Re: [videoblogging] The Interwebs show, business of tech and new media
Yeah, sorry if that sounded overly opinionated. That said, here's another opinion. You should do some SEO for the Interwebs. And WS. But the kind of stuff you're reporting on in WS are things people are going to be searching for right now. Obopay, Nokia, Skype on iPhone, etc. In social media, we're all obsessed with building word of mouth, but if you do SEO you'll get far more people coming to you through search. Basic stuff you can do now which will have a big effect: Give each post an HTML page Title with keywords in it - titles of companies discussed in post, etc. Give each post an H1 level title with the same or slightly different info. Most blogs' H1 is their blog name, which is hopeless - this is the headline Google looks for after the page Title. Add meta description and keywords to each post - don't believe the people who say this has no effect any more - I've tracked it working on Twittervlog. Get backlinks from your own sites, preferably each week in new posts, and make sure the link anchor text has keywords in it - not just The interwebs or your URL. You have PageRank 5 PR4 on innonate and bullemhead, so they will pass good PR juice onto interwebs.tv and start giving you a PR there. Get links from anywhere else (preferably pages with good PR) to each post, with anchor text - and blag links in vlogrolls, blogrolls. Get an XML sitemap in your root directory, to Google-preferred specs. With Wordpress you can do all this easily with the SEO pack plugin and the Google sitemap plugin. Otherwise you can just hand code it all. If you want, you can track all your performance using an app like Advanced Web Ranking. I've been doing SEO for a local company since I've been in Canada. The guy I work for is very good at it - the good SEO, not the creepy SEO. I've learnt a lot, and the last couple of months I've started to SEO Twittervlog a bit, with immediate effects. I suddenly have thousands of people through to my site through search. Even though I haven't posted video for 4 months. Text posts I did in January on the Oscars and the Tate Altermodern show were getting page 1 or 2 positions on Google. As well as measuring the difference it's made to Twittervlog, I've also put all the vlogs on my People I Watch page into my Advanced Web Ranking, to measure their performance on 250-500 phrases chosen by me and suggested by the Google keyword tool as popular phrases related to online video, videoblogging, etc. Almost none of them feature at all in the first 100 results on Google, MSN or Yahoo for any of the phrases. I think the social media thing has blinded most of us to optimizing our sites for search, which is the way most people navigate the web. And blogs have an extra advantage in SEO, as Google and MSN view blog posts as more likely to be relevant content. So we should all be ranking better. YouTube videos still have an unfair advantage on Google, too - they stick them halfway down the first results page, so make sure your description and tags are full of the right info. Blip's search engine rankings on the other hand are not nearly as good as Vimeo or Mefeedia (who do very well in results, second only to YouTube). I might do a brief video about this next week for videoblogging week so you all can see what I'm talking about. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 3-Apr-09, at 1:14 PM, Adam Quirk wrote: I agree completely about the sound, you'd think I would know better by now. Thing is, that outdoor interview was impromptu and I didn't have any equipment with me. The gals are new to video and shot a lot of that segment themselves, but are definitely learning fast. We'll use lapels for the in-studio stuff from now on. I don't remember why we didn't in the first place. Probably booze. So there are my excuses, along with a promise that next episode will be better. I've already shot a couple segments for it, both of which are mic'd properly. We send our stuff out to TubeMogul as well, and have a few hundred views across the other various platforms, but we're concentrating on building our on-site audience with the blip player for now. We're using blip for a bunch of reasons, but mostly because they're the best at finding sponsorships deals for shows. On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Rupert rup...@fatgirlinohio.org wrote: It's like Diggnation and Epic Fu in a menage a trois with Wreck and Salvage. I like your style. If I watched tech shows, I'd watch this. Although I do watch Epic Fu, when I'm watching things. And GETV. So I do watch tech shows. I love the lofi look and attitude, but the lofi sound not so much - it's hard on the attention span. i think you can get away with all sorts of visual craziness if the sound is clear, but you try people's patience if they're straining to make out what's being said in formal interviews. in the phone
