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Internet Video Marketing
The production of vibrant, good quality video content
for the purpose of generating leads, sales and publicity.
Social Media Marketing
Internet Marketing with a social dimension and
generally with some form of human interaction.
Online Digital Video:
The most powerful and cost effective way of
reaching your market.
Video Ad:
What do You Need to know About Video Marketing
7 Main Benefits
Video Marketing Strategies
Proof Video Marketing
Works
Know About Social Media
Marketing
Most Powerful Elements
Why Use Social Media
How To Use Social Media
3 What You Need to Know About Optimizing Your Videos for Search Engine and Social Media Traffic
Google’s Universal Search
Keywords and Tags
The Metadata
4 What You Need to Know About Creating and Publishing Your Video Content
Types of Video Ads
Making Your Own Video Ads
Video Ad Submission
Putting It All Together
“The Video Ad Blueprints”
Setting Up a Campaign
Anchor Text Links
Content Delivery
Essential Traffic Sources
6 You can Take Advantage of Using Promotional Videos as Part of a Social Media Marketing Campaign?
8 The Conclusion
Video Marketing is Here To Stay
Video Ads Will Change Your Life
Quick Submission to:
100 Video Sharing Sites
60Social Bookmarking Sites
40 Blog/RSS Directories
Do you give your potential customers the choice as to how they
consume your marketing message? What are the alternatives?
An eBook that can be read on your computer screen
An eBook to be read away from the computer on an eBook reader
An eBook that can be printed, bound and read
An Audio book
A video to be viewed online
A video that can be viewed “on-the-move” on an iPod…
How do your potential customers find your marketing messages?
From a major Search Engine
A back-link from another site
A strategically placed ad or banner ad
What are Social Media Sites?
These enable human interaction
These enable human connectivity
These enable sharing of different medias
These enable voting/rating
Introduction
How To Use Short Promotional Videos as Part of an Overall Social
Media Marketing Campaign
Bookmarking and Networking
Have you got a strategy for driving targeted traffic to your offers?
Article Marketing
Banner Advertising
Affiliate Marketing
PPC Advertising
Blog Marketing
There’s traffic that is paid for and traffic that comes FREE!
This manual is about attracting eyeballs for FREE.
What are the most highly trafficked sites on the Internet?
Search Engines – Google, Yahoo and MSN Live
Video Sharing Sites – Youtube, GoogleVideo, Blip etc.
Blog Platforms – Blogger, Wordpress, Livejournal etc.
Photo Sharing Sites – Fotolog, Flickr etc.
Social Networking Sites – Myspace, Facebook, Hi5 etc
This is about using Video Ads and Social Media to achieve your
business objectives.
Video Ads + Marketing = Video Marketing
Video Marketing + Social Media Optimization = $$$ More Profits $$$
This will reveal Strategies that will put your marketing efforts on
Steroids.
You need to produce lots and lots of well optimized video ads – think
creatively – think “series” with episodes – your own TV station – use the
audio file and create your own Radio Station – then distribute them – wildly!
Think about yourself and your target market – think outside the box – create
Video Ads with a definite objective.
Think what a difference 1 video promotion a month would make to your
marketing mix. Think 1 a week. Think 2 or 3 a week. The sky really is the
limit once you take action.
You need to experiment – see what works for you. Find the formula that
ends up in more sales/optins etc.
Have you got a business plan? Have you got a marketing blueprint that will
guarantee online success? The object of this report is to give you the basic
tools and strategies that you will need. I have purposely kept things simple.
There are literally hundreds of quality video sites, social bookmarking sites,
blog directories and social networking sites that can be used to get your
sales messages “out there”. I have reduced the strategies in the “Blueprint Module” to manageable proportions. Once you understand the principles you
can expand them as and when.
If a picture is worth a thousand words – What is a video worth ?
A Basic Video Ad/Social Media Promotional Campaign
TRAFFIC
Youtube
Google Video
Video Sharing Sites
Social Bookmarks
Blog/RSS
Your Blog Platforms
Social Networks
Technorati
Blogdigger
Syndic8 etc.
Squidoo
Hubpages
Myspace.etc.
Del.icio.us
Blinklist
De.lerio.us etc.
Wordpress
Blogger
Livejournal etc.
Optin Page
Sales Page
Affiliate Link etc.
