My Youtube Journey to $50 a day

Can somebody help me out? I have a VPS. How can I upload the files I have on my computer using the VPS? If I try copy and paste everything it says it's going to take 3 days to finish
 
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UPDATE:

MgCash

Today: $5.07
Yesterday: $3.06
Total: $54.65
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Adscend

Today: $0.20
Yesterday: $2.10
Total: $58.67
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I hope my earnings will increase in the next couple of days from the things I'm doing. I just got accepted into a new CPA network, CPABeyond. Thanks to JohnnyRabbit for accepting me and helping me get started.
 
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Hello everyone.

Just wanted to update this for the day. I haven't really been doing anything the last couple of days but working on my new website and a couple of blogs. About 20 of my videos were taken down over the last couple of days also so my earnings have dropped to less then a dollar yesterday and today. :(

Good news is that I have my vps setup and I can upload videos much faster now so i'll be uploading more videos on a daily basis so look forward to some updates. I expect to be making at least $15 a day in the next couple of days if everything goes according to plan. So stay tuned for updates
 
You don't need 12 minute long hd videos. In fact, the short videos do just fine. I guess it really depends on your niche, but chances are nobody wants to stick around for 12 minutes, they just want the quick information and then the link to get started. YouTube views also increase based on how far they get into the video. If somebody doesn't stick around for "x"% of it, it doesn't count. Unless things have changed.
 
Italian Hawk said:
You don't need 12 minute long hd videos. In fact, the short videos do just fine. I guess it really depends on your niche, but chances are nobody wants to stick around for 12 minutes, they just want the quick information and then the link to get started. YouTube views also increase based on how far they get into the video. If somebody doesn't stick around for "x"% of it, it doesn't count. Unless things have changed.
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Well since I'm in the movie niche most people actually do stick around to watch the entire video because they were searching for the entire video anyway and in the movie niche the longer your video is the more credible it looks. Now with other niches such as game hacks of course a 12 minute HD video is not needed.

Youtube views increase based on how far they get into the video??? You mean the longer they watch the video the more views you get no matter if they only watched it once?? I think you mean that youtube ranking usually increases because audience retention increases.

Fortunately the movie niche has a very high audience retention because people generally watch the entire video if its an actual video of what they were looking for.
 
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tchashow said:
UPDATE:

MgCash

Today: $5.07
Yesterday: $3.06
Total: $54.65
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Adscend

Today: $0.20
Yesterday: $2.10
Total: $58.67
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I hope my earnings will increase in the next couple of days from the things I'm doing. I just got accepted into a new CPA network, CPABeyond. Thanks to JohnnyRabbit for accepting me and helping me get started.
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Look forward to reading your progress! been looking into cpa myself
 
tchashow said:
You mean the longer they watch the video the more views you get no matter if they only watched it once?? I think you mean that youtube ranking usually increases because audience retention increases.

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No I think what he meant was:

Youtube now need people to watch almost half the length of a video in order for you to achieve a view. So if your video is 12 minutes long at least 6 minutes of it must be watched for it to get a view. The more someone watches of your video, the more likely it is to get a view.

I think thats what he meant!

If your video is 12 mins long and people are skipping to the end to get the punch line, you will have a lot less views than you are due. This is because of youtubes changes in March.
 
Aegroeg said:
No I think what he meant was:

Youtube now need people to watch almost half the length of a video in order for you to achieve a view. So if your video is 12 minutes long at least 6 minutes of it must be watched for it to get a view. The more someone watches of your video, the more likely it is to get a view.

I think thats what he meant!

If your video is 12 mins long and people are skipping to the end to get the punch line, you will have a lot less views than you are due. This is because of youtubes changes in March.
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You sure this is true?
 
Aegroeg said:
No I think what he meant was:

Youtube now need people to watch almost half the length of a video in order for you to achieve a view. So if your video is 12 minutes long at least 6 minutes of it must be watched for it to get a view. The more someone watches of your video, the more likely it is to get a view.

I think thats what he meant!

If your video is 12 mins long and people are skipping to the end to get the punch line, you will have a lot less views than you are due. This is because of youtubes changes in March.
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No this is definitely not true. Vagex without the paid membership only watches your video for 30 seconds (maybe a little more or less) and views are earned. The audience retention rate is lower but u still get views even if you don't watch half or the video. And people don't usually skip to the end of my videos because the purpose of them searching for my video is for them to watch the entire thing.
 
tchashow said:
No this is definitely not true. Vagex without the paid membership only watches your video for 30 seconds (maybe a little more or less) and views are earned. The audience retention rate is lower but u still get views even if you don't watch half or the video. And people don't usually skip to the end of my videos because the purpose of them searching for my video is for them to watch the entire thing.
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You WILL still get views but far less. This was Youtubes statement from March 2012:

