Using Viral Videos to get Traffic
The year 2006 has been the year of online Video sites. Many sites have sprung up that allow people to upload their “video shorts” and “video clippings” – and share them with their friends. Sites like YouTube and GoogleVideos are the leaders in this space.
How can you benefit from this?
Well, the answer is make something funny – or something that people will pass around to their friends and family… and if it crosses the “magic number” and the viral spread picks up – the video can get popular and passed on to millions of viewers within a few weeks!
If your video is “very good and viral friendly” – you can rest be assured that even if you initially send it out to a handful of people – it will get virally popular within just a few weeks. The trick would be to embed a small visual message (audio, video, scrolling text, static text) of your website URL or product at the end of the video or within the video playback region at the bottom or top – while the video is playing.
How to make and seed (initially market)Â a VideoÂ
There are several online and PC softwares in the market that allow you to do this. A good commercial PC software is Ulead Video Studio 8. Free online tools that allow you to edit videos from within your web browser are – JumpCut, GoTuit, Eyespot, Photobucket and Motionbox.
Once the video is created and ready, simply upload it to your YouTube or Google Video account. Then send the link to your friends by email or cut and paste the corresponding code into your myspace.com account so visitors to your mypsace.com page can view it.
If you like to get tips on how to make a good viral video and what the ingredients are to make it highly probable that your video is passed on virally, visit -
Also, here is a good list of all the various video sharing and video related sites online (you should boomark this page).
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Filed under: Beginner, General, Intermediate, Videos, Web2.0
