YouTube is the place to be seen.
Video clips seem to be all the rage now. YouTube provides a very user-friendly way of making videos clips available to wider audiences. It’s certainly helped by the fact that the YouTube owner, Google, makes videos very search-visible even in its regular Web search. Of course that is only catering to the appetite that many of us have for seeing such videos.
Adding a video clip to a blog is a useful way of getting extra traffic and StayGoLinks started video posts a little while back. Now a site, Bloggears, is helping to make such blog videos more visible. They even have a blogger video contest running at the moment to encourage bloggers to get involved.
BlogGears Contest
Here at BlogGears we want to help reward bloggers for their hard work. That is why we are giving away $250 cash! There are three cash prizes ($150 / $75 / $25). Simply create a video for BlogGears up to 90 seconds in length about your blog. The contest started August 11th and will run to September 15th.
Whether such a site can succeed is very much open to question. .. and some are very skeptical.
Why Blog Gears Is Destined To Fail
We can’t all be the next YouTube, and despite receiving videos from the likes of John Chow and Uber Affiliate (among others), this website has yet to take off. This further confirms my original bet with the owner that you cannot make a website that provides no incentive for any organic visitors. I don’t see why anyone else would decide to go to BlogGears just to watch other people talk about their blogs.
That is one point of view. Given that videos are much better than text content in communicating on the mobile web, I believe it is too early to take such a pessimistic view. Why not check out the StayGoLinks blog as featured on BlogGears to see what you think.
