Re: [videoblogging] Re: TrafficGeyser.com ?
I guess that depends on what your goal is with your video blog. - Do you just want people to see you videos? - Or are you trying to make a living off your videos? If you just want people to watch you videos, then a good strategy for that may very well be to push them everywhere you can. (I.e., push them to YouTube, Blip.tv, Revver, Veoh, DaliyMotion, etc etc.) But if you are trying to make a living off of your videos, then I question whether pushing your videos everywhere will accomplish that. When you're on someone else site, they have all the control. And you can only do what they allow you to do. (And they can change their mind at any time.) In my judgment... having you own site on a domain that you actually own is the best way to go if you want to make a living off video blogging (in most cases). And do what you can to get people to come to your site. It might take a little longer to build an audience but once you do, they'll really be your audience (and not the audience of a video sharing site). well said charles. Epic-Fu has done an incredibly good job of getting their videos posted to Youtube and Myspace etc. getting promoted by these sites will get you huge views. Zadi and Steve are so smart to also have their own website and community site to get people to stay after someone comes from elsewhere. I think the kind of content you make must be considered. Ryan and I make very niche videos at http://ryanishungry.com (urban gardens, food hacking, raising chickens, etc) I dont expect millions of people to watch or care. We have the long view, and are starting to get a reputation in the permaculture and gardening movement. Not as many viewers, but deeper connections. Andrew Baron taught me well: document a particular community well on a consistent basis, and your audience will build. Traffic Geyser (or my new service Video Plague) will only help you so much. Jay -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790 Professional: http://ryanishungry.com Personal: http://momentshowing.net Photos: http://flickr.com/photos/jaydedman/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/jaydedman RSS: http://tinyurl.com/yqgdt9
[videoblogging] Re: TrafficGeyser.com ?
Yeah, i'm not sure that SEO is the best way to get your videos seen either. When people want something, say a tent, they go to search engine of choice and search for 'tent'. I am not convinced that is the way people find their media. Typically (in my limited experience) they browse media site much like they channel surf on TV. I've certainly never gone to Google looking for experimental web video using found footage and electronic music Know what I mean... So it would be my assumption that getting your media spread wide across the web with hooks and lines back to your site and the original media would be the best policy of getting 'seen'. I'm considering dumping everything I have created up on YouTube for this very reason, it just has a wealth of viewership. Eyeballs is eyeballs I guess Adam Mercado [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://djelectricdaddy.blogspot.com http://influxxmedia.blogspot.com http://www.flickr.com/photos/influxx http://www.twitter.com/influxx [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: TrafficGeyser.com ?
i agree, youtube has become the worlds largest video library so automatically viewers go there to find video first, i think it is a must to have videos posted there as well as other places. the best way to promote your videos is by sending it to people you know, who know you, special interest groups, friends at social networks. it may be time consuming, but more personal and direct and free. what do you think? a --- adam mercado [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, i'm not sure that SEO is the best way to get your videos seen either. When people want something, say a tent, they go to search engine of choice and search for 'tent'. I am not convinced that is the way people find their media. Typically (in my limited experience) they browse media site much like they channel surf on TV. I've certainly never gone to Google looking for experimental web video using found footage and electronic music Know what I mean... So it would be my assumption that getting your media spread wide across the web with hooks and lines back to your site and the original media would be the best policy of getting 'seen'. I'm considering dumping everything I have created up on YouTube for this very reason, it just has a wealth of viewership. Eyeballs is eyeballs I guess Adam Mercado [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://djelectricdaddy.blogspot.com http://influxxmedia.blogspot.com http://www.flickr.com/photos/influxx http://www.twitter.com/influxx [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping
RE: [videoblogging] Re: TrafficGeyser.com ?
the best way to promote your videos is by sending it to people you know, who know you, special interest groups, friends at social networks. it may be time consuming, but more personal and direct and free. what do you think? That's true up to a point. I'm acquainted with several thousand people both in person and via email, but I'd like to think that there are many people I've never met who might be interested in the stuff I post online. Those are the people I really want to reach, because it's comparatively easy to get people who are aware of me to watch something. Jake Ludington http://www.jakeludington.com
Re: [videoblogging] Re: TrafficGeyser.com ?
