Video Promotion for Affiliate Marketers

by Coby
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While most people will tell you to use pay-per-click advertising, article marketing and building a website, here’s a shortcut method to get your sales started and quickly. Videos can get you into search engines fast.



Use one of these tools to get started:
  • Camtasia Studio has a 30 day free trial
  • CamStudio which is free and located at camstudio.org
  • Jing that works on the Mac or PC
  • Web Cam
  • Sony Movie Studio
  • Movie Studio 9
Now that you have a selection of products, a website or direct links to a vendor’s website, it’s time to promote. First, you will want to get into the video arena.


I know you probably weren’t expecting that. But, people are video junkies, and if you want to get people engaged, you will need to go where the traffic goes.

Creating videos is one sure-fire way to get traffic to your site. Creating a video is not as hard as you think. It’s easy and fun, and will get you into a lot of niches which means more money.

Working with camtasia can be a little daunting but it can make for itself in spades once mastered.

If you need to go free Jing is the second easiest way to record from screen to video. If you’re good with Powerpoint, you can create a slide show, narrate it about your site and simply read from a script. These are the easiest type of video to create, and when used correctly, they are traffic bringers.

Set your monitor resolution to 800x600 for recording. Record your videos at 800 x 600, resized to 480 x 360 with SmartFocus. You want them to be quick, and talk about the product you are promoting.

The bottom third is very important in videos. You want to tell them about your domain name or the domain of the affiliate site. If you don’t have a site of your own, go to SnipUrl where you can put in your affiliate link, and it will give you an output.

For instance, if your affiliate product is for Maverick Money Makers, and your affiliate link is
HTML Code:
http://XXXXX.PUBLISHER.hop.clickbank.net
, your SnipUrl will be www .snipurl/MaverickMoney.com

The SnipURL can go in the lower left part of your video, and remain there for the duration. As you talk about your website, all you need to do is use SnagIt to capture pictures, which you put in your Powerpoint presentation and capture as video.

Add a couple of transitions, and you are in the video arena. These short video reviews are what you upload to all of the video sites.



Things to remember:
  • Make sure that the name of the video is your longtail keyphrase or product name plus a word like deals. (ie. Salmon deals, Rolex watch deals)
  • Make sure that the keywords and keyphrases are submitted and enclosed in quotes as well as without quotes.
  • Make sure that you submit them with the URL leading back to your website
  • In the information section, be sure and put your website, or SnipURL if you don’t have a website that leads back to the affiliate product.
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  • Profile picture of the author Paleochora
    Great post.

    I am using Camtasia 6 at the moment and just learned that you can create a clickable link in the actual video. How cool is that??? Did my first one with that feature today on a free video for people on my list.

    I only have my built in webcam for taking video of me which is not so great and I find I get the best results recording from that webcam using Cyberlink YouCam. There are more settings to fiddle with and produces much smoother results with no lag compared with Camtasia & Windows Movie Maker.

    What is the advantage of SnagIt compared to the snipping tool in Windows 7?
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    • Profile picture of the author leclaims
      Thanks for the great information Coby. This is an arena that is still pretty new to me, but I'm sure is a great strategy for generating traffic and popularity.
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      • Profile picture of the author Coby
        Originally Posted by Paleochora View Post

        Great post.

        I am using Camtasia 6 at the moment and just learned that you can create a clickable link in the actual video. How cool is that??? Did my first one with that feature today on a free video for people on my list.

        I only have my built in webcam for taking video of me which is not so great and I find I get the best results recording from that webcam using Cyberlink YouCam. There are more settings to fiddle with and produces much smoother results with no lag compared with Camtasia & Windows Movie Maker.

        What is the advantage of SnagIt compared to the snipping tool in Windows 7?
        Camtasia 6 sounds sweet! I also just use my computers web cam. I have a nice digital camera but I just never seem to remember, lol.

        Originally Posted by leclaims View Post

        Thanks for the great information Coby. This is an arena that is still pretty new to me, but I'm sure is a great strategy for generating traffic and popularity.
        This can be very powerful for generating traffic and will get backlinks too if its your own products or sites :-D
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  • Profile picture of the author poppa5502
    I do videos everyday about something..and have been doing it for over 4 years now..and it does bring traffic and sale
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    • Profile picture of the author foxanthony
      I bought a cheap camcorder a couple of days ago and made 5 half-a**ed videos. I uploaded them to Tubemogul. Now, I see them all over the listings for my search terms. Kind of exciting (and embarrassing, I'm definitely going to try and improve).
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  • Profile picture of the author bonn
    URL shortening is awesome. if there is anyone in here that is a developer of any kind --- you should experiment with googles goo.gl shoren url API
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