Ok, here is an interesting read, however this has been done several times to Google and Yahoo as well, let me quote a few lines..

An advertiser sued Google Inc. in federal court Tuesday claiming the company deceived him and charged for ads displayed on third-party Web sites, even though he left blank an “optional” box that seemed to address the issue.

The dispute is over Google’s popular AdSense program, which targets ads to keywords in articles and other content at participating sites. The program complements the traditional AdWords program, which runs targeted ads alongside Google’s search results. Ads under both programs generate the bulk of Google’s revenues.

Well, this law suit is expert in such cases and seek multimillion dollar settlements. Now as I read this I personally think the Big G will have to think about the accusation and made some textual changes to their pages may be ? because as it states the person who has filed the accusation was mislead and misinformed by the wrong text on the Google page. You can read the full story here.

Well, I must say you must be smart enough to get yourself on inernet marketing, not just someone who doesnt know what optional means and how it will work. Good luck Google.

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Google Adsense has been an extra stream of income for marketers who were already doing good with affiliate marketing but also for all other webmaster who just started their fun website and later the monetized those website. It was way good as far as revenue is concerned before the the Google Smart Pricing was introduce back in October 2005. Since then the things changed dramatically, but still it was making 6 figure income for many webmasters. It still make higher 5 figures income per month for a couple of people I personally know however in the past 3 month I including many webmasters have noticed a great level of downfall in the Adsense income.

While analysing my own income and comparing with some other webmaster I have also seen that some of the webmaster have claimed that their income has increased in the past 2-3 months. I was getting the same amount of clicks even more impressions but the eCPM was too low, and I was considering change the style of Ads and making a complete overhaul of my websites. But again in this month I have seen a little jump in the revenue since last 3 days, so may be there was any glitch in the system am not sure. But I am sure about one thing that I am getting same kind of traffic and even more as compared to last couple of month, I didn’t change anything, my websites for specific keywords are even more higher in search engine results. So lets see what comes next.

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You might have read many threads in the forums, ebook and reports about how to use Youtube.com as your source of traffic and monetize your website and/or with affiliates. Now, I will not go into details like telling you how to setup your website etc. I will discuss both whitehat and blackhat methods. I will not get into details like how to upload / download video, how to watermark a video etc, you may search this blog for details about such things or just google it. I will directly get involved into methods that can be helpful so lets get started and write down the plan. Let us divide our plan into the following point:

So whats the plan ?

1. Download and/or upload video to youtube.com
2. Send traffic to your website. Create buzz on forums, blogs, make it viral OR use blackhat methods for instant buzz
3.  Monetize traffic with affiliate programs, google adsense, selling links, CPM offers, CPA offers, Domain Parking

Disclaimer: Find a video which is public domain, or the video with the permissions that you can redistribute freely. In our example you will be using any video (downloading from youtube), so be careful with the copyrights and trademark infringement, I will not be held responsible for any loss or damage caused by this article to either video producer and/or the uploader.

Now, you will be thinking what kind of videos can be helpful in making decent cash per day, I would say something around $250-$500 per day would be a decent money, and YES it can be done, but it solely depends on your efforts and the time you dedicate. So lets start with the exact videos that work perfectly, I would actually suggest 2 types of videos, the music and something related to iPods. Now, you all know people are crazy and iPods and at the same time about the music videos, there is not limit on the new releases of music albums and the new bands. So are you getting my idea ?

1. Lets get started now !

You have to do some work, lets start with the finding a music video that you will be promoting, it depends on where you are located, if you are located in London UK, then find about the newly released music videos or about the hottest band of the season and go to youtube and search about the specific video, you will definitely see videos there. Download that video (using http://keepvid.com/), watermark (there are many tools that do this) the URL of your website / blog on that video and re-upload. Now, while uploading the video, take care of the title of the video, do not just give a lame title like “new blah blah video”, be smart on this part use the name of the singer or exact keyword that you want this video to be searched for. While uploading video put your affiliate link in the description if you don’t have a website, otherwise point them towards your website.

2. How to drive traffic to your video ?
Now that’s not tough as well. Lets consider the whitehat methods first.

1. Submitting to social bookmarking website stumble upon, digg, propeller, del.icio.us etc)
2. Posting in the forums, replying in blogs comments
3. Posting at yahoo answers

Now this will take about 2-3 hours of work to post to these websites, but keep in mind the more you make your video popular, the more visitors you get hence the more money in your pocket, once its done, move on to next video and this cash cow will grow itself and everything will be automated.

I will encourage you to use whitehat methods first, however the techniques I am pointing now may/can create you many problems or get you in trouble, but I am posting them just to educational purpose, these are blackhat methods.

1. Spam your video link through PRStorm, it is a tool used for referral spamming. Just google it.
2. If you already have a website with some traffic, open a hidden popup (with the video page) on each of the page, so your video will get so many unique hits and thus become popular.
3. Use a great tool, that does everything automatically and makes your video popular in no time, its called Tube Automator. All is done, lets move to next time cash our time.

3. Monetizing the traffic

 I have a method for monetizing this kind of traffic, first we should know what we already have to use with this. I am going to list few options for you to choose, or may be use all of them

Affiliate Programs : Well, I would suggest using Commission Junction, but there are hundreds of affiliate programs to join. You can pick any of the ring-tone offers and start promoting with it, but keep in mind that the conversion low might be very low because of the nature of you tube traffic.

Google Adsense: You might have visited several times to the pages where there is no content (against Google Adsense TOS) or there is content but way too down on the page and at the top there are all ads, so someone going there has no option other than clicking an Ad or just closing the browser. This works most of the times.

Link Sales : If you become expert with this method, you can not only get thousands of unique visitors but thousands of dollars as well. Think, once you have a decent flow of traffic and a website full of Adsense, Affiliate offers then why not to sell Ads using Adbrite ? yeah, that’s another good option. You can also display banners on such website to earn with CPM (cost per thousand impression) as well.

Cost Per Action : Now, I would say that this converts extremely well, only if you have uploaded a teaser video. A teaser video is something like half video, think a man falling from roof, and just before end you stop and give a link to your website and tell the visitor to visit and see the full video, once visitor is there ask them to complete your CPA offer, trust me you will find offers that pays $5-$15 for even free signups, so you can make a decent money with that, but just be careful if the affiliate manager finds out you will get banned. This works wonder will celebrities movies, you know what kind of movies am referring to.

Domain Parking: DP is a method where you just register a domain name and the company sets a page for you with full of Ads, and all the type-in traffic is considered as legit traffic, that means you will not spam your link, post anywhere etc, only the people typing it in the browser window will go there. So think about it ? people cannot click on the video, so what they will do is type the name of URL watermarked on the video and go there to make you money.

You can always add your flavor to all these tips to maximize the income, you also might have some tricks that I haven’t mentioned, feel free to share with us.

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