Google Suggest

If you are looking for a Google Suggest PHP script, this is the right place.

Some people say Google Suggest doesn’t work … to those people I say Google Suggest does work.

For those that say it does NOT work, I am guessing they are using a PHP script on their site that uses “old” code”. Search around the internet for Google Suggest php code and you will find some scripts that used to work. Things change.

What is Google Suggest?

Lets see what the Google Inside Search Autocomplete has to say.

As you type within the search box on Google, our autocomplete algorithm offers searches that might be similar to the one you’re typing.

A little spooky, it is almost like Google is trying to figure out your thoughts … let’s not go there.

And it is useful because:

Rest your fingers

Catch a mistake

Repeat a favorite search

Find other useful information

The “rest your fingers” reason – hmm, I’m not on the computer that much.

And how it works:

As you type, Google’s algorithm predicts and displays search queries based on other users’ search activities. … Predicted queries are algorithmically determined based on a number of purely algorithmic factors (including popularity of search terms) without human intervention. The autocomplete data is updated frequently to offer fresh and rising search queries.

Take another look at that image I included above.

That is not much information to work with.

Google Suggest Keyword Generator

Catchy little title, isn’t it?  But that’s all it is.

I want an “idea generator”, one that does research for me and let’s me know what people’s problems are (and maybe I have a solution for).

Here’s an idea, type in “how to” in the Google search engine and see what Suggest shows.

OK, that’s a start

Here’s a way to get “better” results.

Continue typing.  Add another letter after “how to”.  For example, “how to a”

or “how to b”

This is a good start, but very much a manual, “hands-on” approach.

What if instead of manually going through each letter of the alphabet individually, you could just have it happen automagically?

Google Suggest Results – Deep Results

Try this on for size.

Instead of the initial four results that Google seems to be showing, how about if we get the first ten results.

Then we get the ten results for each of the initial ten results – 100 results automatically.

Like this:

Start by getting the results for “how to” which includes “how to tie a tie”, “how to delete facebook”, …

Then, “how to tie a tie” gets searched for additional results like “how to tie a tie easy”, “how to tie a tie video“, …

Sidenote: Did you check out that “how to tie a tie video” on Youtube?  4,695,648 views since Feb 28, 2008. (Someone needs to show the MyNiceTie people how to hyperlink their url in the Youtube description – include the http://)

It Gets Better

What I just showed you was keyword “expansion” (or as I like to say “idea expansion”).  You start with an idea like “how to” and keep building on it by letting Google Suggest tell you what is popular, what are people searching for.

With the same Google Suggest php script I am showing, you can use the “Before” and “After” options.

These options will add each letter of the alphabet before or after the idea you want to expand on.

“How to” becomes “a how to”, “b how to” … “z how to”.  Also, “how to a”, “how to b” … “how to “z”.

Here’s a pic of the “After” option.

(What’s up with this “skyrim” stuff?)

Give Me The Facts

Also, you can check the Include count? option to get the estimated number of results for that query.

Copy/Paste those results into a spreadsheet and sort by number of results.

The short video that follows shows you what you can do with this powerful Google Suggest php script on your web site.

Soda Popper

The WordPress plugin that keeps on giving.

Who Is Soda Popper For?

Affiliates who want to control where their visitors are sent to, that want to know that the affiliate cookies are being set properly, who use a WordPress blog for promoting products.

Is this describes you, then I suggest you check out Soda Popper.

If you want to embed Youtube videos on your website, there are more options available then shown on the standard Youtube video page.

Here is the tool that will do it YOUTUBE EMBED TOOL

These default youtube embed player options are a good start.

As of this writing … things change, you know – Youtube gives you the option to:

1. Show suggested videos when the video finishes – rel=1 instead of the rel=0 query string parameter.  In general, if I am embedding a Youtube video on a website of mine, I do NOT want to show related videos at the end of my Youtube video.  No sense in distracting my visitors.
2. Use HTTPS – think SSL (secure sockets layer).  Or think encryption and the different color in the url area of your browser.  This is useful if you are embedding Youtube videos on sites that offer HTTPS support to prevent browsers from throwing a “mixed content” warning if not all items on the page are secure.  Facebook is one such site.  It doesn’t hurt to enable this if you are not sure whether the page you plan to embed your Youtube video on is secure or not (most are not secure).
3. Enable privacy-enhanced mode – this has to do with the use of cookies.  Google is all about collecting data – and cookies are one way of collecting data.  If you toogle this option, the embed code will change the url from youtube.com to youtube-nocookie.com.  Don’t be fooled into thinking that Google won’t set some cookies.  This option restricts YouTube’s ability to set cookies for a user who views a web page that contains a privacy-enhanced YouTube embed video player, but does not click on the video to begin playback. YouTube may still set cookies on the user’s computer once the visitor clicks on the YouTube video player, but YouTube will not store personally-identifiable cookie information for playbacks of embedded videos using the privacy-enhanced mode. Note that Google may set a cookie if the visitor actually clicks on the Youtube player.  I would replace the word may with will.  I don’t know that for sure, however if I was a betting man …
4. Use old embed code – the code that includes “object”, “param”, “value”.  Right now I can’t think of a very good reason why the current iframe option won’t be the best choice.  Maybe it is available for legacy reasons.
5. Change the sizing of the video – this option will keep the video’s width-to-height ratio constant.  What if you want to actually force the exact dimensions?

There Are Many More Youtube Embed Options

Have you seen this Youtube Embedded Player Parameters page?

If so, do you know what to do with all that information like autohide, autoplay, cc_load_policy, egm, iv_load_policy, modestbranding (this is one of the best features, in my humble opinion), rel, start?

Google does provide a straightforward explanation of how to embed a Youtube video.

However, if you want to take advantage of the parameters for customized players, you are kind of on your own.

Until now.

Youtube Embed Player Parameters

Using the Youtube embed player parameters builder here, you can customize your Youtube video prior to embedding on a web page to get the impact you want.

Besides the default options that Youtube allows you to change easily, the Youtube embed player parameters builder lets you:

• HD – play the video in high definition if available.
• Autoplay – the video will start to play when the player loads, the visitor does nothing.  Kind of an obnoxious intrusion, however …
• Close Caption – you can show close captions (assuming they are available) even if the user has turned captions off
• Disable video controls – selecting this will make the video appear to be a “chromeless player”.  The only thing a visitor will be able to do is stop and start.  This option combined with the very cool modestbranding and the obnoxious autoplay give you a lot of control over the visitor’s viewing experience.
• Keyboard controls – did you know you can control the video play via your keyword?  I didn’t.  By default, a visitor has keyboard control which includes play / pause (spacebar), jumping +/-10% forward or backward (right arrow / left arrow) and turning the volume up or down (arrow up / arrow down)
• Enhanced Genie Menu – don’t freak out, not thinking of I Dream Of Genie and Barbara Eden here.  This is Google we are talking about.  By default the genie is in the bottle (off).  When on, the genie menu (if present) appears when the mouse goes over the video versus when the menu button is pressed.  Can’t seem to find any information beyond this to explain what the heck the genie does.
• Hide annotations – default is to show annotations, again, assuming they are available.
• Loop – what you think it is.  Have the video repeat once complete.
• Modest Branding – my new favorite feature.  It strips away most of the Youtube logo stuff from the video.  There will still be a small label  when the mouse is over the video.  In general, you won’t see any Youtube logo while the video is playing.  Combining this option with hiding the video controls makes it look like you have your own private video.  By default this option is NOT turned on.
• Show info – show the video title and uploader before the video actually starts playing.
• Show search – shows a search box when the video is minimized.  This option is overrided if you have disabled related videos (first option – “Show suggested videos when the video finishes”)
• Video size – as far as I can tell, Youtube videos are sized at a width-to-height ratio of either 4:3 or 16:9.  You have the option of keeping the current size, selecting one of three other sizes or a customize size.  Regarding the customize size, you can size it however you want.  That doesn’t mean it will look great or that it will actually play.  If you go with the customize option, I would make an effort to keep the width-to-height ratio close to 4:3 or 16:9.
• Autohide video controls – what happens with the video controls once the video starts playing.  The default is for the controls to to fade out.  You can force the controls to remain visible throughout if you choose.
• Start – another cool little feature that has been around for awhile.  Gives you the ability to specify at what point in the video you want it to start playing.  Once you place the embed code in your html, the video will play at the given start time.  You provide the hour, minutes, and seconds.
• Theme – light or dark.  Default is dark for the display player controls.

