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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Article Marketing - Nothing To Be Afraid Of

Article Marketing - Nothing To Be Afraid Of

My own first foray into the world of Article Marketing
was fraught with anxiety, and needlessly so.

The idea of publishing articles alongside the Internet
Gurus that I had learned from made Article Marketing
seem like I was assuming way too much about my own
knowledge.

So I did what many did and rounded up a bunch of PLR
stuff and spun the content, and voila'! I was an Article
Marketer!

Of course I didn't get the results that I'd read about in
all of the reports and ebooks on Article Marketing I had
read either.

That was then, and this is now...

Article Marketing is something that anyone endeavoring
to make an online income needs to be doing. Maybe our
words are not as noteworthy as a Mike Filsaime's or an
Alex Mandossian's but they have an inherent value that
cannot be ignored.

Why is that?

When you put your own experience into words, that has
a power that can be gotten no other way. Marketing
with Articles that contain your own struggles, victories
and yes even your defeats will motivate people to look
at your sites because they are real.

If you think that your grammar or punctuation are not
up to par, and that will make your articles look less
professional, then write them in Word and watch the
prompts. Your Articles will look sufficiently professional
to get visitors to your sites.

It is also not really necessary to submit your Articles to
hundreds of Article Directories. In most cases I just
submit to EzineArticles.com. This is the most widely
accessed Article Directory by far, so it's reach is sufficient.

Okay, if you really want to use more of a shotgun
approach you can get your Article submitted to over 600
Article Directories at ArticleMarketer.com.

Article Marketing allows you to build traffic, links back to
your site, and a reputation as someone to listen to in
your market.

Article Marketing is a vital part of your Web 2.0 activities.

Article Marketing builds links back to your blog, website,
Squidoo Lens, HubPage or any other webpage you are
promoting.

Article Marketing builds your reputation within the online
community of your niche.

Article Marketing is something you need to begin doing
now...

Floyd Bogart

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