Monetizing Your Blog (4) Part 8
By Peter Wolfing www.blogtoolbox.com
Video Marketing and Your Blog
Video marking can be one of the most effective and efficient ways to get traffic to your blog. Video blogging is incredibly popular right now and people prefer to watch video over anything else (e.g., reading articles). If you have a really good video that’s both informative and entertaining, you could get hundreds of thousands of views! With so many people viewing your videos, you can be sure to expect a large amount of people then clicking on your link to your blog. And that’s a ton of traffic!
These, days people prefer not to read long-winded sales letter, they would rather just watch a sales video. The same is true with your blog posts. If you take the content wrote for your blog posts and turn each blog post into a short video, you will be able to upload your videos to video sites in no time. Plus you can also embed them on your blog as well once you’ve uploaded them to YouTube.
Videos are also great for backlinks too, because video sites are so popular and they have a high PR.
You have 3 main options here for creating a video:
1) Use a flip cam and record yourself or someone else.
2) Record Powerpoint slides using Camtasia (or the free version ‘Camstudio’) like what we discussed in the previous chapter.
3) Using Animoto at http://www.freemoviecreator.com which can create videos for you in minutes for free. All you need is to upload your own photos or put your own text in, pick the music and layout, and Animoto will do the rest (it’s really easy).
There are quite a lot of popular video sites out there that you can submit your videos to for free. However if you don’t want to do this manually I would suggest using a software program such as TubeMogul http://www.tubemogul.com which is free, or Traffic Geyser http://www.trafficgeyser.com which is paid (but is really good).
Web 2.0 Sites
Another great way to not only get traffic, but also increase your blog’s rankings and backlinks is to create a network of web 2.0 sites.
This method involves creating a network of web 2.0 sites such as Squidoo, Hubpages, Blogger.com, Wordpress.com, Tumblr.com etc and having them all link back to your main blog. This can be very powerful and you’ll not only increase your blog’s rankings, you’ll also see your Web 2.0 pages appear in the search engine results too. Another tip is to also social bookmark every web 2.0 page you make as this will help boost the ranking of your blog as well.
If you create plenty of web 2.0 sites, you could end up dominating the whole 1st page of Google for your keyword!
Social Media Sites
These kinds of sites are sites like Twitter, Myspace, Facebook and YouTube. For this traffic generation method, first sign up to each site and create your own page (or in YouTube’s case, create your own channel). Next try to join other relevant online groups that are in your niche and have similar interests. It’s important here that you don’t ever try to hard sell anyone or over promote. Try to show your personality and get people to like you and be interested in what you have to offer.
Try to be friendly and sociable and network with as many people as you can. Try to make as many friends as possible but don’t try to add just anyone, make sure they’re people who would be interested in what you have to offer. Offer a lot of free gifts and advice…. remember people on social media sites told really like hard-sells.
This can be a very effective and rewarding way to drive traffic and create a long-term fan base and a reputation in your niche.
I hope you enjoyed this blog article regarding your blog.
Peter Wolfing
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