Gen­er­at­ing Web­site Traf­fic W Au­to­mated Video Sub­mis­sions P1

From Willie Craw­ford.

Willie Crawford

It’s no se­cret that the right videos, sub­mit­ted to the right places, can gen­er­ate mil­lions of views.

It’s no se­cret that the search en­gines love video and are con­stantly crawl­ing video shar­ing sites. You can of­ten get a top 10 rank­ing for a key­word, us­ing video, in un­der an hour.

Let’s look at some of the keys to get­ting some of that great traf­fic us­ing videos.

One of the first things that you’ll no­tice is that in a lot of niches, tons of peo­ple are dis­cov­er­ing video. That means that you need to cre­ate and sub­mit more videos, and you need to sub­mit them to more places. If you don’t used an au­to­mated sub­mis­sion ser­vice, that can be very te­dious, and tie up your com­puter for hours on end.

As you pre­pare to cre­ate your videos, you need to be­gin by ask­ing what is it that you want to ac­com­plish. More specif­i­cally, what do you want your view­ers to do af­ter they fin­ish watch­ing a given video?

Af­ter you iden­tify the goal of the video, you need to ac­tu­ally map it out on a „sto­ry­board.” What will be in each frame, and what will the au­dio say?

If your video is be­ing cre­ated us­ing a tool such as Cam­ta­sia (screen cap­ture soft­ware) then you also want to script it. You don’t want to leave any el­e­ment of your video to chance. You don’t want any lit­tle thing de­tract­ing from ac­com­plish­ing your goal.

If you prac­tice the script and are very fa­mil­iar with it, even if you read it, it will sound nat­ural to many viewers.

Speak­ing of sound, hav­ing high-qual­ity au­dio is one of the most im­por­tant el­e­ments of a good video. Hav­ing un­der­stand­able au­dio, recorded at the right level is ac­tu­ally more im­por­tant than the qual­ity of the picture.

The way to get great sound­ing au­dio is to 1) use a qual­ity mi­cro­phone, and 2) don’t put the mike too close to your mouth. You also need to be in a quiet place when you make the recording. 

Those are some tech­ni­cal tips for cre­at­ing a good video that will gen­er­ate lots of traf­fic and per­haps even go viral.

Let’s look at one other slightly tech­ni­cal is­sue that you ab­solutely must con­sider. Your video must tar­get the right key­words. That is, the ti­tle and de­scrip­tion that you en­ter at the video shar­ing sites must use terms that your ideal cus­tomers are us­ing when search­ing for your topic.

It would prob­a­bly be worth­while to spend some time us­ing a tool such as the Google Ad­Words Ex­ter­nal Tool to con­firm EXACTLY what terms peo­ple are search­ing on re­lated to your prod­uct or ser­vice. You’ll find that free tool at: https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal

While re­search­ing us­ing the Google Ex­ter­nal Key­word Tool, look not only at the num­ber of searches done each month on a term, but also at the com­pe­ti­tion. Of­ten you can get an in­stant num­ber-1 rank­ing for less com­pet­i­tive terms that can still send you a worth­while amount of traf­fic - and these peo­ple are buy­ers ac­tu­ally look­ing for very spe­cific brands, etc. Those „long-tail key­words” are worth their weight in gold when you no­tice ones that your com­peti­tors haven’t.

In part-2 of this ar­ti­cle, we’ll look at for­mat­ting and sub­mit­ting your videos in a way that runs cir­cles around your com­peti­tors. For now, start jot­ting down notes for a few videos that you will make and use in your web­site traf­fic gen­er­a­tion efforts.

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Willie Craw­ford is a web­site traf­fic gen­er­a­tion ex­pert. He of­ten dis­trib­utes con­tent (ar­ti­cles, videos, pod­casts, and press re­leases) to gen­er­ate highly tar­geted web­site traf­fic. To do that ef­fi­ciently he uses the au­to­mated sub­mis­sion ser­vice at https://ibmm.com/epbt

To help you suc­ceed Willie has cre­ated The In­ter­net Mar­ket­ing In­ner Cir­cle, a mem­ber­ship site where he fre­quently brain­storms so­lu­tions to prob­lems such as those dis­cussed in this ar­ti­cle. Join that dis­cus­sion for your suc­cess at TheIn­ter­net­Mar­ketingIn­ner­cir­cle.