August 2011

Put a clickable link on a video – a quick and easy way to get more traffic to your website using video

August 26, 2011



You may have seen a video on YouTube or some other website and wondered how to put a clickable link in a video. There are video players that you can buy that will do this for you but there’s also a free service called LinkedTube which will allow you to add a clickable link to [...]

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Video For Websites – Share The Love : Using your key staff to connect with customers

August 22, 2011



Looking for another way to use video on your website? All businesses have an unofficial office “motivator”?  You know the person – the one who can spot when people are a bit down about a project and can gee them up. The person who hits it off with others and shares the goodwill around.  If [...]

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Video For Websites – It Doesn’t Have To Be “All Business, All The Time”

August 18, 2011



If you are creating interesting and engaging content on videos, you should be sharing it around – video on your website, on YouTube, Facebook, links on LinkedIn, in fact everywhere you have a presence then you can link your video. As you build your viewers and they get to know you, you can enhance your [...]

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Online Video Marketing – Darth Vader goes to Disneyland. Star Wars, Star Tours!

August 15, 2011



I dare you to watch this video and not smile. Darth Vader, the antithesis of fun, goes to The Happiest Place On Earth.  I love the little touches in this video (the Disney Princesses waving at him while he stands there with a red balloon). It’s charming and gets the message across without beating you [...]

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Using a Video Sitemap – does your website need a video sitemap?

August 12, 2011



Here’s what Google says: “A Video Sitemap uses the Sitemap protocol, with additional Video-specific tags. In its simplest form, a Video Sitemap must include a link to a landing page for a video as well as some essential information required for indexing the video. They provide useful metadata that can improve our ability to include [...]

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Using Video For Websites – Tell Your Story

August 9, 2011



Stories are fascinating, and people love to share them. Whether it’s around a business conference table with colleagues or round a pub table with friends, or the dinner table with family, stories are recounted and shared and carried on from person to person. We pass them on through letters, emails and blog posts too, and [...]

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Don’t be afraid to specialise with video on your website!

August 7, 2011



If you’re using video on your website (and we hope that you are!) you may think that you have to offer a wide range of videos on different subjects in order to keep your viewers attention. This is great, but what if you are operating in a very specific niche? Play to that strength and [...]

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How do you use YouTube?

August 2, 2011



If you are putting videos on your business website or blog, you are probably using YouTube.  It’s the easiest way to embed videos on non-self-hosted blog platforms like WordPress etc.  The new features of being able to choose the preview picture for your video on your website and remove the YouTube logo if required have [...]

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