Boost Your Article Marketing With Video Marketing
Article Marketing remains the best form of Traffic Generation availabe online. Publishing articles creates backlinks for the search engines. Your articles will also create traffic directly from the article directories, blogs and websites where your articles are posted. That doesn’t mean there is nothing new in the Article Marketing arena!
I’ve recently posted information on my own Article Marketing process, and the services that I use. There are a vew new products though that add another dimension to your Article Marketing efforts via Video Marketing…
And no, I’m not going to use this space to pitch Article Video Robot at you…
The concept behind this product deserves our attention though. The idea is to create a slideshow with appropriate (or innocuous) images to play behind a voice reading your article. This turns your article into a video!
Now you can use a free service like Tube Mogul or a paid service like Traffic Geyser to upload the resulting video to video sharing sites like YouTube and Metacafe. Search Engines index these sites almost continuously so the videos show up in a few short hours.
IMHO, the best use for these is to post a link back to the article itself at EzineArticles.com as this will help you boost the article’s rank with Google. You post a link by putting the full url in the description box the very first thing. This will make it a live link on most video sharing sites. Remember to post your article’s keywords as tags.
You can of course, upload to each of the video sharing sites manually, but this is time consuming. The free version of Tube Mogul gives you just over 150 uploads/month so you may want to pick just a few choice video sharing sites to use it on. I generally upload to about 5 or 6 video sharing sites for each video uploaded.
All you really need to create these videos is Windows Movie Maker which comes free on most computers today, and software to record your voice reading the article. I use Audacity along with a microphone I bought for about nine dollars for this. Audacity is free and quite easy to use. Use the same title as you article for your video.
Now my own voice isn’t exactly James Earl Jones, but it does the job, and so will yours. Personally I prefer the sound of anyone’s voice to an electronically generated one, so don’t panic about this…
It generally takes a few days time for an article to get through the review process on Article Directories, so you have some time to get this together. After the first time or two, you’ll be surprised at how fast you can get it done. The important thing is to make it a part of your Article Marketing routine.
The resulting videos have several uses:
- Blog Posts
- Squidoo Lens Modules
- Website Content
- Affiliate Product Promotion
- Direct Traffic Generation (add your sites url to the slideshow)
With a little thought you can some up with a lot more ideas yourself.
This is a very useful tactic to add to your Article Marketing arsenal. You can do it completely free yourself as well. There really isn’t any need for any software unless you are in a niche where a slicker production look is needed.
Try it for a month and I am sure you will be pleased with the results.
Jimbo!
Jim Patterson

Filed under: Article Marketing • Copywriting • Traffic Generation • Video Marketing
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Hello.
I would like to put a link to your site on my blog roll if you want to do the same for mine. It would be a good way to build up both of our readerships.
thank you.
Hey, nice post, very well written. You should blog more about this.
Ben,
Email me your offer at: [email protected]
Very nice coverage of this up and coming highly effective method.
One use you left off when using this method is you can strip out and upload the audio portion of your article to a few dozen podcast directories. Giving your article even more reach!
Great article. Thank you for the information. What people have to keep in mind is that they not only have to write content for their readers but they should also optimize their articles for the search engines as well.
http://www.seoarticlewriting.info
Nice Post!
The Internet provides great opportunities for entrepreneurs and small businesses, but doing business online presents unique challenges and requires new skills. Per my experience search engine optimization would be the best practice to improve your online business.