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Previously, the YouTube algorithm suggested videos (whether related videos on the watch page or recommended videos elsewhere on the site) based on how many people clicked to watch a video. This was a helpful way to promote channels, but issues like misleading thumbnails kept this system from bringing videos with deeper engagement to the top. Starting March 14th 2012, the algorithm for suggesting videos will also be based on which videos contribute to a longer overall viewing session rather than how many clicks an individual video receives. This is great for viewers because they'll be able to watch more enjoyable content; moreover, this is great for creators because it can help build more focused and engaged audiences.
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http://support.google.com/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=141805

And after a lot of research and testing, most Vagex members found that if they had a 3 minute long video and set it to 30 seconds they would waste 1000 credits on a mere 50 or so views. But changing to 90+ seconds would gain them around a 4:1 ratio or higher. ( which is around the ratio they would get prior to the 300 freeze when any view length will work )

illfounded21 said:
You sure this is true?
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From our calculations and from reading around in the Youtube forums, I definitely feel this way. See the above quote from google regarding new algorithms and you will see they are basically saying " You can't just have a video viewed for 10 seconds and gain a view. The longer your video is watched the more likely a view will be achieved. " - Well, thats how I interpret it and after much fiddling around with view times and video lenghts I find 50% view time gains me far more views than say, 40%.
 
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Aegroeg said:
You WILL still get views but far less. This was Youtubes statement from March 2012:



http://support.google.com/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=141805

And after a lot of research and testing, most Vagex members found that if they had a 3 minute long video and set it to 30 seconds they would waste 1000 credits on a mere 50 or so views. But changing to 90+ seconds would gain them around a 4:1 ratio or higher. ( which is around the ratio they would get prior to the 300 freeze when any view length will work )



From our calculations and from reading around in the Youtube forums, I definitely feel this way. See the above quote from google regarding new algorithms and you will see they are basically saying " You can't just have a video viewed for 10 seconds and gain a view. The longer your video is watched the more likely a view will be achieved. " - Well, thats how I interpret it and after much fiddling around with view times and video lenghts I find 50% view time gains me far more views than say, 40%.
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What you quoted is about youtube's suggest feature not overall views. Meaning the longer the video is watched the more likely it is to appear in relevant suggestions. It says nothing about not giving views. I agree that all views may not be counted if its not at least half of the video but that's not what you stated at first.

Youtube now need people to watch almost half the length of a video in order for you to achieve a view.
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Reading that it seems like you're saying a view will not be counted unless at least half the video was watched, which is not true.

I do agree that you will waste a lot of credits using Vagex and not just setting it at 30 seconds but higher view lengths also. (Tested by me)
 
Wealthy Wisdom said:
How come you got on cpabeyond, isn't mgcash and adscend CPA networks ??
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Yes they both are but its nice to be apart of several different networks so u can split test and see which ones earn the best. Some networks have better offers for different niches.
 
My bad. Thanks for bringing it to light, tchasow. I dont know how, but thats how I interpreted that statement and when I noticed you get more views from Vagex and self promotion by asking people to watch half the video you got a view. So that's my mistake. I wont continue to give the wrong information now I know that statement was purely based on Suggested / Featured videos and not views themselves. And your right, that IS what I claimed originally as Ive honestly thought that was the case since March.

I guess basing my view count on how Vagex performs isnt the most stable way of checking my analytics and now Ive learnt something new!


But hey it couldnt hurt to have most of your video watched? :rolleyes: hehe
 
Tweeking my website a little to try to bring my conversion rate up because right now its really sad looking. I've been uploading videos the last couple of days and my traffic has increased by my conversion rate has decreased which has brought down my EPC.

I don't understand how I got more traffic but less money. Doesn't make any sense smh. I hope I'm not getting shaved but I have a feeling I am
 
tchashow said:
Tweeking my website a little to try to bring my conversion rate up because right now its really sad looking. I've been uploading videos the last couple of days and my traffic has increased by my conversion rate has decreased which has brought down my EPC.

I don't understand how I got more traffic but less money. Doesn't make any sense smh. I hope I'm not getting shaved but I have a feeling I am
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yea bro, most likely you are getting shaved.
networks usually start shaving you after a certain number of leads.
it might be the advertiser though because they feel that they already have a lot of leads.
or your leads might not be converting well for them. lame, i know, it happens to a lot of people.
 
yeah i figured it was that my leads weren't converting well which i think is because of the poor quality of the offers but i guess theres nothing i can do but keep trying for now until i find a better suited network which works with this niche.
 
tchashow said:
yeah i figured it was that my leads weren't converting well which i think is because of the poor quality of the offers but i guess theres nothing i can do but keep trying for now until i find a better suited network which works with this niche.
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You can do that and keep switching networks, but all networks will eventually do the same to you. But since you are doing such a small amount dont worry about that, switch networks to get the most of your epc. Just keep in mind that you are going to get shaved with the kind of youtube traffic you are pushing, literally 90% or more of the traffic that comes from youtube gets shaved at some point. Especially those cpa offers from games,artists, funny vids.

Even top comments get shaved too, the point is that when that happens if you like your network just keep pushing traffic. It could take 1-2 days for the shaving to go away, or even less. IF it lasts more than 1 week . LEAVE!
 
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