I guess that depends on what your goal is with your video blog. - Do you just want people to see you videos? - Or are you trying to make a living off your videos? If you just want people to watch you videos, then a good strategy for that may very well be to push them everywhere you can. (I.e., push them to YouTube, Blip.tv, Revver, Veoh, DaliyMotion, etc etc.) But if you are trying to make a living off of your videos, then I question whether pushing your videos everywhere will accomplish that. When you're on someone else site, they have all the control. And you can only do what they allow you to do. (And they can change their mind at any time.) In my judgment... having you own site on a domain that you actually own is the best way to go if you want to make a living off video blogging (in most cases). And do what you can to get people to come to your site. It might take a little longer to build an audience but once you do, they'll really be your audience (and not the audience of a video sharing site). See ya -- Charles Iliya Krempeaux, B.Sc. http://ChangeLog.ca/ Motorsport Videos http://TireBiterZ.com/ Vlog Razor... Vlogging News... http://vlograzor.com/ On Feb 6, 2008 8:05 AM, Adriana Kaegi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i agree, youtube has become the worlds largest video library so automatically viewers go there to find video first, i think it is a must to have videos posted there as well as other places. the best way to promote your videos is by sending it to people you know, who know you, special interest groups, friends at social networks. it may be time consuming, but more personal and direct and free. what do you think? a --- adam mercado [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, i'm not sure that SEO is the best way to get your videos seen either. When people want something, say a tent, they go to search engine of choice and search for 'tent'. I am not convinced that is the way people find their media. Typically (in my limited experience) they browse media site much like they channel surf on TV. I've certainly never gone to Google looking for experimental web video using found footage and electronic music Know what I mean... So it would be my assumption that getting your media spread wide across the web with hooks and lines back to your site and the original media would be the best policy of getting 'seen'. I'm considering dumping everything I have created up on YouTube for this very reason, it just has a wealth of viewership. Eyeballs is eyeballs I guess Adam Mercado [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://djelectricdaddy.blogspot.com http://influxxmedia.blogspot.com http://www.flickr.com/photos/influxx http://www.twitter.com/influxx [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: TrafficGeyser.com ?
The SEO value of TubeMogul or TrafficGeyser is that you can IMMEDIATELY get your video ranked highly in a search, even on highly competitive search terms. And with many sites, you can link your profile page and/or keywords back to your site, so you also boost your own page. Let's assume everyone on this list is focused on creating great videos - more than just traffic, they want repeat viewers. Getting your videos to multiple sharing sites will get more first time viewers... assuming they like what they see, you will have more repeat viewers. Distribution is promotion and drives more views. Jake had a great list of tips for improving the SEO of your site. When you're distributing your video widely, it follows that you should max out the keyword and description boxes for each site, have a catchy and relevant title, and choose the appropriate category. Most producers will want to drive people back to their site by putting it in the profile or description, watermarking their videos, or some mention of their own domain in the video. What's interesting is that when you distribute your video to multiple sites, when you do a search that contains your title, description, or keywords, for one video your highest result might be Dailymotion, another video might be Metacafe, another might be YouTube... even when your search is through Google, you can find your highest results through other sites. In short, using a service to distribute your videos can be a great tool for all types of video creators. TrafficGeyser is one, and TubeMogul is another - the difference being that TubeMogul provides a picture of where your views and comments are coming from after you've published your vids to the different sites. I'm actually interested in hearing anyone's experience with TrafficGeyser, too. Best, Mark Rotblat [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tubemogul.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Richard Amirault [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: Jake Ludington (snip) The big secret for video bloggers who want to rank well in Google is you need to be willing to write text - Google is still a text based search engine. If you can't be bothered to write something descriptive, you will languish in search engine obscurity. My experience with Google is that it does not matter what text you have on your site .. if no one is linked to your site Google will not list your site in ANY position. The more folks who link to your site the higher you will rank. Richard Amirault Boston, MA, USA http://n1jdu.org http://bostonfandom.org http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7hf9u2ZdlQ
RE: [videoblogging] Re: TrafficGeyser.com ?
