This series of videos describes how to get a video running on your website – right from video creation to where your video should be hosted, to how you embed your video in your site. This is #1 in the series and discusses the pros and cons of self-hosting vs. hosting your video on a video-sharing site like Youtube or Revver.

Optimize videos uploaded to Youtube, Revver, Metacafe and other sites by using the best titles, tags and descriptions. Linknet Video.

Here’s how we harness the power of online video to promote your product or service…

First, we create video features that have broad general interest. These are short features approximately 2 minutes long. Some of these are “news” items, some are “commentary”, some are “tutorials” others are essentially articles turned into videos. The object is to be informative and interesting and get people to look at them.

Here’s an example of a feature with 2 embedded client ads – one at the beginning and one at the end…

See more VIDEO SAMPLES HERE.

Then we create CLIENT VIDEO ADS that are attached to the feature videos. These are short and punchy and are laser-focused on your most important message. They include product information or special offers, and they always include your web address along with other contact information aimed at getting people to your site.

Client Ad Packages…

The client ad package includes concept and script writing, professional voice track, professional music track, assembly of video, encoding for online viewing. These videos do not include the shooting of original video footage or photographs. Because we want to keep the cost low we only work from already available photographs or video footage.

Our typical client ad package consists of 3 different versions: 10 sec, 20 sec and 30 sec. All versions of the completed client videos are available to clients in whatever format they desire (usually .wmv or flash) and are also hosted on one of our servers so clients can use them simply by linking to them.

For more details and pricing see Linknet Video.

1. I haven’t had much to say about SEO lately, and, more importantly,

2. I’ve been busy developing a completely new side of our online business (www.linknet-promotions.com), namely the video side.

Here’s an example of a quickie video we did for one of our clients…

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I know, I know, everybody and his brother says video is really big and tremendously important, and a fantastic marketing opportunity. So all the gurus say it is critical to get on the video bandwagon (even though they often don’t use it properly themselves.)

Fact is, I came to this conclusion about 7 years ago, outfitted myself with thousands of dollars of video production equipment, and set about learning how to do online videos. But the time just wasn’t right. Not enough people with broadband, and certainly no free video sharing outlets like Youtube, Revver, Metacafe and all the rest. So I gave it a rest. Every now and then I’d move my expensive video equipment from one corner of the basement to another, or play around with the editing and encoding software to put our family Christmas online.

Things are completely different now so I’m going to give it another go. This time I’ve got a serious plan of attack.

With Linknet we create articles and blog posts for clients to help them build links, search engine exposure, and traffic. With the Linknet video service we will be creating videos for clients. The purpose is to give them videos they can use on their sites, that we can use on our sites, and post in various forms on Youtube and numerous other video sharing sites in order to generate traffic.

This service is designed to be affordable. That means low cost videos.

Stay tuned for details.

For samples of some of our video features with embedded ads, see CVNVideo.com

 When you upload a properly produced and tagged video not only do you get people watching your video, but you get backlinks to whatever site you want to promote. And with Traffic Geyser distributing your video to many different sites that creates a lot of inbound links very quickly.

 Go here to watch a short video describing how you can benefit from online video.

You can also pick up some free reports about how to use online video for generating serious traffic, along with a Free Video Hosting Web Site Directory ebook—Reviews, tips and insights to more than 30 of the top Intenet video hoasting sites.