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Question: I want to share videos from the Daily Flip with my audience by embedding the video code in my sidebar. But, I don’t want to do the updates manually. Is it possible to subscribe to a YouTube channel, embed code and have automatic updates occur with each new release from the channel?
Yes, it is possible, but not with YouTube… yet. If you want to embed a “show” of your or someone else’s videos in your blog or website, you’ll have grab a show player from a site like Magnify.net, assuming that show is created there.
In other words, The Daily Flip show is not just uploaded to YouTube, but it’s also uploaded to Blip.tv and is also duplicated in its own channel at Magnify.net.
So remember, it’s always best to upload your videos to more than one location… not just YouTube. Other video players have better options you might like more.
Question: Finding and uploading all of my videos to the most important video sharing sites takes a LOT of time. Is there software that allows me to find the important sites to upload to, and then help me upload my videos to them all faster?
Answer: As video sharing gets more popular, many bloggers and video producers want to get their videos viewed by as many people as possible. To do that, you need to get your videos uploaded to all of the important video sharing sites, like YouTube and Metacafe and Blip.tv for example.
Why? Because the more your video is seen, the better it is for you. It doesn’t matter if you’re a blogger or a web-entrepreneur, you’re making your videos to be seen by others in hopes of either drawing traffic for your blog or making money online with products and services.
Until recently, there weren’t any high-quality solutions for multiple uploading tools. But that’s changed. Check out a program called Video Post Robot.
Video Post Robot is the perfect tool for those smart entrepreneurs who are already taking advantage of online video…
Hours of time can be saved saved using this tool which automates the process of uploading to multiple sites.
Here’s a video of Chris Pirllo explaining why he likes Video Post Robot.
As Chris says, it stinks that you have to pay for the service, but for small entrepreneurs who do online video, the time saver alone is worth the costs. Get your copy of Video Post Robot today.
I’m glad to hear that you’re thinking about this, because adding videos to your blog entries is a great way to engage your readers, and entertain them too. :)
Pretty much all you have to do is copy the code for the video you want to embed in a blog entry.
Question: We are looking for ways to get our videos about our company up higher on YouTube.com when someone searches our company name. Do you know what affects the search order and how we can get the videos we produce higher on the list?
When you upload a video to YouTube.com, you are asked to enter some information about the video. YouTube uses this information to help people find and match videos. So optimizing that information is VERY important.
Specifically, when uploading a video, you are asked for the following. Take your time and follow these tips to ensure that your videos can be found.
Title - This is the short explanation of your video. If you search on YouTube, this is what people see first. So you need to make your title short, but informative. Example: If you’re uploading a video about “How to put up Wallpaper”, then that video should probably just be titled “How to put up wallpaper”, and you could add your company name behind that if you wanted, so “How to put up Wallpaper by XYZ Company”.
Description - This is the longer version of your Title. Important for readers who want more explanation. Try to include as much detail in the description as you can, and also try to throw in a link to your website or your phone number if you want. It can’t hurt.
Tags - This is the most important one to think about. YouTube uses tags as its primary form of organizing videos. So you need to make sure you put the right tags in place as this will greatly affect how and if your video will be found by the right searches.
The Trick To Writing YouTube Tags
You’re going to have to think a bit here. Writing good tags can take some work, but it will pay off if you spend the time and do it right.
The biggest tip you need to know is that you need to match your tags to the words or phrases you used in your title/description. This is VERY important!
Here’s a few more tips.
1. Write as many tags as you possibly can and YouTube will let you have.
2. Don’t try to write tags that don’t fit your videos. YouTube won’t like you for that.
3. Write how people think. For example, if someone is looking for a video on how to put up wallpaper, what would they type? Probably “how to put up wallpaper” or “wallpaper videos”, right?
4. Leave out any natural language words like “the” or “and”, etc…
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