Make good videos. people will watch. Use service to get people to watch your videos is the absolute wrong way to go about it. Jim Kukral From: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Charles Iliya Krempeaux Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 2:05 PM To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [videoblogging] Re: TrafficGeyser.com ? From what I've heard of TubeMogul, it seem like a useful service But does TubeMogul provide SEO services?... which is what I think John was after (when asking about trafficgeyser.com). (My guess is he wants to get people to his site to watch his videos... rather than pushing his videos to other sites and have people watch them there.) See ya -- Charles Iliya Krempeaux, B.Sc. http://ChangeLog.ca/ Motorsport Videos http://TireBiterZ.com/ Vlog Razor... Vlogging News... http://vlograzor.com/ On Feb 4, 2008 10:58 AM, marotblat [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:marotblat%40yahoo.com wrote: I don't have first hand experience with traffic geyser's subscription service, but I do know about TubeMogul's free service (I'm part of the founding team). We now also have a subscription service for corporate users. TubeMogul allows you to distribute to the top sites, which also gives you the ability to see your viewership stats across sites in one location. There are a bunch of new features, too, such as promotion of your video to social bookmarking sites and seeing all your comments in one place. Ask me if you have questions! Mark Rotblat [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:mark%40tubemogul.com http://www.tubemogul.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com mailto:videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com , johnleeke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you had any experience with trafficgeyser.com It is a service with a monthly fee to get your videos at the top of Google results. John Leeke www.HistoricHomeWorks.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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Sure...because nobody ever made good videos but suffered from a lack of promotion. Making good videos and assuming the world will beat a path to your door is like opening a restaurant without advertising it. Good food or not, nobody knows you're there. -- Rhett. http://www.weatherlight.com/greentime http://www.weatherlight.com/freetime Make good videos. people will watch. Use service to get people to watch your videos is the absolute wrong way to go about it. Jim Kukral From: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Charles Iliya Krempeaux Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 2:05 PM To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [videoblogging] Re: TrafficGeyser.com ? From what I've heard of TubeMogul, it seem like a useful service But does TubeMogul provide SEO services?... which is what I think John was after (when asking about trafficgeyser.com). (My guess is he wants to get people to his site to watch his videos... rather than pushing his videos to other sites and have people watch them there.) See ya -- Charles Iliya Krempeaux, B.Sc. http://ChangeLog.ca/ Motorsport Videos http://TireBiterZ.com/ Vlog Razor... Vlogging News... http://vlograzor.com/ On Feb 4, 2008 10:58 AM, marotblat [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:marotblat%40yahoo.com wrote: I don't have first hand experience with traffic geyser's subscription service, but I do know about TubeMogul's free service (I'm part of the founding team). We now also have a subscription service for corporate users. TubeMogul allows you to distribute to the top sites, which also gives you the ability to see your viewership stats across sites in one location. There are a bunch of new features, too, such as promotion of your video to social bookmarking sites and seeing all your comments in one place. Ask me if you have questions! Mark Rotblat [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:mark%40tubemogul.com http://www.tubemogul.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com mailto:videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com , johnleeke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you had any experience with trafficgeyser.com It is a service with a monthly fee to get your videos at the top of Google results. John Leeke www.HistoricHomeWorks.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links
RE: [videoblogging] Re: TrafficGeyser.com ?
