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Make it clear that others can use your videos!
Other people may be interested in using your videos on their website or blog. Some marketers don’t like this, but you can make it clear that you do, because you know it will help you drive more traffic to your site. Remember — your video includes information about your website and helps brand your name.
You can include some text in your video description that tells people it’s okay to use your video on their site. Obviously, YouTube and other video sites have the code right there for people to use (unless you turn that option off), but it often takes a call to action to get them to use it. Visitors will love this because they get extra content for their site and you’ll love this because you’ll get extra visitors to your own website because your video is branded.
Be Unique.
As you get better and better at creating your videos, you are going to want to put your own spin on them. More and more marketers are figuring out that videos can drive traffic to their websites. That means you have a lot more competition in the near future and the competition is only growing. That doesn’t matter, however, because you can make your videos unique and include descriptions that set you apart from the rest. This will help you get better rankings in the search engines and more views on your videos.
Create More Videos
After you’ve made your first video, you have to remember that the more videos you have out there, the more potential traffic you’ll get. You can also test and track different methods of video creation, to see what visitors respond to the most. You may find that a video you thought would really take off really doesn’t. By the same token, you may find that a video you thought was a dud gets you a ton of visitors.
Again, the more videos to get out there, the more traffic you will receive. There are more people than ever before searching for videos who want to watch them online. You can get yourself quite a following by constantly creating new videos.
Place the Videos on Your Own Website
These video sharing websites will also give you a code so you can place your video on your own website. While this won’t directly give you more traffic, it will give your site more dynamic content that your visitors will will love.
Remember — repurposing your content like this will help you make a better use of your time and drive more traffic to your website overall.
Create Your Own Channel
If people like your videos they will be interested in watching more of what you have to offer. Fill their desire by creating your own channel on YouTube. You can get some excellent traffic, and loyal visitors by regularly updating your channel with videos promoting your website.
Experiment and see what other popular YouTube users are doing to drive traffic to their websites.
Promote Your Video
Sometimes your video will take off right away and other times it will take a bit more work on your part. You can get some traffic to your videos by seeking out popular videos related to your niche, as well as channels related to your niche, and by commenting on them. You can sometimes link to your own videos within the comments. The people who visit that popular video may visit your video (and eventually your website).
Sites like YouTube also give you the chance to post a related video to other popular videos. Posting a related video places you right under the popular video with a little graphical icon that will entice people to click over to your video as well. Piggybacking off of other people’s traffic is an effective way to get your videos noticed.
Submit to Other Popular Sites
YouTube isn’t the only player in the game — there are many other popular sites as well.
Here is a list of some of the best:
Google Video.
Daily Motion
Vimeo
Lulu
Even if you submit the same video to these different websites you’ll be getting some traffic because the same people who visit one video sharing site may not visit another website. Also, you’ll find that sometimes one video sharing site ranks highly in the search engines, while another one doesn’t.
You want to have your video in as many places as possible so you have more chances of ranking and getting traffic as possible.
YouTube
While there are many video sites out there, the most popular one by far is YouTube. You can get a lot of traffic to your website just by using this one video sharing website. The first thing you’re going to do is make your profile and include a link to your website in your profile. Just like people who visit article directories are interested in the author, people who visit video sharing websites are interested in who made the video. You also get a backlink by including this in your profile.
You can upload your video after you’re done producing it and creating your profile. Keep in mind that YouTube only allows you to have a video that is around 10 minutes long. That’s just fine because people’s attention spans aren’t that long anyway, and your end-goal is to get them to visit your website.
While you’re uploading your video, you’ll notice that YouTube allows you to write a description. This is an excellent spot to put in another link to your website. People who view your video will hopefully be interested enough to visit.
It should also be said that YouTube holds a lot of weight with Google. You can expect to get some Google search engine traffic just by having a video on YouTube.
Create a Compelling Video
The very first thing you’re going to want to make sure of is that you’ve created a compelling video. This means you should capture people‘s attention, make them interested in what you’re talking about, and get more visitors to your website.
There many different ways to make your video, including creating a PowerPoint presentation and recording it, filming yourself, or using an automated process (such as Animoto.com).
You should experiment and remember to place a link to your website in the video so that people can see it clearly.
Video Traffic
Videos are an amazing way to get traffic to your website. There many people who search for videos online to learn information or entertain themselves.
You can take advantage of this by creating your own videos and uploading them to popular video sharing websites.
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