Use Videos to Drive Traffic--It's Easy!

Video is definitely an underused medium for getting visitors or traffic to websites. Few people realize that YouTube.com is the number 2 search engine! Especially when visitors need to know "how-to", Youtube is the site they'll search first, often even before Google.

Right now lots of people get completely uptight when you mention generating a video. These people worry that they're not young enough/attractive enough enough/thin enough to create videos. Nonsense! Unlike on t.v. or movies, individuals viewing videos prefer to see genuine folks who will give them the information they are trying to find rather than somebody that looks great but provides little when it comes to serious information.

It might seem you need to invest a lot of cash to create videos, but the truth is that you don't. You can use a basic hand-held flip camera, which may be seen for $100 or so, or use the internal webcam that is included with computers now a days. You don't costly software to create videos. Cam Studio is a free piece of software that you can use to produce videos, or you should utilize Windows Movie Maker which lets you perform some nifty editing tricks.

If you are camera shy, just add a still picture of yourself at the start of the video. This gives you more trustworthiness, as showing yourself instills a sense of credibility from the audience. A very simple method to create videos is utilizing articles you have previously created and PowerPoint or similar program. Quicky read through over your article, and create a PowerPoint using bullet points from highlights of the article, and simply read and narrate the entire article and record it.

Never convert your whole article to PowerPoint. I know that you've endured through a PowerPoint with sufficient content to rival War and Peace before. It's monotonous and tiresome.

Ensure that your website address is present in the first frame of the video. Keep the video short and concise. Because the search engines cannot "read" video, make sure that you make an effort to complete the description and tags section when posting your video. A hint to assist your video gets found by the various search engines is to return after it's posted and copy and paste your entire article into the description section of the directory. Not every single video submission site will allow you to do this, but if they do, make the most of it.

If you need to take the lazy route and just make videos to obtain back links, you'll find nothing easier to use than Article Video Robot. It is possible to use an article you have published to the main article directories, and convert it to video using a one click. Or you may decide on the full-editor for additional control on the final result.

The videos made with AVR aren't pretty, but if you're only looking to get back links from high PR video sites, they suit your purposes. You can further customize them by narrating them yourself, or selecting one of AVR's computer-generated voiceovers. You can even add your own pictures and music should you choose, or use AVR's stock pictures and music. AVR can automatically publish your video to 17 websites, including YouTube with the single click of a mouse. AVR's Dynasubmit feature spins your video title and description to ensure they are more unique for the different video directories.

You can test drive AVR for free for 14 days before making a commitment. Give it a try; you've got nothing to lose. Make a video, and be shocked how fast it gets indexed, and often shoots straight to the front page of Google. If you want more information on traffic generation techniques, visit http://myaffiliateprocess.com.