Video is the new copy. Search engines eat it up and raise it to heady heights. Landing pages lust after it for its ability to turn a lurker into a paying customer. Products love it because what better way to put their bennies on display.
And with production costs reachable by even the most threadbare budgets, there’s no reason not to make it a staple of your marketing plan.
Some quick stats from Forrester and emarketer.com:
♥ Videos rank in the first page of search engine results 50 times more easily than text results
♣ Landing pages with video generate 4-7 times higher response rates and 10 times more engagement time per viewer than static text and graphic landing pages
♦ 48% of online video users visit a website after viewing a video ad
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IDEAS AND SCRIPTS NEED TO BE WRITTEN TO APPEAL TO THE SPIDERS.
Another clever trick is to follow the text search model and do a series of videos. It”s a very efficient production tactic by the way. Your major costs are in the shoot day. Your edit is very inexpensive so amortize that terrific footage over a dozen videos. After all, you wouldn’t consider putting in one (1) search term, would you?
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I volunteer for the Autism Society of Broward County (FL). We’ve been shooting video of our kids surfing events using a GoPro HD Surf Camera and been editing it with Apple’s iMovie. Very inexpensive. Now I see more clearly the value of using the right search terms to broaden our appeal to donors. But how do I know what terms to use? And how oftern to use them?