The point I was trying to make was. If you make good videos, people will watch. But yeah, you do need promotion. However, finding a tool that will help people find your videos sounds bit spammy and wrong. Tubemogul just helps you get them up, and now gives you some extra non spammy ways to promote them. That's good. But there are other tools and services out that (of which I'm talking about) that assist you in getting video views and things like that. To me that's the wrong approach. I'm sure we all agree. Jim From: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of J. Rhett Aultman Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 2:34 PM To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [videoblogging] Re: TrafficGeyser.com ? Sure...because nobody ever made good videos but suffered from a lack of promotion. Making good videos and assuming the world will beat a path to your door is like opening a restaurant without advertising it. Good food or not, nobody knows you're there. -- Rhett. http://www.weatherlight.com/greentime http://www.weatherlight.com/freetime Make good videos. people will watch. Use service to get people to watch your videos is the absolute wrong way to go about it. Jim Kukral From: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com mailto:videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com [mailto:videoblogging@yahoogroups.com mailto:videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com ] On Behalf Of Charles Iliya Krempeaux Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 2:05 PM To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com mailto:videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [videoblogging] Re: TrafficGeyser.com ? From what I've heard of TubeMogul, it seem like a useful service But does TubeMogul provide SEO services?... which is what I think John was after (when asking about trafficgeyser.com). (My guess is he wants to get people to his site to watch his videos... rather than pushing his videos to other sites and have people watch them there.) See ya -- Charles Iliya Krempeaux, B.Sc. http://ChangeLog.ca/ Motorsport Videos http://TireBiterZ.com/ Vlog Razor... Vlogging News... http://vlograzor.com/ On Feb 4, 2008 10:58 AM, marotblat [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:marotblat%40yahoo.com mailto:marotblat%40yahoo.com wrote: I don't have first hand experience with traffic geyser's subscription service, but I do know about TubeMogul's free service (I'm part of the founding team). We now also have a subscription service for corporate users. TubeMogul allows you to distribute to the top sites, which also gives you the ability to see your viewership stats across sites in one location. There are a bunch of new features, too, such as promotion of your video to social bookmarking sites and seeing all your comments in one place. Ask me if you have questions! Mark Rotblat [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:mark%40tubemogul.com mailto:mark%40tubemogul.com http://www.tubemogul.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com mailto:videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com mailto:videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com , johnleeke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you had any experience with trafficgeyser.com It is a service with a monthly fee to get your videos at the top of Google results. John Leeke www.HistoricHomeWorks.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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I don't know.. I think making good videos is definitely necessary... but you still need to get people to come to your site somehow. SEO can help get them there. (Of course once they're there, your _good_ videos will hopefully keep them coming back.) Not that SEO is the only strategy for introducing your work to your target audience but it is one of them for some people. -- Charles Iliya Krempeaux, B.Sc. http://ChangeLog.ca/ Motorsport Videos http://TireBiterZ.com/ Vlog Razor... Vlogging News... http://vlograzor.com/ On Feb 4, 2008 11:10 AM, Jim Kukral [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Make good videos. people will watch. Use service to get people to watch your videos is the absolute wrong way to go about it. Jim Kukral From: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Charles Iliya Krempeaux Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 2:05 PM To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [videoblogging] Re: TrafficGeyser.com ? From what I've heard of TubeMogul, it seem like a useful service But does TubeMogul provide SEO services?... which is what I think John was after (when asking about trafficgeyser.com). (My guess is he wants to get people to his site to watch his videos... rather than pushing his videos to other sites and have people watch them there.) See ya -- Charles Iliya Krempeaux, B.Sc. http://ChangeLog.ca/ Motorsport Videos http://TireBiterZ.com/ Vlog Razor... Vlogging News... http://vlograzor.com/ On Feb 4, 2008 10:58 AM, marotblat [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:marotblat%40yahoo.com wrote: I don't have first hand experience with traffic geyser's subscription service, but I do know about TubeMogul's free service (I'm part of the founding team). We now also have a subscription service for corporate users. TubeMogul allows you to distribute to the top sites, which also gives you the ability to see your viewership stats across sites in one location. There are a bunch of new features, too, such as promotion of your video to social bookmarking sites and seeing all your comments in one place. Ask me if you have questions! Mark Rotblat [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:mark%40tubemogul.com http://www.tubemogul.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com mailto:videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com , johnleeke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you had any experience with trafficgeyser.com It is a service with a monthly fee to get your videos at the top of Google results. John Leeke www.HistoricHomeWorks.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Re: TrafficGeyser.com ?
