Video is where it is all going: social media marketing with video!

If you wonder whether or not you need video on your website, you do. Google is integrateing video in the search results, and there are very few well optimized videos on the video sharing sites like Youtube, and Google video. At the same time, video traffic to these sites is skyrocketing: from paidcontent.org:

"The audience for YouTube and other video sharing websites has risen sharply in the past year, with almost half of online adults logging onto such sites, reports a study from Pew Internet & American Life Project. In a national phone survey of 2,054 adults, 48 percent said they have visited a video sharing site, up from last year's 33 percent. Fifteen percent reported using a site like YouTube "yesterday", or the day before the respondent was contacted for the survey, compared to eight percent of users last year; this means the number of video site users has nearly doubled from the end of 2006 to the end of 2007. Of the demographic groups, daily traffic among high school graduates, women and respondents aged 30 to 49 has increased the most:

-The number of high school graduates using video sites increased 160 percent, jumping from five to 13 percent.
-Women's use increased 120 percent, from five to 11 percent.
-Use for those aged 30 to 49 increased 100 percent, from seven to 14 percent."

Now add to that the fact that there is an arbitrage because of Googles support for video in the search results: (see:

Google Integrates Web, Books, Local, Images, News and Videos as ...)

And you will realize that there is a brave new world coming.

As outdated as a turn of the century website would look to you now, you website likewise will be dead without video, but there is more: if given a choice to click a thimbnail to a video or a text link, see:

social media marketing system

Which one would you click, the text or the thumbnail?

What about the fact that the video starts to deliver your message as the page is loaded, and, in the case of our site, it doubled time on the site, doubled lead generation, reduced bounce rate by over 25%: see

http://socialmediasystems.com/

A video never has a bad day, never shows up late for work, never over sleaps, ALWAYS GIVES A PERFECT PRESENTATION!

Please share you experiences here for all to read: