Video is BIGGER than anything else online. It is one of the sources of best converting traffic thats available right now for internet marketers. Youtube is the easiest way to get traffic to any website, squeeze page or any product offer page.

In order to thrive as a successful online marketer your business only needs two things:

1. Traffic and
2. Conversions

As Google drastically changes it’s algorithms and Social Media plays more of an important role in Search Rannkings there is still one source that is guaranteed to bring you targeted traffic.

In a recent survey, respondents admitted to spending an average of 66% of their Internet-Surfing time watching online video (Social Networking Sites only 22%). And with over 3 Billion Daily Views, Youtube (owned by Google!) is the KING of video platforms.

Youtube is the second most powerful search engine in the world only after Google and hence the reason Google has acquired youtube in 2005 for a whopping 1.65B USD. Even yahoo or bing search could not outperform youtube in the search volumes. Just like blogger blogs google search loves youtube videos when they are informative and solves a purpose.

The Easiest Way to Get Youtube Traffic Now

Facebook control sharing options explained in detail.

Mark Zuckerberg explains in detail about the privacy settings in Facebook

Facebook’s Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg delivered the keynote at Barnard College’s 119th Commencement ceremony. Addressing approximately 600 members of Barnard’s Class of 2011, Sandberg implored the young women to “never let your fear overwhelm your desire. Let the obstacles in your path be external not internal. Fortune does favor the bold and you’ll never know what you’re capable of if you don’t try.”

Facebook Lexicon – Where did it Go?

Facebook’s Lexicon was, until very recently, a secret goldmine for Facebook ad developers. But now all you will see is a sign that the Lexicon has been removed from Facebook “for the time being”.

While this is aggravating to those who had gotten into the habit of using it for market research, it may signal good news for internet marketers. Why?

Well, Facebook is apparently going to focus development on their “analytics tools for Page owners, advertisers and Platform developers”.

This means they are perfectly savvy to the uses people were putting Lexicon to. And that it might be brought back as a more tightly-focused commercial version for marketers.

What was the Lexicon, anyway? (You ask, out of idle curiosity.)

It was a short-lived tool, launched in October 2009, which used to track the number of occurrences of Facebook wall “words and phrases”. Think “long-tailed keywords” for phrases, and you’ll see why marketers found it so exciting.

In other words, it measured the buzz…

..And the mood – its “Gross National Happiness Tracking Index” measured words on Facebook walls to see if people used positive or negative keywords daily. It’s similar to a tool created years ago that did the same thing, right across the net. (There was even a television program about this type of internet sociometric recently, in which the show’s producers attempted to “prove” that the words we collectively use mean that Nostradamus’ apocalyptic prophecies are coming true).

But we are getting distracted and beginning to veer off topic: Something we Facebook users do a lot, particularly when just browsing. To return to our main point…

Alas. Facebook apparently got wise to Lexicon’s money-making potential, and realized they had a Wonder Tool in the making – one they can no doubt monetize and make income from (as good business people should). Or else perhaps they had received forceful letters from the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) lawyers about plagiarism. We’ll never know.

Farewell, Lexicon. Facebook has hinted they will bring back “some components” in an unspecified future… but in what form will we see this once-handy tool?

You’ve done thorough market research, and read all Facebook’s rules and prohibitions… you’re all ready to start your Facebook ad campaign. Before you do, however, you may need to stop and consider some little-known factors that could affect your market research conclusions.

1. You may know that Facebook allows users to search the web from Facebook: What you may not realize is that Facebook separated itself from Google. Now when you search the web via Facebook, results are returned from Bing.

2. You can link your Facebook Ad to your Facebook group… but if you change your mind and decide a Facebook Page would work better than a group instead, you cannot transfer your group members over.

3. According to the New York Times, Microsoft has a 1.6% stake in Facebook. (That translates out to $240 million dollars!)

Now, the news about Bing may alert you to the need to keep cultivating Google SEO too; and the news about Microsoft’s big Facebook investment may only serve to confirm your belief that Facebook is worth its weight (unless you are a confirmed Microphobe; in which case you’ll be convinced that Microsoft is about to Take Over Facebook and seriously mess it up)… but the point about member lists not being transferrable from Facebook groups to pages is one that has caught many new advertisers by surprise, and caused some grief.
So think carefully about which option – group or page – is better, before you decide to create one or the other specifically to link with your ad.

And 1 Hidden Benefit…

But Facebook has one big hidden benefit not mentioned ahead of time in its Ad Creation process – one which you won’t find anywhere else on a social site…

…it tells you to “wait” if a large company is about to initiate a competing campaign that day – one which would severely hurt your results.

Many people agree that feature alone is worth its weight in gold. Do you agree… or are you too busy nervously watching for those Microsoft Facebook announcements to appear in your inbox?

Facebook’s core principles:

1. You should have control over your personal information.
2. Facebook helps you share information with your friends and people around you. You choose what information you put in your profile, including contact and personal information, pictures, interests and groups you join. And you control the users with whom you share that information through the privacy settings on the Privacy page.
3. You should have access to the information others want to share. There is an increasing amount of information available out there, and you may want to know what relates to you, your friends, and people around you. We want to help you easily get that information.
4. Sharing information should be easy. And we want to provide you with the privacy tools necessary to control how and with whom you share that information. If you have questions or ideas, please check out our privacy help page.

Facebook advise for Parents:

Facebook strongly urges parents to talk to their children about the dangers they may encounter online, and to make sure their children are using Facebook in a safe manner. Parents may want to install monitoring software on home computers if they are concerned about what their children are doing online. Children must know that they should report any inappropriate or offensive Facebook content to their parents and to Facebook using the tools made available through the site. Parents should always remind their children to follow the important safety tips listed on this page when using Facebook.

These security settings and core values of Facebook make it stand out of its competitors and have steadily growing user base.

Have a safe and secured online presence..