Let me spoil the party – these are not every single option.  As it is right now, the Youtube embed player parameter builder doesn’t accept playlists, enable the Javascript API, or muck around with the colors.

A Real Live Example

Go grab the embed code for a Youtube video.

Try this one, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ED5WMCs_bzI (it will open in a new window).

Click the Share button below the video.

Click the Embed button just below that.

Copy the embed code, looks like this …

Here’s what I did for a video I did for Optimizepress that has been customized to play in HD (it won’t since I didn’t make it in HD, but hey, it is fun to click that option), disable video controls (only thing you can do is start/stop the video), hide annotations (again this won’t do anything since I didn’t add any annotations), use the uber-cool modest branding option to hide most of the Youtube info, change the size to 480 x 360 pixels, and start the video at the 10 second mark when you click to play.

And the actual video.

Now go use the Youtube Embed Player Parameters builder.

P.S. – Want to get the skinny on Youtube? Sign up for YouTube Mastery.

P.S.S. – Update: here’s a Youtube video – customized, of course – showing how to use the Youtube Embed tool.

It is one thing to personalize your emails by using an autoresponder service like Aweber or GetResponse.  It is another to personalize your self hosted WordPress blog.

Personalizing your WordPress blog can be done using “shortcodes“.

So what are they?

Introduced in WordPress 2.5 is the Shortcode API, a simple set of functions for creating macro codes for use in post content. … It enables plugin developers to create special kinds of content (e.g. forms, content generators) that users can attach to certain pages by adding the corresponding shortcode into the page text.

Huh?  Does that make sense ?

Lets forget all the techy mumbo jumbo and talk about what shortcodes can do for you.

Increase Your Conversions

That’s a bold claim.

Lets say that you want to increase your conversions  as taught in Autoresponder Madness.

What do you do?  You segment your list.

You email your autoresponder subscribers a link to a page that has a signup form for a new mailing list.

This signup form is for people who have an interest in a particular subject.

You ask them to signup for that specific mailing list.

IMPORTANT:  If they signup for the new mailing  list, you keep them on the original mailing list – do not remove them from the original.

Just use a simple autoresponder form like this one from Aweber:

Name:

Email:

We respect your email privacy

Powered by AWeber email marketing

For those that have expressed an interest in what you are offering, i.e. – for those that signed up for the new mailing list, you talk to them, and only them, about what they are interested in.

If you have done your work – provided value to the people who have expressed an interest in the particular subject, then when you do make an offer related to that subject you would expect that your conversion rate would be much higher.

Or think of it this way, have you ever been on someone’s email list because you purchased one of their products … and from there on out you get pounded by offers – offers that you don’t really care about?

Wouldn’t you prefer to be asked if you would like to receive information about what they are promoting? If only they would segment their mailing list like I am showing, you might actually want to receive more emails from them …

Make It Drop Dead Simple

Here’s where the personalization comes in … and shortcodes!

See that autoresponder form I placed up above?

By using WordPress’s shortcodes, I am able to drop in a person’s email address and name in the form and only need the person to click the “Submit” button (or in CPA terms, “prepop” = pre-populate).

But, but, but … yes, people are lazy – me included.  If you can make it just that much easier for them to do something, then by all means, do so and expect that your conversion rate will be higher.

I Have Made It Even Easier

I have created a short – and I do mean short – email course on how to do this.

The first email includes a link to a 11 page PDF file that shows you how to:

• Add two shortcode functions to your WordPress blog
• Setup a redirect script
• Personalize your posts and pages
• Create and use your personalized links

The second email includes instructions on how to “prepop” your Aweber or Getresponse autoresponder form with name and email.

You can purchase this course by clicking HERE.

BodyBuilder.Com in Boise

Ever heard of the site?