Squidoo
Hubpages
Myspace
Del.icio.us
Blinklist
De.lirio.us
Youtube
Google Video
Metacafe
Wordpress
Blogger
Livejournal
Technorati
Blogdigger
$$ PROFITS $$
If you use the VideoFlu software – we can spread your sales message
in a very short space of time to:
50 of the very best Video Sharing Sites
25 top Social Bookmarking Sites
15 Top Social News Sites
25 high traffic Blog and RSS Directories
Using it will save you a tremendous amount of time. Use it in tandem with
our Basic Social Networking strategy and you’ll achieve a tremendous traffic
boost, a multitude of backlinks and a huge increase in the value of your
brand or online profile.
I hope you’ll see the logic in using such a time saving tool at such a very
reasonable monthly price - $10.
How much is your time worth? If you decided to do 1 promotion per month
and just submitted your Videos and sales messages to over 100 destinations
– do you value your labour at less than $10?
In the “Blueprint Module” you’ll find templates to help you do it all yourself if
you so desire.
I will be very happy if you invest in our software. I will also be
very happy if you end up understanding and appreciating the
power of Online Video Marketing and using it as the Flagship of
the Social Media Marketing Revolution.
Enjoy and Take Action
(Actions speak louder than words and Video Ads will make you money)
How to use Video as the spearhead of your marketing campaigns?
There are Seven Main Reasons and Benefits.
1. Video content will create a relationship with potential customers much more readily than traditional text or audio based content.
2. A well “optimized” video, with a comprehensive “distribution” strategy will generate incredible interest and traffic to your “offer” from:
- The video sharing sites such as youtube, myspacetv, Google video etc. – some of the most highly trafficked sites in the world.
- The major search engines – Google and Yahoo. They have both adopted a “universal” approach to search rankings that is to include not just the traditional text based results but higher rankings to photos, audio and of course mainly video content.
3. Well produced video content will quickly raise your online profile to “expert” status. Customers will flock to you ready and willing to be parted from their money.
4. All the major video hosting sites are FREE. They are all eager to display and promote as many “sales messages” as you can send them. It’s their business. A win - win situation. They get their advertising cash and you get exposure for your business.
What You Need to Know About VideoMarketing
5. Promotional Videos are relatively cheap to produce. Most of us have a camcorder, digital camera or camera phone. The software required is inexpensive or, in many cases, FREE.
6. Becoming a Video Blogger will elevate your status and trust among the online communities and Social Networking groups
7. A good thumbnail of your video along with carefully chosen tags and keywords will “grab the attention” of potential clients on the most highly trafficked search engines and Social Media sites, to give you a huge advantage in an ever increasingly competitive marketplace.
Some Video Marketing Strategies
Demonstrate your offline product or service. Using videos in, or in place of, your news/press releases.
Use short, one to three minute clips as a trailer for your video products (for example fitness videos).
Create pre-sell videos for affiliate products.
Demonstrate a new software product with screen capture videos.
Video testimonials.
Video tutorials.
Interviews with “thought leaders” in your niche.
Interviews with your staff, or partners, to build customer relationships.
Create episodes on a particular theme that will grow into a TV type marketing channel.
Create videos for online auction and classified ad sites.
Create an Mp3 of the soundtrack to submit to the Podcast directories for additional exposure.
Use comments on other peoples’ videos to drive traffic and generate backlinks (where possible) to your videos.
Use comments on other peoples’ blogs to get traffic and links.
Videos created for Job Seekers and Employment Agencies.
Taking and promoting videos as a local service for businesses such as restaurants, hotels, people with a car or house to sell etc.
Want a little proof that promotional Videos Get Noticed by Google and Yahoo?
We produced a few short promotional videos of an annual procession that takes place in Marbella, the 3 Kings Parade, where three kings arrive (suitably robed) to give sweets away to everybody. The purpose was to advertise an apartment which we rent out in the summer.
Two weeks later we took the following Screenshots of Google and Yahoo for the targeted key phrase “3 kings holiday in Marbella”
Obviously it’s not a prime keyword, with just under 9000 search results in Google and 190,000 in Yahoo. I just want to demonstrate how they’ve paid attention to us.
We used the VideoFlu submission software to do the test. The first
showing up on Google in 3 minutes. Two weeks later we had 29 of the top
30 results on Google and 30 out of 30 on Yahoo.
1. On Your Blog.
It’s not essential to have your own hosted blogsite, but it is highly recommended.
You can use one of the free blog platforms such as Blogger or Wordpress.org.
