Marketing with Video

This is a little guide I threw together after a few moments of pondering over some of the current blackhat video marketing techniques. In case you haven’t heard of them, they include downloading and reuploading videos with url’s to your blog/parked page/cpa offers in the description, or watermarked on the video. None of that is really too blackhat though, and neither is this method in fact I’m pretty sure this is something more professional bloggers would do than spammy blackhat kids. This method isn’t new at all, but I’m sure some could find it useful.

Step 1) Write an article and then post it to your blog. (You could just post the video you make, but that’s not good for SEO purposes).

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

Of course you’ll want to cover your blog with ads and affiliate links (don’t make it ugly). Or if you’re promoting a landing page then you don’t really have to do anything :D .

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. 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. 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 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 the crossroads between white and black hat. You could just let your videos sit there.. or do something worthwhile (I have no idea). Or you could go the black hat rout and just use software like Tube Automator to inrease the traffic to your videos.

This method with get you lot’s of visitors with a bit of work, and lots of persistence. The more videos, the more views, the more subscribers, the more clicks, the more conversions, and the more profit. Good luck promoting stuff with videos guys!

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