Google will use your Video Sitemap to crawl your website and identify your videos. We may then add them to our index, so that they appear in search results. While a Video Sitemap helps Google find content on your site that we might not otherwise discover, we don’t guarantee that all videos included in a Sitemap will appear in our search results.
Google will display a thumbnail image (provided by you or autogenerated by Google) of your video content, as well as information, including the video’s title, description and duration, as contained in your Video Sitemap.
From the above, there’s no guarantee that Google will index videos! They may or they may not. The only thing to do is to test.
I did a lot of work on this in November 2010 when I first learned how to do it. I settled on the javascript redirect because it allowed me to add tracking code. However, I was advised that javascript doesn’t load on all computers, so I MUST BE LOSING OUT. Therefore, I’m going to change the links to PHP immediately. The webinar replay is uploaded at :- http://easyredirectscript.com/webinar-replay/ and the relevant excerpt from this video is below :-
#1 – PHP Re-direct
Upload a .php file to your server. For a 302 re-direct (page rank not passed) the code is :-
Just tested out the php re-direct. Used the code in an index.php file and put it in a folder. DIDN’T WORK!! But blog post here in November 2010 said it did. Upon testing, found out the reason – no line spaces in dot php file. Start at the very top line.
4:55pm Sat April 2 2011 - all links in FWD2.ws changed from javascript redirects to PHP redirects. So from Nov 2010 to start of April 2011, my links were all javascript! Also, noticed I didn’t have that many affiliate links to change. I don’t have all that much out there on YouTube!!
Around 11.45pm on Thur Mar 3 2011 the idea of promoted videos came to me. Now that I’m making higher quality videos that can convert at 1:150, the issue is how I get them to the top of YouTube. My first firefighter interview video had an easy time, went straight to #2 and is now #1. But my first police interview video landed off the bat on #7 for the search term “police interview questions”. To push the video up I was thinking I’d need the commenting ability of Tube Fool. Then it struck me – promoted videos. And, yes, Mike Dulisse’s Dominating Video Program DOES have information on promoted videos. So it really depends on the price per click. The starting cost is $.01 – ONE CENT clicks. I could pay a few cents per video and it that could work for me.
I first heard about YouTube promoted videos probably in October 2010 with Bryan Wain’s webinar. Interesting, I thought. And possibly useful, but not at the moment. Then my first regular CB sales came rolling in from the firefighter interview. Still, I was thinking organic all the while. Of having the video showing up in the universal searches, hence my attention to video site maps. But a problem remained – how to I get my videos up there in the search engines. Well, at least for YouTube, its possible. And it is something most others can’t compete with me on, creating high quality videos.
I always remembered what Nikhil Parekh said – if you spend $5 to get $10, how often would you do it. All the time, as much as possible. Well, for me, I’ve a limit on my video production output. But at least now I have a vision of how to get rich with internet marketing.
Fri March 5 2011
Actually submitted a “promoted video” to YouTube. Reactivated my Google Adwords account that had been dormant since 2009. Followed along Bryan Wain’s Nov 3 2010 webinar and submitted my first “Police Interview Questions” video to be a promoted video on a number of keywords. The keywords were taken from my KW research from the Google tool, plus two others I obtained from the YouTube keyword tool. The wording of the “ad” for the video is as follows :-
Ace The Police Oral Board
Avoid mistakes that eliminate you
Pass the police board interview
Google says the ad is “under review”. Still, almost 24 hours later on Sat evening Mar 6 2011, it is still under review. See screenshot below:-
Got script written last week. Finally got it read by Freddie Bell via GigMe5. Spent about 7 or 8 hours creating the video (almost ready – just needs Dvorak background music added to it.)
The following is the draft basic info for the video :-
video file name : police-interview-questions-video-2345.mp4
http://FWD2.WS/oral-board-questions Ace the police oral board interview. Candidates who don’t prepare for the police oral board interview have a slim chance of getting hired. Why? Because other candidates are preparing for the interview and interviewing better. The police oral board notices them, not the one who didn’t prepare.
That sucks, doesn’t it? The candidate who interviews best gets hired, not the one with the best qualifications. Well, that’s how government hiring works. The police oral board have to justify to themselves and to the department who they select to hire. So they want to see, hear, feel and touch you (in a way) during the interview process. If what they see before them is a dud, no matter how good your qualifications are, you won’t get the job.
Rather than fighting the system work with it. This means spending time weeks, even months before the interview, to organize yourself and prepare. By this I don’t mean hoodwinking the board, no far from it. You have gems inside you, like how you pulled over to help when you saw a girl being rough handled by a guy. The board wants to hear those kinds of things, but if your too nervous on the day to recall it, you’ve hurt your chances. By preparing you get to show the real you to the board.
