Video has become an essential part of the Internet. Many bloggers use video instead of written posts, videos are used as instructional aids, on sales pages and of course, since YouTube became so huge, using video as a promotional and link building tool for websites is one of the fundamental aspects of SEO. Millions of people visit YouTube everyday, as well as other video submission sites, the video's are included in most every SERP result in Google and once again if you make sure to properly SEO optimize each video submission with keywords, tags and a savvy researched keyword title, you will be amazed at the places it will show up over a short period of time making video just one more point of entry to your websites.
Free Video Creation/Screen Capture Software
I think many people are squeamish about using video because they think it's a complicated proposition, and they need a web cam, or some high tech equipment to create videos, well this is not true. Below is a list of the top free video creation tools that actually record what is on your computer screen and your voice in the background and that provides a lot of options to make videos for any type of niche.
Cam Studio - The cream of the crop for open source video creation and screen capture and completely free! Add music, voice overs and more.
Jaycut - Create marketing videos or slideshows quickly with this online video editor, which is browser-based, can run on mobile devices and free. Ability to remix and trim videos; add music, transitions, effects, captions and subtitles, automated transcoding and 1 click export to YouTube and Facebook.
Adobe Premier Express - Made for newbies, easy to use and all you need is a web browser and Adobe Flash® Player, which most of us have on our PC's. This is an online based video creation editor that can reorder, split, and trim your video clips; add music, transitions, and titles; add your favorite photos, graphics, and animation.
JING - Make short videos, capture screenshots and add your own labels and writing to them. There is a free version and a pro version for a few bucks per year.
GFX Video Writer - GFX Video Writer is not free, but it is cheap and very useful as it converts written articles into videos. Import an existing article to create a series of slides, then format each slide with fonts, colors, etc... add images if desired and background music from the software or do slide-by-slide voice overs and much more.
Top Video Submission Sites
Here are some of the top video submission sites where you can submit your videos, get backlinks and free website promotion.
www.youtube.com - PR9 - You do get a dofollow link back to your site in your channel profile.
http://vimeo.com - PR9
www.flickr.com - PR9
www.video.google.com - PR9
www.video.yahoo.com - PR9
www.photobucket.com - PR8
www.dailymotion.com - PR8
www.scribd.com - PR8
wordpress.tv - PR8
photobucket.com - PR7
www.blip.tv - PR7
www.metacafe.com - PR7
qik.com - PR7
www.viddler.com - PR7
MySpace - PR9
Facebook - PR10
www.stupidvideos.com - PR6
www.buzznet.com - PR6
www.stickam.com - PR6
www.gofish.com - PR6
www.livevideo.com - PR6
www.flixya.com - PR5
www.videowebtown.com/community/index.php - PR5
vidmax.com - PR5
www.thatshow.com - PR4 - How-to video guides
www.clipchef.com - PR4 Cooking/recipe videos
Automatic Video Submission Software
TubeMogul Free - This is a very interesting site that offers a variety of video submission, distribution and tracking capabilities, I think it will be very effective for video marketing.
TubeMogul OneLoad is a free service that provides a single point for deploying videos to the top video and social networking sites. Users can also leverage our Destinations functionality to easily distribute to custom sites as well as encode and create RSS feeds to syndicate your video anywhere. OneLoad distribution is accompanied by our powerful analytics showing you who, what and where videos are being viewed. In addition, TubeMogul's InPlay® analytics (for supported sites), provide the most advanced suite of video analytics on the market. See real-time viewership, audience engagement, geographic tracking, stream quality and much more for your videos.
Video Submission Assistant Pro - Free! Haven't tried this myself, but it's free and submits video to several sites.
Video Post Robot - This is one of the most popular video submission software tools, but they are not taking new sign ups now, you can still go over and get on the alert list.