From what I've heard of TubeMogul, it seem like a useful service But does TubeMogul provide SEO services?... which is what I think John was after (when asking about trafficgeyser.com). (My guess is he wants to get people to his site to watch his videos... rather than pushing his videos to other sites and have people watch them there.) See ya -- Charles Iliya Krempeaux, B.Sc. http://ChangeLog.ca/ Motorsport Videos http://TireBiterZ.com/ Vlog Razor... Vlogging News... http://vlograzor.com/ On Feb 4, 2008 10:58 AM, marotblat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't have first hand experience with traffic geyser's subscription service, but I do know about TubeMogul's free service (I'm part of the founding team). We now also have a subscription service for corporate users. TubeMogul allows you to distribute to the top sites, which also gives you the ability to see your viewership stats across sites in one location. There are a bunch of new features, too, such as promotion of your video to social bookmarking sites and seeing all your comments in one place. Ask me if you have questions! Mark Rotblat [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tubemogul.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, johnleeke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you had any experience with trafficgeyser.com It is a service with a monthly fee to get your videos at the top of Google results. John Leeke www.HistoricHomeWorks.com
[videoblogging] Re: TrafficGeyser.com ?
I don't have first hand experience with traffic geyser's subscription service, but I do know about TubeMogul's free service (I'm part of the founding team). We now also have a subscription service for corporate users. TubeMogul allows you to distribute to the top sites, which also gives you the ability to see your viewership stats across sites in one location. There are a bunch of new features, too, such as promotion of your video to social bookmarking sites and seeing all your comments in one place. Ask me if you have questions! Mark Rotblat [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tubemogul.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, johnleeke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you had any experience with trafficgeyser.com It is a service with a monthly fee to get your videos at the top of Google results. John Leeke www.HistoricHomeWorks.com
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I don't think SEO will get you video views. but it can get people to your site. (Whether they stay there or and whether they watch you videos is another question.) 10 ways to get more people to your show without paying anyone for SEO: 1) Be Interesting. If you're boring, no one will link to you and links still matter. 2) The title tags on your pages should be topic relevant as should your post title. If your post title is My Cool Show Episode #363-A, Google won't find you. 3) Write a descriptive 200-250 words about each video you post. If there are supporting details that should be summarized in text, summarize them. 4) Have an email list for people to subscribe to in addition to your RSS feed. Most people still don't get RSS. 5) Embed your video on your page - don't count on people to download it - their time is valuable and by the time the video finishes downloading, they might have forgotten all about it. 6) Digg, Stumble, and bookmark your own stuff when appropriate. If you wouldn't vote for your own content, why should anybody else? 7) Use descriptive tags to help search engines know what your content is about. Your posts are only as good as their supporting metadata. 8) Post articles and/or guest blog on related topics - be an expert in your topic area and get seen beyond your own little corner of the universe. 9) Subscribe to your video blog in every service you can find - there are many sites that won't start tracking you unless you have subscribers. 10) Send out press releases when you do something big - especially if you can make it an interesting story that news outlets might pick up. 11) Get a playboy model to talk about you: http://www.jakeludington.com/life/ Yes, this all takes work, but so does anything worth doing. Jake Ludington http://www.jakeludington.com
Re: [videoblogging] Re: TrafficGeyser.com ?
