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How To Improve TV Shows

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  1. https://blackhatx.com/seo-forum/
  2.  
  3. In this tutorial I'm going to explain a method
  4. that I've used in the past to improve a TV Show/Movies website CTR
  5. (Clickthrough Rate) and CR (Conversion Rate). This method simply
  6. involves the installation of a custom player on your website, that will
  7. enable you to take your website to the next level. This works best with
  8. websites that use content lockers (commonly called widgets), such as
  9. those offered by Cp4L3ad.
  10.  
  11. In addition to improving our CTR and CR, it will also help us greatly in
  12. driving more targeted traffic and making our website look professional
  13. and elegant.
  14.  
  15. But first, before we dive in, let me explain what these terms are.
  16.  
  17. Clickthrough Rate: is
  18. basically a way to measure how your ads are performing. CTR can be
  19. obtained by dividing the number of clicks on your ad, by the number of
  20. times the ad was delivered or viewed. The ad can be anything such as a
  21. banner, a text link, or in our case, a link to an offer that is
  22. displayed on a widget.
  23.  
  24. For example: if your ad was viewed 100 times (impressions) and you got 5 visitors to click on it, then your CTR is 5%.
  25.  
  26. Conversion Rate: is the
  27. percentage of visitors who complete our desired action, which in this
  28. case will be completing an offer from the ones displayed on the widget.
  29.  
  30. For example: you successfully managed to get 100 clicks on your
  31. offer and out of those 100 clicks, 5 visitors completed your offer, your
  32. CR will be 5%.
  33.  
  34. It MUST be obvious to you by now why its so crucial to improve these
  35. numbers. Logically, the higher CTR and CR you get, the higher the
  36. earnings you'll be able to make.
  37.  
  38. Most of the time, websites that offer streams for TV Shows or Movies,
  39. are just embedding videos from different sources. There are a lot of
  40. sources that host these videos, such as MegaVideo, Dailymotion and Veoh.
  41. If you ask me, it really is great that we're able to embed videos on
  42. our websites, it saves us a lot of costy bandwidth, uploading time, and
  43. so forth.
  44.  
  45. But here relies the problem, take an embed video from MegaVideo for
  46. example, once the users load your page where you have the embed video,
  47. they will be able to watch it directly from MV servers, if they click on
  48. the player.
  49.  
  50. To overcome this, most of the webmasters set the tease time to 0 (where
  51. the widget pops up just after the page is loaded), having this, the
  52. visitors won't be able to tell if you really have the thing you're
  53. promising or not. Therefore, CTR and CR decrease significantly.
  54.  
  55. Having a custom player on your website can help you in various ways. For
  56. example, you'll be able to choose colors for the player that fit you
  57. website's theme, customize the control bar, change skin, icons, add
  58. playlists, modify rendering and sound options.
  59.  
  60. One of the best players that exist today is JW Player (which we'll be
  61. setting up in this tutorial). JW Player comes with additional plugins
  62. that REALLY helps your website in going viral. Below are some of the
  63. coolest plugins that come with JW Player.
  64.  
  65. Facebook It/Tweet It:
  66. These two plugins allow your visitors to share your videos on Facebook
  67. and Twitter. The user simply clicks on the icon displayed in the dock,
  68. clicks post, and that's it. Your video will find it's way to their
  69. accounts.
  70. G00gle Analytics Pro
  71. With this plugin you'll be able to track events within the player
  72. itself, such as how long users watch each videos, what videos are
  73. watched, and so forth. Collected data is passed to your Analytics
  74. account (This plugin uses G's Flash API).
  75. Sharing Plugin This plugin allows your visitors to embed your videos, or share them through Facebook, Twitter, MySpace or email.
  76.  
  77. How to install JW Player for WordPress
  78.  
  79. JW Player can be installed on any website, but for the sake of this
  80. tutorial I'll explain how to get it up and running on your WP install
  81. (since most of websites use that platform).
  82.  
