YouTube Video Clips on Bloggears
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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.
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September 4th, 2008 at 9:34 am
Sometimes, it's easier to be said than done, Barry! To be honest, I will still prefer the old-fashioned hand writing style blogging, maybe I'm the type of person that love to write than talking and bluffing around…
September 5th, 2008 at 11:03 am
“Old fashioned” blogging - Yes, I think it has to be that way for me as well. As technological as this world is getting, it´s nice still to be able to write/type a sort of story or news - we don´t get much writing practice these days. Video blogs do sound good though.. like a Video diary, a blog pod cast… Maybe it´s the way forward and your competition will inspire.
Karlin
September 6th, 2008 at 1:10 pm
I have previously used some video how to's on utube and on my site. I think for new internet marketers this is a great medium to provide step by step instructions. I find it builds trust and it helps me convert visitors into customers.
September 16th, 2008 at 5:54 pm
Youtube can be a great way to build traffic to your “old fashioned” blog, though. Especially since google is now aggressively including youtube results in the SERPS. Make sure you title your video with the keywords you are targeting. Another thing to remember is the more views your video gets (and good ratings, for that matter) the better it will rank.
September 17th, 2008 at 3:16 am
From an SEO standpoint it’s a great idea to post your youtube video in your blog. You get a link back from Youtube and you’ll be indexed in Google’s video search results.
September 26th, 2008 at 3:00 am
I have never tried a Youtube in my blog, but if it helps generating traffic i am surely gonna try that now.
Thanks for sharing your views.
November 19th, 2008 at 4:56 pm
After having the new feature of Wordpress “Press it”, I have tried many videos from youtube on my blog and am impressed with the result. For many good keywords for whom that video was uploaded to Youtube, my blog is also indexed and hold the position right below to youtube’s. I think it was never easy than that. I am impressed with video blogging and going to have many such domains which could be used for video blogging. Of course resource of videos will be Youtube.