Youtube Video Marketing

December 4th, 2008 by Scott S.

by Scott S.

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.

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…

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 .

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.

Popular softwares to use would be hypercam, camtasia, camstudio, or maybe fraps.

3. Once your done instructing people to do stuff in your video, open it up in a video editor like Windows Movie Maker. Of course if you have a mac you’ll have to use something else, and there are almost hundreds of options out there.

4. If you want, and you haven’t already than you can narrate your video now. I usually just read my articles as I go through the video in windows movie maker. Obviously you shouldn’t read parts of the article that say things like, “click here to get a free ipod” since you can’t give people links in videos. However, you can add annotations with urls, or add urls in the description of your videos.

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 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 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.

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