Free Traffic Tips

This is the second to last post if I’m keeping you up, darlings.

What I’m doing now is giving you links to lists that other people have compiled of video sharing sites. I haven’t gone through and comprehensively figured out how much traffic they get, what their features are, or what the community at each site is like – this here is the free version so you’ll have to do all the work yourself, love.

Okay, drum roll, someone….

This top ten video comparion list seems to have turned into over 40. Nice chart.
Here’s the obligatory Wikipedia list. rel will equal no follow. If you’re not part of the No Follow Community that’s an inside joke.
Read/Write Web did a fairly comprehensive list that included lots of other resources back in February of this year 51 links if I remember correctly.

But EverybodyGoTo wins the prize for Dear Mother of All, Now That’s a List for their list of 210 online video sites. I hear there are already 90 more worth mentioning, and several uploading services, but I’m getting sleepy guys. That has to go into the resource I was singing about earlier.
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If you can’t see the soundless video above, it means UStream is down.

Sorry about the delay. I went over to UStream, which we’re going to talk about shortly when I get to tools, and I got caught up because the recorded video interface is fixed. All the video messages I sent within their system are live, and I was really excited, especially since I had no makeup on.

And if I played my cards right, the video above is of “Pillow Talk with Tinu” a message I sent to a pal of mine who has a show over there. Of course the sound doesn’t appear to be working, but that was on my side.

Back to the lecture at hand.

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When I first mentioned that I was looking for content about Web Video at twitter, MarshallK was kind enough to toss me a cool tidbit, and I didn’t even have to ask.

His report is about Live Video Online, which is definitely going to be the center of our focus today in the next few posts. There’s something that is way more compelling about a live person talking to you, and having no idea what could happen that’s better than any recorded video, no matter how polished it is.

Here’s some of what my home skillet Marshall had to say:

Video on the web, one of the most compelling types of media being published, will no longer by exclusively asynchronous. Have you seen my favorite podcasts in the player on the sidebar of this blog? Make those all live broadcasts and I will gladly watch one or two minutes of commercials every 15 minutes. The barrier to entry into the video publishing world has been lowered dramatically and when live video broadcast is easily accessible then we are going to see some thrilling stuff.

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Okay, I have said that I was going to dedicate another day to Web Video, because it’s getting hotter by the second.

And I’ve found out so much that unless you feel like reading 40 posts, it’s just too much. So instead, most likely this evening (because I have to get someone to do the extensive linking for me, and my hands hurt) I’m going to do a bunch of posts about why you should use web video to market your site, and feature a few tools, etc.

Then I’ll do a much more in-depth report later – if you want to know when it’s available, join the newsletter.

For now, for those of you who missed it, let’s do a round-up of the existing posts on Web Video and Traffic:

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