Located in Boise, Idaho.  Where yours truly lives.

BodyBuilding.com has an Alexa rank of 737.  They get a ton of traffic every day.  To the tune of 300k uniques a day.

They have over 400 content providers adding ~40 pieces of content every week.  That doesn’t include the content generated by the million plus active users who participate in one of the largest forums driven by VBulletin 4.

Side note: Apparently, BodyBuilding.com is one of the only “large” sites with a VBulletin forum that upgraded from version 3.x to version 4.x (even Disney decided to forgo the upgrade from version 3.8.4).

Apparently, the people at BodyBuilder.com know what the hell they are doing.

Tonight, They Put On A Technology Hour

At the Boise WaterCooler.  Kind of a recruiting / networking event.

They were kind enough to share some stats, like:

• Annual sales of $_____M per year
• ____k orders per day
• Sales are growing at a rate of ____% per year
• Global orders are growing even faster at ____% per year

(sorry, not sure how public they want these numbers to be … on the other hand, if you are on my mailing list, I sent those numbers to you)

Going forward, focus is going to be on mobile, personalization, trackers, gym finders, and a bigger, better Bodyspace.

Want to know what I found the most interesting?

They really haven’t done any A/B split testing.

What?  Are you kidding me?  That’s exactly what they said during the presentation (and I confirmed with a BodyBuilding.com employee after).  Lets just sit here and ponder how much higher their conversions might be if they do some serious A/B split testing.

Anyway, that’s something they plan on improving in 2012.

I would be remiss if I didn’t mention this

BodyBuilding’s Mission Statement (this is what they started the presentation with).

We Help Our Visitors Reach Their Health, Fitness And Appearance Goals Through Information, Motivation, And Supplementation.

All in all, an interesting presentation from a dynamic local company that continues to grow at a double digit rate in spite of the economy. Rock on!

I know the Super Affiliate Guy.

The first time I heard Andy speak he said something so brilliant, so simple – I had a “light bulb moment”.

Or in Homer-speak: “d’oh!”

Andy is a top 100 Clickbank affiliate.  He knows a thing or two about making money online.

If you are a little bit jaded about making money online, then your first question is probably along the lines of “how much money does he spend” to make money.

It’s one thing to be a top affiliate, but at what cost?

Some Perspective

Back in 2005, in what I like to call my heyday for “making money” using Adsense, I could put up a site using RankingPower (anyone remember that one?), post some links on Blogger and be making money in days.

The only cost was the site hosting, domain, and RankingPower script.  And very little time.

To be specific: $8 for domain, $60 / month for a VPS, RankingPower script ~$50.  It took about an afternoon to setup – and that includes “research” at the grocery store magazine rack (serious).

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This one site was running along smoothly until my credit card didn’t pay the bill automatically (ouch!).

My wife and I were biking along the Pacific coast in Oregon, USA for 8 days when this happened.

As soon as I figured out what was going on, I made the payment.

By then, it was too late.  The site had seen better days.

Moving Right Along

A year later, in the summer of 2006, I could knock out a “farm” of blogs and run it up to $100 / day in no time.

A hundred blogs on cheap .info domains, a self fulfilling linking system (i.e. – more blogs), and BOOM! – off to the races.

Cost for this setup is: $120 worth of domains, $60 / month VPS hosting + $30 / month of additional hosting.  Timewise this took about a week part-time to setup (much more complicated setup).

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Of course, like a lot of things built on a foundation of sand, it quickly crumbled.

(it didn’t even last a month!)

See What’s Going On

In a one year time frame, the cost (money + time) to generate Adsense money had gone up significantly.  The return on investment had shrunk considerably.  Especially, using a foundation made of sand.

It didn’t take a rocket scientist to see where this was going.

The writing was on the wall – no more “lazy” money.

Back To The Here & Now

Then you have someone like Andy, building simple little blogs that make $300-$5000/month on autopilot (Adsense is a tiny component of his money making strategies).

Instead of building on a crappy foundation, he builds sites focused on what people want using methods that work (and require W-O-R-K = time + money).

His methods involve a little lateral thinking.

