However, that’s not exactly helpful to those new to video marketing and video making, so here are 5 YouTube compatible formats – with some clues to the differences between them…

.WMV

“WMV” stands for “Windows Media Format”, and is Microsoft’s standard video file format. It is highly versatile, with its main advantage lying in its video compression abilities, which allows it to function at varying bandwidths. If you use Windows Movie Maker, you can easily output your files as WMV files. (Notice, however, that among all the file types that YouTube accepts, the standard Windows Movie Maker .MSWMM file format is not one of those “on the list”).

.MOV

The MAC version of .WMV. Works best with QuickTime, if you’re going to download and play. You’ll find many .MOV files on YouTube.

MPEG 4 (MP4)

The advantages of the .MP4 file format lies in the way it discards any non-essential information, reducing file size to the minimum.

MP4 format is most often used with PSP’s and iPods.

.3GP

Yes, Virginia – you can upload this popular mobile phone format! But be aware that you can lose quality when transferring .3GP files to YouTube.

.FLV

Adobe Flash format. Flash movies work well on YouTube – but to play .FLV files, you’ll need a Flash Player such as Adobe or Applian installed on your computer. (Run your spyware program after downloading the latest Adobe Flash Player. The last two times I’ve upgraded, I’ve immediately been hit by an Adobe spyware program, according to my anti-virus.)

.MKV

Written in open-format Extensible Binary Meta Language, Matroska is quick to point out it is XML-based, and not a video compression codec. Free to use, it aims to become “the open source alternative to existing containers such as AVI, ASF, MOV, RM, MP4, MPG”.

You will need to be familiar with all these types of video file extensions, in order to make the most of your video marketing – but mercifully, of course, you don’t need to know how to use them all.

Just knowing what they are can make a difference to how you choose your hardware and software.

Bruno

Here’s how it works.

1. You write an article.
2. You submit it to article directories.
3. Web publishers (website owners & bloggers) grab your article from the article databases and use your article on their sites free of charge.
4. Inside your article, at the end, you include a resource box that contains a link to your website. When the article is published, that portion must tag along and be published, too.

Your link tags along with your article and you get FREE advertising.

Want an example? I’ll give you a few.

http://www.123webmarketing.com/articles/make-money-launch.html

This is the link to one of Jimmy D. Brown’s articles.

You see at the end? It says…

Jimmy D. Brown is the author of "Small Reports Fortune" – if you can write 7-15 page small reports, you can earn a living online working just a few hours each week from your home. Look for his EXCLUSIVE formula "Creating A Six-Figure Income With Small Reports" at www.SmallReportsFortune.com

That would be an example of an author bio.

Here’s another:

http://www.ladypens.com/plr-articles-how-to-choose-a-good-service/

At the end, it says:

Would you like to learn more about how to use PLR articles in your business? Nicole Dean welcomes you to sign up for her free ecourse at www.EasyPrivateLabelArticles.com If you’re ready to start shopping, just stop by www.EasyPLR.com – where you’ll find high-quality PLR articles sold in very limited quantities.

So, everyone who re-publishes those article will include the author blurb and both authors will get lots of free traffic.

There are three main ways article marketing can generate traffic for you:
Webmasters publish your article (with your link intact) on their own site)

Your search engine position increases because you’ll gain more backlinks.

That makes article marketing an excellent strategy.

You Internet Service Provider (ISP for short) can limit how much  bandwidth you can use at certain times during peak periods or charge you a flat fee every month for usage. If you go over your usage limit regularly, then they will suggest you upgrade to a bigger bandwith package.

Files that are uploaded or downloaded from servers uses bandwidth to push files along the network at various speeds. Every time you upload a file to your hosting server, surf the web or watching streaming video, you are using bandwidth. 

Bandwidth is a group of fibers or wires connecting servers to a network. Depending on the quality of the wire it determines how much data can flow across the network where your website is hosted. When someone attempts to use more bandwidth than can be handled by the system, the traffic slows down.

You can upload almost any file (webpages, sound files, images, videos and other programs) to your website. This excludes, of course, pop ups, banners , pdf files, scripts and images which are supposed to be loaded from your hosting server. 

Bandwidth thieves link to audio, images and other files directly to your server instead of putting them on their own server. There are many reasons as to why people do this but, the main reason is to maximize the bandwidth they steal as much as possible to show their links and images.

Bandwidth is something you should monitor careful because you never know when someome will borrow and image or link from you for their personal gain.

Bruno

Tags: files, links, web server, bandwidth, images, web pages, web hosting

If you are building a blog around the word ‘weight loss’ then you’re going to have to do a considerable amount of work to get indexed in the right position to get enough traffic to make money.