Info for Video Publishing on Your Own Sites
Google Crawling and Indexing Video - Best Practices
Video Sitemaps 101 - Making Your Videos Searchable from Google - If you are putting videos on your own sites or blogs then you should read this.
What kind of experiences have you had with video marketing? Any video submission sites or tools I missed please leave in comments.
Video publishing is more economical than publishing text articles because you can submit the same video with different headings to multiple video sites and your own site without worrying about search engines detecting any duplicate content.
It is great list of video submission site, These sites are really best sites.
I love Cam Studio, it is very easy to use and does the job very well. I like the option “Do not record audio” because it is help full when capturing screen shots that you will need to use in more than one post which need different narration.
Wow, JR, nice list! I haven’t heard of some of those video tools before. CamStudio is pretty nice; although, I use Camtasia usually. TubeMogul is nice, but it lacks quite a few sites. If you’re just worried about the few main ones, then it’s very handy.
Do you normally submit videos to all the sites you listed, or do you use one of the distribution programs?
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@ Alan
Well I have only been doing a limited amount of videos only because I just cannot find the time, I have many sites, so it’s difficult to get them all, as of now I have only manually submitted to YouTube, Vimeo and a couple of others, but I’m about to hit it hard for all my sites and I will likely use the TubeMogul to give it a try as well as the free one I mentioned Video Submission Pro. So you pay for Camtasia? I see they have a free trial, but no free version. I think CamStudio is supposed to be the open source freeware clone of Camtasia.
Great list, though YouTube is busier, but Vimeo, Daily Motion, MetaCafe, and many others are great to. Thanks for the post.
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I hear ya. I would really like to do more myself, but I have so many other things going on. I was actually one of the lucky few who got Camtasia 3 for free when they had it available a few years back. The offer was was quickly pulled not long after… after everyone and their bother went to download it. But yeah… I wouldn’t pay for it when you have free options like CamStudio, which I also have. I do like Camtasia better, though.
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I haven’t been using videos for marketing all that much even though I realize how powerful they can be. It seems like for certain types of searches, Google is including some videos in the results. It might be easier for you to take the position away from an existing video than it is for an existing web page.
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I’m just getting start with video marketing, it seems like a great way to drive traffic. Thank you so much for sharing this list with us all!
Right on thanks JR, I have a few friends who just started pod-casting and need some help. They were actually having people leave their site and watch it via some type of youtube but not. it was bad. At least I have them keeping visitors on their page now, hopefully this will help as well.
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I have not done any video marketing so far.I guess I need to start making some useful videos and posting them on YouTube.
Great list site to posting video promote site. Thanks friends
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It would have been cool to say where we can post our link on the other video sharing websites you posted. Anyway, this article is so true, I have seen hundreds of popular blogs which use videos, flash and other interactive ways of presenting their product, news etc to the public. In my opinion twitter like marketing along with video marketing are one of the newest, coolest and future oriented marketing plans.
Btw, where did you checked for youtube.com pagerank, because i am getting PR 9 and you posted PR8
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@ Jocuri
My mistake, will fix the post.
A,damn i can’t edit my last comment, but you can add at Free Video Creation/Screen Capture Software windows movie maker which is free and comes readily installed with your windows…if you use it that is.
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I do love Tubemogul, but I also cannot warn strongly enough against using it for promotional/business related videos.
I made the mistake of using it for this purpose and had my account with them closed down, which is a shame as its so good at blasting your videos out to all those video sites (about 40 I think, with 100 credits per month for free members)
great compilation of video submission sites….should be of usefulness to me one day, when I start doing vid captures of my performances….hehehe
@ Wedding
Of course, can’t wait to see them
Thanks for the list! I’ve been working on compiling a list, but there were a couple on here I didn’t have!
@ Jane
Your welcome, glad you can use it
These sites are really best sites. thanks for sharing this
Best
~ Hieu Martin
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I was badly in need of video submission sites. Thanks for providing.
very nice will definitely try this out for my website
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I will try all in the list to my site. I’m pretty sure they are a great help!
