Few newb questions.

Had a few questions that I needed to get clarification. Different topics, but thought might be better in one thread..

1) As Video is content and seems to be great for SEO would a page with a youtube video be better than a page with say 500 words of content?

I know video is content but how does Google decipher the video for SEO value?

2) Private Proxies. Have never used them. I may get about 10 of them for SEO Spyglass/Rank Tracker to speed up the results.

I guess when we use Private proxies if say I wanted to make a few different Google accounts and signed in to the different proxies would that be ok or would Google still know it was from same person?

What about reviews for Google? I see some people making reviews and I think it is from the same person. So if they are using proxies does that hide where you are from?

Any thing else I could use proxies for? Not using any scrapers or anything just basic SEO stuff.

3) I know of someone who has a site and has like 5 plus links hidden in the back ground and he said when someone clicks on that sites it actually loads the other sites behind the scenes and gives the other sites a click. How would you do that?

It seems to work pretty well as he ranks pretty good and really not many back links Just some good On page SEO.

4) What is a good easy video program to use to make video. Would like to be able to add a few clips/ images and transcribe them into videos. Nothing high tech but just wanted to see if there was a good newb friendly editor .

5) How the hell do I make some money online

Thanks