Why ArticleReel?

ArticleReel works in the background and keeps generating backlinks to your website through its unique technology. The regular SEO tools/services do “optimize” your website to be SEO friendly and this does work, but only for a while. Why? Search engines like Google are getting more smarter by the day and track websites not only based on its keywords but factor in a number of other points such as content quality, frequency of content updates, number of backlinks, weightage of backlinks, etc.  to name a few. This again is not set on stone – Google keeps improving its search algorithms to make sure the rankings are accurate as possible which means your website needs to be tuned to match up with the expectations of the search engines to make sure you’re always in Google rankings. This is where ArticleReel steps into the picture – ArticleReel is that someone who could keep your website SEO optimized, keep generating backlinks to your website, keep improving (and sustaining) the Google traffic rankings and make sure you’re website is indexed for the maximum possible keyword searches every other day!

How does ArticleReel work?

ArticleReel incorporates sophisticated technology with the years of marketing experience that puts your internet marketing on auto-pilot leaving you to concentrate on your core function. When you create an ArticleReel website, ArticleReel automatically creates backlinks between ArticleReel sites that fall into the same category. So for example if you have installed ArticleReel on your website http://www.articlevideorobot.com and there is another ArticleReel website named http://www.toufee.com and if the two websites fall in the same category, then the two websites would start exchanging backlinks automatically. That is not all. If http://www.toufee.com is already exchanging backlinks with other ArticleReel websites, then http://www.articlevideorobot.com would start exchange with “sites” that link to http://www.toufee.com as well.

Hang on, don’t think that ArticleReel is just another link exchange – absolutely not! What I’ve mentioned is just one of the ways in which ArticleReel increases backlinks. ArticleReel is a full featured video blog that is automatically updated as you add new ArticleVideoRobot videos. This means that the content on your website is updated regularly which keeps search engines like Google busy and your website is always on the hot list.  On every ArticleReel video page, you get your entire article posted which means you don’t have to worry about keyword optimization since you have the entire article for Google to index. This is a double-advantage since ArticleReel not only sets up a video blog, but you now also have all your text articles posted along with it searching as a great repository and that which serves as rich content for Google to index. How does this translate into generating traffic to your website? Because your ArticleReel is set up on your website, and because you have your articles setup in your ArticleReel, Google indexes your website URL (let say http://www.articlevideorobot.com) every time it indexes your article,  Google associates your website URL with top keywords that it indexes your articles for. In addition, ArticleReel generates only quality backlinks, has its own alogirthm to determine the weightage of the backlinks so you could be rest assured that your website gets quality sites linking back to your website.

How do I get started with ArticleReel?

Setting up ArticleReel is pretty simple. I would first recommend that you have a look at this video that provides a quick walkthrough:

http://www.articlevideorobot.com/articlereel_vid.html

Once you ready to go ahead, setting up ArticleReel shouldn’t take you more than a few minutes using the ArticleReel wizard. To launch the ArticleReel wizard, login to your ArticleVideoRobot account and then click on the ArticleReel image on the left. Alternatively, you could go navigate to the below URL directly after you login to your ArticleVideoRobot account.

http://www.articlevideorobot.com/videomarketing/articlereel.html

The ArticleReel is a self-explanatory wizard and you should be able to find your way without much problem. Also, you would just have to spend a few minutes to allow the ArticleReel wizard to convert your ArticleVideoRobot video into ArticleReel’s format.

Time to get started!

I doubt if you would be reading this line as I am sure you would have already launched the ArticleReel wizard and started getting your videos ArticleReel-ed. The clock starts now and let ArticleReel take care of generating traffic to your website. Time to go ahead and grab a hot coffee

Let me first introduce some of the new changes. The most important of them is that the Members Area now lists the AVR (Video Download) and the VSR (Video Submissions) credits. A number of our customers have lots of confusion over the credits. Note that you get two sets of credits with your membership every month.

The Members Area would also now list your Account Level on the top left. The Members Area also now has the new Follow us on Twitter link if you wish to follow ArticleVideoRobot on Twitter. Just below the Follow us on Twitterlink is a quick preview of the latest blog article with the the blog title and a short description of the article.