Main Benefits:
1. RSS Marketing - All blog platforms provide you with an RSS feed.
Potential customers can be alerted automatically when you have made available new content. You can also create channels on iTunes and other videocasting directories
2. Create your own main blog site or set up a new blog on a new domain as the target for your promotional video traffic ie your monetization site
3. You can provide a transcription of the video for the search engines as additional fodder for the search engines
2. On your “opting” or Sales Page Do you know the old adage “sell yourself and then sell what you’re selling”?
Video enables this method. People can see you, hear your voice and generally relate and take a liking to you. How many websites are there where the owner/seller remains anonymous?
A down to earth, even amateurish, video presentation WILL generate more optins, for email marketers, and sales than a solely text based message. It will distinguish you from your competition.
3. Video Distribution To Multiple Video Sharing Sites
We all know about the power of Youtube and Google Video but there are dozens of other hosting sites out there that will generate a lot of traffic for you and show up on the front page of Google and Yahoo.
A. Manual Submission Procedure
1. Go to 1st Submission Site
2. Join the Site – Fill in registration form and fill in:
a. Email address
b. First Name
c. Last Name
d. Username
e. Password
3. Click and follow the email link to sites that require it
4. Before you upload your 1st Video:
a. Enter Title of Video
b. Enter Description of Video
c. Enter Tags
d. Select Category required
e. Enter location of the video on your hard-drive
5. Click upload and wait 15 to 30 mins for average 20 Mb Video
6. Rinse and Repeat
Here’s a List for you to refer to:
Video Sharing Sites
http://video.google.com
http://video.yahoo.com
http://www.youtube.com
http://video.aol.com
http://uncutvideo.aol.com
http://www.metacafe.com
http://stage6.divx.com
http://www.esnips.com
http://www.ifilm.com
http://www.ning.com
http://www.revver.com
http://www.addictingclips.com
http://www.atomfilms.com
http://www.vimeo.com
http://www.tubetorial.com
http://www.webshots.com
http://www.collegehumor.com
http://www.blip.tv
http://www.motionbox.com
http://video.msn.com
http://www.current.tv
http://www.ourmedia.org
http://www.thedailyreel.com
http://www.flixya.com
http://www.jumpcut.com
http://www.videojug.com
http://www.stupidvideos.com
http://www.vsocial.com
http://www.mefeedia.com
http://www.videovat.com
http://www.funnyhub.com
http://www.freevlog.org
http://www.fireant.tv
http://soapbox.msn.com
http://vids.myspace.com
http://www.veoh.com
http://www.4shared.com
http://www.multiply.com
http://www.flurl.com
http://www.break.com
http://www.tinypic.com
http://www.livevideo.com
http://www.liveleak.com
http://mix.lycos.com
http://www.ebaumsworld.com
http://www.heavy.com
http://www.putfile.com
http://www.fark.com/video/
http://www.sevenload.com
http://www.guba.com
http://www.grouper.com
http://www.blinkx.com
http://www.gorillamask.net
http://www.vidilife.com
http://www.dabble.com
http://www.zippyvideos.com
http://www.yikers.com
http://www.glumbert.com
http://www.videodumper.com
http://www.showmedo.com
http://www.clickcaster.com
http://www.teachertube.com
http://www.mixpo.com
http://www.scenemaker.net
http://www.dropshots.com
http://www.yourdailymedia.com
http://www.5min.com
http://www.tagworld.com
http://www.viddler.com
http://www.spymac.com
http://www.dailyhaha.com
http://www.funmansion.com
http://www.expotv.com
http://www.truveo.com
http://www.vmix.com
http://www.eyespot.com
http://www.danerd.com
http://www.dorks.com
http://tv.oneworld.net
http://www.lulu.tv
http://www.videobomb.com
http://www.viddyou.com
http://www.engagemedia.org
http://www.vlogmap.org
http://www.yourfilehost.com
http://www.broadcaster.com
http://www.buzznet.com
http://www.mojoflix.com
http://www.vidmax.com
http://www.sumo.tv
http://www.i-am-bored.com
http://www.jokeroo.com
http://www.funnyjunk.com
http://www.vidiac.com
http://www.dumpalink.com
http://www.maniatv.com
http://www.expertvillage.com
http://www.thatvideosite.com
http://www.kaneva.com
http://www.godtube.com
http://www.onetruemedia.com
http://www.shoutfile.com
http://www.twango.com
http://www.sharkle.com
http://www.clipshack.com
http://www.guzer.com
http://www.needforfun.com
http://www.castpost.com
