Posted by JR in Blog Promotion, Essential Marketing Lists, Internet Marketing, Link Building, Video Submission/Creation, Web Site Traffic, Website Promotion
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 – PR8 – 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.revver.com – PR6
www.livevideo.com – PR6
www.flixya.com – PR5
castpost.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.
VideoBot – $24.95 This is an automatic video submission software from Incansoft, a company that makes several great tools for marketers. I have not used this particular tool, but I do use SocialBot from Incansoft and I like it alot.
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.
Posted by JR in Internet Marketing, Search Engine Optimization
It looks like the merge between Yahoo and Bing is upon us. This month and through September Bing will begin serving all Yahoo search results, as previously discussed at Bing Teams up with Yahoo. Once this is completely finalized, then Bing is estimated to power about 30% of search queries worldwide, and that’s nothing to sneeze at.
It’s a good time to check your rankings in Bing and Yahoo and see where you stand. Usually, for my sites anyway, it is much easier to rank with Yahoo and Bing than Google, yet this is not a rule. One thing I know for sure is that Bing loves content, so add more to your thin sites, learn more at how to create and rank inner website pages. For on-site SEO, if you are optimizing for Google, then your fine with Bing as well.
Aaron Wall of SEO Book says:
Even though usage is lower, the user demographic for Bing is different to that of Google. Ask search marketers and you’ll get anecdotal evidence that Bing/Yahoo users don’t tend to be as web savvy as Google users, use the web less often, are more likely to click on ads, and are more likely to be involved in online shopping, whilst Google appeals more to researchers, webheads and geeks. If you’re engaged in web commerce, you need to be thinking about Bing.
Bing Webmaster Help Document Says:
Because of this new way of thinking about search, some webmasters might initially be concerned that the shortened primary organic listing in the new Bing SERP might render their SEO efforts as less effective. Instead, Bing makes it easier to compete for broad terms because it surfaces more categories automatically, increasing the number of results on the page and generating more relevant content.
Ranking in Bing – Key Points
Overall, the same elements that help with ranking in Google, will take of care of Bing as well.
1. On Site SEO
Title tags, descriptive and well targeted meta descriptions, image alt tags and unique, relevant and fresh content that is related to the site’s topics are all important for ranking in Bing.
2. Aged Domains
Bing seems to favor age of domain as a sign of authority.
3. Link Building
In my experience Bing counts a lot more links than Google, but they also favor links from relevant topic pages, not overall site themes, but the actual page the link is sitting on and how much it relates to the site it’s linking to.
Make sure to sign up and submit your sites to Bing Webmaster Tools as with Google Webmaster Tools you can see any issues that Bing has with your sites, and also I find that when I submit my websites to them they get indexed faster than letting their bots find it on their own.
And, be sure to check out Bing Webmaster Center Blog, there are lots of tips and posts about ranking in Bing. Also, check out Bing Webmaster Help – lots of information there too.
Learn More:
Forum discussions about this at WebmasterWorld & Search Engine Roundtable Forums.
Posted by JR in Blog Promotion, Blogging, Search Engine Optimization
Ever wonder how the frequency with which you post to your blogs affects your rankings in Google?
This has been discussed all over the web with two differing opinions -
1. Bloggers need to post consistently and frequently or else you have a dead blog that will fall in rankings. This basically comes from the notion that blogs are dynamic and are expected to be constantly updated, versus static sites which do not carry the same expectation.
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2. A blogger should not post just to post, and quality of content always wins over the quantity of it.
I for one have always believed in #2, and it was proven to me with this blog.
As most of my faithful readers know, I do not post everyday nor even every week. I do not believe in posting for posting sakes or because I am in some race to have a thousand posts a month. I take the time to do proper research and make sure that I am providing the most value I can for my readers, which for me takes time and thought and if it means only 3 posts per month so be it and my rankings are great, many of my posts are on page 1 for various keywords.
What About Readers?
Now the two opinions above are usually discussed just in relation to rankings and not so much in relation to readers and visitors (especially returning ones and subscribers).
When it comes to readers and subscribers a solid argument can be made that adding content on a higher frequency brings that freshness factor and brings them to the blog more often. I agree with that. But I also do not think it should be forced.
I read several blogs that update on a daily or every other day basis, and I have to say that the quality of content is not so great and sometimes it is quite transparent that posts are being rushed and are therefore not very useful or thoughtful.
In general, if you have something of value to post then post it, but do not post mediocre or crappy content just for the sake of posting or being bent on meeting some deadline of 1,000 posts in one month, whether for rankings or for readers.
