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SEO Video Marketing That Can Lead To Powerful Results
If you’ve been looking for ways to generate more revenue for your business along with bringing more credibility to it, then SEO video marketing definitely needs to be part of your marketing strategy. It is simply a great way to promote your business and gain the trust of your customers and potential customers.
In the past few years Google has given more relevance to YouTube videos within their search results. A simple search on Google will result in a few listings that include YouTube videos within the top results. As this trend continues now is the time for you to take advantage of it by creating videos for your business that relate to the products and services that you offer.
There are a few ways that you can go about doing this and I’ve outlined some of the types of videos that are most commonly used with SEO video marketing.
Option #1: Explainer Videos
This type of video focuses primarily on explaining a product or service. It can also be in the form of a tutorial. These types of videos when done correct can go viral based on the informational content. People search YouTube every day for tutorials, and if your video has great content it will result in more views and will give your business more exposure.
Option #2: Promotional Videos
If you are going to create a promotional video you’ll need to ensure that everything that is mentioned is indeed factual. Many videos are flagged daily that are believed to be misleading and commercially deceptive, so you’ll want to ensure that your video is done in such a way that while being promotional still builds trust and credibility.
Option #3: Slideshow Videos
These are the types of videos that you need to avoid due to the high level of flagging that occurs with these video types. A slideshow video usually is accompanied by music in the background and its entire focus is highlighting text with related pictures. These videos were very popular initially, but have recently led to a high level of flagging due to their low quality content.
Now that you know the three types of videos that are usually used in video marketing, you can now go ahead and start the process of determining your niche. That’s the first step you need to take when undertaking an SEO strategy.
Upon choosing your niche and determining your target keywords, then you’ll want to complete all the standard techniques that you use in traditional search engine optimization. This means that you need to focus on having keywords in your video title, body description, along with having your keyword as your video tags. YouTube also has the option for transcription, so you’ll want to include a transcription with your video that is optimized for your keyword as well.
With your video now optimized, the last step is to create quality backlinks to your video along with having social network signals. This simply means to get links from other sites pointing to your videos, along with having Facebook Likes & Shares, Twitter Retweets, along with Google + votes all directed to your video.
By following these simple SEO video marketing strategies, you’ll be on your way to a top ranking in both YouTube and Google for your chosen keywords.
How to Setup Your Google Analytics Account
Your main marketing tool and the “shop window” online is your website. But do you know how well it’s performing? How many visitors do you get every week? How many of those sign up for your email newsletter (opt-in to your email list)? Where do they come from, what keywords they searched before they reached your site?All this information is available for free in one of the most comprehensive marketing analytics tools online – Google Analytics. And best of all – it’s completely free to use! In this post I’m going to show you how to setup a Google Analytics account and your website conversion goals.The main reason we need to set up and track websites goals is to track website conversions.Every business website has a purpose: to sell products or services, to cross-promote another site, to engage users. The purpose is achieved when a user accomplishes some specific action, like watching a video, filling in an enquiry form, viewing a minimum number of pages, buying a product. It’s important to identify these milestones and give them values so you can track and measure the extent to which your users succeed.That success data is available in the Goals reports in metrics like Goal Completions, Goal Value and Goal Conversion Rate.Types of Google Analytics goals you can track:
Destination: the user reaches a specified web page or app screen.
Duration: the user spends a specified minimum amount of time on your site or app.
Pages/Screens per visit: the user views a specified minimum number of pages or screens.
Event: the user conducts a specified action, like viewing a video.
For newsletter subscription you can set up the Destination type of goal – webpage view. You need to set up for your email subscription form to redirect subscribers to a special page on the website “thanks for subscription”. Views of this page we are going to track.First you need to create a Google Analytics account if you haven’t got one yet. Then you need to set up a marketing “account” there for your business and accept their Terms & Conditions. In each account you can have multiple properties – I would usually set up a properly for each separate website a business has.Once your property has been set up, Google Analytics will give you a tracking code or a tracking ID that you can add to your website. If your website is powered by WordPress, you can install one of several excellent plugins – we love Google Analytics plugin by Yoast. Most of the plugins are free to use as well.After your plugin has been configured and code successfully added, Google Analytics should say that Tracking has been installed and it’s waiting for data. You can come back to check on your results in a few days to uncover answers to all the questions I showed you at the beginning of this article.What can you do with this data after you have setup your Google Analytics account?You can test improvements to your site to see what really works.
Name of your freebie or optin offer – reason to sign up for your list,
Position on the page – above, below, after header, within the page etc,
Having a pop up vs not having a pop up form, as well as having a text pop up offer vs a video opt-in offer,
Having a sidebar signup vs not having one, and positioning it differently within the sidebar.
The key to testing is you change only one variable at a time, leave it for a while, check your results. If you start changing several aspects at the same time, like adding a pop up, changing offer title, and adding a form just below the header – you won’t know for sure which of those improvements made the biggest difference, and which of the changes could actually be hindering the impact of others.The important part you will also need to set up is to configure goals for your website property – this is done through Google Analytics admin interface. You will need to set up a Goal for each conversion type you want to track – contact form enquiries, product purchases, newsletter subscriptions and so on. The simplest one to set up is your newsletter (email list) opt in conversion.You will need to choose a Goal of type page tracking and enter the URL of the page that subscribers see after they’ve signed up for your newsletter. If you haven’t got a page like that yet – you can add one to your site. In your newsletter provider you then need to add a setting that once someone signed up they should get redirected to this special page. How to do this varies from one provider to another, so you will need to check their specific help files.I’ve also created a video tutorial on how to use Google Analytics, which you can watch here: Google Analytics tutorial. So basically once someone completes a form on your site to sign up for the newsletter, they get automatically redirected to the confirmation page. And Google Analytics tracks views of this special page as conversions for your neswsletter opt in form. Within your goal analytics you can see what kind of traffic converts better – by filtering it by sources, keywords, demographics. Use this data to inform your other marketing strategies: guest blogging, social media, podcasting, keywords you optimise against, SEO.