http://www.bofunk.com
http://www.holylemon.com
http://www.getmiro.com
http://www.funnydump.com
http://www.mediabum.com
http://www.babelgum.com
http://www.lifelogger.com
http://www.videowebtown.com
http://www.ziddio.com
http://www.myvideo.co.za
http://www.mogulus.com
http://www.dotcomedy.com
http://mojiti.com
http://www.pickle.com
http://www.dailycomedy.com
http://www.nelsok.com
http://www.flukiest.com
http://www.fliqz.com
http://www.viewdo.com
http://www.sutree.com
http://www.zooppa.com
http://www.eyeka.com
http://www.dave.tv
http://www.youare.tv
http://www.funnyreign.com
http://www.cuts.com
http://www.voomed.com
http://www.treemo.com
http://www.hictu.com
http://www.panjea.com
http://www.dovetail.tv
http://www.hungryflix.com
http://www.dumpthe.net
http://www.coull.tv
http://uvu.channel2.org
http://www.cozmo.tv
http://www.yourkindatv.com
http://www.filecow.com
http://www.clesh.com
http://www.ustream.tv
http://www.vidivodo.com
http://www.kwego.com
http://www.blogtv.com
http://www.funnyplace.org
http://www.caught-on-video.com
http://www.zanyvideos.com
http://www.evideoshare.com
http://www.clipblast.com
http://www.bigcontact.com
http://www.pixparty.com
http://www.izimi.com
http://www.zeec.net
http://www.blogcheese.com
http://www.skilltip.tv
http://www.yurth.com
http://www.wewin.com
http://www.vidipedia.org
http://www.qubetv.tv
http://www.video123.com
http://www.onfuego.com
http://www.myextreme.ca
http://video-upload.download.com
http://www.vuze.com
http://jaycut.com
http://www.u2upfly.com
http://www.freeiq.com
http://www.megavideo.com
http://www.funnyordie.com
http://strmz.jot.com
http://www.sclipo.com
http://www.purevideo.com
http://www.vume.com
http://www.operator11.com
http://www.tubearoo.com
http://www.helpfulvideo.com
B. Procedure Using the VideoFlu Video Submission Software
Step 1- Become our member
Step 2 – Create your profile
Step 2 – Provide your video detail like Title, keywords and tags and video file.
Step 3 – Upload your video on our Server
Step 4 – Our software will upload your video on 100 top ranked video sharing sites.
Step 5 – View Reports of your videos.
C. Procedure Using the VideoFlu Social Media Marketing
Definition of Social Media
Wikipedia says – Participatory online media where news, photos, videos, and podcasts are made public via social media websites through submission.
Normally accompanied with a voting process to make media items become "popular"
It started with a blog. A simple content management tool that enabled anyone, even without too much technical ability, to connect to the rest of the world. People could share their thoughts, their advice and their reviews. Other people could read them and then comment on them.
Blogs became a valuable source of content on the Web and led the way for other forms of media content to be created, shared and distributed.
Technocratic collected our blogs and made them easy to share. Delicious gave us a platform to share our bookmarks. Flickr enabled us to share our photos. Itunes made it easy to share our podcasts. Myspace gave us the opportunity to share our souls.
High speed broadband connections have now become universal and, along with Youtube’s technology, have enabled Video Sharing to become the dominant force of the Web 2.0/Social Media Revolution.
2. What You Need to Know About Social Media Marketing
The Most Powerful Elements of a Social Media Marketing Campaign
Video Marketing
Social Bookmarketing
Photo Marketing
Podcast Marketing
Blog Marketing
Rss Marketing
Social Network Marketing
Quality Content and Hard Work
Promotional Channels for Social Media Marketing Campaigns
Text Based
Blog Platforms
Submitting to the Social Bookmarking Sites
Blog directories and RSS engines
Audio Based
Podcast directories
Photos Based
Photo sharing sites
Video Based
Video Sharing Sites
Submit to social video bookmarking sites.
Video Blog Directories
Network Based Social Networking Platforms
On Blog Features:
1. Bookmarking Links to: Del.icio.us – Digg – Stumbleupon – Twitter - Technorati
2. Mybloglog
Why Use Social Media
We’ve established the most powerful elements, and the main promotional channels, of a Social Media marketing campaign. How does it relate to your company?
At a corporate level you may want to:
Attract more customers.
Enable potential clients to have a “peek” inside your organization to
help them decide if they want to do business with you.