… it refers to solving problems through an indirect and creative approach. Lateral thinking is about reasoning that is not immediately obvious and about ideas that may not be obtainable by using only traditional step-by-step logic …

(emphasis is mine)

This perfectly describes Andy’s methods.

And once you see what he does, it is obvious …

Dave

P.S. – Watch this video for your own “d’oh!bulb moment”.

Here’s how you create a Facebook page that gets visitors to take the actions you want them to.

(click here or the image below for an example)

What’s not to like about this page.

There is no need for someone to login to their Facebook account to view or more importantly take the action you ultimately want them to (if they decide to “like” the page, they will need to be logged in).

And if you are willing to spend a little money, you can drive targeting vistors to you fancy pancy Facebook page.

Let’s Dive Right In

First thing is create a Facebook page and yes you will need to be logged into your account to make this happen.

Choose either Community Page or Official Page.

There are some advantages for using an Official Page – mainly you can have visitors arrive on the specific tab that you want them to.

Even with that said, I’m choosing Community Page for this example.

Just provide a name and click the “Create Community Page” button.

FBML

Really, it is not a four letter word.

You need to include the FBML app for this to work.

Start by clicking on the “Edit Page” link on the side.

Then click on “Apps”.

In the lower right hand corner, click on the “Add App” button for the FBML app.

Then click on the “Go to App” link near the bottom left of the page.

Make It Pretty

Here’s where you get to be a little creative.

Right now you should be staring at something that looks like the following.

Consider it a blank canvas that you will bring to life.

OK, maybe you are not Picasso and staring at that “blank canvas” sends shivers down your spine.

Then let me give you this:

<center>
<img src=”http://maybe.s3.amazonaws.com/likearrow.jpg”><br/>
<p style=”font-family:tahoma;font-weight:bold;line-height:1.2em;font-size:24px; text-align:center;color:#000000;”>Swiss Super Affiliate Guy Shows <em>You</em> <br/> How To Create Simple Little Affiliate Blogs<br />That Generate <span style=”background-color:#FFFF00;”>$300 To $5000</span><br />Month After Month On Autopilot</p>
<br /><br />
<img src=”http://maybe.s3.amazonaws.com/getitarrow.jpg”>
<p style=”font-size:20px; margin-bottom:1.5em; margin-top:1.5em;text-align:center”><a href=”http://gowwwgo.com/go/sag”>(CLICK IMAGE BELOW TO GET YOUR INVITATION!)</a></p>
<a href=”http://gowwwgo.com/go/sag” target=”_blank”><img src=”http://maybe.s3.amazonaws.com/fb2a.jpg” alt=”Buy me” border=”0″></a>
</p>
</center>

Take that HTML code and paste it right in the FBML box and click “Save Changes”.

Of course you will want to make modifications to that code, in particular the links and headline and the big image.  You are more than welcome to use the up and down arrows I provided.

UPDATE

You can personalize your page for logged in users by adding the following (hat tip to Glen at ViperChill):

<fb:userlink uid=”loggedinuser”  linked=”false” />

You’re final code would look something like this now:

<center>
<img src=”http://maybe.s3.amazonaws.com/likearrow.jpg”><br/>
<p style=”font-family:tahoma;font-weight:bold;line-height:1.2em;font-size:24px; text-align:center;color:#000000;”><fb:userlink uid=”loggedinuser”  linked=”false” /> Swiss Super Affiliate Guy Shows <em>You</em> <br/> How To Create Simple Little Affiliate Blogs<br />That Generate <span style=”background-color:#FFFF00;”>$300 To $5000</span><br />Month After Month On Autopilot</p>
<br /><br />
<img src=”http://maybe.s3.amazonaws.com/getitarrow.jpg”>
<p style=”font-size:20px; margin-bottom:1.5em; margin-top:1.5em;text-align:center”><a href=”http://gowwwgo.com/go/sag”>(CLICK IMAGE BELOW TO GET YOUR INVITATION!)</a></p>
<a href=”http://gowwwgo.com/go/sag” target=”_blank”><img src=”http://maybe.s3.amazonaws.com/fb2a.jpg” alt=”Buy me” border=”0″></a>
</p>
</center>

Here’s a Facebook page that uses personalization (you need to be logged in).

