If you have been trying to earn money online most probably you have heard about the power of article marketing. Article marketing can give you a good amount of web traffic as well as backlinks, that's why EzineArticles and other article submission sites are very popular. To submit article to the article submission directory like EzineArticles you have to make sure that your article is original and useful for the readers. Writing articles probably is not easy for some people but believe me the more you do it the easier it will be. If you don't know how to write an article or are too lazy to do it yourself there are always other people writing for money you can hire. Get a good article writer to do the job - you may want to check for article writing service that also includes publishing article in the package.
A good article submission software can help you a lot if you prefer to submit your articles to many different sites by yourself. Don't forget to pick your keywords carefully and use them as your anchor texts linking back to your websites in the resource box. To increase web traffic to your sites you should fully utilize the resource box.
To easily double or triple your web traffic you should consider converting the articles you have made to videos. YouTube alone got over 1 billion views per day in 2009 - that's around 11,000 views per second! If you don't jump in the wagon you will miss the opportunity to get your big chunks of the YouTube's traffic.
There are some other benefits you get from video article marketing:
- Although your articles and videos are sharing the same sources you don't have to worry about duplicate content issue.
- You can also turn your own blog posts, your old e-books or articles to video to get traffic to your main sites.
- YouTube can help your new blog or website to get indexed by Google faster.
How to get backlinks from YouTube to your websites? It's simple. Put the URL of the website you want to link to on your YouTube's video description box followed by the video description. By doing this your website's URL will appear under your YouTube user ID.
To convert articles to videos you need a screen capture or screen recorder software. Screen capture software like Camtasia is quite expensive but you can always find a reliable and free screen capture software for this purpose. One of the best free screen recorder is Camstudio. Despite its limitation it can do the basic job of paid desktop recorder software perfectly. If your budget is limited Camstudio is the best choice to go. Download this screen recorder freeware from camstudio.org.
The other software you need for video article marketing is PowerPoint. If you have Microsoft Office installed on your PC you should have this software included. Other free option is the open source presentation software. Both will do the same job, just use whatever you have on your computer.
Copy your articles to the PowerPoint and use some bullets to improve the presentation appearance. Once ready turn on your screen capture software and play the presentation file. You can add your narration or background music after the video file is ready. To submit your video to YouTube and other video submission directories you need to be a registered member of those video sites.
There are some downsides you will experience with this free method however: It takes time to make your presentation slides - not to mention that doing video submission manually is really a pain in the neck. It's really time consuming and unless you have no other choice you will save your time a lot by hiring somebody to do the article to video conversion, submit it to different video sites and take care of other jobs so you can concentrate on your other projects.
