Comments on: Sneaky Video Rebranding & Distribution – Building Links

By: Internet Marketing

Internet Marketing — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 10:27:39 +0000

I would also stay away from the “blackhat approach” (I was just telling it like it is and there are plenty of whitehat variations / implementations of this technique – then again there are literally hundreds of independent mirrors of YouTube all over the show). However it’s simple enough to send a quick PM on YouTube asking if the user doesn’t mind distributing it to more places in exchange for a link in the description field. There are also “article to video” auto creation services available now for those that want an easier solution to video creation – but I’ll be talking more about that in a future piece.

By: JohnH

JohnH — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 10:22:08 +0000

This is really very unethical – in effect it’s stealing other people’s work and passing it off as your own.

However, if you make your own video and add a watermark, upload it etc then that’s ethical and a very useful article.

By: tadoow

tadoow — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 08:38:50 +0000

Duncan,

I have a question. I did a search for watermarking software and I noticed that they are kind of expensive. Do you you know of any “free” programs or trial programs (that won’t leave their watermark logo in the trial period…it would be removed when you buy the whole product).

Also…If I had to I could I use Windows Movie Makeror Camtasia 3?
I use Camtasia 3 since it was free awhile back. If I were to use lets say Windows Movie Maker…how would I tehn load it up? I thought that inorder to work on slides in WMM the slides would need to be saved as a JPEG…so what would happen if I downloaded the video? Can the file be saved as a JPEG so I can work on it in WMM?

By: ernesto

ernesto — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 06:31:23 +0000

Hi Duncan,

A couple of questions. In regards to getting a bunch of links to it, aren’t there only a few sites that will actually have an active link? I was considering doing video marketing to get backlinks and was going to sign up for a service. But on their sales page, it mentioned only about 5 or 6 sites actually give you a backlink. Do you have an exact number of how many video sharing sites actually give you a live link?

Second, if you can get links from more then a few video sharing sites you say you using this method you could get a ton of backlinks. But in regards to most of the links then coming from the same domain, have you found the links still have good SEO value, or does having a bunch of links from the same domain get devalued?

Thanks for any response,

Ernesto