- Original Message - From: Jake Ludington (snip) The big secret for video bloggers who want to rank well in Google is you need to be willing to write text - Google is still a text based search engine. If you can't be bothered to write something descriptive, you will languish in search engine obscurity. My experience with Google is that it does not matter what text you have on your site .. if no one is linked to your site Google will not list your site in ANY position. The more folks who link to your site the higher you will rank. Richard Amirault Boston, MA, USA http://n1jdu.org http://bostonfandom.org http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7hf9u2ZdlQ
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I've investigated that .. and it's beyond me .. but, currently, that page shows up on the first page of a Google search .. good enough for now. I apologize for my post - I had the mistaken impression that you were attempting to get more traffic. As for not liking QuickTime - I don't really like QuickTime, but 100 million iPod owners is a hard market to ignore. Jake Ludington http://www.jakeludington.com
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I don't think SEO will get you video views. but it can get people to your site. (Whether they stay there or and whether they watch you videos is another question.) -- Charles Iliya Krempeaux, B.Sc. http://ChangeLog.ca/ Motorsport Videos http://TireBiterZ.com/ Vlog Razor... Vlogging News... http://vlograzor.com/ On Feb 4, 2008 11:41 AM, Jim Kukral [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The point I was trying to make was. If you make good videos, people will watch. But yeah, you do need promotion. However, finding a tool that will help people find your videos sounds bit spammy and wrong. Tubemogul just helps you get them up, and now gives you some extra non spammy ways to promote them. That's good. But there are other tools and services out that (of which I'm talking about) that assist you in getting video views and things like that. To me that's the wrong approach. I'm sure we all agree. Jim From: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of J. Rhett Aultman Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 2:34 PM To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [videoblogging] Re: TrafficGeyser.com ? Sure...because nobody ever made good videos but suffered from a lack of promotion. Making good videos and assuming the world will beat a path to your door is like opening a restaurant without advertising it. Good food or not, nobody knows you're there. -- Rhett. http://www.weatherlight.com/greentime http://www.weatherlight.com/freetime Make good videos. people will watch. Use service to get people to watch your videos is the absolute wrong way to go about it. Jim Kukral From: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com mailto:videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com [mailto:videoblogging@yahoogroups.com mailto:videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com ] On Behalf Of Charles Iliya Krempeaux Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 2:05 PM To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com mailto:videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [videoblogging] Re: TrafficGeyser.com ? From what I've heard of TubeMogul, it seem like a useful service But does TubeMogul provide SEO services?... which is what I think John was after (when asking about trafficgeyser.com). (My guess is he wants to get people to his site to watch his videos... rather than pushing his videos to other sites and have people watch them there.) See ya -- Charles Iliya Krempeaux, B.Sc. http://ChangeLog.ca/ Motorsport Videos http://TireBiterZ.com/ Vlog Razor... Vlogging News... http://vlograzor.com/ On Feb 4, 2008 10:58 AM, marotblat [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:marotblat%40yahoo.com mailto:marotblat%40yahoo.com wrote: I don't have first hand experience with traffic geyser's subscription service, but I do know about TubeMogul's free service (I'm part of the founding team). We now also have a subscription service for corporate users. TubeMogul allows you to distribute to the top sites, which also gives you the ability to see your viewership stats across sites in one location. There are a bunch of new features, too, such as promotion of your video to social bookmarking sites and seeing all your comments in one place. Ask me if you have questions! Mark Rotblat [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:mark%40tubemogul.com mailto:mark%40tubemogul.com http://www.tubemogul.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com mailto:videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com mailto:videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com , johnleeke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you had any experience with trafficgeyser.com It is a service with a monthly fee to get your videos at the top of Google results. John Leeke www.HistoricHomeWorks.com
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- Original Message - From: Jake Ludington Not to pick on you, but both of those sites are horrible from an SEO perspective. :) You lost me with SEO Each of those video posts you have should live on an individual page, with an appropriate title. For instance, create a separate page title Why Serenity was more fun than Star Wars and provide more background details than the one sentence description. And for the love of god offer some format other than Real - many people still hate RealPlayer and you can't put those videos on an iPod :) I made the page and chose the format long before I made this available as an RSS feed. I chose Real Player because I host these videos on my own site and while I was told by my host I should be able to get 3 formats to stream .. I could only get two, Quicktime and Real .. for the same bandwidth Real gave a better picture .. so I chose Real. Better descriptions? Outside of quoting some of the comments / questions made during the video I really don't see how I could embellish the descriptions of these videos very much. Yes, I know some folks have issues with Real .. by the same token some folks (me included) have issues with Quicktime. You can't please everyone. Embed the video (use Blip if you want more control) and offer a download as a second alternative. RSS feed? Where is it? :) Embed the video?? why? So there is pretty picture to view before you start streaming? These Real Player videos are between 45 and 60 minutes long .. they *all* stream when clicked. .. more control .. than what? I have total control as it is (as much as I can have without having my own personal server at my house) RSS feed? Its in the IE toolbar, and on the page, on the right-hand side, at the bottom of the main text (before the individual episodes) .. yes, it can done better .. but I write this page with Front Page Express myself, and I'm not wiz kid at html. You could double your traffic without even breaking a sweat. Oh yeah, and on my top 10 list I should have mentioned, have a sitemap and list it with Google Webmaster tools. I've investigated that .. and it's beyond me .. but, currently, that page shows up on the first page of a Google search .. good enough for now. Richard Amirault Boston, MA, USA http://n1jdu.org http://bostonfandom.org http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7hf9u2ZdlQ
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My experience with Google is that it does not matter what text you have on your site .. if no one is linked to your site Google will not list your site in ANY position. The more folks who link to your site the higher you will rank. http://n1jdu.org http://bostonfandom.org Not to pick on you, but both of those sites are horrible from an SEO perspective. :) Each of those video posts you have should live on an individual page, with an appropriate title. For instance, create a separate page title Why Serenity was more fun than Star Wars and provide more background details than the one sentence description. And for the love of god offer some format other than Real - many people still hate RealPlayer and you can't put those videos on an iPod :) Embed the video (use Blip if you want more control) and offer a download as a second alternative. RSS feed? Where is it? :) You could double your traffic without even breaking a sweat. Oh yeah, and on my top 10 list I should have mentioned, have a sitemap and list it with Google Webmaster tools. Jake Ludington http://www.jakeludington.com
Re: [videoblogging] Re: TrafficGeyser.com ?
