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- In this tutorial I'm going to explain a method
- that I've used in the past to improve a TV Show/Movies website CTR
- (Clickthrough Rate) and CR (Conversion Rate). This method simply
- involves the installation of a custom player on your website, that will
- enable you to take your website to the next level. This works best with
- websites that use content lockers (commonly called widgets), such as
- those offered by Cp4L3ad.
- In addition to improving our CTR and CR, it will also help us greatly in
- driving more targeted traffic and making our website look professional
- and elegant.
- But first, before we dive in, let me explain what these terms are.
- Clickthrough Rate: is
- basically a way to measure how your ads are performing. CTR can be
- obtained by dividing the number of clicks on your ad, by the number of
- times the ad was delivered or viewed. The ad can be anything such as a
- banner, a text link, or in our case, a link to an offer that is
- displayed on a widget.
- For example: if your ad was viewed 100 times (impressions) and you got 5 visitors to click on it, then your CTR is 5%.
- Conversion Rate: is the
- percentage of visitors who complete our desired action, which in this
- case will be completing an offer from the ones displayed on the widget.
- For example: you successfully managed to get 100 clicks on your
- offer and out of those 100 clicks, 5 visitors completed your offer, your
- CR will be 5%.
- It MUST be obvious to you by now why its so crucial to improve these
- numbers. Logically, the higher CTR and CR you get, the higher the
- earnings you'll be able to make.
- Most of the time, websites that offer streams for TV Shows or Movies,
- are just embedding videos from different sources. There are a lot of
- sources that host these videos, such as MegaVideo, Dailymotion and Veoh.
- If you ask me, it really is great that we're able to embed videos on
- our websites, it saves us a lot of costy bandwidth, uploading time, and
- so forth.
- But here relies the problem, take an embed video from MegaVideo for
- example, once the users load your page where you have the embed video,
- they will be able to watch it directly from MV servers, if they click on
- the player.
- To overcome this, most of the webmasters set the tease time to 0 (where
- the widget pops up just after the page is loaded), having this, the
- visitors won't be able to tell if you really have the thing you're
- promising or not. Therefore, CTR and CR decrease significantly.
- Having a custom player on your website can help you in various ways. For
- example, you'll be able to choose colors for the player that fit you
- website's theme, customize the control bar, change skin, icons, add
- playlists, modify rendering and sound options.
- One of the best players that exist today is JW Player (which we'll be
- setting up in this tutorial). JW Player comes with additional plugins
- that REALLY helps your website in going viral. Below are some of the
- coolest plugins that come with JW Player.
- Facebook It/Tweet It:
- These two plugins allow your visitors to share your videos on Facebook
- and Twitter. The user simply clicks on the icon displayed in the dock,
- clicks post, and that's it. Your video will find it's way to their
- accounts.
- G00gle Analytics Pro
- With this plugin you'll be able to track events within the player
- itself, such as how long users watch each videos, what videos are
- watched, and so forth. Collected data is passed to your Analytics
- account (This plugin uses G's Flash API).
- Sharing Plugin This plugin allows your visitors to embed your videos, or share them through Facebook, Twitter, MySpace or email.
- How to install JW Player for WordPress
- JW Player can be installed on any website, but for the sake of this
- tutorial I'll explain how to get it up and running on your WP install
- (since most of websites use that platform).
- Go to your WP plugins page, and search for "JW
- Player Plugin for WordPress". Once it's installed, you'll need to
- activate it. It will then ask you to download JW Player to your
- downloads folder, so you do that as well.
- Once the player is
- downloaded you'll be able to modify it's options by clicking on JW
- Player on the left menu in your WP admin panel.
- Under the Basic
- Settings menu, you'll be able to select the default height and width for
- the player among other settings like skin and dock placement.
- Under
- the Advanced Settings menu, you can modify rendering options, sound and
- streaming options. Additionally, you can create playlists and choose
- colors that best matches your website's colors. Make sure that you don't
- mess up these settings.
- Under the Plugins menu, you'll be able
- to install additional plugins. Take the time to check out JW Player's
- website for further instructions on how to install specific plugins.
- Now that we have the player installed, it's time to embed some videos!
- The simplest form of JW Player's embed code looks like this:
- Code:
- [jwplayer config="mplayer" file="http://site.com/video.flv" image="http://site.com/img.jpg"]
- ode:
- config="mplayer" this points to the default player name.
- file="http://site.com/video.flv" should point to the location of the video you are streaming.
- image="http://site.com/img.jpg" default image to display before the player loads.
- All of this sounds pretty easy, you just paste the code and it
- automagically starts working! But, here's another problem, we need to
- figure out a way to get the direct link to our video, since file"" param
- only accepts direct link to videos.
- Here's an example on how to do this.
- Let's assume that you have this MegaVideo video that you'd like to embed
- through your own player, the video's link is
- Code:
- http://megavideo.com/?v=25L1TJTK
- If you use this link in your JW Player embed code, it just won't work.
- What we need is a direct link to where the .flv file is located. In
- order to do this we'll use a service called ClipNabber.
- Code:
- http://clipnabber.com/
- Firstly, we need to load clipnabber to our browser, then we're going to
- paste MV's link to the box displayed at the top of the page, and click
- nab!
- Once we've pasted the link to video, it will ask us to paste the whole
- HTML code for the page. This can be done by pressing CTRL + U on our MV
- page, then select all (CTRL + A), copy (CTRL + C), then paste the code
- to clipnabber's page.
- After pasting the HTML code, we need to press nab! once again.
- By this time, there should be an icon labeled "Download FLV". But, we
- don't want to download the flv, do we? We just need to get the direct
- link of the video!
- In order to do so, you can click on the icon, and select "Copy link
- address". That's the direct link we'll use in our player's embed code.
- The final code for the video should look like this.
- Code:
- [jwplayer config="mplayer"
- file="http://www553.megavideo.com/files/fab6b76514c75a4cc6012d7094154e17/video.flv"
- image="http://site.com/img.jpg"]
- Conclusion:
- Now, we're able to control the videos streamed on our website in any
- way. We have the full control over it and we're no longer controlled by
- the video host.
- At the beginning of the post, I mentioned that having a tease time of 0
- seconds usually decreases both the CTR and CR. The visitors won't be
- able to tell if you have what they're looking for, or not.
- In my experience, having a tease time of 3-5 mins ensures that a lot of
- visitors will complete whatever offer you're asking them to complete.
- Because by that time, they will be watching the video already, and ready
- to complete an offer to continue watching it.
- So, take the time to test different tease time settings, and don't worry
- about the visitors leaving your website to watch the videos from the
- video host. It just won't happen anymore.
- For more information visit are site...
- https://blackhatx.com/seo-forum/
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