YouTube is the largest Online video site

Video is huge now on the Internet, about 80% of people watch videos on their computers. That figure is growing fast too as bandwidth and content quality increase making videos more fun to watch online. Everyone knows about YouTube, but there are many other video sites too, some with decent traffic. Online video can be valuable for you in any of several ways, lets look at some of the ways you can get value by using online videos to promote your blog or website. First, lets just clear up something about ‘Online videos’.

What Do We Mean by Online Video?

No need to be a movie director to get some traffic from Online videos, anyone, even people without a video camera can make videos. How can that be you ask? Simple, a computer knows a video to be a video file, meaning the computer where you upload videos to doesn’t know whether your video is good or it stinks. In fact, the video doesnt need to be made from a video camera. I have made several videos that are really something like a powerpoint like slide show with an audio voice over added to it. Combine your audio with your slide show in a cheap software package like VideoMach and you output to a movie or video file type. You now have a video that can get your point across, and still be professional, even without a video camera. Of course you can use video cameras, and edit video with more professional tools, but the point is anyone can benefit from videos, even people with limited resources.

Video SEO

Videos are right now a sneaky way you can get good visibility in the search engines. If you have been online for several years you will remember a few years ago that blogs enjoyed a real preference in Google’s search, and eventually it was a real “low hanging fruit” area where keyword visibility was pretty easy to achieve with a blog post carefully using your keywords. Today this is true for videos. At Google, Yahoo, and MSN (the biggest search engines) there are video tabs as an alternate to a web search or an image search. SEO is competitive because you and all your competitors are competing on the web tab to try and get web pages ranked high at top search engines. The Video tab is usually still not competitive at all, even for many valuable keywords. If this is true, a video that is named with some of your keywords will get 1st page search results for you nearly instantly after uploading the video. For a while most of your competition does not know about videos, and they are not competing in this area of SEO, I still think this is a “low hanging fruit” area that can be exploited by anyone who wants high search rankings for their blog or website!

What To Do on a Video? How to Convert with Videos?

Many people will go about their Online Video marketing in different ways. Some will use video as their primary distribution vehicle to get their content out to the masses. Some people are doing talk show type videos, where the video is their content product. Others use video as almost ads or teasers to pull traffic back to your traditional place where you distribute your information or product, like your website or blog. Some make them like TV ads that can even push leads to a phone number, or the website. The possibilities are endless! Most Internet Marketers are using videos in a similar way to how they use article directories. Each video uploaded to a top video site can be compared to an article submitted to a top article directory, both are a little piece of content you make & distribute that can result in targeted traffic coming back to your site.

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