: “male”) I took
them all to the beach;-)
The experiment website is of course this one and the project we’re trying to get up on front of
Google is on:
http://www.lessworkmoremoneyblog.com/
As you can see, I’ve used Jeff Johnson’s SEO wordpress installation for both blogs.
Let me know if you need any info on this software… if you want to drive traffic to your site you’ll
need to be able to install it!
I’ll now put the Google Analytics stats for our target up here, and then we need to start posting content…
But, before we do that, we need to decide on some search-terms! What do we want to rank high on Google?
Just email me some suggestions…
I’ll be creating a video tonight, with editing etc, hopefully it can go up tomorrow. That’s where
we then really follow Jeff’s tutorials…
Is there anything in particular you’d like to see or do you have any content you could contribute to
the target blog?
An article, a blog post, anything vaguely related to the subject (of working less, earning more
money;-) would be great…
Please send me anything you have — of course it’ll go up there with full credits. As you will see from
the site, I haven’t even put adsense banners up, it’s all about learning something, not making money.
Looking forward to hearing from you — just post a comment and let me know what you think, search-terms, want to see/do/….
Veit
Ok, here are the stats — you can see there are two visitors who didn’t stay because, well, there is nothing on the site yet. Let’s get posting! (uhh, that’s ugly when posted, can someone tell me how to install the big picture into a small box with scroll-bars please?)
The simplest way I have found to install Google Analytics in the blog is to use, suprise, surprise, a wordpress plugin:
http://www.joostdevalk.nl/wordpress/google-analytics/
All you need to do is enter your analytics code (which you get when you sign up for Google Analytics) and you’re set to go.
What I like about this particular plugin is that
- of course it adds the tracking code to each page, so you quickly see what traffic each page is getting, but also
- segments the outgoing clicks, so you can tell whether the click came from an article or a comment.
- gives you the option of tracking entire domains, rather than individual URLs — so e.g. if you are sending lots of traffic to different URLs on the same domain (affiliate marketing comes to mind;-), then you might not be interested too much in which particular page it went to…
- collects all your adsense into one directory.
lovely stuff — the question now is how to monetize that information, i.e. now that we know that there is lots of traffic, how do we use that information to alter pages, layout, design and content to drive more traffic to our blog.
So, right now I’d love to hear from a Google Analytics expert — any thoughts on this, how best to use this to drive traffic to your blog, how best to oursource Google analytics. If you prefer, we could do a quick interview over the phone and post the interview up here!
Veit
What keywords to target
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Right then, time for some audience participation.
What keywords should we target? The advice normally given falls into two categories:
Pick a niche (or keyword) that has lots of traffic (people are searching for it) and
- has no or very little competition (which you can easily find with the google keyword tool) OR
- has lots and lots of competition.
My view is that it all depends on your monetization strategy:
if you have very little competition, you are sitting either on an undiscovered gold-mine (and you’ll soon have lots of competition), so better exploit it fast or it’s just something that won’t make you any money (then again, if you’re clever with a bit of leverage, almost any traffic can be diverted to a money-making destination).
If on the other hand you are planning to make a living on adwords or affiliate commissions, you’re probably better off targeting keywords where you have lots of traffic and lots of competition. Lots of competition means that people are willing to pay lots of money for it. That means your adsense ads will actually be worth something. Take insurance as an example. You can buy dinner for a single click on those ads.
So, your input please: for our LessWorkMoreMoneyBlog project, what kind of keywords shall we target? Any keyword experts who want to give us their input?
Oh, btw, just to make sure that everybody understands that this is a learning-experiment, not a money-making experiment for myself — if we decide to have any adsense ads or similar on the site, we’ll be giving all money made to charity. And I’ll post the receipt on this site. This really is about learning and collaborating.
The target site…
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Hello everyone,
I’ve registered the name for the target site, it is
http://www.lessworkmoremoneyblog.com/
right now it’s not up (and those of you who’ve been following me on twitter will know that I’m still fuming — customer service, how NOT to do it!).
The title for the new blog is inspired by the fact that most of us want to work less and earn more money: after all, this experiment is about creating outsourcing-plans (so you can work less and earn more money by having all this great traffic) 
Right now I’m battling with the install of the blog over there (someone with legal background, can I openly mention the fact that the support-staff at hostgator and godaddy are, mhmm, not capable to help me with my particular query….)
Whilst we’re all waiting for this thing to go live, let’s all think of some key search-terms we want to rank high with in Google. (let’s focus on Google for the time being)
looking forward to your input
Veit