Learn How A Video Marketing Campaign Can Be Used To Increase Awareness Of Your Business

A video marketing campaign represents one of the most commonly used advertising strategies in today’s social media and online networking world.  This strategy of marketing requires very little investment on the part of the business and has the potential for large rewards.  These rewards typically come in the form of customer awareness.

So, how can a video marketing campaign increase a business’s awareness in the eyes of potential customers?

Millions of people utilize online tools like social media websites and video sharing networks every day.  This makes these online sites very useful marketing tools for companies looking to access an unlimited number of potential viewers.  One of the most successful ways for a business to incorporate video marketing into their advertising strategies is to use video to promote awareness of the company’s name.  By directly engaging viewers by getting them to view a video and then share it with their friends, a business can increase their name recognition, their brand awareness and generate more leads.  More awareness can translate to increases sales and revenue down the road.

Not only does a video marketing campaign increase the public’s awareness of a specific business, it also provides an easy way for business’s to track how well their campaign is working.  Video marketing can be a very effective tool for finding out what techniques are grabbing the attention of certain viewers and which techniques are not working.  This allows the business to be flexible in their online advertising campaigns and to make immediate changes to their strategy.

Finally, a properly executed video marketing campaign will vastly increase a company’s search engine rankings if video SEO practices are used.  This can help ensure that a company is listed in the top 10 results on search engines like Google, which is a guaranteed way to increase awareness from online viewers.

Part 2 (On-Page and Off-Page SEO) – Internet Marketing Tips for Local Business

On-page SEO Tactics

On-page SEO is primarily technical in nature and needs to be applied to every page of your website.  Websites are not optimized as a whole but rather one page at a time.

I’m not going to go into great detail as to what is specifically done to each page but I am going to give you a good overall understanding.

Basically, your on-page SEO should accomplish three main objectives:

Your website’s code should be well-coded.  By this, I mean that it should be easily read and understood by search engines.

Each page of your website should be built around “intelligent keyword phrases” that are likely to draw targeted visitors to your page/site.

Your site’s design should be attractive and your content found useful to visitors so as to encourage them to stay as long as possible on your site.

One on-page SEO tactic that isn’t even widely discussed is known as “Visitor Experience Optimization.” (aka VEO)

Google (and other search engines) have the ability to track how long the average visitor stays on your website and gives added benefit to sites that have a longer than average “visitor duration.”

It stands to reason, right?

If the majority of your website visitors hit the “BACK” button after being on your site for only three seconds, it could be assumed that they either didn’t like what they saw or they didn’t find something they felt was relevant to what they were searching for.

However, if your visitors stay on your site for 1-3 minutes (or more), the search engines will give you a boost in the search engine rankings as your visitors have “spoken.” They obviously have liked something about your site long enough to hang around and therefore, your site is believed to contain “valuable” content.

This is one of the reasons that it’s wise to consider adding an “involvement device” to your website.  This could include getting your visitor to sign-up for your company newsletter (to receive a coupon or other free gift), adding video to your website or simply allowing them to comment on the content you’ve posted.

All three options help your visitors connect with you in a more personal way than just having the ability to read your website’s content and can help you bring you more business in addition to helping your site rank better in the search engines.

Off-page SEO Tactics

There are a number of “off-page SEO tactics” but the most important one is how many  “valuable links” your site has “pointing at it” from other websites/pages across the internet.

If you’d like to get a general idea of how many links the search engines have found for your site, do this…

1. Go to Yahoo.com and enter the following into the search box: link:www.yourdomain.com (replacing “yourdomain.com” with your actual domain name).

2. Click the button to conduct your search.

3. This will take you to the “Yahoo Site Explorer” as shown above. Once on this page, select “Except from this domain” from the “Show Inlinks” drop-down menu so Yahoo will only show you the links it found from the other sites that are linking to you.

The more “valuable links” your site has, the better.

This is because each link can be thought of as a “vote” for your site. The search engines figure that if others like your site well enough to link to it, then it probably contains valuable information.

This is why we use Article Marketing, Web 2.0 Strategies and a variety of other techniques to continually build links for our clients.

Traffic Generation Strategies

Even the most attractive of websites is useless without visitors and that’s why we utilize many different traffic generation strategies on behalf of our clients. We do our best to help you dominate the search engine results in an effort to bring you targeted traffic that is meaningful to your business.

Just a few of these strategies include…

Search Engine Optimization (both on-page and off)

Article Marketing

Press Releases

Blogging/RSS Feed Syndication

Social Bookmarking

Utilizing “Web 2.0″ properties (like Facebook.com, Twitter.com etc.)

Video Marketing (like YouTube.com, Viddler.com, etc.)

Online Classifieds (like Craigslist.org, Backpage.com, etc.)

And a whole lot more!

Whether you are looking to make direct sales from your website, build leads or encourage your visitors to stop by your store or office, we can develop a traffic generation strategy to meet your objectives.