Bill McRea

You’ve seen those videos on youtube.com that have gotten hundreds of thousands of views—sometimes even millions of views, and you wonder what it takes to get that kind of exposure for your marketing videos. In this article I’m going to let you in on a little secret, and yes, this time it really is a secret that’s not really well known. Many of those “viral” videos didn’t get that way purely organically on their own just by being shared from person to person. There is a whole strategy behind making your videos go “viral” and we’re going to pull back the curtain on some of those strategies right now.

Let’s clarify what we mean by viral. What we really mean is that the video gets shared by thousands via email and/or social media attracting thousands of visitors and links back to your website. Lots of videos, such as the, “Charlie bit my finger” video, or the silly cat, dog and laughing baby videos, go viral, but they are not connected to a website or a brand, so they are not making anyone any money with those page views. What we are looking to create are viral videos that actually make money for you.

Internet marketer, and Video Boss creator, Andy Jenkins, recommends that if you want your videos to go viral you create videos that are:

• Short
• Focused
• Meaty
• Friendly

Your videos, Jenkins suggests, should cause transcendence in the mind of the viewer where they come to learn or understand or feel something differently than they did before viewing your video.

Marketing videos are not commercials, and if they come off like one, no one is going to share them with their friends or post them on their Facebook wall.

Now for the secret strategies behind making your videos go viral. You’ve got to promote the heck out of it. It’s really that simple. Those who think that they can create a cute, snappy video with links back to their site; post it on youtube.com and sit back and wait for the views to roll in is living in a fantasy world especially when you consider these statistics about youtube.com:

“24 hours of video are uploaded every minute on youtube.com. The average person spends 15 minutes a day watching youtube.com videos, and more video is uploaded to youtube.com in 60 days than all three of the major US TV networks created in 60 years.”

Source: website-monitoring.com

Dan Ackerman Greenberg, in a Techcruch.com guest article shared some inside information about how viral videos really end up getting so many views.

Ackerman shares a core strategy of getting your video on to the ‘Most Viewed’ page on youtube.com:

• Post your videos on relevant blogs in your niche

• Share your videos in forums in your niche

• Share on Facebook and get your Facebook friends to share it as well

• Send your videos to your email subscribers and ask them to share it

• Optimize the title of your videos

• Use tags to help your videos get found

Ackerman advocates opening up several youtube.com accounts and comment on your own videos, stirring up controversy and drama using your other personas to attract attention and encourage more page views.

So there you have a basic strategy for creating videos and making them viral to attract a flood of traffic to your website.

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Any profitable affiliate marketing business relies heavily on website traffic. Affiliate marketers and most any website owner looks to get as much targeted website traffic as possible.

Depending on the webmasters motivation, this traffic can help he or she build a community or increase sales and website conversions. Here are five ways most successful affiliate marketers use to increase website traffic for long term success.

#1 Blogging. This is similar to keeping a journal where you write informative and interesting articles for your readers. The articles you create for your blog can also contain links to your static website.

These are called backlinks and the links provide extra weight in the search engines which gives your site higher rankings and more website traffic. Make a blog on Blogger.com and you will start getting traffic in 2-3 days from Google. Google will also spider and promote your blogs RSS feed in many sites across the net for free.

#2 Forums. This is a fun and guaranteed way to promote your online affiliate marketing business. Simply find a few forums related to your niche market and interact with other members by asking questions and posting answers.

This is also a great way to learn your market, help others and sell to your target market more effectively. It is not okay to blatantly advertise in a forum but most forums will provide you some space below every post you make in what is called a signature to add a link back to your website.

You usually set this once in your forum profile area and every post you make in the forum automatically has your signature attached to it. It can be changed any time.

#3 Viral Marketing. This is one of the oldest, most effective yet least used forms of online marketing. It can be done in many ways to good effect and can bring you steady website traffic and income for life.

You can get your feet wet with viral marketing by giving away an ebook on your website and have a couple of links to an affiliate product or back to your website right in the ebook.

Give the ebook to your visitors who sign up for your newsletter and if it has useful information, they will happily send it to their friends. This can easily make your website traffic snowball as new people are reading your content who want to read it all from this initial promotion.

#4 Social Marketing. One example being MySpace, one of the largest websites online, which is now widely used by Internet marketers to market products in very specific markets. MySpace is a social site that makes it very easy for people interested in a topic to get together and share content, and for marketers to blend in and promote their niche products and services.

#5 Article Distribution. A powerful way to increase backlinks and website traffic, there are hundreds of article directories that will accept your article and small resource box with links back to your website, and post it on their site. From there, other website owners will pick up your article and post it on their site!

This will bring you direct website traffic from people reading the article on the other sites, clicking to visit your site. You will also increase search engine traffic to your own website from the increase in backlinks you get from these other websites publishing your article and its author resource box with links back to your site.

Of course, all of these traffic generation techniques are different in how hard they are to do for a beginner affiliate marketer. The smart affiliate marketer tests each technique by itself and learns how it works before testing a new technique or method.

They also differ in how much money you may need to really make a decent impact in the use of the technique. For example, in viral marketing you may want to hire a flash designer to create a viral video for you, and hire someone else to submit the videos to the 50 or so video sites to get maximum exposure.

Or you can start for free by submitting free rewritten articles to article directories. This will increase targeted traffic to your website and some affiliate programs now give you free articles to use to make getting traffic and thus selling their products easier.

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One way backlinks is one of the strongest and most effective ways to get high positions in search engines and milk these positions for targeted traffic. But getting quality one way links is a big job.

free Traffic System is a recent project that helps you to get top quality one way links for gratis – boundless number of one way links, because you build as many as you need. Moreover, gratis Traffic System has integrated a brand recent concept of viral marketing, rewarding its members with bonus one way links.

