Have You Used Video on Your Blog?

Yeah, we released our 1st video last week… A full Interview + tour of the Thinkgeek office.. Got more than 120K views on it.

Video is mainly good for branding… or maybe not, but we haven’t found a good way to monetize them effectively yet..

For those of you who are curious, the video is here:

Inside ThinkGeek: The Interview
http://www.vimeo.com/2727969

Check it out, it’s REALLY interesting… that’s what we got told anyways :)

Videos are an excellent blogging tool because they provide an eye-catching visual element, help tell our story from another point of view, and frequently provoke good discussion. Downside: It’s easy for viewers to get sucked into the next video and the next, so a blogger risks losing their hard-won readers.

Aloha :)

Well I am fairly new to blogging, I just started my first one about 10 weeks ago but things are moving fast.

So just a few weeks ago I invested in a mini camcorder to enable me to make my own videos. But I keep sitting down, setting the camcorder up on its tripod and start recording. But it is proving to be a little out my comfort zone !!

Everytime I start I dry up and dont know what to say. The last thing I want is to sit there and read off notes as I want it to be ‘real’ and unrehearsed.

I guess practice will be best and just keep going huh !!

Thanks for the post

Dean

my comment was not included about a video I put on my site that went quite well… did I break a rule on commening? I am an everyday reader of this site…. please let me know why my comment was not included, and I’ll make sure not to do that in future… are NO links allowed? I wasn’t spamming, I was giving an example of what you asked…

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I’ve been reading about the importance of using video on your blog, while I don’t have many, with the upcoming google 2009 algo changes it will be neccesary to have a few because google will be “rewarding” sites with video on them with higher serp rankings and the theory is simple behind it, viewers searching for something via the SE will likely find the information on your website through video media and watch the video before “clicking-out” leaving the search engine diagnostic believing that the information and result viewed by the user was “relevant” and award you higher serp rankings.

You can already see the effects of video being ranked high on the serps via the different video web 2.0 sites ranking high in search results from user submitted video like youtube,metacafe and many others.

Video is the next SE seo movement and if we want to keep our current rankings in the serps we need to incorporate them into our websites and using wordpress there are a plethora of ways this can be done.

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I do use video in my blog. But not very extensively. In the future I plan to use Screen Casting videos.

If your like me and wondering how can I effeciently and effectively incorporate video’s into my website without becoming a film producer you can use a great service called animoto, this service allows you to upload a few images and select different back-ground sounds and the site create’s the video for you, then you can easily incorporate this into your blog or upload the video to youtube for even more marketing exposure for your blog.

I hope you don’t take the google algo changes lightly, there are currently 128 different algo formula’s google uses to determine serp rankings for website’s, this number will be increasing to 200 and some of those new formula’s will be video serp ranking diagnostics, don’t be surprised once the updates are complete and a keyword or longtail that you have been enjoying high SE rankings from gets dropped out of the rankings due to sites with video supplying simple 2 minute info-video for the same information and stealing your rankings.

Google knows how long a visitor from SE’s stay on your website, and if their watching vids on your site they will be obviously spending a little more time on your website thus believing the content you have on there is “relevant” and awarding you with high rankings for it.

Didn’t want to berrage this thread with this info but I think it’s ironic that I read this information then saw this poll, I wanted to share this with the readers.

I LOVE making little videos with my camera to illustrate what I’m talking about. I usually include a few stills as well, for those who don’t have fast internet connections here in rural Nova Scotia.
Illustrating the blog is a big draw for my readers, many of whom live far away from this shangrila village and would like to see photos of it.

A lot of topics have already been covered by text-based articles/tutorials, but there’s a lot less competition when it comes to video.

I’ve made some PHP and MySQL tutorial videos and found that people really liked them. And in the process, I discovered a new interest of my own! Turns out, making videos is a lot of fun, so I’m planning to make my blog into mostly a video blog.

I used a video a friend made for me on my last blog to demonstrate a speech I gave. My readers enjoyed seeing the girl behind the blog. I plan on using more when I get the right “equipment” to do it properly.

It’s my recent strategy to engage readers with YouTube video clips related to the story published. All videos have been produced by others. It’s still early days though for me to tell if its producing the expected results, as it all began late in November. My long term plan is to get my readers to upload their own video clips that I would then publish, however for now all video clips are produced by third parties.

I’ve made 42 video tutorials so far. It’s a lot of work but quite satisfying!

I’ve not used it on our own site but have added it to clients blogs. I follow a few blogs that heavily use it but it’s just not something i’ve seriously considered before. Must say I am suprised by your results so far, I thought I was one of the few that wasn’t using it!

video is one of a good things to add on blog.
it gives our readers fresh content.

A video does a great job of telling the story and wouldn’t be without it.

Towncrier is now moving into Interactive Video which permits the viewer to click and view a supplemental video about products seen in the main vid.

Making supplemental videos available lets you showcase more goods and ideas to your visitor and get them to take action at the height of interest.,

I tried a few. Considering it as a permanent piece of the website content, but would prefer it to be something worthwhile which isn’t always easy to develop. I love photography for my niche and it’s likely to win out over video

When I need it to share to my readers why not. ^_^

I have created a few videos and would like to do some more in the area of video marketing to get my own ideas and helpful video tutorials out there.

One video in particular was about drawing a demon, just a simple 3 and half minute video and so far it has done over 1800 views, so that got me to thinking what if I did a full series about drawing different things…all them video channel views would make a lot of views combined.

I voted and said that I use other peoples and my own videos and I find this a good exercise for sharing useful videos that are yours and not yours. Also who knows what you may find!!

I think video is essential for a blog about bike riding
I have posted bike maintenance videos, Live Action, and videos on Technique. I have never message the traffic that a video post get compared to a Text Post with images. Something I should measure.

I haven’t even considered putting up a video, although I’m fortunate that my son is talented at editing videos (way over my head). I was thinking as I began to comment there’s really nothing I could video about, but maybe some of my subscribers might like to see a video of my gardening progress. Maybe I’ll do a poll and see if anyone would be interested! I’m planning to start my eggplant and tomato seeds indoors, in the cage my husband built for me, to protect the seedlings from our cats… hmmm… thanks for the suggestion!

I’ve found it a very effective way to add content to my posts about music.

I used videos before on one of my sites that I grabbed from Youtube. It’s a good way to make your site seem more modern, and these posts don’t take a lot of time to write

I’ve wanted to do some video lessons for my guitar tutorial site http://www.fretfeed.com , and it’s very high on my 2009 to do list. In addition to having more and different kinds of content on the site, these can be uploaded to various video sites like youtube, revver, and dailymotion, and hopefully bring some more traffic to the site.

I make my own videos, but rarely. The process is time-consuming with all the editing that needs to be done, then the video has to get converted to FLV. I write and post pictures mostly.

I’ve found it useful for visitors who are visual learners. It also gives my blog uniqueness and increased stickiness.

I have videos on my blog but they are links to YouTube Videos.
I didn’t produce them.
I am fairly new to blogging and I am planning to use videos of my own making on my blog in the future.

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