Sunday, November 30, 2008

Youtube Video Marketing

By Scott S.

This is a guide I thought I would write after thinking a little while about all of the blackhat video marketing techniques that are out there. If you haven't already heard of these methods, then for a short explanation: You download videos, watermark them with the url of your site, re-upload them to youtube and other video sites. None of that is realy too blackhat though, and this method isn't very black hat either. In fact, this method is totally whitehat, until the end when you'll have the opportunity to choose between blackhat and whitehat traffic. This isn't a new method, this is just an under saturated area for marketers to use right now.

1) Write some sort of article on how to do something and post it to your blog/website/etc... (If you don't have one then don't worry about it).

I would suggest something like; how to fix your wii, how to spay your cat, how to cheat on a test, or etc...

Then of course you'll want to monetize your blog and blog posts with affiliate links and adsense to maximize your profits. The more traffic your video gets, the more clicks to your website, more profit ($$$) you make in a factual theory sort of sense.

2. Video tape yourself or you computer screen as you complete the task that you are teaching people about. For example... I would basically just video tape my screen as I read off of this article. You could get way more complicated than that though.

To video tape your screen you could use hypercam, camtasia, camstudio, fraps, or etc

3. Open your video in some sort of video editing software once you're done. I prefer to just use windows movie maker since the editing process is very simple.

4. If you want, and you haven't already than you can narrate your video now. I usually just read my articles as I go through the video in windows movie maker. Obviously you shouldn't read parts of the article that say things like, "click here to get a free ipod" since you can't give people links in videos. However, you can add annotations with urls, or add urls in the description of your videos.

5. Add a watermark to your video, with the url of your website. This way, if it's shared on other websites then there will always be the url of your website for everyone to see. When you upload your videos to youtube, you can include direct links to your website/blog post telling people that they could read more about it.

6. Now is when you decide whether or not to promote your videos with blackhat methods. Depending on the quality of your videos, blackhat might be the only way to get a good view count.

Whatever you choose to do, this method could get you lot's of visitors, and a niche video channel that many people will subscribe to if you create informative videos. Good luck video-affiliate-marketers. - 15465

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