Promoting the Niche Video Site?
March 8, 2008 – 8:18 pm | by nandakbAt present me raiding on multiple projects. 
takes most of my times. Site doesn’t rank well even for the keywords in the domain name. Google was very reluctant to list in 3rd or 4th page for the keywords "Tamil videos", "Tamil video" .
Promotion Objective of this video niche site
Increase the traffic to 300 visitors/day. Should rank in first page for the keywords "tamil videos" "taml video" "tamil actress video" "tamil actress videos" "tamil comedy videos" "tamil movie videos"
SEO Progress made so far
I changed the home page title text and gained some links by social bookmarking and few from link directory. Changed Page Title and <h> Tags in page rendering. Now the site is ranked in second page. But many long tail keyword ranking is got dropped.
Increase user experience with quality external link
As this site is about video, Google expects following information. Links to video Download, mp3 songs download, at least two external video links related to the site niche. For example if the site is about "Tamil Video" then providing external link to "Hindi Videos" & "Malayalam Videos" has been expected.
So yesterday I have added some external links with link text "download", "tamil music", "tamil mp3" in their header and title text. I choose to put those links in my page because they are very boring, they have no content advertisement, has many government and .edu back links. I am pretty sure that visitors will bounce back to my site as soon as they click the external links. 
Providing related external links to your site not only increase the user experience, figured that page rank has also increasing. The page rank can be verified here
Monetizing Niche video site
The CTR on this site went below 1%, noticed Adsense serves public ads to some of the pages in that site. Few of the pages has offending word sex in url. It also related to smart pricing, ads click by visitor type
As many recommended to remove the adsense from the site I removed adsense put "friend finder" for time being. Need to find the alternative monetization soon. Currently this site gets 100 unique visitors day and 1000 page impression. 90% of the visitors are from India. Any recommendation to adsense alternative would be more helpful.
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