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This is a great list !! Thanks alot. Copied and pasted and I plan to post our videos to alot of these sites.
I’ve heard of all these video submitting sites, but I heard only for CamStudio on the recording software. I’ll try all these softwares, and I hope they are as good as CamStudio.
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It is great list of video submission site, These sites are really best sites.
Great list, thanks for the update
Cam Studio is very easy to use and I love it because of its quality. The sites you provides are good and I already check some of the page ranks. video submission is a nice way to express your self. I also launch my easy video player 20 on October 19.
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It’s huge and great list.I am big fan of youtube and i use it mostly.
Thanks for sharing other sites. 
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Great list site to posting video promote site. Thanks friends
I haven’t been using videos for marketing all that much even though I realize how powerful they can be. It seems like for certain types of searches, Google is including some videos in the results. It might be easier for you to take the position away from an existing video than it is for an existing web page.
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Video Submission is one of the source of internet. These video submission sites are very good one. Thanks for sharing this information. If you have more site lists then share with me.
I have seen here different videos sites which are best one. Google is including some videos in the results. It might be easier for you to take the position away from an existing video than it is for an existing web page.
Great list, though YouTube is busier, but Vimeo, Daily Motion, MetaCafe, and many others are great to. Thanks for the post.
I personally don’t even bother to submit to all sites. I think YouTube, Vimeo, Blip.tv, and few others will be fine for anyone. Of course depending on the kind of information you are sharing on your videos will depend the Video Website that will work the best for you.
Tubemogul has been such a great free tool for me. I have been using it for the last 3 months and I have been able to generate 15,000 visits alone from there. Try it for yourself and see if it works for you.
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This is really great list. Thanks for updating the video submission site lists.
Great tips on videos, we have enjoyed and found the information very useful
Thank you for sharing this
I am using many of the site for video submission.The most interesting part of this post is the introduction of video Creation software.
I am so thankful for all these very helpful lists on your site. It really cuts down the time that others have to take to find and learn all this information. This blog is in my top 10 favorites.
Thanks JR
I have found out that not all of these video sites are ones that you can just get on. They all have their criteria to approving your material. Therefore make sure you know what they allow so that you don’t waste your time creating accounts and uploading videos.
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True some of them are very strict when it comes to approving the videos, at first instance you might see your video online, but most of them go through a manual review and ultimately gets deleted if they are made with the help of one of those video creation tools, yes, if one can get traffic to those videos immediately then they might let it stick.
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Hello,
First off wanted to say to JR how great this site is. I have attended internet marketing seminars and researched for a few months now and this is by far the most comprehensive site.
One of the commentors said tubemogul cannot be used for commercial purposes. If I were showing on how to use a software and leading them back to my site hoping for affiliate profit generation, then I wouldn’t be able to use tubemogul?
Video is good source of marketing.Free tools are gifts to create the videos.For final step of video marketing sites are required and these all sites are very helpful related to videos.
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Because of videos we can deliver a lot of information. Marketing through textual information is comparatively cumbersome.
Great round up of some great sites for Video Submission!!
I discover something different under every menu button, I hope my site gets this good at delivering great content. Wow.
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@ Michael
Thank you and welcome, thanks for commenting.
Carlsberg don’t do blog posts, but if they did… Great list. Thank you so much.
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I always prefer video for marketing purposes.Once you create a SEO based video,you get the attraction of Search Engines as well as visitors.Create a little bit fun in the video so that audience can watch it from beginning till end.
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Video is good source of marketing.thanks
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Some of them seems to be not working, of course, the one from incansoft is the best i have ever used. Also there are few more new video creation and submission tools which works well, just that they are not well marketed.
I always prefer video for marketing purposes.Once you create a SEO based video,you get the attraction of Search Engines as well as visitors.Create a little bit fun in the video so that audience can watch it from beginning till end.
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