Agriya has recently launched some brand new software that lets you run your own site like Yahoo Answers – but far from just being a Yahoo Answers clone, it gives you a significant advantage over the established sites…
Drawing on our experience with Rayzz and video sharing, we saw a huge gap in the market for an Answers type website but with a significant twist…
As well as being able to post plain text questions and answers, we have given users the ability to ask and reply to questions with video and audio!
What’s more, your users don’t even need to have any special software on their computer to record and upload the audio/video as it’s all done directly from the site – cool or what?
There is an enormous amount of discussion going on in major forums like digitalpoints.com and seochat.com that Google is updating its PageRank (PR) right now. A few webmasters are saying that they found changes in page ranks of their sites.
If there is a PR update going then then it will come as a surprise to some of the people since that last update had only just taken place in the middle of Jan 2008.
It is often predicted that a Google PageRank update usually takes place once every 3 months. However it had been confirmed by most of the webmasters that pr update is happening and they have named this update as “Update Q2 2008” (not sure how they figured we are in Q2 in February).
Sometimes even though your PR has been updated for your site the updated PR won’t shown in the google toolbar. If this is the case for you, then just follow these simple steps and check again you will find that actual pr of your site;
For those who want to see the new values in their Toolbar:
On Windows XP
Navigate to C:/WINDOWS/system32/drivers/etc
Open the file HOSTS with Notepad, then at the very bottom on a new line put:
Statistics released by Nielson Online – the online research and monitoring company just announced that Facebook, along with most major social networking sites experienced a decline in users during January 2008.
Facebook saw the largest decline with a 5% fall of UK users alone. MySpace and Bebo users fell 5% and 2.5% respectively.
But this is great news for you, because these users are not giving up on social networks, they are joining more specific, niche targeted social networks.
Agriya’s range of Web 2.0 software, including several different types of social networking software means that their loss can be your gain as you look to set up profitable targeted social network sites.
Money, we love it. We also hate it. Some even say that it’s the root of all evil (actually, it’s been proven that, infact, girls, not money is the root of all evil). So how can you, as a cool Rayzz customer cash in on your new site?
Well, here at Agriya, we put on some thinking caps and come up with this list on how you can make money from your Rayzz sites…
Webmasters have been making money from AdSense since 2004. It was the original and by far the best contextual advertising solution available. It serves up text, image and more recently video adverts that are (hopefully) directly related to the content the page is on.
To get the most out of AdSense, we went to our resident internet nerd who had this advice…
Make sure your ads are formatted to blend in with the style of your site. The background and border of your ads should match that of your site. Keep your links blue and your text black. Try an use the untraditional ad sizes like the squares and rectangles. The whole point is to make your ads not look like ads.
This cool little program lets you place a line of Javascript code on your site and will then launch a video in your player, before, after or during the clip. This is a great way of monetizing your site, and they don’t half pay out bad either! Check out the demos to see for yourself.
This program is a lot like AdSense (why invent the wheel, if the idea works, go with it), but instead of placing ads on your site, it contextualizes (try saying that when you are drunk) certain keywords on your site to make them clickable. Not sure what we mean? It’s quite easy…
Say there was a word on your site such as Money. Kontera will make that in to a clickable link so that when any of your visitors click that link, you earn money. Pretty simple, huh?
4. Join Pay-Per-Impression Programs
Although pay-per-impression programs usually pay out low amounts (boo!), the shear number of page views that video sharing sites get should be enough to make this very worth while – hey at the very least it might pay those server fees.
One of the best ones we found was on Advertising.com – where you can earn up to $2 per 1000 impressions. They also have an opportunity to profit from your videos, so it’s definitely worth checking out.
For more sites that will pay you per impression, check out this site
5. Affiliate Programs
In the day and age of AdSense, people seemed to have forgotten how much money affiliate programs can make. For example if you run a site that shows movie trailers, having a banner next to your video player advertising some DVD renting service can make you hundreds of bucks as it’s targeted advertising. Whatever your niche, just type in “your keyword”+affiliate in google, and off you go.
If your site is an adult site…well, there’s no limit to the stuff you can try and sell!
6. Strike a deal with a movie studio for premium content
Err, yeah. Our boss suggested this one, so rather than get fired and reject his suggestion, we’ll add it here. It’s up to you how you go about this one.
So now you have it, 5 easy and great ways to make money from your Rayzz site, and one idea that would be nice if it worked. If you have any other suggestions, comment below!
Don’t have your copy of Rayzz yet? Start your very own video sharing site, just like YouTube today! More details…
Yeah! Agriya has finally entered the blogosphere and this brand new blog has been set up. Dedicated to providing a space for musings, ramblings and possibly some worthwhile content from our talented pool of team members.
This blog will be our platform to let programmers talk code, designers talk aesthetics, seo’s to talk semantics, marketers to sell you the dream and not least for the CEO to read to find out what’s going on in his company (lol, just kidding, sir!)
We hope that you find it entertaining to read – and maybe even on occasion useful. The aim is not to provide some dry old blog that many corporations employ because they feel they ‘have to’, but to be a cool place to come for developers, designers, entrepreneurs as well as IT staff looking to skive off a few minutes of work.
