Chicago Video Production

Imagine a Chicago based company who wants to incorporate video into their online presence. This should be all Chicago based companies, but that’s not the point. This company doesn’t know much about video, so they Google “video production Chicago” and click on the first link (which is Video One, by the way). Once they reach our website, they will see a few videos on the homepage, including an installment of our Video White Paper series.

Video One put together a 10-part White Paper series for a number of reasons. Most of all, it’s a friendly first step in the video production process that helps people understand what to do before making a video, but after they have decided to produce one.  Seeing one of our White Papers will hopefully illustrate what a good video looks and feels like, and how effective it can be at capturing viewers’ attention.

On the other hand, our white paper series is also a marketing effort. It helps position us as a thought leader in the industry. By covering multiple topics in an engaging format, we demonstrate to people our expertise and professionalism. White Papers also help us grow our email database. Viewers need to submit their email address to see the white paper. Once we have their email address, we send a thank you note, and tell them about our optional newsletter.

All together, the white papers are a way to brand our business. By being easy to find and teaching viewers what we’ve learned from the business, viewers will hopefully feel comfortable working with us. Our approach isn’t unique or revolutionary, and practically any business can adopt it. By utilizing SEO (which video can help with) determine your company’s expertise and share some of that knowledge with the world. Although certain professionals might be skeptical about giving out free advice, those fears are mostly unnecessary. If anything, people will recognize your expertise and want to do more business with you.

When it comes down to it, these videos are about business. But it’s a win/win business. People come to us to make a video, and that’s good business for Video One. However, having a video is good business for the client too, and that’s the point of our White Paper series. We want to show what kind of videos are out there, how to optimize videos for search, and how that drives traffic to websites.

Come back tomorrow to learn more about what White Papers and viral videos can do for your business.

Search engine marketing and social media blog Seoptimise.com has posted a great list of 10 ways to optimize your YouTube videos to gain higher rankings in search engines. Some of these points are also specific to getting more traffic to your YouTube channel.

The list hits plenty of important points including:

• Picking a title tag
• Internal linking with video response
• Internal linking with playlists
• Encourage ratings
• Build external links
• Widescreen videos
• Linking form video description
• Don’t limit yourself to YouTube
• Add relevant tags

Read the full article at Seoptimise.com.

Here’s an excellent clip from the folks over at vidiSEO explaining how to optimize your YouTube video Search Engine Optimization or SEO. Check it out:

The web’s go-to social media guide, Mashable.com, posted a great piece from Shane Snow last month describing how web video SEO is finally catching up with the rest of the the SEO industry.

The article discusses the state of web video, new developments in web video including captions on YouTube videos and SpeakerText and the future for Internet video on devices such as Apple’s new iPad.

Also included in the piece is this great graphic describing just how much video is being uploaded to YouTube each day and year from Scordit.com:

Read the full article, titled “How Web Video SEO is Finally Coming of Age,” on Mashable.com right now.