Entrepenerd

If you’re looking to make some money with Adsense, this is probably one of the quickest and easiest ways to do it. It’s only a few simple steps and I’ll outline it all below.

Take a look at Funny Video Stop for an example of what we’ll be talking about. This site is simply a video posting site with lots of funny video clips. But, you’ll also notice that there are plenty of Adsense ads on the site as well. The videos are just embedded in the site, so there is no additional bandwidth since they are streamed right from the source. It’s really quite an ingenious little way to get traffic and make some money.

You see, people love to watch videos. They might like videos of people doing stupid stuff, or getting hurt, or cute little animals. But, almost everyone enjoys seeing some kind of video clip. And, there are tons of sites out there that host the videos for you for free. All you have to do is “embed” the video on your site, and your users can watch it directly on your site. When they’re done watching, what do you think they’ll do? Hopefully, they’ll click on an ad.

Here’s what you need to do to get setup.

1. Register a domain
   
   Look for one that has to do with the type of videos that you’d like to post like: http://www.funnyvideostop.com. I especially like this one because it has the words funny, video, videos, top, and stop in the domain. Search engines will eat this up.
2. Setup a web hosting account
   
   There are many hosts that you could go with. A couple that I use and have had good success with are Dreamhost and Hostgator
   . Both of them offer great plans for someone who is trying to setup a new site without spending a lot of money. In fact, with both of them, you can host as many domains as you want to with a single account for about $10 a month. That’s a great deal.
3. Get Wordpress installed
   This might sound too technical for you, but both Dreamhost and Link Hostgator
   offer one-click installs of Wordpress. All you have to do is follow their instructions and you’ll be setup in no time.
4. Setup an Adsense account
   If you haven’t already done this, go do it now. Now that you have a site setup, use that as the domain when setting up your Adsense account.
5. Install an Adsense Ready theme for Wordpress
   This may also sound a little too technical for some, but it is really easy. I personally like the ProSense theme from DoshDosh like the one used over at Funny Video Stop. You can get it here.
6. Make sure your Adsense ID is in the theme
   This is the one downfall of the ProSense theme. You’ll have to manually make sure that your Adsense ID is inserted into the them instead of theirs. Otherwise, you won’t get credit for all the clicks. Updating the theme is a little outside the scope of this article, but I’ll write it up in another. Or you can just contact me using the contact form on this site, and I’ll help you out.
7. Find some videos to post
   There are tons of sites out there that give you the code to insert their videos directly on your site. You can go to YouTube, Myspace Videos, Metacafe, Break.com, and my new personal favorite Hulu. Once you find a video you like, look for the code to “embed” in your site. Each one of them is a little different, but they are all similar. Again, this is a little outside the scope of this post, but contact me if you have troubles and I’ll help you out.
8. Post the videos to your site
   Now, you can just go to your Wordpress admin and Write a new post. Try to include some good keywords in your post title, but make it readable. Also, put in a good description of the video in the body of the post, and then copy/paste your embed code into the post and publish.
9. Now go spread the link
   Now you have a video posted, but there’s no traffic! Well, let’s fix that. Head over to your favorite social bookmarking site like del.icio.us or Digg and post the link to your video. If you have a StumbleUpon account, you should also Stumble your new post and you’ll start seeing traffic almost right away. The last time I did this I saw about 200 visitors within 24 hours. If you don’t have a StumbleUpon account, get over there and sign up now. Ideally, you would have some of your friends Stumble your page for you. If you Stumble too many of your own pages, StumbleUpon can penalize you, or close your account so be careful.
10. Rinse and repeat
    Do this over and over to keep driving traffic to your site.

This is a quick and easy way to build a site that will get good traffic and make you good money online.

I hope this little write-up has been helpful. I’m thinking about putting together a free PDF report with more details on this technique. If that’s something you’d like to see, leave me a comment, or send me an email and let me know.

Until next time, good luck.