Video is a highly effective way to promote your website or product. It is more viral than text content as it is shared and distributed more willingly and readily.
Naturally, a good viral video piece will promote itself but you can always help it by distributing it throughout popular video hosting and sharing sites. It is a double benefit if those video sharing sites allow direct dofollow links from the video page or user profile page.
Here is the list of video sharing services that will help you both distribute your video and build links at the same time:
| Video Sharing Site | Home page Google PR (February 2009) | Direct “Follow” Link Placement | Notes | Category | Video approval |
| Blip.tv | 7 | Video in-description link | General | Instant (but moderated) | |
| VideoJug | 7 | Profile link | *Blocks user profiles from crawling in Robots.txt (links are pretty much useless), thanks emil for the catch | How-to | Instant (made public after review) |
| VideoBomb | 6 | Video link (“more info” field) | Upload from YouTube | General | Instant |
| Viddler | 6 | Video in-description link | General | After review | |
| WonderHowTo | 6 | Profile link | How-to | N/A | |
| Ovi.com | 6 | Video in-description link | Bulk upload available | General | Instant |
| Graspr | 5 | Profile link | General | Instant | |
| ConstantComedy | 4 | Profile link | Comedy | N/A | |
| ImBroadCast | 4 | Profile link | Internet Marketing | Instant | |
| Daily Motion | 3 | Profile link | General | Instant | |
| JustVideo.ca | 1 | Video in-description link | Upload from Youtube, Dailymotion, blip.tv, Megavideo, Livevideo, Metacafe, Veoh | General | After review |
| Viewdo.com | N/A | Profile link | How to | N/A |
Some tips on adding a video:
- Take time to customize your profile (add your logo or photo);
- Find related videos at the video sharing sites and post a comment (you will thus increase your chances to be found);
- Add your keywords to the video title but make sure to keep it descriptive and attention grabbing;
- Diversify video titles and descriptions from site to site (don’t waste your time on duplicate content).
Ann Smarty is the blogger and community manager at Internet Marketing Ninjas. Ann's expertise in blogging and tools serve as a base for her writing, tutorials and her guest blogging project, MyBlogGuest.com.
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Daily Motion will be like a PR7 or PR8, they must have just set up that redirect to the /en or something.
@Dave, yeah, but I am unable to find any other page with higher PR :)
This is the kind of stuff I like to see Ann :) As always, fresh and *new* information.
Ann, I use viddler for quite a few days but never knew abt the link in desc! Good info Ann!
Nice info.
It can be valuable as well, but makes me wonder how long the sites will be passing link juice.
Thanks for sharing! If only I had some video to upload….
great article, im using tube mogul and traffic geyser to aggregate traffic for clients, im testing both out and its good to see which ones have the highest relevance.
thanks Ann
Just visited VideoBomb for the first time; is there always lesbian porn on the home page?! :s
If so I’ll have to bookmark it :D
Video marketing has indeed infiltrated through any forms of online marketing considering its benefits and contributions to a great deals of traffic and leads generation which can facilitate more income for your online business. For those who havent heard of how video marketing can truly help leverage your business online, then you must be sleeping all the time the whole world’s busy promoting websites with video marketing. Cool site and great contents! Thanks for sharing these video sharing sites. It can truly help those who need to maximize their profits and gain more traffic to their websites.
Hi Ann,
Though i have not used video promotions, this will be useful for me in future. Thanks.
Thanks nice posting!
I have to make a video of my project in Turkey soon now ;-)
I’m afraid that videojug has in robots.txt “Disallow: /user/” so the profile link is useless
@Emil, great catch. I have edited the post and credited you on the tip
This is a great list. I didn’t realise there were so many other video sites that were actually a high page rank other than youtube, which I think probably is nofollow. And @Emil I didn’t realise that just because a page doesn’t have nofollow in the source that it would be crawled, so thanks for that :)
Just what I was looking for Great information!
I’ll Be Back!
Great list!!!! This is exactly what I was looking for ;)
I am marketing using video but i never tried submitting to this video sites. Maybe i will think about it first.
Great List. Thank You.
Dalealplay.com is a spanish video site, do not allow links but videos ranks high in search engines.
I am new to all this, so this question is probably stupid. Nonetheless for pagerank purposes is it the pagerank of the homepage or the pagerank of the actual video page with a link to your site that is used. For example if the blip.tv PR is 7 on their homepage, but the page taht your video is on with a link to your site only has a PR of 1, then is the PR 1 or the PR 7 used?
