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Thanks to YouTube.com, (#5 in Alexa currently) online Video is “in” right now in a major way.

All you need to do to grab some of this traffic is to make your own simple vide on your niche’s topic.

It doesn’t even have to be a music video or a well scripted video… Nor a budget video or heck, even an interesting video. Like everything else
Marketing, attaching the right Keywords to your video will get it found. And your video, much like an Article or a Podcast, you simply present a “Call Action” that gets them to click over to your website.

Even Better… With Camtasia and the new IM version of CamStudio, you can simply set the movie to automatically re-direct them to your website when it finished!

Videos can also be used on your site as content, which in fact is a great use for them… Video is the highest form of content on the web right now, as proven by YouTube. However, for our purpose here today, you should come to think making videos as the same thing as writing articles… Plus a little bit of a software learning curve.

Camtasia is still the best tool for making these desktop videos, but it costs shopping $299 for a single user license and doesn’t show any sign of coming down soon. For a no-frills version that will help windows users make the similar product without all the extra effects, there is the totally free “CamStudio, Internet Marketers Version.”

What should you make a movie about? Well, it almost doesn’t matter. But for the sake of producing good content that people will tell their friends about and he build you extra traffic, ask yourself what you can do on your desktop that people in your niche market might find useful.
Anything at all… I’m making one now about how to select keywords. If you’re in a math-oriented niche, whip out MS-Calc.exe and talk about your computation while using the calculator on screen. Artists? Surely you have a writing tablet on your PC… You can teach techniques for drawing while showing them in real time what the drawings are.

Videos made with screen-capture movies are easy to produce, and if you know your niche, simple to write. Perhaps one day our standards will all be higher, but if you’ve spent more than an hour YouTubing, then you’ll agree that the majority of the content out there is really low-end stuff. Hollywood directors need not apply.

So make your desktop videos, name them with a keyword, open a YouTube account and upload them, tagging them with all of your relevant keywords… The Traffic is already there and you could see hundreds or even thousands of people watching your film short before the morning!

There are already tons of smaller YouTube knock-offs popping up out there, so perhaps one of them will be focused on your niche. If not, then you can stick with YouTube alone until one does pop up.

How to find them is a good question, I’d use Google’s Video Search to Google our top five keyword phrases… Surely if there is one that focuses on your niche then their website would offer up a few of the resulting videos.

There is something to be said for Automatic Exchanges too. Although everyone prefers their traffic to be highly targeted, there are times in which sheer bulk traffic has its advantages.

Do you know how Alexa.com gathers its’ data on how popular websites are? It depends on people who download the Alexa Toolbar, and that program constantly reports back to Alexa which websites they are viewing.

Naturally not everyone uses this tool, especially since McAfee and Norton spyware scanners identify it as a security threat! However, the largest segment of the population that uses those Alexa bars would of course be the people who care about their Alexa ranking the most… Internet Marketers.

ESPECIALLY the ones who use traffic exchanges.

You’ll find that a large number of traffic exchange members have the Alexa Toolbar installed and their browsers are set to run the automatic exchages every night.

Imagine having your website visited by 2,000 Alexa-toolbar-packing internet marketers, NIGHTLY. Do you think your website’s ranking might be affected at all?

I use automatic exchanges for this purpose and none other. All it takes is some spare computer “idle” time and a good spyware removal program… Many of these websites can be hazardous to your computer’s health.

Additionally, since page hits are so cheap to these guys, even free accounts come with many thousand free page views just for signing up!
Here are 6 Auto-surf sites:

Five Hits
10000 Visitors
Click Evolution
Traffic Plus Hits
Christian AutoSurf
5000Clicks

Additionally, there is a nice, not quite complete but very easy to use Traffic Exchange directory at: http://www.trafficexchangedirectory.com

It includes both Manual and Auto exchanges as well as many other kinds like Banner, text ads, and mixed formats. Well worth a look if you like these traffic ources.

Traffic exchange websites, either manual or automatic, are simply places that shows you a bunch of websites, and for every one you look at, your website is displayed to others on the exchange.

These aren’t Banner Ads or Impressions of some other kind of Ad, this is truly traffic to your site, although it’s not targeted.

Manual Traffic exchanges bring visitors that are more targeted than Automatic exchange visitors, because you know that every one you get is someone who is actually looking at the page.

Automatic exchanges, by comparison, allow you to leave the program running while you go to sleep for the night and wake up with a couple hundred credits in the morning… Not exactly top quality traffic. Even Manual exchanges suffer in quality a little because you know that the
person looking at your page is pressured to move along in 15 or 20 seconds, and also that they don’t fit into any one demographic… Nothing there is binding them to any other niche other than that of a generic Internet Marketer. (Putting this kind of campaign in the IM2IM Niche with Safelists, Trafficbars, and list builders.)

There is still some conversion however. Perhaps just a little better than a safelist, you can get perhaps 5 out of 100 people to really look at your website or download a free offer on that page with Manual Traffic Exchanges.

If you just join one exchange you can generate perhaps 200 hits a day to your website, so that’s something around 10 people who will take an interest. A common tactic is to use multiple manual exchanges at once, perhaps up to 7 at a time (so that by the time you’ve click on the last one the first one is ready to be clicked again) and you can generate up to 200 hits a day from each of them.

Naturally, if you build a downline or purchase an upgrade you’ll get better exchange ratios, up to 2 shows for every view. All programs offer a free version that begins with a ratio of 1 show for every 2 to 4 views, depending on program.