Traffic Through Videos

Videos are a great way to create Traffic for your online Business. Visuals are more effective in promoting one's site than simple texts. Youtube, Slideshare are some good examples of online promotion through videos, which are visited by millions of people for different purposes. These are not just entertainment sites, but serve as strong promotional tool and that too FREE of cost. What more do you want, just getting traffic without spending a single penny!

YouTube is like any other Social Medium, and you can generate a lot of traffic.

Not only videos are the easiest medium to drive traffic but also easy create them.

1) Find a product or CPA offer with a wide general appeal like debts, dieting, mortgage, etc.
2) Go to the Google Keyword research tool and look for related keywords.
3) Search high volume terms with you tube videos on the first page of the search results and bookmark the videos.
4) Make a short video using PowerPoint, which is informative, but keeps the watcher curious for more (it should MAKE him curious) and suggest more information behind a link.
5) Upload the video under various names and respond to the videos you have bookmarked. Have an affiliate link in the description (as the first part of the description).
6) Repeat all the processes to upload couple of videos.

This is just one example of how popular content will create further promotional opportunities, and in turn send traffic to your website, all without spending a single cent. So, without further ado, here are some of the features and strategies that you can use to make sure that YouTube starts generating website traffic for you:

1) Create and Customize Your own Channel --> This is far from being a complicated procedure, as your channel is automatically generated for you when you sign up for a new YouTube account.

This allows you to: * Arrange your own and others content in a single location, with its own YouTube URL. * Create a profile for yourself and your content, and link back to your website URL. * Chance to start creating Playlists from your own and other people's content. * You can also select from your video selection 9 highlighted videos that will be prominently displayed on your channel profile.

2) Account Types - Choose Your Niche --> When you sign up for a new account you are given the chance to choose which account type you would like. While one of the options is 'standard', it makes a lot more sense to choose from the other possibilities. This means that in narrowing the focus of your channel, you automatically reduce the competition from other videos, and give yourself the chance to further promote your work. It is far easier to rise to the top of the pile within a particular category than it is to make the front page of the website, and in the process you help potential viewers to narrow down their search.

3) Create Short Form Viral Content --> In the vast majority of cases, your best chance of creating a highly-viewed video is to make sure that your running time is around the five minute mark or less.

4) Tag and Categorize --> Once you have created your video or imported it from elsewhere one important step to consider is choosing the right category and tags for your video. This is the stage that is most often rushed or overlooked, but if you take the time to check out the other popular videos in your niche, and see how they have been tagged and placed within the YouTube categories, it will finally pay off.

5) Create Niche-Targeted Playlists --> First of all, you can gather individual clips into a niche-targeted context so that viewers can find related content quickly and easily without having to search for the individual items themselves. Secondly, you can gather your own videos either by thematic relevance, or as part of a series. If you have a longer video, it makes sense to break it down into several clips, each with a clear title, so that viewers can opt to skip to particularly interesting parts of your movie.

6) Promote Your Video with YouTube Email and Bulletins --> People often forget that YouTube is a social community as much as it is a video-sharing site. As such, there is nothing terrible about reaching out to other users and letting them know about your content, your thoughts, or your admiration of their work. This is a great way of leaving quick comments on other user's pages, and in doing so you are likely to pique their interest enough for them to come and check out your profile and maybe even subscribe if they like what they see.

7) Leave Video Responses --> Another effective way of getting yourself seen is to leave a video response to another user's clip.

8) Join or Create YouTube Groups --> YouTube has a strong community of groups that exist for users to discuss and share videos. You can browse for groups to join by category, or create your own group from the YouTube Groups page. There are advantages to both approaches.

9) Chat in the Streams --> If you pitch the theme of your room just right, and do what you can to promote the 'live event', this could well be an effective way to bring new people into your circle of subscribers and friends.

10) Active Sharing --> A new feature, Active Sharing provides another opportunity to drive traffic to your profile. Active Sharing is aimed at trend setters and opinion makers, and makes it easy for you to broadcast the videos that you are currently watching.

Conclusion : Broadcast yourself, and promote yourself in for the bargain.