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Before we get started learning about YouTube video optimisation, let’s make it crystal clear that YouTube is not your ordinary video sharing site. The statistics are compelling: YouTube is the 2nd largest search engine in the world and is the 3rd most visited website on the internet according to Alexa. YouTube videos also get 500 Twitter tweets per [...]

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“Socialnomics” is a foreign term to most businesses. Many companies are still set in outdated mind frames. Too afraid of change, and too afraid of what they don’t understand. Yet rather than educate themselves to stay ahead of their competition, they stubbornly refuse to budge. The result? Failure. If not today, then probably tomorrow. At [...]

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I just came across this nifty infographic by GoGlobe.com, Amazing Things That Happen Every 60 Seconds on the Internet. Looking at these numbers, there’s no doubt the online world is a big place, and getting bigger every day. If you have a business that you’re marketing on the Internet (and I’m going to assume you [...]

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Exciting news! YouTube is set to launch soon a beta trial of Google AdWords for Video. This tool will simplify running online video ad campaigns, by allowing advertisers to use a dynamic, auction-based platform to place and manage ads on both YouTube and the Google Display Network. In the new platform, advertisers will be able to one [...]

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Hello, and welcome to a few facts you may or may not know about YouTube: YouTube exceeds 2 billion views a day. For a primetime audience in the United States, this is nearly double that of 3 major broadcast networks combined. There are 24 hours of video uploaded every minute. An average person spends 15 minutes a [...]

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I have recently watched a number of videos that describe the change in dynamics happening on the internet. Many of these have stated that regular search is in decline, but other forms of online marketing are on the rise. One of these is video marketing, or YouTube optimisation.  For those of you who don’t know, YouTube is [...]

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Public holidays are usually associated with time off work, relaxation and spending time with our loved ones. The spaces between business and holidays have in the past been well defined: when we close our business doors on a public holiday, all customer interaction immediately ceases. But as we all know, you can’t close the door [...]

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Have you ever walked along the street and come across a crowd of people standing in a circle facing the centre? What is causing all this commotion? Who or what are they watching? Why are there more and more people joining this circle? If you answered yes to 2 of the above questions then you [...]

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SEO + Social Media = ROI

by Wendy Huang on November 3, 2010

in SEO

As they say, opposites attract and this is one marriage that will result in increased ROI for your business.

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“Skippable” ads are being introduced by YouTube later in the year. This new format will enable users to skip the pre-roll ads that are included within the video, whilst advertisers won’t be charged a cent for skipped ads.  According to Google’s senior product manager, Baljeet Singh. YouTube began studying skippable ads late last year. “We’ve [...]

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