I ask because I did a pagerank on the pages with the most popular videos on blip and they were Pr 0.
thanks
Hi Anne, just found this post – thanks belatedly!
I tried to create a link in the Description field of a video I put on blip.tv , but I didn’t see any way to get it ‘link-ified’ – i.e. they filter out HTML, and if you put the link as text they present it as text… what am I missing??
thanks
@Mark, did you try editing HTML? there’s a tiny button called HTML that allows to add the code. It worked for me that way…
A couple more sites to add to the list. They are specific to Health related content…
ICyou – http://www.icyou.com
Modern Medicine – http://cosmeticsurgerytimes.modernmedicine.com
Fantastic information! Thanks for posting it; I am bookmarking this page now! :-D
Hello. Thanks for sharing information and very useful to us.
thanx for this great information.
Ann, this is an excellent list. Thank you. I find G seems to love viddler more than most video sites (aside from youtube, obviously). One point to add, that some may find helpful, is to bold your keywords in the description field. Dailymotion allows you to do this, for instance.
Viddler is great video site. It allows you to add anchor text in your video description.
I just gave these to my SEO team, we totally appreciate you sharing this with us! It makes our lives a lot easier.
Hello, and thanks, the list of video sites is much appreciated.
Does anyone know of a video submission program where this list of sites could be imported?
TrafficGeyser, but it is a paid service, its good though.
Some of those sharing site delete your videos and BANNED you if it business related.
That is so not fair.
mmm, great list, but…how do you know that videojug blocks user profiles from crawling in Robots.txt?
The links in profile pages look good to me.
Nice list. Def like the info where to place the links instead of having to work out each site ourselves.
We have lots of our instructional videos on YouTube. Be interesting to see what kind of views they get on some of these other sites.
I figured out what I was missing — I was looking through random videos and many people don’t even bother to add a link back to their site from their video or they don’t hyperlink it properly so I didn’t see the links (since they weren’t there).
How do i add video to ovi.com? I signed up but i can’t figure that site out… :(
Nice Information Ann.. this really a good list of video websites those are have do follow attributes.. thanks for sharing..
This is not only a great list, but it is much appreciated that you give the location on where you can add the link.
WonderHowTo is no longer a do follow
Thanks For Sharing the nice list of video submission site……but this sites are not a do follow….I have use this sites.
Thanks for this list, however are these sites still do follow? lots of people are saying they are now no follow ? Please tell me thanks.
Great! Thank you soo much! An actually good article, what do you know?
Thanks for this useful list. Will check out the video sites. It is good to know which ones are dofollow. Is it true that Bing and Yahoo don't take note of nofollow or dofollow? In the end, every link seems to count somewhere…
This does appear to be true (bing and yahoo, counting no follow links), although its unclear whether they give them the same weight. But, many video sites do not have a live link at all, so if you add a link to your video description, it does you no good at all as far as links go. And even very limited as far as viewer so since they can't click on the link and are unlikely to cut and paste the address into a browser.
Thank you for the list. I just started converting my text articles into videos and was wondering what other sites beside youtube and metacafe to use for video submission. Thanks for taking the time to find the dofollow ones.
This does appear to be true (bing and yahoo, counting no follow links), although its unclear whether they give them the same weight. But, many video sites do not have a live link at all, so if you add a link to your video description, it does you no good at all as far as links go. And even very limited as far as viewer so since they can't click on the link and are unlikely to cut and paste the address into a browser.
Unfortunately the way that this works is that they all bait the seo community by offering dofollow in the beginning so that they get an enormous amount of content from people who make money from websites for a living. Once they get popular enough they will dump the dofollow for a nodofollow attribute (try cosmic panda) What they all do is actually immoral because it means that they encouraged you to upload content in the beginning because there would be a benefit to your site/blog but later they change the rules and they now have ALL of your content which they can monetize on their site at YOUR loss. The real problem is that people don’t realize that they are simply putting their own content on someone else’s website. The answer is to put your best content on your OWN website and upload a load of crap to all those other sites which can be like trailers to get your audience to come to your own site which is under your control. There is a lot of deception on the net and the big companies are in no way innocent… so good luck everyone.
The answer is to put your best content on your OWN website and upload a load of crap to all those other sites which can be like trailers to get your audience to come to your own site which is under your control. There is a lot of deception on the net and the big companies are in no way innocent… so good luck everyone.