If you choose to target specific words relating to ‘weight loss’ that are still well searched for and have low competition
then you will stand a far better chance of getting traffic and that traffic will be a lot more targeted.

This highly targeted traffic will earn you more money because it is relating to a specific problem that the person is searching for a rather than a general term like ‘weight loss’

Now when a person arrives on your blog from a specific term they are always going to be interested in the more general term of ‘weight loss’ so you will still be able to sell your weight loss e-book or earn money from your weight loss affiliate programs when people come from these terms.

If you have your own weight loss eBook,either from purchasing resale rights or at creating your own and you present the
e-book in a fresh manner, either with better graphics or a new title and sell it for a reasonable price, using something
like the seven dollar script, you can have immediate cash paid into your Paypal account simply because these lower-priced
items are so much easier to sell and people who are looking for a solution, are willing to buy them.

The social bookmark sites are an excellent place to help get your blogs or websites indexed fast. And the fastest way to get
action from these sites is to create a controversial post.

Consider the traffic you will get when people start commenting on your blog post that details the number of deaths from
people on weight-loss programs.

Okay it doesn’t have to be along those lines but you can understand that one unique blog post written by you that is controversial and tagged on the bookmarking sites can be all you need to generate enough traffic for that site to become profitable on a daily basis for a very long time.

By Tagging keywords and key phrases that  have good demand yet low competition you stand a lot better chance to profit from the traffic that you will get quite easily once the search engines know about this content.  And they will know about this
content from links from other sites, comments on other blogs, people talking about your site and linking to your site from he social bookmark sites and by submitting your blogs to the RSS directories (you can buy RSS announcer on eBay for 0.99cents)

These are the things that you need to do to get traffic, to get indexed, and to make money.

By eliminating the massive amount of time that goes into research you will be able to concentrate on getting links to your blogs so the search engines can find this low comp information and index it and rank it well sooner and faster.

Once you get the ball rolling you will see how the traffic continues to flow and this is the way to build your business and boost your income.

Remember – It is all about the choices you make. It is as simple as that.

-Choose to use the right keywords and key phrases.
-Choose to use the right content.
-Choose to get links to your blogs from the right places.
-Choose the best resources for research
-Choose to focus on the simple actions that will result in income generation.
-Choose to spend your time wisely, either by creating your own content or buying from the right places.
-Choose to use other sources of content and use Article Infuser (that most of you already have) to manipulate that content into the format that will bring you traffic and money.

I have given you all that you need to succeed – Choose to accept nothing less than success and you will receive it.

Bruno Auger

Tags: blogs, traffic, indexing, tagging, keyword phrases, keywords, content

1. Write 1-2 articles a weeks, distribute to about 500 article directories or more with your researched keywords in the bio. These articles will provide one way links, if written well others will download the articles and use them on their sites which will give you more one way links.

2. Post to directories and make sure you research the keywords, and put those keywords in the title.

3. Post to forums and in your signature have links with your keywords.

4. Comment on blogs related to your niche that have do follow.

5. Write unique content and only place it on your site with your researched keywords in the body of the content pointing to other relevant unique content on your site only.

6. Link exchange, really don’t like this but you can do it. Becareful who you exchange links with, put keywords in title.
Don’t worry about how many links, just keep doing this, stay positive, results don’t happen the next day. It takes time, but in time you will see better ranking in the search engines and page rank going up.

7. Write press releases, I do this every so often, but it does work.

8. Create Videos and submit them to video sites. Some will allow links others will not, but it is a good way of promoting your site.

9. Create a page squidoo and hub pages.

10. Use a link building software to assist you.

Bruno

Tags: backlinks, unique content, blogs, directories, linking, articles, forums

What is crucial in all website promotion is the concept called piggybacking. Piggybacking is a technique in which a website rides on to a more popular, more recognizable website. It is like jumping on the right horse to get to the finish line, except that the horse is the search engine and the cowboy is the website wanting to promote itself. The implication therefore is, all website promotion will center on putting a site on the face of the search engine map, where users congregate in the most number and at the most frequent times. Besides, search engine’s purpose is to serve as a springboard to all users to get connected to the relevant website they want to visit.

How can a site invite the attention of the search engine? By making themselves present in as many places as possible. Here is where piggybacking is used again. For a website promotion to be effective, the site to be promoted will make its presence be more felt by the search engine by multiple entries and presences online. For example, a site on herbal supplement can put its hyperlink to blogs and forums, or to sites that focus on health and medicine. It can also place some advertisements on sites like social networking systems and product review sites. More entries would mean better presence and a better presence means more chances for users to come across the mention of the site.

