Thursday, January 28, 2010

Top Video Sites for Businesses

If you have a video, what are you doing with it??

Get yourself into as many of the top 50 video sites as you can:

According to:  http://www.fridaytrafficreport.com/list-of-29-free-video-sharing-sites/

Here`s a few you should check out:
Video Sharing Site Page Rank
Google Video 9
BrightCove 8
PhotoBucket 8
YouTube 8
DailyMotion 7
iFilm 7
Myspace 7
Vimeo 7
BuzzNet 6
Flixya 6
GoFish 6
Kwego 6
Lulu 6
MyHeavy 6
PutFile 6
StupidVideos 6
Vmix 6
ZippyVideos 6
CastPost 5
Dotv 5
Famster 5
MeraVideo 5
Porkolt 5
VideoWebTown 5
Vidmax 4


I personally recommend:


YouTube
Google Video
Yahoo Video
MSN Video
MySpace Videos
MetaCafe
Break.com
AOL Media
Daily Motion
Veoh
i2tv.tv
Blip.tv
Revver.com
Blinkx
Imeem
PutFile
Heavy.com
Eyespot
MotionBox
JumpCut


Do yourself a favor and think about your Title, Description and Tags. Each one is an opportunity to not only capture an audience, but drop keywords and links! Simply write about your favorite keywords, the ones you want to come up in Google for! This is a free and easy way to optimize your videos and ensure that you get the kind of traffic that converts! Always include a call to action....

Promote! Yes, you can build links to a video! Yes you can get your friends and family to comment, review, view, subscribe! I`m just sayin...

The more activity on your video, the more of an authority it becomes to Google.

In a Nutshell:

My Business SEO tip of the day:

Get a video, submit it to every video site you can, optimize it and help make it popular! Think about your audience and base your video from that!

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Spammers

So some terrible Chinese spammers left a comment on my blog - all in Chinese. So, Google placed Chinese Ads in my GoogleAds on my HP, here.... I guess they think the Chinese that my spam commenter garbled into at lest 20 different hyperlinks, was more relevant to my users than the subjects in my actual blog content! Haha.... Oh Google, you don`t know me or my user at all! Who is trying to make money here?

Would you pay someone to place comment links on blogs for you, knowing that they are probably 95% not relevant and so spammy looking that they would likely get deleted?

Would the owner of the site the paid Google ads are linking to (in Chinese) really want their "paid clicks" to end up on a page where the only person who would even click on them is probably just a Chinese link spammer?

I mean, really! Who is managing this stuff?

Or is the web just going to hell?

Saturday, January 2, 2010

SEO 101:

  • Pick your keywords (if you don`t know how to do this, hire a pro - trust me, it`s worth it).
  • Make your top keyword your first Title Tag, Meta tags, Content and even your URL where possible.
  • Make your site ALL ABOUT your keywords - this is all Google knows about you.
  • Content is KING! Write, write, write!
  • Don`t over stuff.... that is so 1990... now only spammers do that!
  • Update your site frequently. If your site becomes stagnate, what reason do you give Google - or your readers/customers - to keep coming back? GIVE THEM A REASON AND THEY WILL!
  • Focus on what sets you part from your competition! Why should I buy from you instead of the other 1 billion results Google, Yahoo and Bing returned?
  • Consider descriptions your 2 sec. opportunity to catch your next client... Quick, you have 2 sec. what makes you so special? (Price, timely deliver, 100% money back guarantee, custom solutions, specialized counseling, insider info, legitimacy - think BBB, certifications, etc.)
Now, take a look at your site. Make sure your site set up to please your client first, the search engine second!

Now, go get some links! You need lots of links, from different places. You need relevant links, quality, volume, variety.. but you need links! If you have a site and it`s not ranking, it`s because your competition has more links than you! It`s really is simple as that!

Nutshell: GOOGLE want 2 things: Content and (you guessed it) LINKS!

P.S. If you have no idea what I`m talking about - hire a professional! Be good at your business, let us be good at ours :-)