Promoting Your Video 1
Well with the launch of the new site I decided to take a little time off from production and work on promotion for the last week or so. And in working on promoting the site is really split into two avenues. The first one is promoting the site by getting it listed on related lists of multimedia and movie projects. And also getting links from any other site you can make a deal with to help your rankings and drive more traffic to you. Then the other avenue is promoting the video pages. The main way to do this is to upload the video pages to as many video hosting sites as possible and to add the video feeds to video search engines. So after working on it all this week I found some tools to make life easer and I thought I would share them. And to start off I will talk about promoting a video online.
Rules
1. Submit your video to as many hosting sites as possible.
This is the most important rule in promoting your video. There are a large number of sites with more added all the time. Here is list of few to give you an idea Stage6, Godtube, Sclipo, Sumo, Sevenload, Youtube, Google, Dailymotion, Blip, Metacafe, Yahoo, Facebook, Myspace, Vimeo, Revver, Veoh, Vsocial, Photobucket, and Putfile. By posting on these each of these sites you get access to their huge base of visitors. And not only that your video can get picked up by other sites that scan those sites and soon you can have hundreds of sites with your video embedded. But it does seem to have a lot to do with number of views of the video, number of comments and keywords etc. For example this test video Creation has 35,000+ views and a large number of other sites with it embedded. And when they show the description then you get a link back to your main site if you remembered to put a link there. For example the Creation video above shows up on this Honk Kong based site Here.
So now I am sure you want to know an easer way to post to all of these places without spending days doing it. Well so did I so after much search I found several sites that will let you upload the video one time and they will upload to all of the sites they support. And they will do it for nothing or a very modest fee. They are…
Vidmetrix
Pretty nice but does not support many sites.
Heyspread
Submits to the most sites as of this moment but does not seem to save the username and passwords. This would be a problem is you uploaded lots of videos every month. Or you might find an autofill widget that would work to help with this.
VideoPostRobot
Supports a lot of sites but looks a little like a scam or addware etc. Trying to find out more about it before I try it.
Tubemogul
Probably the most easy to use but Heyspread submits to more sites.
Also keep in mind its still worth uploading by hand to sites they do not support like Stage6 and Godtube.
More coming soon.