I’m back again with another great interview for you. Today, I had the pleasure of speaking with the KING of Interactive Videos, Ray Lane.
Ray Lane is one of the most creative YouTube Marketers I know. He’s the KING of interactive videos in my book. If you have any interest in learning the best tools to use to make professional videos or want to learn how to offer video marketing services to local businesses, this video will ROCK your socks off!
And Yes my hair is all jacked up in the video, what’s new 🙂
The Best Tools For Video Creation And Beyond
Resources Mentioned in The Video:
1. YouTube Interactive – Ray Lanes Awesome Course and Graphics Pack to take full advantage of YouTube’s Call To Action Overlay Feature. Ray has seen up to a 30% bump in conversions.
2. Kodak Zi8 Camera – Very Inexpensive Camera that shoots high quality video and has a mic port.
Biggest Takeaways From Ray’s Interview:
1. Charge what you feel you are worth. Don’t be known as the “cheap guy”.
2. It’s always easier to come down in price than go up in price.
3. Audio is more important than visual. If you have a visually crappy video but your audio is great people will watch it more than a nice visual video with crappy audio.
4. Just MAKE A VIDEO ALREADY! Just because we talk about some cool gadgets that you can use to make better videos, don’t let that stop you if you can’t buy those now. When I started I used what I had,which was the built in microphone from my computer. It wasn’t until this year that I finally decided to upgrade my Mic.
To Your Success,
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Today, I have a great Case Study to share with you. I put up a new video a few days ago and it only took 3 simple steps that took 20 minutes of actual work to get it ranking on Page 1 of Google.
Watch the short video below to learn how.
3 Steps To Page 1 of Google in 4 Days:
Resources mentioned in the Video:
1. Social Monkee – Great private Social Bookmarking Network to get anywhere from 50-200 bookmarks per URL depending on the account level you have.
2. Vagex (currently closed) for getting high quality views and likes. You can use our Tube Sniper Suite Software as an alternative.
3. My Video marketing case study – In this case study I go further into the different link building that I do to my videos.
What I plan to do to get the video ranking Higher on Page 1:
Today I want to talk to you about a simple system I use to drive targeted website traffic to my website’s using YouTube.
It is really a simple system and you don’t even need to be on camera if you are not comfortable creating a face to face video.
For me personally what works best is short videos that teach people something, share a free resource etc. This post is not going to be about how to create a video but I basically use a screen recorder that costs $12 per year and has all the functions of Camtasia.
There is also a free version which has a few limitations but works just as fine. You can record up to 15 minutes for free. It is called Screen-cast-o-matic. (non affiliate link – and as always all my links open in a new window)
Now the next step could be done before or after you create your video but it is the most important piece to the whole puzzle.
And yes it’s called Keyword Research.
Step 1: Keyword Research
Keyword research is something that a lot of people really do NOT like to do but what they fail to realize is good keyword research is where A LOT of money is made online. Spending the time to find these keywords is definitely worth it if you are serious about creating a successful online business.
And the great thing is once you get the hang of keyword research you can get in and out with a great keyword in about 5-10 minutes.
Now the good thing about this approach (using YouTube) is that you can enter into a relatively high competitive niche and still make it to page one of Google fairly quickly.
Watch the video below for a quick video on keyword research
Targeted Website Traffic Research Video:
The search strings I mention in the video: inurl:”keyword” — Anything below 100k results is fine intitle:”keyword” Anything below 100k results is fine
Atleast 500 Local Searches per month
Step 2: Upload and Optimize Your Video
Once your keyword research is done it is time to either create your video OR if your video is already created, it’s time to upload it to YouTube and Optimize it for your keyword. Now it is VERY important that you follow the following steps to the T!
1. BEFORE you upload your video to YouTube change the name of the video file on your computer to your target keyword. So if it’s currently saved on your hard drive as “youtubevideo” change it your “you target keyword.”
Once that is done upload your video and go to step 2.
2. Insert your Keyword in the title of your YouTube video settings. This should happen automatically if you followed step #1. But you want to spice it up and add some attention grabbing text at the end of it.
For Example: Nikon XXX Camera Review: A mind BLOWING Video
or something along those lines.
3. Insert your call to action link as the first line of your description area and make sure you include the http:// . Failing to include that will result in an unclickable link. Also next to it write out a call to action like “Click Here To Learn More”
4. Then you want to make sure you use your target keyword atleast once in your description area but do not over due it. If you write more then 200 words in the description then go ahead and sneak another one in there but be sure it flows with the text.
5. The last step is to go below the description area and you will see your “tags” insert your main keyword FIRST and then several variations of your keyword as well if you’d like.
Step 3: Social Bookmarking
Once that is complete it is time to give our New video the JUICE it needs to race to the first page of Google.
The next step I take is to send 100 Social Bookmarks to your video.
I personally use SocialMonkee which allows me to quickly create 100 Social Bookmarks to 3 different URL’s per day.
I always set the submission of my bookmarks to be dripped over 3 days.
An alternate way is to use SocialMaximizer which is a paid service and you just create an account and once in your dashboard you add a new URL and select for your URL to be submitted to bookmarking sites with Pagerank 3 and up.
Either way works perfect.
With this system I am able to get videos to page one as quick as 4-5 days to 1-2 weeks depending on the competition.
To Your Targeted Website Traffic Success,
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It is really a simple system and you don’t even need to be on camera if you are not comfortable creating a face to face video.