Get feedback about your products or services
Launch new products
Put “new life” into existing products
Improve customer support – and lower costs
Create more effective news releases
Strengthen client relationships
Improve staff relationships and involvement in company matters
Improve your online reputation
Get your marketing messages global
Create viral marketing campaigns
Get a higher page result ranking on Google and Yahoo
Find new business partners, JVs or affiliates
Traditional marketing typically relies on non-interactive messages to induce a response e.g. newspaper ads, brochures etc.
Social Media encourages people to join in conversations with you – for example by leaving a comment on your blog or sending you a message on Facebook.
How To Use Social Media
It’s very simple!
Create compelling, exciting, humorous, informative, FREE CONTENT Distribute it to as many web destinations as possible
Follow up by getting involved in the conversations you’ve initiated a.k.a. Soft Sell Marketing
Content You Need To Create
Content that answers peoples questions, solves peoples’ problems, shows
you are in tune with current thinking and even establishes you as a “thought
leader”.
The most important content is your blog. This is the hub that you will use to
distribute your sales messages, build customer relationships and ultimately
send them to your sales page or contact number.
Write articles that are informative, unique and even controversial.
Create videos that will attract attention.
Produce podcasts for the “on the move” crowd.
Encourage others to share your content by making it easy to add to the Social Bookmarking sites.
Make it easy for people to subscribe to your RSS feed.
Get involved on the micro-blogging sites like Twitter.
Comments on other peoples’ blogs and in industry related forums.
Be original and creative – track results and find what keywords lead to sales.
Where to Distribute Your Top Quality Content
Video Sharing Sites
Youtube – DailyMotion – Blip.tv
Social Bookmarking Sites
Del.icio.us – Blinklist - Magnolia
Photo Sharing Sites
Flickr – PhotoBucket - WebShots
Podcast and Videocast Directories
Podcast.net – PodcastPickle - iTunes
Blog Directories
Blogger – Wordpress - LiveJournal
Rss Search Engines
Bloglines – BlogPulse – Feed24
Social Networking Sites
MySpace – FaceBook – Squidoo
Search Engine Traffic and Social Media Traffic
What You Need to Know About Optimizing Your Videos for Search Engine and Social Media Traffic
Traditionally somebody puts a keyword in, for instance, Google. Your site shows up and they arrive cold on your page. You’ve now got just a few seconds to grab their attention and make them want to do business with you.
Using promotional videos you can add another step to warm up your potential customers. When your “optimized” video shows up on Googles’ search results, the searcher is directed to a location on YouTube or Blip.tv etc. If your presentation is compelling enough he or she will be able to see all the videos in your “channel” and then be directed to the link to your blog
or your sales page with an element of “trust” already established.
Gaining this trust is the hardest thing to achieve online.
By submitting your videos to as many sites as possible you can also generate substantial traffic. Targeted traffic.
What You Need to Know About Google’s Universal Search.
Online search is changing and Google and Yahoo are at the forefront. Google in the past has returned solely text based results. From my observations they were heavily into Blogs and to a lesser extent Forums in the recent past. Since the spring of 2007 they started to include images, podcasts and, from our video marketing point of view, videos from the video hosting sites.
It’s obvious if someone who is looking to purchase, for instance, a food mixer, they would prefer to see a video of one in action, showing it doing exactly what the searcher wants it to do, rather than a static picture or a third party text review.
By using videos as the spearhead of your marketing campaigns you will be well positioned to take advantage of this online revolution.
Once you know what keywords are producing results for you, you will need to create new content every so often. From Google’s point of view the fresher the content the better. Don’t try submitting the same video with different metadata as the video hosting sites are already on top of that spam tactic.
Keywords and Tags – The Keys to the Vault
Keywords and key phrases are typically entered into a search engine to produce “search results” and associated text or video ads. Marketers spend a great deal of time and money ferreting out the words that produce a desired effect, for example sales or optins.
Tags are an alternative way of getting your content found. They could be defined as user generated keywords. The main problem at the moment is that most people on the video sharing sites and social media sites haven’t a clue about using them. It’s my opinion that you shouldn’t get too hung up on them unless you understand their relevance and importance.
From my tests for example – youtube are more likely to show your video if your keyword/s are in the title or description. I don’t think they give too much weighting to the user generated tags.
advice would be to investigate what is happening in your niche on some social sites.
Video sites – YouTube, Google Video
Bookmarking Sites – Del.icio.us, Blinklist
Blog Directories – Technorati, Blogdigger
Typically tags are more important on your blogs, as they are used to be found on the blog directories and on the Social Bookmarking sites.