In a nutshell, for me quality always wins over quantity, if you want to establish authority in your niche then quality, useful and spectacular content should always be your first concern.
But of course, if you can have both, quality and quantity that’s even better!!!!!!!!!
Matt Cutts Clarifies Frequency of Posting and Ranking
In the following video Matt Cutts clarifies this issue of post frequency affecting Google rankings, it’s a good watch. This video came from Google Webmaster Help on YouTube, where Matt posts videos regularly answering a variety of questions submitted by webmasters from Matt’s grab bag. It’s a good idea to subscribe as there are a variety of issues being answered all the time.
What do you guys think? Are you going for quantity, quality or both and why?
Posted by JR in Google, Internet Marketing, Search Engine Optimization
Well looks like Google is at it again, making changes to their algorithm, shaking things up and causing webmasters to pull their hair out. Two things have happened in the last few weeks, Google launched the Caffeine update which they have been working on for some time and also there is what is being called the Mayday update. (By the way, this is a typical action on the part of Google, they usually make major tweaks in the summer time, around May and June). These are two very distinct actions on the part of Google.
Caffeine
Caffeine has nothing to do with ranking, it is just the method in which data is being stored, retrieved from keyword searches and then displayed in SERPS.
Mayday
Mayday IS about ranking and is a search quality algorithm change, ( not manual) launched by the Google Search Quality team and impacts long tail traffic referrals that DOES change how sites are ranked in SERPS.
Basically if your long tail traffic referrals fell heavily in the SERPS, Google is telling you your site sucks….Thanks Google, we love you too!
Last week at Google I/O, Matt Cutts said – ”this is an algorithmic change in Google, looking for higher quality sites to surface for long tail queries. It went through vigorous testing and isn’t going to be rolled back.”
Check out the video regarding Mayday by Matt Cutts
MAYDAY and GETTING SENT TO THE GOOGLE BLACK HOLE
Mayday has significantly impacted long tail keyword searches and therefore, inner pages as opposed to having a widespread affect on home pages and many have lost their precious rankings for these queries in SERPS.
There has also been a lot of buzz about the especially negative affects of Mayday on e-commerce sites ( that link offers some real useable insight into the e-commerce issues with Mayday, thanks to Link Builder) losing rankings and SERP placements that have significantly impacted their earnings and bottom line.
Mayday Impacts
1. Pages in long tail keyword searches that do not have healthy link profiles and so do not hold enough “authority” in the eyes of Google
2. Thin pages, like product pages without any other significant added value
3. Pages that are several clicks away from the home page, hence ineffective heirarchy and overall site navigation
4. New and much stricter guidelines have been set by Google as to what qualifies as an “authority” and “useful” site for a particular search query and only those sites that do will now rank for those terms.
5. Likely most thin affiliate sites pages went down hard.
6. Evidently the long tail pages that got hit were ones without significant amounts of written original content, hence the product pages of ecommerce sites, that only had product listings.
7. The long tail search referrals were tweaked to impact sites lacking authority in Google’s eyes.
8. This is not a manual penalty – purely algorithmic
9. Metrics measuring the “quality” and “authority” of sites has been tweaked, tested and launched and this is a permanent change.
10. Has nothing to do with Caffeine
Now What?
Likely many of you have been impacted by this, and if you haven’t yet done so, I suggest you go and check your sites rankings and see what’s going on.
Most Important
I have a lot of sites, and a few were affected by Mayday, which of course means loss of traffic, and therefore money. For me, I see one common denominator, the sites that suffered were not authority sites in the eyes of Google, which I already knew but it has never been a problem before. And, good quality links to those sites were few and far between.
LEARN MORE WITH PART 2 - How To Create and Rank Inner Website Pages Post Mayday
More Useful Stuff on Mayday
Mayday Thread at Webmaster World Forum – Good discussion going on here with all the techies and veteran webmasters who have lived through many Google shake ups.
Why Google is Costing Some Sites
Was the Google Update a Complete Failure?
SEO Moz – Google Mayday Update and What it Means For You
How did you guys do? Anyone lost rankings? What are you doing about it?
Posted by JR in Google, Internet Marketing, Search Engine Optimization, Website Tools
Google announced on Friday that they have officially incorporated site speed into their algorithm as a factor in rankings, see their blog post about it at Google Rankings and Site Speed, Matt Cutts elaborates more on this issue here.
