Viral Videos and Video SEO is extremely important in the age of short attention span theatre. The basic point is that people on a website will watch a video a significant amount of the time (70%+). Make sure it is a video that will be linked to, shared, etc. Make a great video. But also, [...]
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PDF Markdown + Flickr, YouTube Shortcodes
The advantages to using Markdown and shortcodes instead of a rich text editor cannot be underestimated. Add to that the practice of hosting media outside of a website, e.g., Flickr for images and YouTube for video. Together these create a fantastic best practice for content management. We use WordPress and associated plugins but it is [...]
HTML5 Video
Video embedding is basically a required feature of all websites. Do they all have video? No. Should they all have video? Yes. From an SEO perspective, yes. From a branding perspective, yes. From a business perspective, yes. Tweet Print PDF
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30 Links in 30 Days Linkbuilding Campaign – Day 10 – Blip.TV
Blip is Big Blip.TV is one of those online video sharing sites that could be termed one of the dwarfs, aka Snow White and the (how many?) Dwarfs–Snow White being YouTube, of course. Along with many other sites that could be mentioned (but why bother), Blip.TV has a special place for a few reasons. Google [...]
30 Links in 30 Days Linkbuilding Campaign – Day 3 – The YouTube Profile
YouTube is ranked 3rd by Alexa behind Yahoo and Google. YouTube videos can drive traffic, which should be obvious to most people these days. Still it is amazing that the free social media video sharing site is not exploited more by organizations and individuals. In addition to basic traffic, there is a follow link with [...]