Ok, so Rob, one of the guys that works for us, showed me a you tube video of a guy playing one of my favorite classical musical pieces on the guitar.
As first, I was like, “Wow! This guy is awesome!” I got tingles up my spine and all that good stuff, it was just a pleasure to watch someone who is as good at what they do as he is.
Here’s the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjA5faZF1A8
(my crappy HTML skills wouldn’t allow me to embed this properly into the post… so I had to link it and embedding it isn’t high on the priority list :P)
BUT! While I was watching it, Rob pointed out something else, if you go to the link, you’ll notice that on the top right hand side of the page is a little link under “About This Video”
Guess where it goes…
http://www.GuitarMasterPro.net
What is Guitar Master Pro, it’s the Clickbank product Music Master Pro!
But here is where it gets even cooler, at first glance, it looks all good right, just sending it through to his own clickbank product…
Or is he?
Actually he’s not, http://www.guitarmasterpro.com is actually an iframe, this dude is an affiliate!!!
This video has had 40 MILLION views in Youtube… 40 MILLION!!! Do you think after watching that video that anyone who wanted to learn the guitar wouldn’t buy that product?
But here is where it steps up another notch…
If you search in Google for “guitar”, a keyword that has 233 million competition, that video ranks #2.
Whoever this is behind it, kudos man, you are doing a brilliant job at being an original marketer!
Thanks to Rob for showing this to me, not just because it was an awesome video to watch, but because it was awesome to reverse engineer what he’s doing!
Daniel
p.s. the other possibility is that it’s his own product and he’s iframing it with a different ID to independently track how many sales he’s getting through that video, which is also a smart way to test what is working 
Popularity: 61% [?]
Maybe in your next blog post you can tell/show us what an iframe is and how it is/was used in the guitar video.
AJ
Awesome! Before the video had finished I had already shot the link to a guitar mad friend.
yeah this is amazing!, I’ve got a guitar video also on you tube but its not getting the numbers that this video is getting but it still gets 30 new people a month looking at it though and I get emails when someone comments on it,I’d like to put a link on my video to music master.I noticed that when you put your cursor over the link on this guys video it doesn’t have an affiliate link.what is an iframe I garantee that I will look into it ,this kid is a great player too and that probably helps.take a look at my video , do you think I might be able to pull this off? I don’t know maybe if I was a better player or practiced more,
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Wow that is what I called adept and that young guy is a very skilled and polished guitar player.
He certainly should be proud of his ability.
I play acoustic guitar a bit and am working mostly every day on my skills.
Perhaps I will even join that site.
Certainly I will check it out.
Joaquin
Hey not to get off subject but check this kid out too!
Click Here
also :is an iframe a forwarded domain or something or is it just a copy
cat website, I’m sure daniel and marc have some info on that!Talk to you
soon guys!
It’s a clever idea, and the guy is making some amazing cash from it. (He owns the affiliate ID and the site itself.) But, the guy himself isn’t an honest person. I know because I was looking to buy MusicMasterPro, and through my background checking, I found out he had purposely misrepresented a lot of things. It’s a great idea for an affiliate technique, but I wouldn’t praise the guy himself all that much.
An iFrame is is a window embedded in the main window. That isn’t a perfect description, yet it gives you an idea.
A better description is take a sheet of paper, draw margins around it, mainly the top and left side. The top and left side remain on the originating page, while the center opens the other site. This way you still have your site displayed, in the margins, and you don’t open a new tab or window, nor replace your current page with the new web site. This way you still keep the surfer on your site, show them what they want, and control the experince.
An iFrame can be created using just a regular HTML page, yet is better done in CSS (a style sheet). To give you an idea of how it is created, this is just an outline.
Header/banner
Tabs/menus
Navigation (left side) | main window | ads/certificates (right side)
Copyright/legal/footer
Most of the time the main window displays content from your site selected from the margins, such as Tabs/menus, or Navigation. What the guy in the video is doing is displaying the affiliate site in the main window, so you don’t leave his site.
Yes, I did leave out the code, yet here is the basics of it:
This mainly sets up the frames, and as you can see, it is named based on what I have suggested above. It is the center section that holds the most interest for us. We set the margins so the center, or main, frame has the widest width of the three, yet we want to be able to see the left and right margins. We are displaying a scrollbar on the right side if needed, hense the scrolling=”auto”.
Then for a link in say the navigation frame on the left you just use main as the target, such as the following:
Must See TV
If you are using style sheets (i.e., CSS), then you are most likely using Div. The keywords are different, yet it is better, and seperates the code (the keywords/tags) from the content, ensuring that even if the articles change they get displayed the same way on your site. The tags used in CSS, such as Div, provides something simular to the tags used in HTML (i.e., frame), yet is better for the current and future standards.
Different sites/programs use CSS, and so it may be a good idea to learn the basics of it. WordPress, Joomla, even HperVRE, use CSS to help keep the sites built looking consistant even if the content changes (i.e., blog entries, articles, forums). When you speak of a template, say for a WordPress or Joomla site, you are talking about the underlying CSS file(s), and supporting file - such as the header graphics. Joomla makes this easy, you just use a wrapper module, enter the needed info, and it is pretty much the iFrame you desire. I am sure WordPress has something simular, and I don’t remember how in HyperVRE - Gold edition, yet it can be done, like adding an Amazon affiliate display.
Sorry to be so long-winded. Of course, there are sites that are better at explaining this than I am. That means googling it, or visit www.w3c.org, - the maintainer of the web standards. Hope it helps none the less.
Sorry folks, the code got lost, here is the missing info (trying to display it in a different manner):
and the code to link to it is
I hope this displays correctly
Third time a charm?
Because of the limitations I am encountering I will try this a totally different way. Where you see { use the opening angle bracket/lesser than symbol (”").
Start of HTML code to create the frames:
{frame name=”banner” marginwidth=100% noresize}
{frame name=”tabs” marginwidth=100% noresize}
{frame name=”nav” marginwidth=10% noresize}
{frame name=”main” marginwidth=80% noresize}
{frame name=”ads” marginwidth=10% scrolling=”auto”}
{frame name=”legal” marginwidth=100% noresize}
and to link to the main frame using HTML code:
{a href=”http://site.to.display.com” target=”main” title=”TV 2 C”}TV 2 C{/a}
Remember, { =
It seems that for the most part it worked. The left currly bracket should be replaced by the less than symbol, and the right currly bracket is really the greater than sysmbol.
You will find that the whole Guitar affiliate, marketing, niche is the result of Product Launch by Jeff Walker. They are either using his methods or have been one of his students and the whole niche uses his PLF methods of marketing now.