This is a guest post by Anita from workmonk.com.

Good videos always last in a person’s memory for longer. So, if you want your blog to be remembered, you need to use good videos. Besides making your blog memorable, videos can get you three benefits.

Firstly, you can get your point across to visitors in a more effective manner.

Secondly, people will keep coming back to your site to watch more interesting videos and learn new things.

Thirdly, visitors will recommend your blogs to their friends and in the process you get more traffic.

Read on below for five ways in which you can optimize on the facility to upload videos in your blog to get more traffic.

Infuse keywords into videos

Unless you ensure that the videos are indexed by the search engine spiders, they are as good as trash. Just like you make your textual content SEO friendly, you need to make the videos SEO friendly too. The best way to do this is to tag videos with effective keywords. More search engine indexing leads to better rank, which translates to better visibility and you get more traffic.

Make videos interactive

If your videos are meant to convert visitors into patrons, you have to offer something more than just a passive video. Make it interactive. Add texts that call for action. Ask questions and make the viewers think. This involves them in the video and they will enjoy the experience much better. This encourages word of mouth publicity and you get more traffic.

Use social media sites for promotion

The video of your blog can get you a great amount of traffic if you share it on social media sites such as YouTube, FaceBook and Twitter, among others. You can also use videos for email marketing. However, remember to leave a backlink to the description box of the video so that visitors can access your web page easily.

Videos should add value to the content

The videos that are present on your blog have to be in perfect correlation with the content posted on the page. Visitors come to your blog looking for information. So, your videos should add value to the content. Irrelevant videos will only drive visitors off your blog.

Humor can do the trick

If you want to make your videos work, bring in a sprinkle of humor. People will remember and like your videos better if they watch them with a smile. And be assured, these visitors will keep coming back for more. Success of a blog depends on getting more number of hits. Although you can make efforts on your own, seeking professional help can give you highly efficient and positive results by optimizing your videos.

About the Guest Author

Anita is an online SEO and marketing specialist who writes on Seo/Sem and business marketing strategies regularly. She also works for workmonk.com as a part of their workforce.

I’ve been testing out an alternative to hosting my videos on YouTube.

I’m using Camtasia to create my videos (as I always I have) but now I using my BlueHost hosting account to host my videos.

Hosting my own videos (instead of using YouTube) removes the risk of YouTube banning my account without warning/reason which would make all my videos disappear.

I explain more in this video.

Links from the video

• Dear YouTube – You Broke My Heart – An Open Letter to @YouTube
• Youtube Shut Me Down And I Don’t Know Why Part 1
• Camtasia
• BlueHost Unlimited Hosting (Affiliate Link)
• Kimili Flash Embed for WordPress

Posting short videos on YouTube can be a great way to get traffic.

Unfortunately most videos don’t get more than 20 views, which is definitely not worth the time spent to create a video.

So the trick is to figure out which kinds of videos get loads of views.

Read: How My YouTube Videos Got 8,500 Views in a Few Days

2010 was a big year for viral videos on YouTube.

And while these videos are fun to watch I think there’s something we can learn about traffic generation.

REELSEO has done a quick analysis of this year’s most popular videos and included a list of what the most popular keyword was for each month.

Check out:  The Year’s Most-Watched YouTube Videos & Viral Clips:
http://www.reelseo.com/2010-most-watched-youtube/

There’s been news floating around that YouTube is allowing people to upload longer videos and will eventually remove the time limit altogether.

But I don’t really care about the time limits.

Use YouTube to get traffic

I use YouTube as a method of getting traffic to my website and I know that short videos (3 minutes or less) work the best at getting people’s attention and keeping their attention while you explain one key principle or interesting idea.

At the end of my videos I display an image with my site and URL. Below is a copy of the image that I use:

If people don’t make it to the end of the video they never see the image and I get less traffic. So it’s in my best interest to keep my videos short and to the point.

So you can see why I don’t really care about YouTube raising the time limits from 10 minutes to 15 minutes. It just doesn’t matter to me.

Did the change in time limits matter to you?

Recording videos and posting them online is a great way to build your brand and get traffic to your website.

But which distribution service should you use? i.e. YouTube, Viddler, Vimeo, etc. There are pros and cons to each service.

Read full story: Video Distribution: Where Should You Upload Your Videos? Online Video Marketing Basics Part 5

Are you getting all the views you possibly can on YouTube?

You can get a lot more views by having lots of tags for you videos.

Part 1

Part 2

I’ve been working with Don “The Workbook Guy” and have a new YouTube Traffic Workbook that I’m giving away for free to anyone that grabs a copy of Video Marketer Pro.

Video Marketer Pro shows you step-by-step how to get traffic from YouTube and other video websites.

Once you have your copy of Video Marketer Pro send me an e-mail (nickstraffictricks@gmail.com) and I will send you a free copy of my YouTube Traffic Workbook.

So go check out Video Marketer Pro because it will show you how to get traffic from YouTube and get your free YouTube Traffic Workbook.

When you make videos & screencasts you can free up a lot screen real estate by turning off firefox toolbars. This short videos shows you how.

This is part of my 30 Days To More Traffic Series

Everyone knows that social bookmarking is a great way to get your site indexed and noticed.

It’s a great way to get traffic.

But honestly it’s a pain submitting your site to so many places.

Much of this pain is removed using onlywire.com

Get Traffic From Social Bookmarking – This How The Pros Do It