- Original Message - From: Jake Ludington I apologize for my post - I had the mistaken impression that you were attempting to get more traffic. The original poster may have .. I was making a comment on my experience with Google. To further explain: I have a friend who I wrote a webpage for: http://halkoltinshow.com and then I submitted this page to Google and various other search engines .. and I waited .. and waited .. for months .. with zip for results. If I did a search for Hal Koltin Show or Hal Koltin I would get, maybe, 3 pages of hits off Google .. and my page was not to be found anywhere. So I waited and waited .. no change. FINALLY I had someone post a link to this page on their website .. and within 10 days (maybe less) it showed up on a Google search .. this after it had been up for about six months! Richard Amirault Boston, MA, USA http://n1jdu.org http://bostonfandom.org http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7hf9u2ZdlQ
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There's also the Google Sandbox... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandbox_Effect You're put under a waiting period before being listed. Although having people link to you can help you get out of the sandbox. See ya -- Charles Iliya Krempeaux, B.Sc. http://ChangeLog.ca/ Motorsport Videos http://TireBiterZ.com/ Vlog Razor... Vlogging News... http://vlograzor.com/ On Feb 4, 2008 1:29 PM, Richard Amirault [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: Jake Ludington I apologize for my post - I had the mistaken impression that you were attempting to get more traffic. The original poster may have .. I was making a comment on my experience with Google. To further explain: I have a friend who I wrote a webpage for: http://halkoltinshow.com and then I submitted this page to Google and various other search engines .. and I waited .. and waited .. for months .. with zip for results. If I did a search for Hal Koltin Show or Hal Koltin I would get, maybe, 3 pages of hits off Google .. and my page was not to be found anywhere. So I waited and waited .. no change. FINALLY I had someone post a link to this page on their website .. and within 10 days (maybe less) it showed up on a Google search .. this after it had been up for about six months! Richard Amirault Boston, MA, USA http://n1jdu.org http://bostonfandom.org http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7hf9u2ZdlQ
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To further explain: I have a friend who I wrote a webpage for: http://halkoltinshow.com and then I submitted this page to Google and various other search engines .. and I waited .. and waited .. for months .. with zip for results. For better results in the future - the domain is actually a subdomain of your site and reasonably unrelated - parking the domain differently might have resulted in a different outcome. The site has 2 pages, which might imply some passing fancy, not something authoritative that Google should care about (and again there's almost no text on the pages for Google to crawl). You don't have a sitemap (submitting might help but is largely useless as stuff tends to get sandboxed). FINALLY I had someone post a link to this page on their website .. and within 10 days (maybe less) it showed up on a Google search .. this after it had been up for about six months! Which likely didn't hurt. Had you posted a link to it from one of your pages, so that Google could find it, that might have helped too. ;) Again, I offer this with every attempt to be helpful, not critical. Getting found online isn't easy, but there are many ways to make it easier. Jake Ludington http://www.jakeludington.com
