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I don't want to sound all cliche and stuff, but doesn't videos provide more contents and kinda more effective then just plain text?

Hi:

Once again you've touched on a subject that I'm very interested in. I've been interested in getting into video with our dealership website http://www.donmackeynissan.com, but just haven't taken the plunge yet. Thanks for helping me navigate the terrain a bit.

Deb

Living proof of video success. We have a retail location and have begun putting video on screens in our display window. Interest in our window has gone up immensly...it has given us a captive audience to promote our sales. Sales have increased over 40 percent as well!! I was wondering if it would have the same effect online as it has at our retail store. We have been using www.hd1080stockfootage.com for our retail and presentation video footage and they say that they will have web licenses this month. This type of success has me motivated to get our company on the web finally - also knowing where to find the low priced, eye catching content, to make us stand out from the rest, is a plus.

Video is the future for internet. A picture say a thousand words, video is great for customer demonstrations and testimonials. We are producing interactive customer videos for double glazed windows industry. The 1st client will be http://www.doubleglazingshop.co.uk

I personally am moving my business into video marketing in 2009. Your article was very timely and much appreciated!

I would like to place this post on my WP blog, and would like to know the protocols I need to use to get permission do so.

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Thankx
Tim Buttles

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We have been using video for one year to create micro sites and even have our own local TV station for continuous content: Perranporth

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We have seen our films appear at the top of SERPs for long tailed keywords in a matter of minutes on Google. We even have bets and guessing games about which one will appear first and after how many seconds!

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We've known for a while that video sells - just look what happened once TV entered the scene after radio. Radio is still here, but we no longer sit the whole family together to listen to a particular show.

We don't even do that with TV anymore. So we can deduct from this, that people want their experience to be individual. So of course Video is important, but I believe the next step - personalized video to be even more important.

Examples of that kind of video kan be found in certain games and other places, wher the person watching is presented with a choice, and that choice gives an opportunity to go to the next scene.

Another scenario is that videoads will become as personalized as the text ads are today - targeting you as a customer whereever you go, and whatever you do - always staying on top of who you are, and your preferences.

It will be most difficult to resist buying and buying :-)

So far video is the way to go for getting rank if you have a decent site.
Whatever the market that you're in video will speak for itself in getting your point across.

i would like to hear other inputs, but at first it seems video is much better suited (as thus likely to show up) as SERPs for informational queries. Transactional queries, with some exceptions (concert tickets?) and informational queries are less likely to be satisfactorily answered by a video result.

would any reelseo folks like to chime in on this one?

We are experiencing an increase in inquiries for video content. Clients are, as you would expect, concerned with production costs and are not fully convinced that there will be a good ROI. Fortunately we can show site metrics that verify that client sites with video enjoy longer visits from visitors. The conversion rates are higher and in some cases we can see noticable improvements in search results.

One client example is a window tinting company website http://www.HotSpotTinting.com which uses video to demonstrate a process that would be difficult to convey in words.

Video and multimedia value is a part of every conversation with prospective clients as well as existing clients. I anticipate that at least 40% of our clients will add video in 2009.

We have used video in a few instances and had mixed results but I think now after reading your article we will use video a bit more and see if we see favorable results. A lot of your points are indeed valid and make sense, thank you.

Mary

I started putting videos up on youtube for lawyers websites 4 months ago and the results are great. They are going to the first pages of search engines and they are also average from 100 to 200 views per month. Which is great when you consider most lawyers websites average around 300 visitors per month. I think now is the time to put video on your site before your competitors do.