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Creating videos is one sure-fire way to get traffic to your site. Creating
a video is not as hard as you think. It’s easy and fun, and will get you
into the working with Camtasia can be a little daunting, but it will pay
for itself in spades if you take the time to learn how to use it.
If you need to go free Jing is the second easiest way to record from
screen to video. If you’re good with PowerPoint, you can create a slide
show, narrate it about your site and simply read from a script. These
are the easiest type of video to create, and when used correctly, they
are traffic bringers.
Set your monitor resolution to 800x600 for recording. Record your
videos at 800 x 600, resized to 480 x 360 with SmartFocus. You want
them to be quick, and talk about the product you are promoting.
The bottom third is very important in videos. You want to tell them
about your domain name or the domain of the affiliate site. If you
don’t have a site of your own, go to SnipUrl where you can put in your
affiliate link, and it will give you an output.
For instance, if your affiliate product is for Maverick Money Makers,
and your affiliate link is http://XXXXX.PUBLISHER.hop.clickbank.net,
your SnipUrl will be www.snipurl/MaverickMoney.
The SnipURL can go in the lower left part of your video, and remain
there for the duration. As you talk about your website, all you need to
do is use SnagIt to capture pictures, which you put in your Powerpoint
presentation and capture as video.
Add a couple of transitions, and you are in the video arena. These
short video reviews are what you upload to all of the video sites.