IMPORTANT

Make sure the image you provide is no bigger than 520px wide!  Or else it will get clipped and we don’t want that.

Also, you’ll need to play around with the text – figure out how many words each line can have without getting wrapped around in unexpected ways.

And that’s about it.

Why Not Try This

Member’s of James Schramko’s SuperFastResults forum have access to a handy dandy Facebook Fanpage Generator (FFG) that makes creating cool Facebook pages a snap.

Get access to the member’s area by clicking >>> HERE

Resources:

Advanced Fan Page Solutions

Let’s just cut to the chase here – how do you embed a Youtube video on your Facebook Page?

There are a few assumptions to make – namely, you have a Facebook account (and maybe a Youtube account).

Before you dive too deep into this … you might just head over to the official Facebook Pages page to see what they have to say.

Here’s some example pages:

• http://www.facebook.com/FacebookPages#!/lancearmstrong
• http://www.facebook.com/FacebookPages#!/VinDiesel
• http://www.facebook.com/FacebookPages#!/u2
• http://www.facebook.com/FacebookPages#!/talkingpointsmemo

Kind of boring if you ask me.

Your page, on the other hand, will stand out once you get that Youtube video posted … so here we go.

Facebook

Login to your Facebook account.

If you’re likely me and find the navigation at Facebook a little sketchy, then use the Help Center link underneath your picture on the right hand side (by the way, I suspect that sometime in the future this information will be dated …).

Just type in “create page“.

Since I have already done this, you can visit this link (make sure you are logged in).

Now you need to make a decision – community page or official page.

Both get the job done.

For this example, go ahead and use the community page option.

Give the page a name, ex – “Video“, and click “Create Community Page“.

You should have a page that looks like the following – click on the “Edit Page” link on the left side of the page.

On this page, you can add information or edit what you already have and “Save Changes“.

What we really want to do here is add an App – specifically the FBML app.

Click on the “Apps” link on the left hand side.

There should be an app at the bottom of the page under “Apps You May Like” called “Static FBML”.

That’s the app we are going to use.

Click on the link in the Static FBML description that says “Go to App“.

Now add the Static FBML to your account.

Click the “Add Static FBML” button.

Click on he “FBML 1” tab along the top.

Now click on the “Edit Page” link along the left side.

Click on the “Apps” link on the left side.

(In case you feel like we are going around again – we are … haven’t figured out an easy way to get where I want … just play along).

Scroll down to the FBML – FBML area at the bottom and click on the “Go to App” link.

Finally, if you haven’t changed the name to something appropriate, this is your chance.

Make the change and click “Save Changes“.

Excellent, now you have a FBML page created using the FBML app.

YouTube

Time to visit Youtube.

Open a new browser or a new tab and go to Youtube.

Find the video you want to embed on your Facebook page.

You’ll want to copy the embed code that Youtube provides – usually there is a link below the center of the video that says “Embed“.  Click that link and the code to copy will be revealed.

Here’s an example video you can use:  http://gowwwgo.com/go/youtubeexample

Copy the Youtube Embed code, the “stuff” that looks like this:

<object width=”640″ height=”385″><param name=”movie” value=”http://www.youtube.com/v/_5iSCxYM3T4?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0″></param><param name=”allowFullScreen” value=”true”></param><param name=”allowscriptaccess” value=”always”></param><embed src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/_5iSCxYM3T4?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0″ type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” allowscriptaccess=”always” allowfullscreen=”true” width=”640″ height=”385″></embed></object>

Facebook FBML Code

Here’s the tricky part.  Sort of.

That embed code you copied over from Youtube – there is only one piece of it that you need.

The 11 characters after http://www.youtube.com/v/ is what you want.  For this example, the keeper is _5iSCxYM3T4.

You need to take that and add it to the following code like I have shown here.

