Video websites send You FREE traffic…
Jim Edwards here with this week’s article (below)…
This will be published in tomorrow’s paper, but you get the
“scoop” today 
With the rise of online video, several video portals have
gained tremendous popularity… creating a situation where
you can get a lot of FR-EE exposure for your own online
videos and your website.
In fact, one of the sites I talk about in the article below
has a national TV show that does nothing but play web videos
to millions of viewers.
Online video is a phenomenon that can’t be ignored… it’s
taking over the Internet, and creating a situation where
someone with a video camera and a good idea can compete
with companies operating with million dollar budgets.
It’s not about the tools any more, it’s about knowing WHAT
to do with them that counts
To your success,
Jim
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Free Websites Showcase Your Videos Online
– by Jim Edwards
© Jim Edwards – All Rights reserved
http://www.thenetreporter.com
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If you didn’t realize that video will take over online this
year, you haven’t been paying attention.
Everything from video blogs to full-blown website
infomercials keep cropping up all across the Internet.
The driving force behind this video explosion is a
combination of cheap bandwidth, easy-to-use authoring tools,
and Flash video (a video format that works on both PC and
MAC).
With the sudden increase in homemade videos about everything
from “how-to break dance” to infomercials about real estate
products, it seems only natural that another explosion
should follow: the appearance of numerous websites that
showcase these homegrown Steven Spielberg’s.
In fact, these online videos have gained so much popularity
some have even crossed over into mainstream television.
Of the three main online video hosting services I looked at,
they all shared the following characteristics.
They all allow you to upload your video and host it free of
charge, making it super easy for even the most technically
challenged videographer.
They all allow visitors to search their sites using
keywords, so describing your video and choosing a good title
(with keywords people search for) will help increase your
exposure.
One of the most exciting features common to these sites is
that they allow you and others to get copy-and-paste code
that you can place on a blog or website (or anywhere else
you can paste html code) and display a video without hosting
it yourself.
This one feature can cause an explosive “viral” effect if
you create a video that appeals to a mass audience because
people can not only pass it along, but post it in additional
locations for everyone to see.
Video.Google.com – Google’s video service makes it possible
to upload and play your videos for people searching through
their growing catalog of homegrown video.
You’ll find everything from web-cam karaoke to infomercials
and “live” seminars. One of the best things about Google
video is the daily report about how many pages views your
video got during the previous day or week.
Also, Google allows you to charge for your videos if you
want, something the other sites don’t yet offer.
A disadvantage of the service is that, of the three, Google
Video takes the longest to approve your videos and make them
available, sometimes taking 48 hours or longer to make a
video “live.”
YouTube.com - YouTube seems to want to foster a feeling of
community with its video portal.
Unlike Google Video, which requires a separate software
program to upload video, YouTube allows users to upload
video right through their website interface. Of the three
sites profiled here, YouTube’s embedded player makes it
easiest to share and pass along video from a blog.
They also approved my video and had it live online in less
than 10-minutes.
IFilm.com - The coolest thing about IFilm.com is the fact
that they have a show on VH1 every Friday called “Web Junk
20″ which features the funniest web videos of the week on
real television.
They also actively promote the concept of “viral videos”
with a separate category in their directory profiling videos
you want to share.
The only negative was that their pass-along player forces
viewers to watch a short ad about IFilm at the beginning,
something the other two don’t do.
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Jim Edwards is a syndicated newspaper columnist and the
creator of an amazing course that will teach you step-by-
step and click-by-click how to get your own money-making
videos posted online…
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Another excellent article, Jim. I sent it to two people that I know of that might profit better from it than I will. I’m not “up to speed” enough on internet marketing to do the job right now.
I know your reviews of the sites mentioned are “right on” because you don’t have time to mess with that which doesn’t work and you won’t pass on information you haven’t studied in depth.
Thanks,
Chris
Fantastic article Jim,
I couldn’t agree more. Being a fulltime Professional Network Marketer I can see those that jump on board and begin using video to train their teams and on their websites will experience massive growth.
The way we communicate online is changing and I’m having a blast sending video emails to my team and adding video to my teams training site.
Will definitely be sending out your article to my team..video all the way!
To your success,
Crisina Munoz
Good story Jim. Published in Business, Internet, Advertising and Marketing categories.
http://newsblaze.com/story/20060131192853nnnn.nb/newsblaze/BUSINESS/business.html
Good stuff thx .
I’m just awaiting your mid feb release of the idiots guide to video and audio, and shortly after we shall have some video on our sites.
I preferred Google’s approach in many ways, as usual with Google, it’s just less fussy overall.
I was able to embed the code into a webpage in seconds , although oddly when I embedded it into a forum page that utilises html the player showed fine but a message appears where the video should be saying
THis video is currently not available please try later
Despite it running fine concurrently from the web page I pasted it to.
Interestingly, yourtube embed worked fine.
C’mon Jim – please get that course out – I’m gagging to have a play.
I have real problems with both the sample videos and the article, simply for their terrible grammar. “I drawed it.” (kids’ art video) may be child-like and somewhat charming aloud, but in writing, it’s just plain wrong…and sloppy. Why is correct grammar important? Because incorrect grammar is sloppy and consciously or subconsciously makes the audience/reader wonder if the product or service is equally sloppy.
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FROM JIM:
I believe it’s a marketing / branding thing for their business… not a lack of grammar skills.