[stacyfox]

An interesting article on video SEO in this week’s BusinessWeek found here:

The Great Video SEO Frontier - BusinessWeek

Here are some highlights:
• one-fourth of U.S. Google searches (and more in other parts of the world) return videos in the results,
• Videos are 53 times more likely to appear on the first page of search results than text pages
• "On the keywords for which Google offers video results, we found an average of 16,000 videos vying to appear on results pages containing an average of 1.5 video results—giving each video about an 11,000-to-1 chance of making it onto the first page of results. By comparison, there were an average of 4.7 million text pages competing for a place on results pages with an average of just 9.4 text results—giving each text page about a 500,000-to-1 chance of appearing on the first page of results."
• there were 12.7 billion video views in November 2008 and 12.3 billion searches.
• Google is quick to point out that getting a video to the top of its results is not that easy. "[M]arketers shouldn't expect video SEO to be some sort of magic bullet,"
• video production is expensive and intensive,
• watching a video takes time, which may cut down on conversion
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Stacy

[shanec]

Great article Stacy. Video definitely seems to be growing in popularity. I read an article lately about marketing through video and it referred to YouTube as one of the top 'search engines' now, not just a video sharing site.

[Admin]

Hey Stacy,

I second that! This is why we are getting a video directory installed into the forum next.

Well that, and it'll bring in more people.

Btw, I wonder if the members know they can add videos in their posts. It's very easy to do, just add the video link, and the the video will be shown. No tags or anything is needed.

[jbolte1976]

Thanks Stacy, great info!

Mary - I tried to figure out how you got that "Cheers" you tube vid in your post a little while back. I got the link to show up but wasn't able to duplicate what you did.

I'm a little "chanllenged" at times, lol. When you have a little time could you post how you did that?

THis probably seems pretty basic, but I'd be willing to bet I'm not the only one wondering, and if I am, oh well.

Thanks,

Jason

[Admin]

Lol JB,

You are right, it's that simple!

All you have to do is paste the link to videos from YouTube, Google, etc ... right into the post, and the forum mods take care of the rest.

What you might have done was get the wrong code from Youtube and tried to paste it into your posts. If you go to YT, you will find 2 different windows to get code from - 1) one that has the code for the straight link, and 2) the one beneath it has the code to embed the link.

Use the top link code box and copy and paste that one into your posts from now on.

Lol it'll be like majic.

[aheismann]

Is the site compatible at all with vodpod? It's a plugin I use on my wordpress blog that allows me to provide a group of videos that I recommend at one time. It also funnels vodpod visitors to my blog, which is something I like

YouTube - Ultimate Cubicle Prank

Best Office Prank Ever, btw

[aakay4u]

Originally Posted by Admin

Hey Stacy,

I second that! This is why we are getting a video directory installed into the forum next.

Well that, and it'll bring in more people.

Btw, I wonder if the members know they can add videos in their posts. It's very easy to do, just add the video link, and the the video will be shown. No tags or anything is needed.

This is very nice Admin and videos seem to be the call of the day.It will be great to use and post videos here on the forum.However,can we attach copyright videos.

[Admin]

Originally Posted by aakay4u

This is very nice Admin and videos seem to be the call of the day.It will be great to use and post videos here on the forum.However,can we attach copyright videos.

Yes, as long as you post them from places like YouTube, Google, MSN, etc ... where the owner of the videos allow the videos to be posted on other sites.