Video Marketing In 5 Easy Steps For The Online Marketer

by Dhruv Patel on December 19, 2009

You are probably aware that your website content is the key to your online business. It makes up most of the way your website will be ranked by the search engines like Google. Video currenlty is the top of the line when it comes to content creation. Here is your guide to video marketing in 5 easy steps.

You want to get a good video search engine ranking like you do with any type of content creation. Google is applying more and more importance to video content and you want to publish effective video broadcasts so you will have the advantage that so many other marketers now enjoy online.

The first step is to have an effective video. If you have a video of you showing your home office this video is no where as effective as having a video of your live demonstration of your product or another person's product. So use common sense and create a video that will create interest in your product promotion. Your goal with video marketing is to get a lot of traffic to your website or to another person's website that is your affiliate product or products you are promoting.

The next step is to create a controversial over the top passionate personal video. You can be opinionated if you educate those who watch your video.

Step three. Create a video that gives away a lot of useful knowledge but leaves the viewer hanging because it is simply incomplete.

Get familiar with You Tube is step four. It is the grand daddy of all the submission sites when it comes down to video marketing. Each category will have thousands of videos on You Tube. You have to therefore be the best of the videos in your niche. Watch all of the high view content videos in your market on You Tube. Take notes and find out why some videos do well and others not so well.

The final step is to write up a cheat sheet from your notes. List the common elements of the most viewed videos in your market. You will see a lot of the same techniques in the popular videos. You want to incorporate those into your videos. You want the best chance of getting your video rated high in the search engine so you want to do what others have done to reach that goal.

Finally, if you see a video that it looks like someone merely has made a video of a computer screen this is what is called a screen capture video and can be created very easily by using screen capture video creating software which is available online. You can use this type of software if you do not want to use an actual video camera to create a video to submit online.

Dhruv Patel is a customer of DreamHost. He has created site to help new DreamHost customers and to promote DreamHost by giving DreamHost coupons.

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