Upload your videos to YouTube and help your site get noticed!

20 01 2009

Help your company get noticed more on the web. YouTube is a video sharing website where users can upload, view and share video clips. Unregistered users can watch the videos, while registered users are permitted to upload an unlimited number of videos.

If your business has a commercial, promotional video or product demonstration video, YouTube is a perfect place for it. You have the ability to upload unlimited videos and can add helpful tags to these videos to get your company exposed to more people. You can link your video up to your site in your News section or call us and we can add the video link to a page on your site. Having the videos out on the Web will definitely help with your Search Engine Optimization!

Below is a breakdown of a few key items you need to think about when uploading videos.

The title of your video should be the most common search term (the combination of words that most people are likely to type in to the search box)

The description box should also contain this common string of words. Plus other text if you wish to describe the video more in depth.

The tags should contain all the variations of likely typed search words in order. (Very Important! This helps with SEO for your video) for example: if I had a demonstration video showing people how to do assemble a box. I need to make sure as many people can find it.

To do this you need to understand how search engines work. They track, store and deliver words based the order that people string words together in real life. People generally think and type in the order that they speak: ‘How to assemble a box’ ‘I want to learn how to assemble a box’ ‘best tips to assemble a box’ ‘how do I learn to assemble a box’.

With this in mind, this is the basis for completing all the input boxes on YouTube.

Title: “How to assemble a box tutorial” This starts with ‘how to assemble a’… very common search term for anything.. ‘box’ a very specific search term for a package… and lastly ‘tutorial’ because more people think speak and type ‘box tutorial’ than ‘tutorial box’ …. therefore the word ‘tutorial’ must be last. Sure some people won’t use this natural order of words, but most will.

Description: ‘How to assemble a box? Box assembly tutorial, assembling a box, what is a box? how do I learn to assemble a box?’

This area needs to display all the various combinations of what people would type. Without this, your clip wouldn’t stand a chance of being found frequently. You can also add any other text in this section to describe the clip. Focus on popular search terms first! You could put them last, but that isn’t logical if you want things to be found first.

Tags: ‘how to best tips learning box assembly tutorial box assemble instructions demonstration’ You want to keep these in order of most relevant to least relevant.





Drop Shipping

16 01 2009

I am trying out some new drop shipping services. The potential benefits seem great but like in all sales the potential for failure is just as great. My strategy is to start slow and expand what works. We are building EtailDepot using InventorySource.com this will test their inventory control within our MivaMerchant. We are building www.HomeRetailDepot.com using the service of www.3xpweb.comtotally seperate from our server using their shopping cart which is integrated with the www.Doba.com products. I also plan to open a store with www.ProStores.com which is also integrated with Doba and Ebay.

I think that it will be easier to get SEO with the Miva site www.EtailDepot.com than it will with the other, but I will advertise both and track them thoroughly with Google Analytics.

Please share your thoughts or experiences with drop shipping.

We have been using Doba to add to our inventory on www.BeautyDepot.com for about 6 months. It has been successful but we already had traffic coming in. So building new websites with no traffic will be a new experience.





Adsense vs Adbrite

16 01 2009

http://blog.isnoop.net/2006/04/07/adbrite-vs-adsense/

This is a good blog on the comparison of Adsense and Adbrite.