Having said that, tags that are niche or industry specific can be very useful.
For Example:
In the Venture Capital Industry these tags would be relevant
Angel Investor
Black-Scholes
Blanket Loans
So a list of the appropriate tags to target in your industry/niche would be a profitable exercise.
How to Find and Use keywords For Your Campaigns
Keywords are generally categorized as “prime keywords” or “longtail keywords”.
“golf” or “golf course” would be considered “prime” keywords “Golf courses in Spain” is a “longtail” keyword.
What we want is a list of “keywords” and “tags” for our campaigns.
Keywords for the search engines and tags for the social sites. You need to understand the difference.
Keywords are used by searchers to find information on the search engines.
Tags are words that are generated either by someone who has created a blog or a video, or someone who has found your blog or video interesting enough to want to add it to their social bookmarks.
Bear in mind that you’re not looking for thousands of keywords – just the top ones that potential customers would use to find you.
For a given campaign probably 20 or 30 carefully chosen words and phrases will be enough to get you going. Divide them into a primary and secondary list. Plan your videos accordingly.
Keyword Research
Your DIY research can be done simply by using Google.
Step 1 – Brainstorm your first list. You know your product or service better than anybody. Ask yourself what words potential customers would use to find your product. What are the problems that your product solves?
Step 2 – A quick way of researching your competitors is to put allintitle: “your keyword” into Google. This will bring back the most closely related web sites to yours.
Step 3 – Use the “view source” feature in your browser. Study the metadata in the Title, h1 (headings), description etc. and borrow a few words to build your lists.
Tag Research
The best resources are Technorati and Delicious. Particularly with Delicious you can see (with the Google toolbar) the actual Page Rank that Google hands out for every tag. Put in your keywords and look for “related tags”.
Conclusion
a. Phrases are better than single words for search engine traffic.
Single words are better than phrases for the video sharing tags.
Use a comma separated list for example:
Golf, courses, Spain, and not
Golf+courses or golf_spain
If you have golf and courses and Spain in your title and description the Youtube’s of this world will return your video at the top of their search results!
b. If your business lends itself – localize your keywords. Google loves to use geographic locations.
c. Don’t get hung up on keyword research tools. Use your own ideas and thoughts to generate your own unique list. What’s the point in having the same keyword list as a million others.
d. Tags will probably gain more importance as time goes by and users get better at using them.
e. Google and others are working on technology that will enable them to “read and tag” individual frames. So think of the future when creating your videos.
f. Don’t try and spam the video hosting and social media sites. In other words don’t include words like “funny” and “weird” if they bear no relation to your content.
How to Optimize Your Videos For Success
The Metadata
The metadata that you can use to optimize your video when you submit them to the video sharing sites generally includes the title, the description, the tags and the filename.
The Title
Having your targeted keyword in the “Title” is the single most important
factor that will get your video found on both the video hosting sites and the main search engines. Try and keep it down to about 64 characters – this is acceptable to most hosting sites and generally will not be truncated.
The Description
Almost on a par with the title tag – repeat the targeted keyword once or twice. A fairly short but carefully constructed couple of paragraphs is generally better than a long description.
The Tags
If you want to be accepted by all the video sharing sites go with five tags (words) and no more than 64 characters.
The Filename
Try and get the targeted keyword in the filename for example Angelinvestor1a.wmv , our tool automatically create your filename SEO friendly.
Target URL
Try and get the targeted keyword in the filename
Thumbnails
A thumbnail is the image that is displayed when your video is shown on the video sharing sites. They are a vital piece of the jigsaw and possibly the most time consuming to achieve.
I conducted a survey of the 300 video sharing/social media sites and found that
35% were taken from the half way frame
11% were taken from the 1st frame
2% were taken from the last frame
2% provided no information
There are 13 sites that you can go back and edit after the submission has been accepted.
Backlinks and Anchor text links
Generally speaking the Video Hosting sites are not a good source of backlinks or anchor text links. There are a few sites that allow hyperlinks.
From my experience try:
DailyMotion
Blip.tv
Google Video
iPernity
Vimeo
Youtube
The VideoFlu Video submission software includes sites such as Gather and MySpace which you can use for backlinks.
An easy, basic “anchor text link” strategy is to join sites like Squidoo, Xanga, Wetpaint, Blogger and Wordpress, and interlink with your best key words and phrases.
