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by Jim Edwards

Copyright (c) 2008 Jim Edwards

Tools for creating online video becomes more popular every day online. The latest craze, Flip Video camera, making it easy and fun to shoot high quality video clips and use them for business or pleasure. Despite the popularity of online video, most people think that online video is only for the super-geeky set. But, with a line of free tools, and inexpensive, online video has never been easier for everyone to get into “lights – camera – action”

Video Blog . Perhaps the easiest way for anyone to start, combining video blog or “Vlogging” use of a simple video blog “posts” on your website. You can register a free blog at Blogger.com to serve as a platform to create your own posts. Then you can upload your video (free) to http://www.YouTube. com or http://Video.Google.com and they will convert the video of you playing online. Then you can copy and paste the code or web pages for you, paste this code into a new article on your blog, and voila, you will be the official video blogging. Blogger.com makes a way, very quickly for you to set up a personal video blog, and it really is as simple as I described.

If you want to put your blog on your own domain name and hosting account (which I recommend if you run a business), so you can get the best blogging software free world by visiting “nofollow” http://www.WordPress.org . After you create your blog on your own domain name, you can post the video exactly as I described above, using YouTube or Google Video.

Video Email. Video of email easier than focused video blog. You can record video using even a simple web cam and then send it to family and friends. Now, this works fine for small files, but once you get over about 3 megabytes (MB), send email files is a pain for both you as the sender and your friends as the recipient. However, you can easily split video files via e-mail through the service free online file storage. http://www.Box.net and http://www.XDrive.com allows you to upload a file once, then email a special link to as many people as you wish. Them access to a link on the web and video files downloaded from the server instead of being forced to download it as an e-mail attachments.

In this way, these two services work great for any big file sharing, not just video.

attract new site visitors. If you use an online business, you know the blood flow represents the life of your website. (If no one appears, it is difficult to make any money.) Video as a great way to reach new audiences and get them on your website using free online services hosting . At a minimum, you should upload your video to: YouTube.com, Video.Google.com, Revver.com and MySpaceTV.com. You can also “advertise” your video to multiple sites simultaneously using http: / / www.TubeMogul.com (which offers both options free and paid).

If you want traffic, be sure to put your domain name on the bottom of the entire video so that viewers can find your website or blog. Also, if you want people to be happy about you and your company, make sure that the video entertainment people (does not contain boring), train them (teach them something good) , and consolidate them (give them something they can use). Following these simple rules will massively increase the traction of your video to act as “traffic magnet” for your site.