One of the new features of the Your Recent Projects section, is the quick preview box that shows a quick description of the article along with important options which include Preview This Project that opens the Quick Preview window, Download/Distribute that opens the Select Publishing Options screen from where you could choose to download or distribute the video as well as the Edit this Project that opens the video in the Full AVR Wizard.

Staying on with the Members Area, you’ll notice a new tab called Projects that will list all your recent projects. The difference is that the Projects tab lists all the video articles with the detailed preview and all of the options. However, one of the immediate question one might notice is where have all the existing projects gone? Here is how you access your existing video projects

1. In the new Members Area, click Start Full Editor button available under the Full Article to Video Editor option. This would open the ArticleVideoRobot wizard
2. Click the Open Existing Projects button. The wizard will list all your videos
3. Select a video and on the right panel you’ll see the buttons Edit Selected movie and Distribute selected movie. Click Edit Selected movie option to open the video. If you would like to distribute the video, select Distribute selected movie

Notice the flashy bar on the top that says Return to Article Video Robot’s old Member’s Area. Click this if you wish to switch over to the old Members Area. Clicking on the close icon (the cross sign on the bar) removes this bar permanently, but just in case you wish to switch over to the old Members Area page, simply navigate to the following URL http://www.articlevideorobot.com/members/home.pl and you should be right there.

Hope this helps. Should you have any questions, please raise a ticket to Support Desk (http://www.articlevideorobot.com/support) and we’ll be glad to assist.

See you all in my next post,

Ganesh

To publish your video to your website or blog, follow the steps below:

1) Login to your ArticleVideoRobot.com account

2) Click on the Full AVR Editor button. This will open a new window. Click on Open Existing Projects button

3) Select the flash video project and click Distribute this movie button

4) In the new window that pops up, click on XPressPublish (Blog, Twitter, Facebook) button.

5) The Publish Online window will open up. Copy the HTML code and paste it into your website or blog

ArticleVideoRobot flash videos have a scaling of 640×430, the default HD-quality size. However, when you publish your video to blogs, you’ll generally have to reduce the size or you would notice the flash video being cut off on the right side. To fix the issue, you’ll have to reduce the scaling of your ArticleVideoRobot flash video by using the iScale parameter. Below is a modified version of the HTML code that will publish your video at 60% scaling.

<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://www.articlevideorobot.com/movies/player.swf" style="width: 384px; height: 249px;" height="249" width="384">
<param name="movie" value="http://www.articlevideorobot.com/movies/player.swf">
<param name="quality" value="high">
<param name="scale" value="noscale">
<param name="salign" value="lt">
<param name="wmode" value="transparent">
<param name="flashvars" value="userID=56&projID=SOMEPROJECTusto-tweb&iScale=60&domain=www.articlevideorobot.com">
</object>

The following are the changes made to the HTML code

1. Add a new attribute named iScale and set its value (note its a percentage) to the size that you want to scale the flash video. In the above code, the iScale attribute is set to 60 which means that your flash video would be scaled to 60% of its original size (the original height and width parameters are 640 pixels and 430 pixels respectively)
2. Change the height and width according to the new scale. In the above code, I set the width to 384 (60% of 640) and height to 249 (60% of 430) respectively. Note that the original width and height are 640 and 430 pixels

The values are not absolute, which means that you could scale the flash video to 70% or 75% and adjust the height and width parameters accordingly.

1. Prepare a list of keyword-rich titles for your video: This the key concept of Dynasubmit. That you could use a single video with different titles and submit it in an instant to video sites. For example, for the video article that shows how to make money with Twitter, you could have various titles such as “How to Use Twitter to Make Money”, “Make Money Online With Twitter”, “Top Twitter Money Making Tips”,  “Online Money Making Secrets with Twitter”, etc
2. Prepare a list of related keywords that relate to the niche you’re targeting: It is important that you capture as many keywords as possible associated with your target niche/audience. Once you’ve worked out the list, use the keywords with each variation of your video instance.
3. Now for the real action. Use Dynasubmit to post as many variations of the video as possible.  Let’s say there are 100 videos in YouTube that target the segment “money making with Twitter” and assuming that you post at the least 10 variations of the same video (using different video titles), your videos would make up 9% of all videos on YouTube that target the niche. The share of your videos would significantly increase if you could work up more video titles – you could go anywhere between 15-20%  of overall share of videos pertaining to a niche. And assuming you have associated all the keyword combinations with all your videos that you posted, your videos would easily be returned on any search made on YouTube and that directly translates into traffic to your video.

This is not all. So far we’ve looked only at YouTube but to really treble your video traffic you would simply have to repeat the same on all the 15 videos sites supported by ArticleVideoRobot such as Metacafe, Yahoo Videos, DailyMotion, etc. With the minimum assumption that you managed to build 10 variations of the video (i.e. changing the video titles ofcourse), you could easily end up with 150 video postings (10 video titles x 15 video sites) across all the video sites. Going by the numbers that is certainly a lot of videos considering that we worked this all up just from a single video! All we try to do is change the video title and use Dynasubmit to let the video be posted to the video sites.

Let’s cook some backlinks

Alright, you are ready to churn out 150 videos all across the Internet just out of  a single video but do remember to include your website URL in the Video Description field which is the secret to generating huge backlinks to your website. Refer step 4 (screenshot) of the following article that shows the Video Description field in which you should enter your website URL:

http://www.articlevideorobot.com/blog/how-to-submit-your-video-article-to-youtube-using-videosubmitrobot.html

When search engines index your video, they also your hyperlink (i.e. your website URL) and this would mean valuable SEO optimization since search engine would associate a higher ranking to your URL as it comes from popular video sites. When you include the fact that your website URL would be instantly available on hundreds of your videos across the Internet in a matter of a single video.

The One Click Article To Video Converter

Using the One Click Article To Video Converter wizard is pretty simple. Follow the steps below to turn your articles to videos even faster with the One Click wizard.

1. Login to your ArticleVideoRobot account by going to http://www.articlevideorobot.com/login.html
2. Under Create New Project select Convert Article option
3. Enter the URL of your EzineArticle in the Ezinearticles.com Article URL field and click Convert My Article To Video.
   
4. If you are prompted for a Captcha, then enter the text that you see in the image and click Convert My Article To Video button. This is a security measure to ensure that only real humans are using the One Click Article to Video wizard
5. You’ll see a progress bar for a couple of seconds before your article is converted. Once the conversion is complete, you will see a confirmation that your article has been converted to video successfully. To immediately preview your video article, click Watch The Video button. Note that the converted flash video article would be automatically added to your account

Article Not on EzineArticles? The One-Click converter still works

A common misunderstanding is that your article needs to be on EzineArticle site. This is not entirely true. As long as you have an article, you can create a flash video out of it in a matter of seconds except that you will be entering the entire article content into the One Click Article To Video wizard instead of providing the EzineArticle URL. Here is how you do it.

1. Launch the One-Click Converter wizard but click on the Article Not on EzineArticles? link
2. Enter the article title and its content in the Article Title and Article Body textboxes respectively. You would also need to complete Article Category, Author Name, Author’s Website fields and finally the Captcha verification before clicking on the Convert My Article To Video! button

Ensure your video accounts are setup

Before you can start submitting your videos, it is required that you have user accounts on the video sites. If you do not have a user account for a specific video site, you can sign-up from within VideoSubmitRobot by clicking on “Not a Member? Create Account” link.

Activate video accounts

Once you have created user accounts on all the video sites, it is recommended that you manually login to all the video sites ONCE to ensure that your videos are posted successfully when using the VideoSubmitRobot program. Facebook flashes a message bar (like the one show below) to verify your account.

When you use a non-Google email account to register with YouTube, you will have to verify your email address before you can start posting videos to YouTube. This process is not required if you used a Gmail account during signup (you wouldn’t have seen this message at all).

Yahoo Video account needs separate activation

Even if you do already have a Yahoo account, you would still have to ensure that you activate your Yahoo Video account. Bear in mind that you have to login to your Yahoo Video account manually so that it gets activated

Remove Account Restrictions

Some video sites have an initial restriction on new user accounts – a standard procedure to guard against illegal usage by robots and to encourage fair content.  Facebook has an initial video restriction of 2 minutes (or 10MB, whichever applies). This restriction is lifted once you complete phone verification on your Facebook account.

Stick with what you know

Where possible, always use existing accounts over new accounts since this gets you more views. Also, streamlining also your videos into a single account (per video site) increases your popularity with search engines resulting in getting indexed and thereby your videos being viewed more often.

Ensure content-rich videos

Vimeo and DailyMotion expect content to be informational and not “promotional” in nature. DailyMotion is very strict on videos that are self-promotional and usually removes them from the server. The key to successful video submissions on DailyMotion is to ensure that the video is as informative as possible. If you find a video rejected by DailyMotion, you can always contact their support and request for an explanation.

Also use high-quality videos as much as possible. Vimeo and DailyMotion emphasize a lot on the video quality as they do on the content. The ArticleVideoRobot Business Account supports HD-quality (resolutions of 640×480 and higher) that ensures your video articles are delivered at the highest possible quality when being distributed to the video sites.

Hands-On approach

It is also important to understand special exceptions – for example, all videos posted to Revver are manually reviewed and approved by Revver staff. Hence videos posted to Revver are not immediately available and the VideoSubmitRobot report might show as “PENDING” or “FAILED”. The VSR report is automatically updated as soon as this video is approved and available.

Get it right the first time

Make sure you always preview your video more than once before posting it a video site. Before you go ahead and submit the video, always make sure you post it one video site and once you verify that the video posted fine, go ahead and post the video to the remaining video sites. This way, you not only save time but also avoid duplicate video submissions. Once you get traffic on one of your video, you enjoy much better chance of your videos being ranked higher by the video sites.

Participate

If you use an account only for submitting videos and never manually login or view other videos through that account, your videos are rated lower and hence you get lesser views. So make sure that you actively subscribe to video channels that relate to the content that you’re marketing, add comments or rate other videos and try to view as many videos as possible. This ensures that you get views back to your account and eventually to the video that you have posted.

Use DynaSubmit to maximize reach

DynaSubmit is a unique feature that allows you to post your video to all the video sites while allowing you to uniquely customize the content (video title and the description) for each site. With DynaSubmit, you post the same video (but with a unique title/description customized for each video site) to all video sites at one click. This feature helps prevents content duplication problem in search engines where your single video can have multiple search terms/keywords associated to it.

For example, you could have a video article “How to Use Twitter to Make Money”. With DynaSubmit, you can post this video article using different (but related) titles such as “Make Money Online With Twitter”, “Top Twitter Money Making Tips”,  “Online Money Making Secrets with Twitter”, etc. This way, search engines treat each instance of your video posted on different video sites as unique and your video gets associated with a variety of search terms. So the next time someone searches for Twitter and money, you could surely bet your video would be on the top search results. Use DynaSubmit to drive huge traffic to your videos overnight. All that is required is to create keyword-rich video titles and DynaSubmit does the rest – your videos always make it to the top of the search results which even the popular SEO companies would take ages to achieve.

Use Tags Effectively

Tags are keywords that describe your video article. More specifically, the video sites as well as the search engines use tags to identify videos. By using the most relevant keywords to tag your video, you ensure your videos end up being searched more often and this couldn’t be a bad thing at all

Go Broad

Try to submit your videos to as many different video sharing sites as possible. You need your video to get popular at only one of these sites to get massive amount of traffic. If you would like to see a pattern of traffic on various videos it is generally too low or too high. Once you cross the too low bracket your video catches on
nicely.

Tip the Jar

Post your video URL at Twitter, your blogs and on your profile pages on social networking sites. This really pushes the ranking of your video considerably in search results. Once a video starts to receive traffic, it gets indexed by bookmarking sites which in turn adds to the number of backlinks to the video. This improves the video ranking in search engines and starts piling up good traffic increasing the relevance of the video in sites like YouTube, Metacafe as these sites tend to feature viral video sites more prominently.

Be Diverse

Use a combination of voice-over characters to add more spice to the video. The built-in TTS engine of ArticleVideoRobot Business Account that comes with 12 voices (the Power Account has 8 voices while the free trial has 4 voice-overs) which gives you a diverse range of voice-over characters. This ensures your target audiences are hooked to your video and not bored by a single voice-over.