[videoblogging] The Interwebs show, business of tech and new media
Video globbers, I just launched a new project that you folks may find mildly interesting. It's called The Interwebs, a weekly show about the business of tech and new media. We're going to try to make it 60% smart and 60% funny. Most pertinent to this list is our closing segment each week called Vital Signs, in which my co-producer Nate and I openly discuss our statistics, viewership, and finances; all the other ins and outs of producing a show for the web. AOL keyword: transparency. This week Vital Signs starts at around the 7:04 mark: http://theinterwebs.tv/post/92264825/welcome-to-the-interwebs-0-24-this-week-nate Eat it all though if you have time, it's good food. Ok, AQ @quirk wreckandsalvage.com theinterwebs.tv [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] The Interwebs show, business of tech and new media
i saw a few episodes a few weeks ago. was that a dream? i think i stumbled upon it somehow. maybe i AOL Keyworded it ;) On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 12:25 PM, Adam Quirk qu...@wreckandsalvage.comwrote: Video globbers, I just launched a new project that you folks may find mildly interesting. It's called The Interwebs, a weekly show about the business of tech and new media. We're going to try to make it 60% smart and 60% funny. Most pertinent to this list is our closing segment each week called Vital Signs, in which my co-producer Nate and I openly discuss our statistics, viewership, and finances; all the other ins and outs of producing a show for the web. AOL keyword: transparency. This week Vital Signs starts at around the 7:04 mark: http://theinterwebs.tv/post/92264825/welcome-to-the-interwebs-0-24-this-week-nate Eat it all though if you have time, it's good food. Ok, AQ @quirk wreckandsalvage.com theinterwebs.tv [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] The Interwebs show, business of tech and new media
Yeah we ran five abbreviated shows during SXSW, but this is the first full-length episode. Next week we're adding another segment called Web 1.0: Where Are They Now? in which we talk to the founder of Bolt.com about the glory days before the bubble. On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 1:34 PM, Michael Sullivan sullele...@gmail.comwrote: i saw a few episodes a few weeks ago. was that a dream? i think i stumbled upon it somehow. maybe i AOL Keyworded it ;) On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 12:25 PM, Adam Quirk qu...@wreckandsalvage.com wrote: Video globbers, I just launched a new project that you folks may find mildly interesting. It's called The Interwebs, a weekly show about the business of tech and new media. We're going to try to make it 60% smart and 60% funny. Most pertinent to this list is our closing segment each week called Vital Signs, in which my co-producer Nate and I openly discuss our statistics, viewership, and finances; all the other ins and outs of producing a show for the web. AOL keyword: transparency. This week Vital Signs starts at around the 7:04 mark: http://theinterwebs.tv/post/92264825/welcome-to-the-interwebs-0-24-this-week-nate Eat it all though if you have time, it's good food. Ok, AQ @quirk wreckandsalvage.com theinterwebs.tv [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] The Interwebs show, business of tech and new media
I tried viewing with my iPhone but the it didn't work. Sent from my iPhone On Apr 3, 2009, at 9:25 AM, Adam Quirk qu...@wreckandsalvage.com wrote: Video globbers, I just launched a new project that you folks may find mildly interesting. It's called The Interwebs, a weekly show about the business of tech and new media. We're going to try to make it 60% smart and 60% funny. Most pertinent to this list is our closing segment each week called Vital Signs, in which my co-producer Nate and I openly discuss our statistics, viewership, and finances; all the other ins and outs of producing a show for the web. AOL keyword: transparency. This week Vital Signs starts at around the 7:04 mark: http://theinterwebs.tv/post/92264825/welcome-to-the-interwebs-0-24-this-week-nate Eat it all though if you have time, it's good food. Ok, AQ @quirk wreckandsalvage.com theinterwebs.tv [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links
Re: [videoblogging] The Interwebs show, business of tech and new media