Moreover, the search engine works like a radar, soliciting website information and putting them all to a large database. It combs out all relevant sites there is online, all across the globe and all of different languages and content. Now, if the site to be promoted has only one presence (like only the homepage itself), then it will take time for the search engine to detect the site’s presence. What’s worse, the less chances that the site will have to be put to the first entry of a search result, which is the real purpose for website promotion over the search engine. By actively “mentioning” the site elsewhere in the internet universe, the search engine will place the site (to be promoted) to radar screen of the users.

Website promotion, with effective and successful piggybacking, will never be doomed to fail. This is what basically search engine optimization companies are there for, to make sure that piggybacking will work to make out of a website a sensation overnight.

Bruno Auger

Tags: website promotion, popularity, piggybacking, promotion, search engine

Using press releases (PR) is one of the greatest ways of marketing your website and Internet business. It gives you backlinks, it gets the word out about you in an exciting and informative way, and if you write the PR piece correctly you will never come off as just marketing a product or service; rather, you’ll simply make headlines, and people are very attracted to newsworthy stories. 

PR pieces that are well-written really capture people’s attention. Some PR websites require a fee for you to publish there, while others are free. Generally speaking, the paid-for sites give better exposure. They are sites that journalists, bloggers, researching writers, and website owners looking to add or link to interesting content for a new post all frequent.

PR pieces are also a great way of making yourself quotable. You should include quotes from yourself or from someone authoritative about the topic in a PR piece whenever possible. This lends your piece an air of authority and authenticity. A great quote can spread like wildfire on the Internet and really generate a lot of interest in you as a person, which is the best way of generating interest in your business.

A PR piece should follow a specific format and formula to be successful. First, begin with a catchy headline (title). Remember, this should sound like a newspaper headline and be quite informative but punchy at the same time. Read some front page headlines to get a feel for how yours should sound.

Next you may want to consider writing a catchy summary of your article to appear just below the headline. But this is optional.

Your next step is to give a "dateline". This is where you write the location where the story is generated–it may be the World Wide Web–and the date, written out in full (So, for instance, July 14, 2008). This is followed by a long dash, and then you want to write a sentence that really grabs the reader’s attention but, again, sounds like news and not like one of those midway-hawker online marketing splash pages. This opening sentence should contain very relevant and important information and compel the reader to feel like she’s about to learn something very important if she continues reading. If you need it to be so, feel free to make this sentence quite long (but be sure it’s not a fragment or a run-on). 

Most important about that opening sentence is that it’s powerful WITHOUT sounding even remotely like a sales pitch and that it’s chock-full of vital information that makes the reader desire to read more. One of the best ways to achieve this is to open with "[Yourself, your business, or the producer of a product you are promoting] today announced that [latest and greatest event, such as the launching of a hot new product]."

Next, proceed to outline everything someone should know about the newest event. Use straightforward language always, not overly-emotional or hyped. Try to remember your essay-writing classes from high school or college. Save anything emotional for a direct quote from you or someone authoritative like a product producer. 

Finally, at the bottom of the PR piece include a brief, informative summary about you or your product, and then follow it up with Contact Information with a link to your website. Go to a site such as "PR Newswire" or "Marketwire" to see models.
 

Bruno Auger

Tags: website, press release, internet business, marketing,  PR, traffic

The number one issue faced by any business person with a website today is getting traffic.

Without visitors to your website, how will you ever be paid for your products and services (or through your affiliate recommendations)?

One solution to this problem is holding a teleseminar.

A teleseminar is simply a phone call where somebody (i.e., you) talks to somebody else (i.e., a guest expert or just the audience) about a specific topic of interest.

You don’t have to have any specific educational background or be some kind of certified expert to hold a teleseminar – just the courage to hold an intelligent conversation for about an hour about something you enjoy.

Marketing with teleseminars gives you over a dozen ways to get traffic to your products and services. Let me highlight 3 of them for you right now.

Teleseminars can…

• Provide a live event for people to get immediate answers to their questions

• Turn into articles and blog posts which are magnets for search engine-traffic

• Connect you with new affiliates who share your teleseminar with others in exchange for a commission

Let me describe how each of these 3 could work for you.

Attract Traffic With A Live Teleseminar

When you host a teleseminar, you provide a specific time and date for a group of people to gather together. At heart, most people are still social animals. Because of that fact, if people know they can get together with other people like them at the same time and date and learn or discuss their favorite topic, they’ll show up.

