Does Article To Video Really Work?

Some people really do prefer video to articles. I don't, but it won't hurt to broaden your horizons.

I know that EZA won't accept content if it's been previously submitted elsewhere, but I'm not sure about other article directories. You might put the article on your own blog, for instance, then mass-submit to blog directories, social bookmarks, Twitter, etc etc etc

Here is a cool EZA strategy: Submit your article first to EZA and then submit to the other directories.....

Hope that helps

I don't know if I'm missing some trick but I did convert a lot
of my articles to videos and uploaded them to YouTube and
from the views they are the least popularly of my videos.

Of course, that is not a scientific test result but just
something you may factor in. My articles were PPT
slides with the articles being read.

-Ray Edwards

yes,it really worked for me,with good results

A video always catch good attraction. If you post quality video you sure will gain good response. But I prefer uploading videos in YouTube. It does a great help for spreading your link.

Video article marketing is no different from standard article marketing. If you write a boring/garbage article it does nothing for you. If you create a boring/garbage video article it does nothing for you.

The key is not to become a lemming by following the crowd, instead become innovative with your video article marketing and set a new standard for everyone else to follow.

Tim

IMO those who think article videos don't work because the majority don't want to sit through an entire article being read I humbly suggest you rethink the advertising medium being discussed and it's purpose.

You actually don't want them listening to your long article anyways, so don't worry about it if most do not want to.

You give them a teaser and incentive to go to your site to read the whole article. If you give them the whole article you need to work harder to give them an incentive to go to your site after they have already gotten the info they wanted.

You want them to go to your site, read the article in it's entirety there and monetize them. (You don't go directly for the sale in an article video)!


A video article will serve at least these 4 purposes.

1. Gain an authority backlink from youtube and other video sites.
2. Use those backlinks to improve rankings of your article on your site.
3. Use those rankings to funnel people from the search engines to your site.

4. Funnel people from youtube to your site.

Tip: A video article can be your "mini classified for the real article" with the purpose of moving that visitor to your site where you can monetize them.

(It doesn't have to be a full article, and your whole message can include anything you want to say, not just what is in the article.)

Hope that helps,

Aaron

Video article marketing does work and the rules are very similar to article marketing. You must have great content and you must not depend on just one video. I recommend 15 to 30 video articles per keyword.

Ezine requires approval but many other good directories are out there which do not need approval.. Some like Goarticles and Articlebase

Using the article to video software for me would have to be a last resort. Uniqueness, personality, branding, a balance between quality and the informality of Social Media style video, hand crafted powerpoints are important from where I stand.

Gurus are saying they get far better response from video sales letters than their traditional long sales letters.

A niche SME/SMB technology firm I know gains excellent lead generation from video. They are a key source of global responses from one man bands to Fortune 500 companies.

Why I come from this angle is through training others in Social Media.

That was a good answer, I am surprised I never though of doing it that way. A short teaser as an advertisement for my real article. By combining this with some youtube techniques I learned from others it might actually work. My goal is to get 200+ views average to every article I write. Right now I am stuck at 100.

It works extremely well if it's well thought out and executed. You've got to keep it short, build up some emotional response through emotional triggers, and use a cliff hanger so that they will WANT to come over to your money page, opt-in page, or whatever landing page you want to send them to.

It has to be relevant and you can't just submit a few of these, consistency is extremely CRITICAL to making this work (along with just about everything everyone else wrote, like that Tim G. guy......).


RoD "If-Coffee-Were-A-Dish-I'd-Weigh-2-Tons!" Cortez

One of the best strategies you can use when doing internet or affiliate marketing is take content in articles and make videos and upload them to Tubemogul.com or Traffic Geyser.

My advice would be to do it yourself.

Here are the methods for unlimited content from articles.

Method 1
1. Use an article (preferably yours) and get a good understanding of the main points.
2. Create a powerpoint presentation covering the main points of the article.
3. Use Jing (jingproject.com) to record the powerpoint presentation and add your audio. You can either read the article verbatim, or just summarize the article using the main content. Jing is completely free and you can record videos up to 5 minutes long.
4. Upload the video to tubemogul.com or traffic geyser.
5. Add the video to your website or blog as additional content.

Method 2
1. Find an article and get a good understanding of the content.
2. Use your webcam or video camera to present the information.
3. Upload it to tubemogul or traffic geyser.
4. Add it to your blog or website

You now know how you can use articles to generate unlimited content for video marketing.

Brett

OK, Here's the answers you're looking for about EZA.
Yes they will accept an article that's been published elsewhere, (your own blog or article site for example), but it must be unique, and yours. If it even smells like it's been plagiarized, they will refuse it.
LandOfFormosa has the best technique, and I've used it myself. Submit to EZA first, wait the usual long time, and when it's accepted, spin and blast it as far as you can.
By the way, another good article site to post to is ArticleExtreme

You can submit article videos to Podcast sites too. This is
not as well-known as video submission, but basically similar
and you can pick up some traffic that way.

Article videos ARE boring to watch, especially if you're
cranking them out with the Incansoft product as quick
as possible, but the point is, sort of, to get backlinks.

If you really want to do it nice, set up a teleprompter and
do your articles that way. Having a pretty woman read
your articles off the teleprompter is a good way to get
more views. For some reason YouTubers seem more
interested in attractive female talking heads than in male
ones. This is just an observation - I have no hard proof.

I have started to transform my eBay listings into youtube video clips that were all less than 3:00, and for some odd reason, I like making little videos but hate writing descriptions. My sales have slightly improved.