Friday 23 December 2011

Bring Traffic to Your Site With Online Video

Online video brings more traffic to your website. So it's no surprise that it's the fastest growing product in the web sector. It's the most effective way to reach new customers, and importantly, adds that 'personal touch'.
It's also very important for web ranking. Google gives more importance to sites that feature video. Sites with video (that's been properly tagged) can expect traffic in excess of 50% over competitor sites that do not use this medium.

There's a concise video detailing some of these statistics here. It's focused on the US market, but UK performance figures are relative.
The use of video goes well beyond something that's just on your site. If you upload your video to You Tube, Video, and a host of other video sites, you can expect inbound traffic.
Importantly, over half of online viewers (57%) to be precise, share videos with colleagues and friends.
How your video 'looks' is a very personal choice, and will vary depending on what you do, and who you are trying to reach.

Ideal candidates for web video include a 'profile' piece that gives viewers an insight into your business, it's people and operations. Other uses for video include promotion of a product (showing customers how it works), 'pieces to camera' by key employees, and customer testimonials. The benefit of testimonial videos (people saying nice things about your company and products) is that they don't come across as 'hard sell' advertising.

When commissioning a video, it is really important to work with a company with a proven track record. Yes, in these recessionary times, it's tempting to go out, buy a camera, and attempt to do it yourself. Unfortunately, this approach often ends in wasted time, and a mediocre end result. That's no reflection on you, it's simply that video is more of a 'craft' or 'talent' – and that's often overlooked.

Yes, commissioning a video with a video production company uk will require some investment, but we believe it to be a worthwhile one, that will reap significant rewards.
By all means 'search the market' for a production company. The estimates you get will typically vary dramatically. However, don't be tempted to go with the cheapest estimate. With video, you do get what you pay for.

In summary, video is a 'tool' that offers visitors, and customers an interactive and engaging experience. Though words and pictures are good (in moderation), video can achieve so much more in a far more interesting way.

Intermedia Communications - Corporate video production company and Corporate video production services based in West Midlands, specialise in promotional, 3d animation, web video productions in UK.

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Video As a Fast and Effective Way to Increase Your Google ranking

Video As a Fast and Effective Way to Increase Your Google ranking

Whilst video in its own right is a fantastic way to communicate your message to potential customers, there are a host of other benefits – mainly SEO related, that make video an obvious choice for companies and individuals who want to stand out from the crowd. This can range from a simple ‘piece to camera’ to a fully-fledged corporate video profile.

At present, I’d say at least 90% of the work we produce goes directly to the web... The video is typically hosted on the client’s web site, or more commonly ‘linked’ from video portals such as YouTube or Vimeo.

Using spidering technology, Google actually analyses the content of a video using text-matching techniques to find videos that are both important and relevant to the users search!

All exciting stuff... but without optimisation, only half of the work has been done.

There are a couple of relatively simple ways to ensure that video content is properly optimised.

1. Put a keyword into the video file name

2. If you’re embedding on YouTube, ensure that you’ve put keywords in the video titles and description boxes once you’ve uploaded.

3. Finally... Consider embedding the video into a 3d animation production relevant text page on your website. This will help the search engines better determine what your video is all about,and consequently rank it higher.

With many of our clients, SEO work is undertaken ‘in house’. However,we’re more than happy to carry out this task for clients with limited time and resources.

Intermedia Communications - Corporate video production company and Corporate video production services based in West Midlands, specialise in promotional, 3d animation, web video productions in UK.

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