A new and improved version of YouTubeKeep has just been launced – we call it SnagTube.com.
YouTubeKeep.com will redirect to our new website, so don’t worry if you accidentally type it.
Simply copy and paste the URL as usual and you can still use the insert ‘keep’ before .com method.
The new steps are fully explained on the download page.
But, if you want to make things easier, please install the Firefox add on.
New Features
YouTubeKeep.com has just added two new formats – High-Quality FLV and Full-HD 1080p support. Currently, there are not that many Full-HD videos available and the performance of play back is not great on most computers. But, if you download the video and play in VLC, you are likely to have much smoother playback.
If you want to try it out, try this Full-HD video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XITHbsUUlYI
As a note, the old high-quality (iPod compatible) is now Medium Quality and the old HD is HD 720p, just in case you were confused…
We have many exciting features in testing, so keep an eye on the blog and newsletter.
Additional Urls
We had several people requesting support for the URL’s below, so we just added it.
Here are some examples of the additional URL’s supported:
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=realannoyingorange&annotation_id=annotation_819665&feature=iv#p/a/u/0/cL_qGMfbtAk
http://www.youtube.com/hpheaven#p/a/u/2/OjTE-18-b_A
http://www.youtube.com/user/downstairsguys#p/u/2/O2n1Zgmtqe4
Firefox Add On
We have just released a new version of our Firefox add on. This is a minor update and does not include bug fixes or anything major.
Now added is support for additional YouTube video URL’s.
Another new version of the Firefox Add on has been released.
This version just includes a minor bug fix where, sometimes, flashing would increase each time you went to a new video on YouTube.
To download and see the version history, see this page:
Firefox Add On – Powered by YouTubeKeep.com
Cheers,
Cash
That’s right, people are finding my awesome tool (just in case you forgot, that’s YouTubeKeep.com) and using it. Woo!
I am promoting it quite a bit, by posting articles and links wherever I can, (which I’ll cover tomorrow). It is still not doing that well in the search results. If you enter something odd like “youtube keep video” or “youtube keep“, it shows up on the first page of Google. But ultimately, I want it to be on the first page for the keyphrase “download youtube videos“.
I think the search engines are probably punishing me because I have lots of broken links now. I changed the page structure of the website a few times and google indexed the old URL’s which now go to 404 error pages. Oh well, the search engines will get over it… eventually!
So, the hits… You want exact figures? Well, I’m not giving you exact figures! But I’m looking at between 50-100 visits per day (not to be confused with hits / page views). I know it’s not THAT impressive, but it’s a start!
The ad revenue is still next to nothing. If you’ve been to YouTubeKeep.com in Internet Explorer, you’ll probably notice that the ads do weird things and jump down to the bottom. So I’m going to blame the positioning. I’ll fix that and experiment with the positioning over the next few weeks.