<fb:swf
swfbgcolor=”000000″
imgstyle=”border-width:3px; border-color:white;” swfsrc=’http://www.youtube.com/v/_5iSCxYM3T4‘ imgsrc=’http://img.youtube.com/vi/_5iSCxYM3T4/0.jpg’ width=’480′ height=’360′/>

You are going to want to copy this code and return to Facebook.

HOLD ON:  There’s a better way. Download the PDF report to find out the much easier way to doing this Facebook FBML stuff.

Facebook (again)

Back to Facebook.

You should still have your FBML edit page open.

Paste in the copied code and click “Save Changes“.

Now click on the link near the upper right hand corner that links to your FBML page, ex-”Video”.

Click on the tab that has the name of your FBML page, ex – “Video”.

There’s your Youtube video on your Facebook page.

As an example:  http://gowwwgo.com/go/facebookyoutubeexample

Like I mentioned earlier, there is an easier way.

Click on the PDF report below to get the easy way to do this.

Yes, the time has arrived.

Time to use YouTube videos on mobile squeeze pages.

What’s cool about this is it is NOT an app, it is a web page that uses the JqueryMobile scripts  to create the “look and feel” of a mobile phone.  In this case, it works well with the Apple IPhone.

When a visitor taps the Name or Email field, the mobile phone’s keyboard pops up.

When complete, they just click the “Send Me The FREE Report …” button.

Once signed up, they get to view the promised video.

Some Cool Features

Look at the first image – the one with the image that looks a little blurred.  That “blur” was done on purpose.  It indicates that the video isn’t really available – at least not until you signup.

If you look at that same screenshot, there is a link at the bottom “What do goldfish and coffee have in common? Sign …”.

That’s a link to content you provide.

Content that you use to sell your visitor on signing up.  Don’t worry, your visitor is not going anywhere.  On that content page is only one link, the “Back” button.

Second image – the signup.  Easy, peasy.

As soon as your visitor taps any of the input fields (name and email, in this case – you can have as many or as few fields as you like), the built in mobile keyboard pops up.

Third image – what they get.  A video, a YouTube video.  Notice that there is also a link to additional content.  Just like before they signed up, the only link on that content page after signup is back to the video.

About the YouTube videos on your Mobile Squeeze page …

They are setup to NOT autoplay.  Probably more importantly, they don’t show links to other videos which YouTube videos do by default.  Nor do they show more information about the video itself.

Again, the only option (the only real option) is for your newly signed up visitor is the “Done” button which brings them back to your mobile web page.

Here’s an idea

What I have shown you is one way of setting up a mobile squeeze page with a YouTube video.

Here’s a little secret.

The additional content and YouTube video included on the squeeze page are all optional.

As a matter of fact, you don’t have to include any content or any Videos.

Or you could have two YouTube videos (one before signup and one after signup).

There are a whole bunch of combinations.

Let me give you some scenarios and see if this gives you some ideas.

Scenario #1

Aweber signup, YouTube video before signup and YouTube video after signup (two different videos), no content either before or after signup.

You are going to rely on the videos to make the “sale”.   The sale being signing up to your mailing list.

You’ll have to create the first video and put it on Youtube.  More than likely you will also want to create the second video.

Make the first video short and sweet.  Make a promise that you fulfill on the second video.

In other words, the first video is a teaser for the second video.  And the only way to see the second video is to …

Scenario #2

Almost totally the opposite of scenario #1.

Let’s say you are an online marketer for local (read “offline”) businesses.

Go with me on this one.

You’re getting your hair cut (or making your daily visit to the local coffee shop up the road in Narabeen – I’m just saying).

Your barber mentions how business has been dropping off.  You mention that you help businesses increase their revenue and profits by marketing online.

Your barber is definitely interested in what you have to say.

Alas, the haircut comes to an end (hopefully your barber was paying more attention to your hair then what you had to say – again, I’m just saying).

Since you don’t carry your laptop everywhere you go, you take out your mobile smartphone and pull up your mobile signup page (that has no videos and no content – straight up autoresponder signup).

Enter your barber’s name and email and tell him that you will send a report out to him right away that has some ideas to help his business (your autoresponder has already sent the report!) and pay him (and include a nice tip).

Scenario #3

… this is your scenario, what do you see possible?