15 ways to Promote your Online Movie or Video site

by Devesh on January 31, 2010 · 17 comments






If you have started new movie or video related site and don’t know how to promote your new website then you’re at the right article! Out of all these 15 ways, I can assure you that most of them will work for your new website.

#1. Submit to social bookmarking sites Digg.com, Video Bomb, Flurl, StumbleVideo, Twitter – all these sites have the potential to send a lot of viewers if enough people vote for your site.

#2. Good Design You website must have a good design and layout. So it will easily catches the eyes of Visitors.

#3. Tag and describe your videos It is important to put the keywords that describe your video in the associated tags and description so search engines know what your video is about.

#4. Submit your video to the busiest video sharing sites YouTube is busier, but so is Daily Motion, MetaCafe, and many others. If you want people to visit your website write your website in the description and also show it within the video.

#5. Comments on other Blogs Commenting on other blogs get more traffic to your site. Find websites related to your niche. such as
www.wolf-howl.com

#6. Submit your site to directories :
Their are Many Directories Free and Paid. This will not get much traffic but it helps to increase Google ranking. Here is the list of free directories with high PR.

#7. Signup on Yahoo Answers You will not believe 10% of my site traffic is come from Yahoo answers. So start helping other peoples and answer the questions and link the blog posts as the source.

#8. Article Marketing Write a eye catching article and submit to article directories. Here are some places where you can submit your article -
GoArticles.com
AssociatedContent.com
Article City.com
ArticleDashboard.com
ArticlesBase.com
EzineArticles.com

#9. Forum Marketing Give the valuable ideas can encourage people to click on your signature. Depends on the niche of website. such as
www.worldwebmasterforum.com

http://www.movie-list.com/forum/

http://www.themovieforum.org/

http://www.talk-movies.com/

#10. Do something Unique Do something original and unique.Come up with new concept that no one else has done. You will Receive lot of traffic.

#11. Get help from your friends Get your friends to help by adding you to their MySpace, bookmarking your video on social bookmarking sites, adding your video as a favorite on YouTube, posting about your video on their site etc.

#12. Link Exchange Link exchange is great source of Traffic. Do Link Exchange with all types of Blogs.

#13. Rss Submission RSS is a group of web feeds used for publish frequently updated content such as blog entries, News headlines.

#14. Adwords or other PPC You pay only when a visitor clicks on your Ad, it is not a Free way, but really works!

# 15. Choose the right thumbnail When ever you decide to watch a video it is heavily influenced by the thumbnail (the little picture of the video clip) that you see first. If you can choose the thumbnail do so and make it sharp, clear, eye catching and relevant to your video.

##Now Over to your

I hope this post was interesting to you. Please do share your thoughts and do not forget to bookmark this post. If you know any other way please let us know through comment!!

Happy Promoting!!

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TechChunks February 14, 2010 at 5:23 am

Social media is the way to go. I get almost 33% of my traffic from Twitter and Facebook :D
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Techchunks February 14, 2010 at 1:58 pm

Social media is the way to go. I get almost 33% of my traffic from Twitter and Facebook :D

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Dev February 14, 2010 at 2:03 pm

soon i gonna try my hands on social media .
Thanks

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Atul Gupta April 12, 2010 at 7:56 pm

Hey Dev thanks for writing this article ..i am looking foe the same…. thanks anyways to help me
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DEV April 13, 2010 at 5:28 pm

Hey! Atul
You’re Welcome :) and thanks for stopping by

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Shiva | Netchunks April 13, 2010 at 6:55 am

I have never tried article Marketing and Yahoo Answers for my own personal blog (Did it for clients sometimes) cos it is really a very lengthy process but I think I will have to try it out. On the other hand social media can also be a funtastic tool for traffic. Thanks for the post mate
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DEV April 13, 2010 at 5:27 pm

i spend most of my time on social media.
and thanks for stopping by !!

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fapturbo discount April 14, 2010 at 2:00 pm

Great article Dev and something that I really need to look into. I am used to the old school method of article marketing etc but social media is one that I have to really explore.

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Adam May 27, 2010 at 6:04 am

Thanks for great post to promote video site. I am looking for it. It will be help me for promote my non profit videos in search engine.

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kanika December 3, 2010 at 12:34 pm

Hi Adam. If you are looking forward to promote your videos, try E-junkie.tv. It lets you promote links with videos.

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Hunter Reed June 22, 2010 at 7:35 am

online movies are cool but i wish the quality were better..”*

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Leo King July 27, 2010 at 9:28 am

i always watch online movies from Vimeo or Youtube, it is low resolution but most of the time sufficient.`;;

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Armil at Video Talk September 22, 2010 at 6:08 pm

I guess you have to go the site that has a higher page rank. On the other hand social media can also be a funtastic tool for traffic.

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kanika December 3, 2010 at 7:09 am

hey Devesh..its indeed a helpful article. thanks.

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Mukundan Srinivasan February 26, 2011 at 2:57 am

I don’t have a movie site but I liked reading the points. Interesting and informative as well.
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Swayam Das from SEO Tech Marketing September 1, 2011 at 4:03 am

Is this SEO market really getting congested now? Cause I find a lot of points being repeated all over this niche! :(
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