Wednesday, December 10, 2008

White Hat Video Marketing

By Scott S.

I thought I'd write up this short guide after reading a bunch of complicated video marketing guides on various forums. Video marketing just means that you will be uploading videos to popular video sites and using them to promote your website. You can make money from parked pages, affiliate landing pages, the possibilites are literally endless. This is extremely whitehat until the end of the guide, where you can choose between blackhat promotion and whitehat promotion. With this method you can be getting 1000's of visitors to your websites daily.

1. Write a how-to article and post it on your blog. (You could just make a video from scratch and put that on your blog but that's not very smart)

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. Tape yourself or your computer as you do the task that you are trying to teach people about. If I were to make a video for this article I would just show my screen as I viewed the article.. boring, but it works.

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

3. When you're finished with your video, open it in your video editing software. I usually just use windows movie maker, the video editing process is not very complicated.

4. Now that you have the program open in your video editor you can narrate the video if you haven't already. What I would do is read the article I wrote to correspond to what you're doing int he video. You can add annotations and links in your description on youtube, and other video sites.

5. Add the url of your website as a subtitle on your video. This way people will know where the video came from no matter how it is shared. You can include direct links to your website or blog post in the description of your video also.

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.

This is an easy way to get lot's of visitors to your site or affiliate landing page with just a little bit of work. If you keep at it you could be getting thousands of visitors to your site each day without any problems. - 15431

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