Before coming to the viral part of the project, it is significant to explain where exactly you are coming these backlinks. The backlinks are built inside real blog posts, not in the footer or blogroll – in the very body of the real, unique blog post. This is the most safe way to build one way links, because you give real unique content to the visitors in the blog posts and search engines will always welcome it – search engines were created to help people in finding quality information in the Internet.

You get backlinks from relevant sites that belong to real people in different niches. Natural, secure and smart way to build backlinks for gratis. You submit one article to gratis Traffic System and it converts into up to 60 top quality one way backlinks! And – unlike traditional article marketing – no one will cancel your backlinks from the article, like they do when stealing your content from article directories.

The viral part of free Traffic System is simple – they reward people for bringing others into this gratis project. You are receiving a BONUS backlink on every 3rd post that people whom you referred to gratis Traffic System are making. This means you get bonus backlink on article No 1, 4, 7, 10, 13, 16, etc. of all people who got into the system via the affiliate link.

As every article can be republished on up to 30 sites in gratis Traffic System, this means that one article with your bonus link equals to 30 backlinks from gratis Traffic System. 2 articles = 60 bonus backlinks, 3 articles = 90 bonus backlinks. And this is in addition to the unlimited backlinks that you can build inside gratis Traffic System yourself.

And the final perk of the viral strategy. If you supply at least one WordPress blog to free Traffic System, they instantly increment the number of bonus backlinks by 7%.

So, in gratis Traffic System you get:

- gratis backlinks that you build yourself
- viral bonus backlinks for affiliating people into the project
- viral bonus backlinks for adding your blog(s) to free Traffic System

With this free backlink building force targeted traffic from search engines gets just a matter of time.

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Viral Marketing Expert Delivers Tips for Creating Word of Mouth

internet marketing expert Bill Balderaz and online marketing agency ClearSaleing host Web seminar featuring ways to generate online buzz

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Columbus, OH (PRWEB) December 3, 2007 – Online public relations and social networking professional, Bill Balderaz hosted the latest in a series of search engine optimization and marketing webinars from online marketing leader ClearSaleing on November 28th.

Due to the overwhelming feedback from the first webinar, an encore presentation is scheduled for December 5, 2007 at 1:30PM. Pre-registration is available at ClearSaleing.com.

Social networks have great potential in most online marketing campaigns because friends in social networks have the power to link and drive traffic. We listen to our friends and trust their endorsements, both online and offline

ClearSaleing is a leader in Internet marketing, working with internet retailers and direct marketers to improve the performance of their online marketing campaigns through pay per click, search engine optimization, affiliate marketing, word of mouth marketing and RSS feeds.

Balderaz serves as Director of Viral Marketing for ClearSaleing and is a recognized expert in generating online buzz. He is also founder and President of Webbed Marketing, a full service internet marketing company. At the webinar, he highlighted seven online public relations and social networking tools to increase online buzz.

According to Balderaz, search engine optimized press releases are one of the most effective ways to reach a large number of influencers and create the perception that your brand is everywhere because the press release is seen in blogs, e-mails, and RSS feeds.

Balderaz suggested the following tips on creating a social media friendly press release:

• Optimize on the keywords your influencers and end users are searching on.
• Get the release index the release in Google News and Yahoo! News.
• Include Technorati tags.
• Include “forward to a friend” and “print” functions.
• Include links to: digg, del.icio.us, StumbleUpon, Furl, Reddit, etc
• Record a podcast with the release and distribute the podcast via media wires.
• Create an XML feed that your readers can subscribe to.
• Include product pictures when relevant.

Balderaz also suggested podcasts as a tool help a message spread virally. He said that more than 6% of US adults, or about 9 million web users, download podcasts. Approximately 38% of these active podcast downloaders say they are listening to the radio less often. “Podcasts are a great online public relations tool because they are inexpensive to create, easy to access and likely to spread virally,” he said.In addition, Balderaz offered advice on how to reach blogger and online influencers. “Online influencers are the key to any word of mouth marketing program. When bloggers and other prominent online personalities are spreading the word about your products and services, good things happen,” he said.

Balderaz later discussed the importance of monitoring and participating in list serves and discussion groups. “We encourage clients to become active in these online discussions to listen and learn about their customer base,” explains Balderaz.

The webinar also featured information on using MySpace, Facebook and other social networks to listen, learn and influence. “Social networks have great potential in most online marketing campaigns because friends in social networks have the power to link and drive traffic. We listen to our friends and trust their endorsements, both online and offline” said Balderaz. These networks are also a great way to listen to the active bloggers and online influencers in your customer base, he added.

In conclusion, Balderaz encouraged all internet marketers to create fresh content, identify a hook, use multiple online distribution channels, and continue to participate in and generate content. “Viral marketing is not a dot but a line!”
About Bill Balderaz
Bill Balderaz serves as Director of Viral Marketing for ClearSaleing. He is also founder and President of Webbed Marketing. Webbed Marketing consists of a team of experts with Internet marketing experience predating the launch of Google. The firm’s objective is to help businesses grow by using the Internet to reach buyers and online influencers. Webbed Marketing offers its clients full Internet marketing services including online community building, viral marketing programs, pay-per-click search management, search engine optimization and affiliate program management. To learn more about Webbed Marketing visit WebbedMarketing.com.

About ClearSaleing

ClearSaleing is a new breed of online agency that helps Internet retailers and direct marketers improve the performance of their search engine marketing campaigns and conclusively prove their results through a technology that measures and optimizes profit – the only metric that matters. Launched in 2006 and located in Columbus, Ohio, ClearSaleing is rapidly becoming the choice of online advertisers who need transparency, flexibility and accountability in the management of their campaigns.

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