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Using video for blog traffic
By Mike | October 11, 2008
Before I start on this topic a special thank you to Joel Osborne who added the 5th comment on the last traffic post. Thought the series was going to die for lack of response.
You can also see that I have added comment luv to this blog which shows your latest blog post when you leave a comment. Go check out Joel’s to thank him for continuing the series.
Now back to our regularly scheduled program.
Video has become huge and is increasing in usage daily. Look at the traffic stats for places like YouTube. See how many video sales letters and squeeze pages you run across now.
The reason is the spread of high speed connections. Back when most people accessed the internet by way of a phone modem it was not possible. Now it is and people love video they are trained to like it by watching television.
Now how can this help your blog get traffic?
When you add a video at places like YouTube add your full link into the start of the description. ie - http://wptutorial.com/blog It is important to add the http:// or it won’t be clickable.
You can also add it as part of your video when submitting them. Now I use my videos that would promote this blog for my products because I have created products about WordPress but could use the same techniques to drive people here instead of to my products.
Videos also can be very useful when added to your blog. Each time WordPress issues an upgrade I tend to bring back my video that shows people how to upgrade here and as it promotes my product it works both ways.
Remember this post needs 5 comments before the next part of the traffic series will be posted and now I will even promote your latest blog post with comment luv.
Mike Paetzold
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October 11th, 2008 at 10:09 pm
This is a real encouagement to put the foot on the gas and start adding more video. Real helpful hint about putting the url at the beginning of the description.
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October 12th, 2008 at 7:19 pm
I am just starting to use video in my websites and blogs and it adds visual appeal and increased clicks. I like your Wordpress upgrade idea of reposting the “How to Upgrade” video during updates.
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October 13th, 2008 at 3:35 pm
Hi Mike
When you add a video say into utube is it possible to add tags and if so do they do the same job as the tags you have above.
As always thanks for the useful and relevent content. Now I have to off and learn how to use my new video camera
Cheers
Paul Conway
October 14th, 2008 at 3:36 pm
@Free Targeted Traffic Exchange -
Yes you need to add tags also but they ask for those but ost people miss adding their url
October 30th, 2008 at 11:22 am
Hi Mike,
Just to add to the discussion, I read recently where video makes up 52% of all bandwidth being used. Alexa.com always reflects YouTube in the top 5 most trafficed sites in the world. A nice free tool for uploading vids to multiple video hosting sites at once is http://www.tubemogul.com .
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October 30th, 2008 at 11:36 am
@Forrest -
Yes Tube Mogul is a tool I use all the time and a great free resource.