This is the first part of a 4 part series on what Social Media sites to use to promote your videos for Search Engine Optimization purposes.
Online Video Marketing has rapidly become the number one strategy for promoting any business or non-profit organization. Given a little thought and creativity, it’s the easiest, cheapest and most powerful marketing method currently available.
Videos fall into two basic categories, entertainment or informational. My top 100 list includes mostly general video hosting sites that internet marketers will find useful. Most of them have categories that will accommodate both.
If you can create short, snappy, promotional videos and distribute them to as many of the video sharing sites as possible you will catch the eye of the major search engines virtually instantaneously. If you then promote them on the major Social Bookmarking sites and Social news sites, you have the basis of a strong social media marketing campaign. Add a dash of blogging and social networking and you’re on your way.
This is my list of the top 100 video sharing sites. I have included a couple of “infectious video” type sites but not the “humorous – sexy” type sites. You are welcome to leave a comment below with other sites – but, please, only sites of interest to video marketers.
The List:
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