All in all, site speed should always be our concern since slow loading pages drive visitors away, but now that it is definitely going to affect rankings we really need to check and monitor our site speed to be sure that they are at their optimal speed. While Google does confirm that site speed is not as important as the relevance of a page or other factors for rankings and that all in all they surmise that less than 1% of rankings will be affected by this you still ought to check your sites to make sure that they are loading quickly, again mainly for the traffic that comes through.
It’s a fact that website speed can have a big impact on conversions and overall site ROI, all other factors being equal simply because you keep visitors longer on your site. Most Internet users are instant gratification junkies, they want to zip through pages, and not wait around while your site is trying to load. And statistics show that visitors tend to stay on a site longer when it loads quickly and overall provides them with optimal performance.
Tools To Check Website Speed
If you don’t use Firefox and other tools
More In Depth Tools for Site Speed and General Site Performance
Improved Page Speed for WordPress Blogs
If you are like me and other bloggers and those of us that use WordPress to build money sites or any kind of small niche sites then please check out WP Super Cache plugin. Often times blogs get over loaded with all those cool plugins, badges, and social bookmark and Twitter submission buttons we love to use and they can really affect WordPress blog speed and load times. WP Super Cache works great to improve the speed of blogs no matter how many frills you have.
Posted by JR in Google, Internet Marketing, Search Engine Optimization
Looks like Google has done another page rank update, so check all your sites. Looks like this PR update is pretty accurate at least for my sites. Most of my new ones went from 0 to 1 and a couple from 2 to 3. This blog still remains a 0, since it went from PR3 to 0 several months ago, not sure why, but as long as it still ranks for many keywords and is getting new subscribers I don’t much care.
Though there had been rumors that Google will be doing away with Page Rank all together, and Google has said that PR matters very little in the grand scheme of things, looks like it is still active and being updated, usually at 3 month intervals.
Again, as always I am not too concerned with PR as ranking is more important and many times you will see PR0 sites outrank PR1+ sites. For those who want to sell advertising on their sites PR is still a factor as advertisers look for that as one indicator of quality and so a higher PR can yield higher prices for ad space.
So, how did you guys do in this PR update?
Posted by JR in Blog Promotion, Blogging, Internet Marketing, Search Engine Optimization, Web Site Traffic, Website Promotion
Okay, a quick post here to refer you to a new site that is all about networking with bloggers for guest posts. Guest posting on other blogs and allowing them to post on yours is a fantastic way to build authority, and get precious backlinks and to alleviate some of your own workload by getting fresh, unique content that is NOT written by you, whew!
The site is My Blog Guest and it really is the perfect solution to finding blogs to post on and getting fresh content for your sites. There are lots of members all ready and they just launched recently and new members joining all the time.
Highly recommended by the authority SEO site, Search Engine Journal, My Blog Guest is a sure winner.
Features of My Guest Blog for Guest Posts
1. All niches included.
2. The site uses a rating system (blog power) to rate members sites, based on PR, subscriber numbers, Twitter followers, Facebook fans and age of the site.
3. Also has a rating system to rate members social media power, based on various social media site activity for the individual.
4. Shows how many guests posts members have done.
5. Search for blogs to post on by keywords and categories.
6. Add all or one of your sites to accept guest posts on
My Blog Guest is really a great place to network and build up your sites.
Also, if you are looking specifically for SEO niche sites that accept guests posts then check out: 10 SEO Blogs accepting guest posts.
You also get the chance to guest post on Blogussion, a high traffic, quality blog.
If you really want to learn about guest posting and get a super opportunity to guest post, Ramit Sethi, best selling author of I Will Teach You To Be Rich not only accepts guest posts, but has the most comprehensive, helpful guide I have ever seen on how to write effective posts, and how to get published by big name bloggers, check it out: Write Guest Post on I will Teach You To Be Rich, really a must read!
Posted by JR in Internet Marketing, Motivation & Success, Search Engine Optimization, Webmaster/Website Optimization
Here are some of the most important lessons I learned in 2009 for making money online, Internet marketing and affiliate marketing. These come from all hands-on trial and error learning, which I believe is the best teacher of all!
1. Keyword Research is important, but hot products will always sell – Keyword research is crucial for affiliate marketing, blogging and making money online, but if you have a hot product in mind and it happens to have very low, or even non-existent search volume in keyword tools that does not mean it has no potential. The fact is hot products, promoted correctly will always make you money.
2. Write Great Content And The Links Come Naturally – This is something you hear over and over and something I always thought was a myth, however, this blog proves it.
Every single link that gives me page 1 SERP placement for tons of my posts as well as the home page are all natural. This fact of natural links is harder to achieve for some niches, as the Internet Marketing and MMO niche is more prone to natural links since it’s so big, but you should still have great original content for any niche as it will attract at least some natural links and establish you as an authority within your topic.
