Friday, October 16, 2009

Video Article Marketing is On The Rise

By Nigel Evans

The practice of article marketing is well-established when it comes to attracting visitors to your site and building a healthy number of back links. While other initiatives such as pay per click may promise faster results, this form of marketing is nonetheless known for its longevity and for its performance.

When people land on your website, they tend to look up and down the page rather quickly, searching for something which will catch their attention and draw them into reading further. As they are looking for sources of information, well-written articles are essential for your site. However, images and moving pictures can create additional draws and this has resulted in an increase in video article marketing.

Video article marketing is a clever way to combine the power of audio and video, centered around your primary keywords. The production does not have to be grand, but can be based on series of slides and a commentary. Either way, this is seen as a hot new trend.

If you have noticed recently, search engine results pages often contain video results within a fairly prominent position. We have deduced that the major engines particularly value the content of videos pertaining to the searched keywords and as such, video article marketing has become a rising trend.

We are now seeing the emergence of services that focus on video article marketing as a core of an online marketing plan. It is possible to come up with a creative production, telling your website story through a combination of video and audio. As this reaches further when distributed through YouTube.com and other places, viral interest is possible.

As with any form of marketing, every new production must be to a high-quality and be representative of your website. Don't fall into the trap of just putting together videos without any effort as they must always be educational, entertaining and informative. A job well done will undoubtedly result in good back links and increased visitors to your site, however.

Keyword selection is essential when conducting a video article marketing campaign. Also, you must make sure that the videos are optimized correctly and that the key words are contained within the title, subject and filename. As sites such as YouTube are basically giant search engines, your production will only be found according to the relevance of its keyword.

There was a time when the search engines were not able to analyze the content of videos to determine whether they were indeed appropriate to the keyword associated with them. It was quite easy to look at convention articles and recognize primary and secondary terms. However, Google is beginning to master this technology as well and will soon be able to analyze the spoken word. As such, pay particular emphasis to your productions when undertaking video article marketing.

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