Has anyone made use of this for promoting a sight i.e for a massage therapist making demonstration videos and submitting them to you tube or for a moving company showing how to correctly pack items for transportation and submitting to youtube, does this help with a site promotio thanks G
I agree 100%, YouTube is the best place for adding video's because it's the most popular. I've used it to promote my sites in different ways. The most obvious way is make an interesting video and put link text on the video leading back to your site. I've tried this using 2 different methods. 1. Make a simple image with the back link and your site information in a program like photoshop or photo impact, paint or whichever one you have. Save the image/s as a .jpg to make it web friendly. Then add it to your video as a clip. I usually put those at the beginning or end of the video. The end seems to work better because it stays there after the video is finished playing. If you put it in the beginning it's the first thing they see before they hit the play button. Most people will think it's just a bunch of text slides and won't strike their interest. 2. Watermark your video with watermark software. Add your URL to the lower left or right corner of the video so the people watching it can see your web site address through the entire video. You can use both methods also which is even more effective. Hope that helped. Peace, Herman
Definitely on the right track with the video. Don't make ONE video your whole focus, realize that you are trying to build an image of authority and you will create one by adding real discussions on your target audiences issues and concerns. Video is THE next level of promotion being pioneered online right now. Don't get me wrong it isn't the only one that works, it's just what's being exploded everywhere right now. Use it and use it well!
Exactly SocialMind, To take down killer rankings you have to utilize every option available. One other thing I forgot to note about YouTube Video's. When you display YouTube video's on a webpage YouTube gives you a back link, it's a “no-follow†but for some reason It's recognized as a back link by Google, maybe it don't count? Anyway I do get traffic from those back links, “no-follow†or not. Click on the Statistics & Data tab on any YouTube video that's on a webpage and you will see what I'm talking about. Peace, Herman
I have been making videos and posting them on youtube for a year and a half. These videos are designed to match the content of my site and help drive traffic to my forum. According to the traffic tags I use, youtube is the 3rd place referrer of traffic to my site, right behind direct traffic and google generic search. Take a look at these threads I started. They will give you lots of information on marketing your site on youtube. http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=837600 http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=850045 http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=859412 http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=848162 Those should answer your questions.
Great post by Kev there. In case anyone needs any help with using the free Windows Movie Maker tool to brand their videos, you can watch it here for free (no signups): Branding With Movie Maker