How Google Will Monetize YouTube

Forgive me if this seems obvious, but I’ve never seen it actually put on paper, so to speak. As YouTube and the online video industry continues to gather more heat, people will begin to turn to YouTube to market their product or service.

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Holy Crap! Google Inroduces AdWords Hosted Pages

Google has done it again! Today on their Inside Adwords Blog Google announced free hosted business pages. To sum it up, every free AdWords account receives a business card-like page on Google that is easy to set-up with no html knowledge required. This way, even if you do not have a website, you can still use AdWords to promote your business using your hosted business page as the ad’s landing page. It may not seem like anything significant now, but the idea could develop in the future, giving you more options to customize and change the look of the page ala MySpace hacks. The question now is, will Google index these pages? Will it find them relevant to search queries? Does Google have any other plans to expand this feature in the future ? (i.e. hosting, design, etc. for an extra charge - Like Yahoo Site builder?)

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Time for us to get Greedy

From Andy Beal: An article on rev2.org about GreedTube, a YouTube spinoff that let’s users monetize their videos by sharing 50% of adsense revenue. Very interesting…

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Introduction to Pay-Per-Click Advertsing

Ever wonder how Google and Yahoo went from tiny search engines to huge media companies in just a few years? Most of their fortune lies in their pay-per-click (PPC) adverting programs, called Google AdWords and Yahoo Search Marketing Solutions.

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