It's like Diggnation and Epic Fu in a menage a trois with Wreck and Salvage. I like your style. If I watched tech shows, I'd watch this. Although I do watch Epic Fu, when I'm watching things. And GETV. So I do watch tech shows. I love the lofi look and attitude, but the lofi sound not so much - it's hard on the attention span. i think you can get away with all sorts of visual craziness if the sound is clear, but you try people's patience if they're straining to make out what's being said in formal interviews. in the phone segment, i like the crap handheld mic thing, but maybe it could just be a prop, and you could really mic them separately? the outside interview with Chris Sacca was cool for its slightly greasy video-light look, but maybe you could have had the handheld mic there instead of the camera mic picking up all the ambient noise, or used lapels to keep the informal nature of the chat? As it is, it sounds like the scene is being lit by a flamethrower. Your stats are Blip, and you said you're hosting with Blip to get them onside - are you not also putting it on YouTube and other sharing sites to get more views? On 3-Apr-09, at 9:25 AM, Adam Quirk wrote: Video globbers, I just launched a new project that you folks may find mildly interesting. It's called The Interwebs, a weekly show about the business of tech and new media. We're going to try to make it 60% smart and 60% funny. Most pertinent to this list is our closing segment each week called Vital Signs, in which my co-producer Nate and I openly discuss our statistics, viewership, and finances; all the other ins and outs of producing a show for the web. AOL keyword: transparency. This week Vital Signs starts at around the 7:04 mark: http://theinterwebs.tv/post/92264825/welcome-to-the-interwebs-0-24-this-week-nate Eat it all though if you have time, it's good food. Ok, AQ @quirk wreckandsalvage.com theinterwebs.tv [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] The Interwebs show, business of tech and new media
I agree completely about the sound, you'd think I would know better by now. Thing is, that outdoor interview was impromptu and I didn't have any equipment with me. The gals are new to video and shot a lot of that segment themselves, but are definitely learning fast. We'll use lapels for the in-studio stuff from now on. I don't remember why we didn't in the first place. Probably booze. So there are my excuses, along with a promise that next episode will be better. I've already shot a couple segments for it, both of which are mic'd properly. We send our stuff out to TubeMogul as well, and have a few hundred views across the other various platforms, but we're concentrating on building our on-site audience with the blip player for now. We're using blip for a bunch of reasons, but mostly because they're the best at finding sponsorships deals for shows. On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Rupert rup...@fatgirlinohio.org wrote: It's like Diggnation and Epic Fu in a menage a trois with Wreck and Salvage. I like your style. If I watched tech shows, I'd watch this. Although I do watch Epic Fu, when I'm watching things. And GETV. So I do watch tech shows. I love the lofi look and attitude, but the lofi sound not so much - it's hard on the attention span. i think you can get away with all sorts of visual craziness if the sound is clear, but you try people's patience if they're straining to make out what's being said in formal interviews. in the phone segment, i like the crap handheld mic thing, but maybe it could just be a prop, and you could really mic them separately? the outside interview with Chris Sacca was cool for its slightly greasy video-light look, but maybe you could have had the handheld mic there instead of the camera mic picking up all the ambient noise, or used lapels to keep the informal nature of the chat? As it is, it sounds like the scene is being lit by a flamethrower. Your stats are Blip, and you said you're hosting with Blip to get them onside - are you not also putting it on YouTube and other sharing sites to get more views? On 3-Apr-09, at 9:25 AM, Adam Quirk wrote: Video globbers, I just launched a new project that you folks may find mildly interesting. It's called The Interwebs, a weekly show about the business of tech and new media. We're going to try to make it 60% smart and 60% funny. Most pertinent to this list is our closing segment each week called Vital Signs, in which my co-producer Nate and I openly discuss our statistics, viewership, and finances; all the other ins and outs of producing a show for the web. AOL keyword: transparency. This week Vital Signs starts at around the 7:04 mark: http://theinterwebs.tv/post/92264825/welcome-to-the-interwebs-0-24-this-week-nate Eat it all though if you have time, it's good food. Ok, AQ @quirk wreckandsalvage.com theinterwebs.tv [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