3. Volume of Content is Key - The more well monetized content (inner pages) you have the more traffic potential grows and that leads to more money, it’s that simple. Those inner pages flood the SERPS of search engines and bring traffic to your site. So either build more sites or expand the ones that you have.
4. Social Traffic is a Money Making Bust – With the exception of a very few select niche and social site combinations, social traffic doesn’t buy, this has been proven time and again. If you are a flagship blogger and looking for fame then social traffic should be your main focus, but if you want to make money online, then it’s a total bust, always focus on organic search traffic that is where the buyers are !
5. Diversify Your Link Profile – Getting links to home pages only is not wise, it looks unnatural and it is much better to get about a 50/50 split between home page and inner pages for you backlinks.
On the same note inner page links can be as effective if not more effective than home page backlinks, as Google will come to view you as an authority on your topic and that is what gives you high SERP placement.
6. There Are No Failed Campaigns – While some of my sites make a lot more money than others, there are no failures. For example, I have a few sites that make me about $25 a month, times those by 3 and that’s $75, times it by 10 and it’s $250, you get the idea.
Also, every thing you do for your online business is a teaching experience and an opportunity to learn something new. Even if that site only makes $1 for the whole year you can bet that I will learn something from it and it will help me to grow as an Internet Marketer.
7. Testing Is A Great Teacher – Whether it’s ads, money making venues, niche sites, or blog campaigns testing out different avenues online is the best way to learn what works and what doesn’t. What works for one marketer may not work for another, so if you have an idea go for it, test it out and see how it works for you. Try new things, test tried and true venues, just test test test!
8. Spend Your Precious Time Wisely – Time management is crucial for working at home in the online business since there is little of it and tons of tasks that most of us need to do.
9. The More Sites You Have The More Money You Can Make – Once you know the biz and know what to do to make one website or blog succeed, then go for more and as many campaigns as your schedule will allow. It is a fact that unless your Amazon.com (which none of us lone marketers will ever be) then you need to grow in your business.
Launch new sites often and keep adding them, your money and experience will grow!
10. Information Is Good, But Action Delivers – Don’t become an information junkie, where you spend all your time reading the how-to’s and the guides but then do nothing in the end. Take action, it’s the only way to succeed in affiliate marketing, Internet marketing and to make money online!
What did you guys learn in your marketing, blogging and online business efforts in 2009?
Posted by JR in Blogging, Internet Marketing, Keywords and Niches, Search Engine Optimization, Website Tools
I found a great FREE keyword toolbar for Firefox Browser that really offers some comprehensive information and provides a great resource in your search for hot keywords. It has tons of options for providing the most comprehensive information for a particular keyword and niche research that I’ve ever seen.
Cash Keywords offer all the features listed below with 1 click access plus numerous other optional user set features for personal use, such as desktop features, 1 click access to Windows Media Player and a whole lot more.
Cash Keywords Toolbar Offers Valuable Keyword Research Features:
1. This feature is my favorite, as it makes finding affiliate products and services very easy and accessible. 1 click access to keyword related affiliate programs from several popular affiliate networks, including Clickbank, Affiliate Scout, Amazon, and others, very useful!
2. Keyword search results with 1 click in popular keyword tools, including, Google Keyword Tool, Wordtracker and Adwords Keyword Popularity tool.
3. Keyword popularity and results in groups like Google Trends, Blog Pulse, Yahoo Buzz and several others.
4. Keyword trends in popular news sites like, Yahoo News, Google News, Topix and others.
5. Keyword related results in popular answer sites like, Yahoo Answers, Google Groups, Askville and others.
6. Provides any sandbox information related to the particular keyword.
7. Keyword results in the most popular article sites like Ezine, Article Dashboard, GoArticles, Article Base, Article Factory and others.
8. Keyword results in all the best video sites like, YouTube, Vimeo and others.
9. Keyword results in all the popular photo sites like, Flicker, Photo Bucket and others.
10. Results for Google Insights, Alexa, Compete and more.
11. Plus, Wikipedia results, US Government, Creative Commons and lots more great features that make this keyword toolbar highly useful and comprehensive for keyword research.
12. It is also very easy to customize for individual user needs and settings, so you can pick and choose which options and features you want to include or not.
This tool is really useful and offers just about everything you ever wanted or needed to know about the keywords your are interested in.
Cash Keywords is truly a gem and it’s FREE, so I highly suggest you all download it and try it out for yourselves.
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