Video Optimization Tips Work hard to produce a title that will grab attention as well as contain your target keywords
“How to” and “tutorial” type videos are very popular Use videos as “trailers” to other content you may have on your site Sites such as 5mins.com and AtomFilms are strongly against blatant advertising videos – you need to dress up your content as “informational” or
“tutorial” to have them accepted.
Embed your videos on your blog site and provide a transcription as search engine fodder
Use Viddler or blip.tv to show videos on your site as they provide not only excellent players, but also the code for people to “embed” your video on their blog or site
If you’ve produced a long video – break it into smaller “episodes” of 3 or 4 minutes. This enables you to use more of your target keywords and you won’t bore people to death
Watermark your videos with your logo or the URL of your site Work hard to encourage people to “rate” or “vote” for your videos on the hosting sites
What You Need to Know About Creating and Publishing Your Video Content
This tool Can Help
· Business Owners
· Internet Marketers
· Affiliate Marketers
· Realtors
· Bands
· Car Dealers
· SEO’ers
· Authors
· Artists
Anyone With a Product or Service to Promote Online
Creating Your Promotional Video Ads
Don’t think that making videos is difficult. Windows and Apple have simple to use moviemaking software that enable you to drag and drop your way to a presentable video ad. You can make simple slides, add video clips or photos, add some nice transitions and save it all in an acceptable format for distributing to the video sharing sites.
There are many excellent free resources out there, most of the video hosting sites have tutorials, so I don’t intend to reinvent the wheel. This is just an overview of the procedures involved. Study each area in turn, become an expert, get your creative juices flowing and become a successful videographer. It will be a skill set that will guarantee a profitable future. It could even lead you into creating promo videos for other businesses in your
locality.
There are three basic types of promotional video ads:
1. The “Talking Heads” type where you can simply use your webcam and a microphone.
2. Using your Camcorder to demonstrate a product or service or capture an interview.
3. Making Screencasts using Screen Capture Software to create compelling training videos,
Software Required
Editing software like Vegas Studio or Pinnacle
FLV converter
Xilisoft Video Converter is powerful, universal AVI MPEG video converter which can convert a video file between all popular video formats such as converting WMV to AVI, WMV to MPEG, AVI to 3GP, converting H.264 video.
It supports converting video files between DVD, VCD, SVCD, MOV, RM, AVI, MPEG, WMV, 3GP, h264, MP4, ASF, etc. In addition, the Video Converter provides a powerful way to convert video files to popular audio files, including MP2, MP3, AC3, RA, M4A, OGG, AAC etc. It supports APE, CUE decoding and audio CD ripping. All conversion processes are very easy and
fast with excellent quality.
VidoeFlu automatically change your video format according to the requirements of Video Sharing Site.
Video Watermark Factory
A fully featured yet easy-to-use software that allows placing a digital watermark or logo or text over an existing video in batch mode. Watermarks can be used for protection or adding comments to your movies. You may impose a watermark on a whole video file or on a specified section of the movie. Brand Your Video With A Watermark!
Making your own videos
No one can demonstrate your own product or service better than you can.
You know the ins and outs of your business and probably can answer questions better than anybody.
Learn how to use the equipment, master lighting, dive into the software and create the most professional videos possible.
The important thing is to get as many, optimized, videos out there. There’s only so many hours in the day – optimize your time.
The first step to making a promo video is establishing definite objectives of the campaign. Develop your plan. How many episodes? One long video ?
The second step is “keyword” and “tag” research. This is probably the most important part of the operation. Build your videos and metadata from the ground up. If you’ve got an idea for a campaign with say five episodes – select your top 5 keywords and 10 secondary keywords and build your Titles and Descriptions around them before you start work on the actual
production.
The third step is to write your scripts. Be as creative and humorous as possible. Your aim is to “grab attention” and “build relationships”.
The fourth step is to create and assemble all the photos, PowerPoint slides, video clips etc that you’ll need.
The fifth step is to put it all together.
Publishing Your Promotional Video Ads
There are various destinations for your videos:
· Your blog site
· Your squeeze pages
· Your sales pages
· The video hosting/sharing sites
For your blog site, squeeze pages and your sales pages you’ll need to make or convert them to the flash (flv) format, host them on your server and then publish them.
The other option is to upload them to a hosting site and embed the code in the appropriate places. I would recommend www.viddler.com or www.blip.tv over www.youtube.com or www.video.google.com as, for me, that’s more their business.
