cool 2 have you soon in german-speaking part of europe ;-))
Gary
· 1 year ago
It's like I've been saying for the last three years. Making entertaining video is a highly skilled job and most people don't have the time, inclination or ability to learn how to do it. A few do.
Just as giving someone a pencil doesn't turn them into a best-selling author in 99.999% of cases, giving someone a video camera and a means of distribution doesn't turn them into a film-maker that people will want to watch. In fact it's even worse with video as most of us learn to write at school, but few of us learn any film-making skills.
People have been making amateur films since film was invented more than 100 years ago, showing them to family, friends and at local film clubs and, guess what, nearly all of those films were unwatchable for the same reasons outlined above.
Now it's clear that no one is clicking on ads within videos. Again, not a big surprise, because video is linear and the ads are invasive in a way that Google ads on a web page are not. The click through rate on ads within video is a tiny fraction of that with Adsense on a page.
For that reason, the biggest con has been RSS, because film makers have been persuaded to separate their videos from their web pages. This has led to numerous scammy sites such as Mefeedia serving up their own Google ads alongside the best video content from hundreds of film makers, most of whom had no choice in the matter because the content was lifted from the RSS feed.
Mefeedia says it doesn't store content from the feed, but strangely has content that I removed from my website more than two years ago.
Guess what, because Mefeedia has great content from hundreds of sites, Google likes Mefeedia better than your own site. So you find yourself ranked below Mefeedia on Google on exactly the same keywords (because Mefeedia copies ALL your text, tags and headlines).
The amount of links back to your site from these scammers varies from none to one on each post. But checking back through my logs I found only 19 hits from Mefeedia in 9 months, while in the same period their site had pulled hotlinked (ie. stolen) video files from my server thousands of times. If people won't click on an actual link to your site then you can forget type in traffic from the URL on your videos. And why should they visit anyway, when they can get every bit of your content at Mefeedia?
Note how none of the blog software gives the option to turn off RSS completely and there is intense pressure not to output partial feeds (I wonder who is really driving that?).
Because the promised video ad revenue hasn't happened, there is NO benefit to having the same video and same metadata on dozens of video sites. Google penalises for duplicate content and if you have your videos on your own web page alongside your own Google ads, it is costing you bigtime in lost Adsense revenue.
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Just as giving someone a pencil doesn't turn them into a best-selling author in 99.999% of cases, giving someone a video camera and a means of distribution doesn't turn them into a film-maker that people will want to watch. In fact it's even worse with video as most of us learn to write at school, but few of us learn any film-making skills.
People have been making amateur films since film was invented more than 100 years ago, showing them to family, friends and at local film clubs and, guess what, nearly all of those films were unwatchable for the same reasons outlined above.
Now it's clear that no one is clicking on ads within videos. Again, not a big surprise, because video is linear and the ads are invasive in a way that Google ads on a web page are not. The click through rate on ads within video is a tiny fraction of that with Adsense on a page.
For that reason, the biggest con has been RSS, because film makers have been persuaded to separate their videos from their web pages. This has led to numerous scammy sites such as Mefeedia serving up their own Google ads alongside the best video content from hundreds of film makers, most of whom had no choice in the matter because the content was lifted from the RSS feed.
Mefeedia says it doesn't store content from the feed, but strangely has content that I removed from my website more than two years ago.
Guess what, because Mefeedia has great content from hundreds of sites, Google likes Mefeedia better than your own site. So you find yourself ranked below Mefeedia on Google on exactly the same keywords (because Mefeedia copies ALL your text, tags and headlines).
The amount of links back to your site from these scammers varies from none to one on each post. But checking back through my logs I found only 19 hits from Mefeedia in 9 months, while in the same period their site had pulled hotlinked (ie. stolen) video files from my server thousands of times. If people won't click on an actual link to your site then you can forget type in traffic from the URL on your videos. And why should they visit anyway, when they can get every bit of your content at Mefeedia?
Note how none of the blog software gives the option to turn off RSS completely and there is intense pressure not to output partial feeds (I wonder who is really driving that?).
Because the promised video ad revenue hasn't happened, there is NO benefit to having the same video and same metadata on dozens of video sites. Google penalises for duplicate content and if you have your videos on your own web page alongside your own Google ads, it is costing you bigtime in lost Adsense revenue.