  83. Go to your WP plugins page, and search for "JW
  84. Player Plugin for WordPress". Once it's installed, you'll need to
  85. activate it. It will then ask you to download JW Player to your
  86. downloads folder, so you do that as well.
  87. Once the player is
  88. downloaded you'll be able to modify it's options by clicking on JW
  89. Player on the left menu in your WP admin panel.
  90. Under the Basic
  91. Settings menu, you'll be able to select the default height and width for
  92. the player among other settings like skin and dock placement.
  93. Under
  94. the Advanced Settings menu, you can modify rendering options, sound and
  95. streaming options. Additionally, you can create playlists and choose
  96. colors that best matches your website's colors. Make sure that you don't
  97. mess up these settings.
  98. Under the Plugins menu, you'll be able
  99. to install additional plugins. Take the time to check out JW Player's
  100. website for further instructions on how to install specific plugins.
  101.  
  102. Now that we have the player installed, it's time to embed some videos!
  103.  
  104. The simplest form of JW Player's embed code looks like this:
  105. Code:
  106. [jwplayer config="mplayer" file="http://site.com/video.flv" image="http://site.com/img.jpg"]
  107. ode:
  108. config="mplayer" this points to the default player name.
  109.  
  110. file="http://site.com/video.flv" should point to the location of the video you are streaming.
  111.  
  112. image="http://site.com/img.jpg" default image to display before the player loads.
  113.  
  114. All of this sounds pretty easy, you just paste the code and it
  115. automagically starts working! But, here's another problem, we need to
  116. figure out a way to get the direct link to our video, since file"" param
  117. only accepts direct link to videos.
  118.  
  119. Here's an example on how to do this.
  120.  
  121. Let's assume that you have this MegaVideo video that you'd like to embed
  122. through your own player, the video's link is
  123. Code:
  124. http://megavideo.com/?v=25L1TJTK
  125.  
  126. If you use this link in your JW Player embed code, it just won't work.
  127. What we need is a direct link to where the .flv file is located. In
  128. order to do this we'll use a service called ClipNabber.
  129. Code:
  130. http://clipnabber.com/
  131.  
  132. Firstly, we need to load clipnabber to our browser, then we're going to
  133. paste MV's link to the box displayed at the top of the page, and click
  134. nab!
  135.  
  136. Once we've pasted the link to video, it will ask us to paste the whole
  137. HTML code for the page. This can be done by pressing CTRL + U on our MV
  138. page, then select all (CTRL + A), copy (CTRL + C), then paste the code
  139. to clipnabber's page.
  140.  
  141. After pasting the HTML code, we need to press nab! once again.
  142.  
  143. By this time, there should be an icon labeled "Download FLV". But, we
  144. don't want to download the flv, do we? We just need to get the direct
  145. link of the video!
  146.  
  147. In order to do so, you can click on the icon, and select "Copy link
  148. address". That's the direct link we'll use in our player's embed code.
  149.  
  150. The final code for the video should look like this.
  151. Code:
  152. [jwplayer config="mplayer"
  153. file="http://www553.megavideo.com/files/fab6b76514c75a4cc6012d7094154e17/video.flv"
  154. image="http://site.com/img.jpg"]
  155.  
  156. Conclusion:
  157.  
  158. Now, we're able to control the videos streamed on our website in any
  159. way. We have the full control over it and we're no longer controlled by
  160. the video host.
  161.  
  162. At the beginning of the post, I mentioned that having a tease time of 0
  163. seconds usually decreases both the CTR and CR. The visitors won't be
  164. able to tell if you have what they're looking for, or not.
  165.  
  166. In my experience, having a tease time of 3-5 mins ensures that a lot of
  167. visitors will complete whatever offer you're asking them to complete.
  168. Because by that time, they will be watching the video already, and ready
  169. to complete an offer to continue watching it.
  170.  
  171. So, take the time to test different tease time settings, and don't worry
  172. about the visitors leaving your website to watch the videos from the
  173. video host. It just won't happen anymore.
  174.  
  175. For more information visit are site...
  176. https://blackhatx.com/seo-forum/
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