Formats For Submitting Videos To The Hosting Sites
Don’t worry this tool do it for you.
Manual Submission
Without stating the obvious, you do need to submit your promo videos to as many of the video sharing sites as you can if you want to drive Google into a complete frenzy.
How much time do you need to devote to this? Think 1Mb per minute per video to each site and that doesn’t include the necessary steps of joining, email verifications etc.
Using Submission Software
Using the this tool only few minutes. I fill in the necessary metadata for the video – select the video and with one click the submission process starts. Regardless of the file size I can
get on with other work and can check the uploads and correct any problems at my leisure. Then I’m ready to submit another few.
I know I’m biased but VidoeFlu is probably the best Video Sharing Site
management and submission program in the world.
Conclusion
Quality promotional video ads that are well promoted and distributed:
· Will explode your business
· Increase your traffic
· Increase the optins on your squeeze pages
· Increase your conversion rates
· Raise your online reputation
· Improve your search engine rankings
· Build trust with potential customers
· Build relationships with JV partners and affiliates
· Increase your PROFITS
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25 Social
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35 Top Blog
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Here’s a List for you to refer to:
Social Bookmarking Sites
http://bookmarks.yahoo.com
http://myweb.yahoo.com
http://www.google.com/notebook
http://favorites.live.com
http://www.digg.com
http://mystuff.ask.com
http://www.technorati.com
http://del.icio.us
http://www.stumbleupon.com
http://www.netscape.com
http://www.reddit.com
http://www.meneame.net
http://www.fark.com
http://www.ilike.com
http://www.mog.com
http://www.newsvine.com
http://www.furl.net
http://www.blinklist.com
http://www.dzone.com
http://www.clipmarks.com
http://www.pligg.com
http://www.kaboodle.com
http://www.bumpzee.com
http://ma.gnolia.com
http://www.rollyo.com
http://www.jaiku.com
http://www.9rules.com
http://www.startaid.com
http://www.shoutwire.com
http://www.bluedot.us
http://www.gather.com
http://www.simpy.com
http://www.nowpublic.com
http://www.plugim.com
http://www.stylehive.com
http://www.spurl.net
http://www.blinkbits.com
http://www.librarything.com
http://www.blogmarks.net
http://www.netvouz.com
http://www.diigo.com
http://www.wink.com
http://www.corank.com
http://www.popurls.com
http://www.mister-wong.com
http://www.backflip.com
http://www.rojo.com
http://www.shadows.com
http://www.bloghop.com
http://www.rawsugar.com
Social Networking Sites
http://360.yahoo.com
http://spaces.live.com
http://www.MySpace.com
http://www.orkut.com
http://www.facebook.com
http://www.hi5.com
http://www.friendster.com
http://www.fotolog.com
http://www.livejournal.com
http://www.bebo.com
http://www.xanga.com
http://www.multiply.com
http://www.linkedin.com
http://www.piczo.com
http://www.last.fm
http://www.stumbleupon.com
http://www.broadcaster.com
http://www.gaiaonline.com
http://www.mybloglog.com
http://www.squidoo.com
http://my.opera.com/community/
http://www.buzznet.com
http://www.imvu.com
http://www.twitter.com
http://www.slashdot.org
http://www.wayn.com
http://www.classmates.com
http://www.meetup.com
http://www.vox.com
http://www.blackplanet.com
http://www.faceparty.com
http://www.yelp.com
http://www.ning.com
http://www.secondlife.com
http://www.myyearbook.com
http://www.hubpages.com
http://www.43things.com
http://www.mog.com
http://www.reunion.com
http://www.xuqa.com
http://www.ecademy.com
http://uk.tribe.net
http://www.tribe.net
http://community.adlandpro.com
http://www.greatestjournal.com
http://www.nexopia.com
http://www.care2.com
http://www.mobango.com
http://www.couchsurfing.com
http://www.fanpop.com
http://www.gazzag.com
http://www.ryze.com
http://www.unyk.com
http://www.migente.com
http://www.downelink.com
http://www.bluedot.us
http://www.gather.com
For the complete list visit Mark at reelseo.com
If You Don’t Do Anything Else! Target The Following Traffic Sources
· Youtube
· Google video
· Metacafe
· Squidoo
· Hubpages
· mySpace
· Del.icio.us
· Blinklist
· De.lirio.us
· Wordpress
· Blogger
· Technorati
· Blogdigger
· Syndic8
Virtually any online or offline business or organization can benefit from producing and distributing Video Ads.
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