This will help you prepare : http://FWD2.WS/oral-board-questions
Keywords : police interview questions, law enforcement interview questions, police interview questions and answers, police officer interview questions, police oral board, interview questions for police officers, police oral board questions, job interview questions of a police officer
The keywords are from my keyword research.
Thu Mar 3 2011
Created new YouTube Account : BecomeaPoliceOfficer
Video uploaded : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3WzypsgyPo
new dot info for branding the video : www.FirefighterInterviewQuestions.info which I’ll re-direct to the same clickbank product with TID of dotinfo.
Video submitted to IMAutomator.com for 10 bookmarks over 45 days.
At end of the day (Thur Mar 3 2011) the video appears as #7 for search of “police interview questions” on YouTube.
On video.google.com it appears as #6 on page 3 for the search term “police interview questions”.
UPDATE MAR 25 2011
Three weeks later, video has climbed to position #7 –> #3 for search term “police interview secrets”!! 208 views, but no sales yet. Decided to switch Clickbank products. Info below. Created three clickbank TIDs for three links, one for the link below the video, one for the CTA overlay and one for the domain name re-direct. Info below.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3WzypsgyPo for “police interview questions”
had 4 impressions of order form, say 1 or 2 are mine?
Date : Fri March 25 2011
Views : 208
http://FWD2.WS/oral-board-questions <– CLICKED 6 TIMES IN CONVERTING, IN CASE I CHECK AWSTATS.
#1 – the main link under video ie. http://FWD2.WS/oral-board-questions
#2 – link provided in the banner under video (CTA overlay?) changed in the YouTube Account.
The link goes to :- fwd2.ws/police-interview-questions
#3 – link for PoliceInterviewSecrets.info
http://www.policeinterviewquestions.info/ <<~~~ LINK NOT WORKING FOR SOME REASON ON MARCH 25 2011. TRY AGAIN LATER AND FIX IF NECESSARY.
Wed Apr 20 2011 Update
FIRST SALE!!
~ 730 views – 130 views when linked to ORALBOARD product Mar 25 – Apr 4 2011.
Therefore 600 views for one sale. $35 commission!!
If I discount the 600 views down to 500 for the time when it was a java script re-direct, now changed to php redirect, this is very approximately 1:500 viewers ==>> ONE sale.
Video now ranked #2 for “police interview questions”, up from #6 or 7 when it first appeared.
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Update : August 8 2011
Police Interview Questions Interview
uploaded : Mar 2 2011
views at Aug 8 2011 : 6270
-130 views when swtiched from OJIDBS TO ORALBOARD temporarily
Therefore approx 6140 views.
TIDs
YT1 = main link under video
CTAOVERLAY = CTA overlay from Promoted Video
LINK = PoliceInterviewSecrets.info
RESULTS to Aug 8 2011 : 10 SALES
YT1 = 6
INFO = 3 <<~~~ IMPORTANCE OF SHORT DOT COM NAME
CTAOVERLAY = 1
Therefore approximately 1:600 views converts to sales.
http://FWD2.WS/oral-board-questions <<~~ AW stats say 68 clicks from start to Aug 8 2011?
Therefore around 1:10 to 1:11 who see sales page will buy.
PoliceInterviewSecrets.info <<~~ only 4 hits to Aug 8 2011? Suggests almost all type in traffic buy!!??
There are levels of complexity in delving into the subject of heat map results and the implications for page layout. I’ll leave it at this level for the time being and not delve further. Leave that for later.
I got the idea of going to ezine articles, seeing which articles link to a clickbank product. Then re-writing the ezine article as a transcript, getting a Fiverr voiceover and turning it into a video. Using Smartkarthick to register with the remaining video sites. Then using pixel pipes to distribute the videos out. The videos link directly to the clickbank sales page. (Will study whether it’ll be better leading to a blog instead.)
(Taken from private YouTube video associated with the WF post above.)
Okay, I look at Ezine articles and find a 905 word article on iPhone Apps. It links to a $97 Clickbank product entitled “How To Make iPhone Apps With No Programming Experience”. The sales page is at FreeTheApps.com and the clickbank ID is FREETHEAPP. So I have content for my transcript. Ordinarily writing the transcript will take me days or longer.
Took around 1 or 1.5 hours to get a working video transcript based on the ezine article above.
Keyword research about 3 hours or longer.
Thur Feb 24 2011
Polished up transcript and sent to Margaret Grace of Fivver.
Mon Feb 28 2011
Update – Margaret Grace no longer on Fiverr when searched last Saturday. Also, Sean Donahoe’s Affiliate Movies uses the same technique I came up with here last week, but is more advanced.
