Boost Your Article Marketing With Video Marketing

Boost Your Article Marketing With Video Marketing
By Jim Patterson

Article Marketing remains the best form of Traffic Generation available online. Publishing articles creates backlinks for the search engines. Your articles will also create traffic directly from the article directories, blogs and websites where your articles are posted. That doesn't mean there is nothing new in the Article Marketing arena!

I've recently posted information on my own Article Marketing process, and the services that I use. There are a few new products though that add another dimension to your Article Marketing efforts via Video Marketing...

And no, I'm not going to use this space to pitch any of these software titles at you, as most people just don't need them...

The concept behind this product deserves our attention though. The idea is to create a slideshow with appropriate (or innocuous) images to play behind a voice reading your article. This turns your article into a video!

Now you can use a free service like Tube Mogul or a paid service like Traffic Geyser to upload the resulting video to video sharing sites like YouTube and Metacafe. Search Engines index these sites almost continuously so the videos show up in a few short hours.

IMHO, the best use for these is to post a link back to the article itself at EzineArticles.com as this will help you boost the article's rank with Google. You post a link by putting the full url in the description box the very first thing. This will make it a live link on most video sharing sites. Remember to post your article's keywords as tags.

You can of course, upload to each of the video sharing sites manually, but this is time consuming. The free version of Tube Mogul gives you just over 150 uploads/month so you may want to pick just a few choice video sharing sites to use it on. I generally upload to about 5 or 6 video sharing sites for each video uploaded.

All you really need to create these videos is Windows Movie Maker which comes free on most computers today, and software to record your voice reading the article. I use Audacity along with a microphone I bought for about nine dollars for this. Audacity is free and quite easy to use. You should also use the same title on your video that was used on the article.

Now my own voice isn't exactly James Earl Jones but it does the job, and so will yours. Personally I prefer the sound of anyone's voice to an electronically generated one, so don't panic about this...

It generally takes a few days time for an article to get through the review process on Article Directories, so you have some time to get this together. After the first time or two, you'll be surprised at how fast you can get it done. The important thing is to make it a part of your Article Marketing routine.

The resulting videos have several uses:

• Blog Posts



• Squidoo Lens Modules



• Website Content



• Affiliate Product Promotion



• Direct Traffic Generation (add your sites url to the slideshow)

With a little thought you can come up with a lot more ideas yourself.

This is a very useful tactic to add to your Article Marketing arsenal. You can do it completely free yourself as well. There really isn't any need for any software unless you are in a niche where a slicker production look is needed.

Try it for a month and I am sure you will be pleased with the results.

Jim Patterson

Article Marketing Tips and other Website Promotion methods are discussed further on my Internet Marketing Tools Blog

For More Information on Automating The Article/Video Marketing process visit: Article Video Robot

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YouTube Annotations Perfect For Social Marketing

YouTube Annotations Perfect For Social Marketing

Was going through my RSS feeds on my Google
reader last night and noticed some folks busting
YouTubes chops about how they do business,
and noticed a few notes about the new things
you can do to the vids you upload.

Now as my readers know, I am as technically
challenged as they come, so this was going to
have to be really simple to be of absolutely any
use to me at all...

Shoooooot! I had no problem at all.

Go to your YouTube account and take a look
at any of your videos own pages. There just
below your info is a frame marked:

"Edit Video Annotations"

Click on that and you are there! Take a look
at the simple interface. Not much to learn,
but the impact of what you can do here should
not be lost on you for marketing purposes.

You can add a "Speech Bubble" (much like
cartoon bubbles) a Note, or a "Spotlight".
And you can place them, size them and pick
the time you want it to show any or all of these.

I put a simple note on this newsclip that a
friend sent me to promote a Squidoo Lens
of mine:



Notice that there is no Annotation showing
here. The only place the Annotation will show
up is at the videos specific YouTube page. Not
in an embedded page, and not on as the main
video on your YouTube profile page.

You can see the Annotation for this video HERE

It is set to show the whole time the video
plays, but I could choose to post a running
commentary on whatever videos I have uploaded.

Or put up "Speech Bubbles" to carry on an
imaginary conversation between people on
a video. The important part is to use your
imagination and make the videos work for
you to direct traffic, create interaction,
or just create more buzz.

Werner Roi created a great vid about using
Annotations. Watch it HERE

Also noticed a useful feature allowing users
to leave a "Video Comment" to another video.
This function will let your video be either
shown below that video as a link letting the
viewer choose to watch the next related video,
or become a part of a chain of related vids.

Think you could get some more views of
your own videos by linking to related vids
this way? I know I could!

Leave some comments with your own
ideas for using these features...

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