And if you provide a way for your listeners to ask you a question that you answer during the teleseminar then they’ll definitely want to connect with you after the call is over.

Create Traffic Magnet Articles And Blog Posts

A second way teleseminars can generate traffic for your website, products, and services is by turning into text.

Most people talk at about 200 words per minute, and within an hour, you can create a 50 page transcript. Simply by breaking apart that text, you can create a dozen articles and many more blog posts with just a single teleseminar.

You then submit those articles to article directories and ezine publishers to spread your message. Each article becomes a traffic magnet by connecting readers back to your website through a link at the end of the text.

You can “write” weeks worth of search-engine friendly content by taking the same articles and breaking them up into blog posts you publish on your own blog or on someone else’s.

Get Affiliates To Send You Traffic

My favorite method of getting traffic with teleseminars is by creating an affiliate program for the sale of your teleseminars, their transcripts, or additional calls you do in the future.

Even before you hold a call, people are willing to pay in advance for the transcripts and/or the recording of your teleseminar. And once you start selling something online, you can invite affiliate marketers to promote your teleseminar product for you.

In exchange for sending you traffic, you agree to pay a certain percentage of the profits – a simple arrangement that’s made very easy with software available today (ranging from free to quite expensive).

Affiliates then spend their time and energy sending you traffic and you can spend your time concentrating on holding an excellent teleseminar.

Start Getting More Traffic With Teleseminars

These are just 3 methods of getting traffic with teleseminars that you can put into action immediately. And once you get started, you’ll quickly realize that your traffic problems are suddenly not so large anymore!

Bob Jenkins is the creator of TeleseminarFormula.com, an in-depth training program teaching business owners how to use teleseminars to magnetically attract better customers, get more sales, and accelerate their growth using their phone. For your free copy of “The 7 Secrets To Success With Teleseminars”, visit TeleseminarFormula.com today.

Tags: Teleseminars, live seminars, traffic, affiliates, Bob Jenkins

Why use article writing for increasing your online sales? Well, as any great copy writer will tell you, the power of words is difficult to overestimate. By using article writing you can establish a powerful Internet business presence that will have people streaming in to your websites.

Why is article writing so potent? It’s because with writing and placing articles chock full of free, well-written, relevant information, you make yourself into an expert in your given niche or niche’s industry. People begin to view you as a fount of wisdom, and a generous fount that is always offering free advice that they can use as they see fit, or who is teaching them valuable stuff that they probably couldn’t learn about elsewhere.

On the Internet, content is king. People do a lot of shopping online, but the thing they most search for, even when they set out to do shopping, is content. The Internet is the world’s greatest source of free information. It’s vast, it’s diverse, and it’s much more conveniently indexed and searched through than the best library. Give people great content and they’ll soon want to learn more about you and they’ll become interested in your business just because it’s yours.

To be successful with article writing, you will write articles about a given topic–any topic that directly, narrowly relates to your niche market, that is–and publish these articles at article content sites. There is a wide array of these sites on the Internet already and more crop up all the time. A Web Crawler or Google search will find you plenty of them. They include places like Go, Articles Base, Ezine, Article Snatch, Article Biz, Search Warp, and on and on. These are sites where people go for two reasons: they want to find free information about something or they want to find free information that they can use at their websites. 

Either one of these motives is perfect for your end purposes. 

To place articles at these places you’ll need to create a free profile and account. In your profile you’ll include a link to your website. Different content sites have different rules about how shamelessly self-promoting your articles there are allowed to be; but at the very least you will always be allowed to get at least one linkback to your website with every single article you publish.

Don’t give away your article’s copy rights to a site. Publish at sites that permit you to publish that same article at dozens of other places at the same time. This allows you the maximum exposure.

Remember, the whole idea with article writing is to create an image of yourself as highly informed, professional, friendly, and potentially useful. Your articles should be grammatically and spelling-wise perfect; written with some pizazz; friendly but at the same time professional in tone; and focused on matters that directly relate to your niche. Have fun, be informative, and write, write, write!

Bruno Auger

Tags: article marketing, content, articles, Bruno Auger

He answered questions about affiliate marketing, and gave his affiliates ways to make referrals and sales for his products (specifically TeleseminarFormula, which has a contest running right now and gives you $98.50 commissions for each sale). He also helped his affiliates figure out what they were missing in the affiliate marketing areas. Here is is video below of the seminar.

Bruno Auger

Tags: affiliate marketing training, Tele Seminar, ustream.tv, Affiliate Marketing, free training, Bob the Teacher, Bob Jenkins, TeleseminarFormula