1. Login to your ArticleVideoRobot account  by going to http://www.articlevideorobot.com/login.html
2. In the new Members Area, click Start Full Editor button available under the Full Article to Video Editor option. This would open the ArticleVideoRobot wizard
3. Click Open Exisitng Project button
4. All your existing projects would be listed. Select the video on the left and click on the Distribute selected movie button
5. The Select Publishing Options page opens in a new popup window. Click on the Distribute this Video (17+ Video Sites) button.
   Note: If you have a popup blocker software installed or if your browser is set to block popups, you may not see the window resulting in no action when you click this button. If this is the case, then please make sure you disable popup blockers.
   
6. When you click the Distribute this Video button, yet another popup window opens. This is the actual VideoSubmitRobot wizard. The Video Title would  automatically be picked up. Enter a brief description (sometimes a detailed description is also good) for your video. Note that you can use URLs in your description as well. This is great SEO feature as it adds backlinks and improve ranking on search engines since YouTube actually turns the URL text into live hyperlinks (at this time of writing only YouTube converts the URLs to hyperlinks, all other video sites just treat the link as plain text).In the Tags field, enter atleast two tags at the minimum.  This is important since your video would not successfully submit if you don’t enter atleast two tags. Select the appropriate category. If you do not find a matching category, select Howto & DIY. Click Next button to proceed.
   
7. In the Site Selection page, select the video sites that you want to submit the video article to. Please note that should already have a working account on the video sites (ArticleVideoRobot does not create them for you). Also make sure you save the login credentials by clicking on Configure Logins button. Use the Select All Configured option if you wish to quickly select those video sites for which you have already stored your login information. Click Next button.
   Note: Where possible, always use existing accounts over new accounts since this gets you more views. Also, streamlining also your videos into a single account (per video site) increases your popularity with search engines resulting in getting indexed and thereby your videos being viewed more often.
8. In this step, you have the option to select Dynasubmit feature. It is recommended that you use Dynasubmit since it increases the SEO capabalities of your video profoundly. DynaSubmit is a unique feature that allows you to post your video to all the video sites while allowing you to uniquely customize the content (video title and the description) for each site. With DynaSubmit, you post the same video (but with a unique title/description customized for each video site) to all video sites at one click. This feature helps prevents content duplication problem in search engines where your single video can have multiple search terms/keywords associated to it.For example, you could have a video article “How to Use Twitter to Make Money”. With DynaSubmit, you can post this video article using different (but related) titles such as “Make Money Online With Twitter”, “Top Twitter Money Making Tips”,  “Online Money Making Secrets with Twitter”, etc. This way, search engines treat each instance of your video posted on different video sites as unique and your video gets associated with a variety of search terms. So the next time someone searches for Twitter and money, you could surely bet your video would be on the top search results. Use DynaSubmit to drive huge traffic to your videos overnight. All that is required is to create keyword-rich video titles and DynaSubmit does the rest – your videos always make it to the top of the search results which even the popular SEO companies would take ages to achieve.
9. Click Next when you are done configuring Dynasubmit.
10. The following screen will show a summary of the credits that you were charged for the video sites. Click Next to proceed.
11. Thats it. Your video is already on its way to the video sites. Click Close Window to close the browser window.

Note that the flash video would first need to be converted from its native flash format to an AVI video file before it is actually distributed to the video sites. Hence you would notice a delay in seeing your video article on the video sites. This is normal since your video article is queued for AVI conversion when you start the video article submission process. Once the AVI conversion is complete, VideoSubmitRobot automatically submits the video to each of the video site that you selected in the wizard. To see a status of your video submission, login to VideoSubmitRobot by going to the following URL using your ArticleVideoRobot login ID and password.

http://www.videosubmitrobot.com/login.html

You will also find detailed reports of all your video submissions by logging into the above link. Please note that you are never charged for a failed video submission. When your video submission fails for any reason, try to re-submit the video again but please ensure you delete the original video from the video site.

I guess I managed to give a quick overview of the video submission process. I will follow up with more articles on video article marketing along with tips and best practices that you can use.

Namaste!