An increasingly popular way to drive traffic to blogs these days involves video. YouTube has become a huge source of information and entertainment. You may find that by posting videos to YouTube you can drive enormous amounts of traffic to your blogged book.
Most computers, especially laptops, have video capability, and flip cameras are pretty cheap and easy to use. Without going into a ton of detail, let me just say that once you have figured out how to video tape yourself, you an easily upload that video to YouTube.
Here’s what you do: Create an account on YouTube. Then sign in. Upload what you have already recorded either on your computer or with your webcam. If you don’t like the quality of your videos, you can add in lighting or a mike to your tools when video taping.
What do you record? You can record a blog post or information about your blog. You can record your mission statement or details about the benefits of reading your blogged book. You can tell people about your process. You can give them some tips or tools from your blogged book. You can create a book trailer. You can record whatever you like that you think might be fun or interesting. Who knows, maybe your video will go viral. And by all means, share it wherever you can…on all your social networks!
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I use a lot of videos on my blogs and found that the paid version of RealPlayer is a big help. You can trim the vidoes to the length you need to get your point across and post just what you need. No-one likes to wait for buffering.
Also, once this program is loaded on your computer, every time you watch a video, you can scroll over to the top right corner of the video and click to download it for your own uses.
Bruce,
Since I just struggled to post a video on a website of mine, I’ll take this into consideration. Thanks for the tip.
Nina