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

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.

There has been a lot of buzz recently about how to get traffic from YouTube. And a lot of people are selling products that will teach you how to do this.

So I thought I would spend a few minutes and spill some of the secrets of how to get traffic from YouTube.

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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.

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Today I raised the price of my 84 traffic videos to $47.00.

I guess some people didn’t know that I was even selling a series of 84 videos that show you how to get traffic so I thought I’d take a second and share with you what the videos are all about.

The 84 videos are short (2 to 5 minutes) and are broken into 8 different modules.

Each module covers a different aspect of traffic generation. The modules are:

• Module 1: First Things First (8 Videos)
• Module 2: Keyword Research and Search Engine Optimization (11 Videos)
• Module 3: Link Building (11 Videos)
• Module 4: Get indexed fast (12 Videos)
• Module 5: Traffic from Twitter (18 Videos)
• Module 6: Traffic from YouTube (6 Videos)
• Module 7: Traffic from Email Lists (8 Videos)
• Module 8: Traffic from Article Marketing (10 Videos)

Created by me

The videos were created on my laptop by me using Camtasia screen capture software. If you would like to learn more about the videos then go to:
http://nickstraffictricks.com/videos/

Introduction

These guys placed a 1 inch ad in a magazine to sell someone else’s product, got a ton of traffic, and earned $1,587.40.

Talk about easy money.

See for yourself.

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LagMJf3_iMQ[/video]

Summary

Initial Sales – $1738.65
Follow-Up Sales – $573.75
Total Sales: $2312.40

NET PROFIT: $1587.40

Welcome to Day 27 of 30 Days to More Traffic!

Introduction

Producing an informative video and submitting it to YouTube along with your website’s URL can send a hurricane of traffic in your direction.

Case Study:

Blendtec makes high-end blenders costing hundreds of dollars. They got a lot of attention with their “Will it Blend?” videos on youtube.com. They have videos of the blenders blending everything from golf balls to credit cards to glow sticks to even an iPhone. The video of the blender blending an iPod ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8H29jU8Wrs ) has been watched nearly 5 million times.

Don’t forget about the other video sites such as veoh.com, MySpace Video, and a South Korean-based video sharing site called CyWorld.com that actually gets more traffic than YouTube.

For a full list of video sharing sites:
http://www.nickstraffictricks.com/list-of-video-sharing-sites/

Also consider carefully titling your headlines with highly searched keywords and adding a whole lot of search engine optimized content in your description.

Search engines love video sites and so do web surfers.

Your videos don’t always have to informative. Many of the most watched videos are just silly and took very little to produce.

This 9 minute video shows how to create a buy now button that has a high conversion rate.