Tinh Tran

Google Zeitgeist 2010 and Youtube 2010 Review

by Tinh Tran

It is time to look back what Google has done for the last year and how people searched. What are the top keywords of the year 2010 and what are the most popular videos that most of us watched on Youtube too. There have been a lot of things happened for the year 2010 and there are also a lot of things that we have never known about Google and Youtube if you do not watch these videos.

Google Zeitgeist 2010 seems the most interesting visual review that cover almost key things that the giant search engine has done this year and there are top 10 keywords that can make you surprised. Some of them are rising very fast and others are falling down very fast too:

  • Fastest Rising Keywords

    1. chatroulette
    2. ipad
    3. justin bieber
    4. nicki minaj
    5. friv
    6. myxer
    7. katy perry
    8. twitter
    9. gamezer
    10. facebook

  • Fastest Falling Keywords

    1. swine flu
    2. wamu
    3. new moon
    4. mininova
    5. susan boyle
    6. slumdog millionaire
    7. circuit city
    8. myspace layouts
    9. michael jackson
    10. national city bank

See the full list of keywords here. You can watch this video and see how interesting it is and what we can learn from Google:

That is Google and what about Youtube?

I assume that most of you who will read this article know Youtube already and many of us have used Youtube to boost our viral marketing too. This is indeed the #1 video sharing network and all of us love it too. Here is the video about what Youtube has done for the year 2010.

Here are some top videos as harmonized by Google:

Globally, as of November 2010, the most-watched YouTube videos (excluding major label music videos) were:

  1. BED INTRUDER SONG!!! (now on iTunes)
  2. TIK TOK KESHA Parody: Glitter Puke – Key of Awe$ome #13
  3. Greyson Chance Singing Paparazzi
  4. Annoying Orange Wazzup
  5. Old Spice | The Man Your Man Could Smell Like
  6. Yosemitebear Mountain Giant Double Rainbow 1-8-10
  7. OK Go – This Too Shall Pass – Rube Goldberg Machine version
  8. THE TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE – Trailer
  9. Jimmy Surprises Bieber Fan
  10. Ken Block’s Gymkhana THREE, Part 2; Ultimate Playground; l’Autodrome

And globally, as of November 2010, the most-watched major music label videos were:

  1. Justin Bieber – Baby ft. Ludacris
  2. Shakira ft. Freshlyground – Waka Waka (This Time for Africa) (The Official 2010 FIFA World Cup Song)
  3. Eminem – Love The Way You Lie ft. Rihanna
  4. Eminem – Not Afraid
  5. Rihanna – Rude Boy
  6. Justin Bieber – Never Say Never ft. Jaden Smith
  7. Justin Bieber – Never Let You Go
  8. Lady Gaga – Alejandro
  9. Justin Bieber – Somebody To Love Remix ft. Usher
  10. Lady Gaga – Telephone ft. Beyonce

Here are the video that you have been waiting for:

I am very impressed after watching 2 videos and I think that Google should do this for their field countries where they have office or business activities.

How to Earn Passive Income From Every Affiliate Program You Participate?

by Tinh Tran

Have you thought about making recurring commissions from any clients you have referred? Many of you enjoyed one-time commissions with any affiliate programs you participated in but you would get nothing then. However, many bloggers had rather strategic thinking about this and what did was to focus on passive income.

Passive income can be understood in different ways. It can be income that comes from your authority. When your blog has brand and reputation, money will automatically come to you. The other way is that you participate in affiliate programs that pay recurring commissions and you earn lifetime revenue. Either this or that understanding, the end purpose of any affiliate marketers is to keep our monthly earning up or at least stable.

As usual, most of one time affiliate programs pay high commission rates. You can earn much higher than you refer. Ex. You can make $100 per sale which is worth just $20. However, you will get nothing then. But, you can make only $20 per that sale and enjoy recurring commission on its renewal. What do you choose?

I am sure that many of you will choose one time method as you think it can be risky or you don’t want to wait for next payment. Further, you want to make a bigger income and don’t care about tomorrow. But will you think that you will not make any tomorrow? Recurring commissions will ensure your stable income without any worries.

How can you find recurring commission programs?

It is not hard to find affiliate programs that pay you lifetime commissions. I can show you on or two such as StableHost or Magic Members. They pay you recurring commissions or other PPC programs like AdBrite, Bidvertiser or Chitika and you will earn from 5-15% of your referral’s revenue for life or for curtain period of one year or two.

If you followed big blogs like ProBlogger, ShoeMoney or John Chow, you will know that they make a lot from recurring commissions. One referral can bring you just $1 per month, but how much you can make with about 5,000 or even 20,000 referrals as your downlines?

Just my ideas and you should think about that.

How to Notify FeedBurner Unconfirmed Subscribers to Get Verified?

by Tinh Tran

As you all know, Feedburner has become a great tool for any bloggers, webmasters or generally website owners. Many of your traffic come from feed readers and if your websites do not have feed account available, it can be a big loss. You can even making money with your feed via Google Adsense too.

Among thousands of your feed subscribers, how many of them have been confirmed and how many of them have been unconfirmed? The unconfirmed subscribers will never receive your blog updates and you will definitely loose a big amount of traffic then.

I have explored many times and finally I got one tool that could help me do this automatically.  It is Notify Unconfirmed Subscribers. This tool will allow you sort out your unverified subscribers and a box where you can type your message to send to them by a click.

All of those unverified subscribers will get your message and they will proceed to get their emails verified if they are still using those emails. Otherwise, you should remove those spam emails from your feedburner account.

I have tested this plugin and it worked perfectly and the percentage of my unverified subscribers went down from 30% to less that 3%. That is good and I guess the remaining 3% is either spammers or no longer used emails.

You can download this plugin to use on your own and remember that your hosting must have email feature enabled to use this tool. I think all paid hosting providers support mail feature otherwise, you should do it manually which is not feasible.

Good luck and enjoy. Remember that feed subscribers are traffic and money too.