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7 Tips to Help you Get Seen on YouTube

Webinator — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 14:15:03 +0000

Here are seven Quick Tips that will help you get your videos seen on YouTube and improve your SEO for YouTube videos.

Watch the Video Here

Now that you have seen the video, here is the summary of what you just learned.

1. Keywords

Create a list of keywords that describe your video. Some of the most important keywords can be names of cities, industries and types of niches within those industries. Use the keywords to attract people searching for those specific things.

2. About Us

Every YouTube account allows the user to give information about themselves. Write a paragraph that gives the most important elements of who you are and your purpose. Include a website address or place where users can get more information.

3. Titles

Give your video a title that includes important keywords. Avoid abbreviations or vague descriptions. Think of titles that include phrases people would use for search to find your type of video. Use your keywords to name your video.

In this video I discuss your Video “Parents of Adopted Children in Zhytomyr, Ukraine” This title has many key words combinations in it. For example, “Parents of Adopted Children” “Adopted Children” “Children in Zhytomyr” and “Zhytomyr Ukraine”

If someone types one of these expressions into Youtube search, then your video will be considered because it matches the keywords.

4. Description

There are three very important tips to consider when writing your descriptions.

Describe your video using keywords without overusing them. Keep the description informative. Longer descriptions are acceptable, if what you are writing adds value and not just a bunch of extra keywords.
Think of your most important information, and include it at the beginning of your description. Make sure to include a link to your Domain name. You need to test that this important information appears above the “Show more” link

Include a link to your website and be sure to include the “http://” before your domain name so that YouTube will create a link to the URL.

5. Tags

Use keywords in your tags so that YouTube knows the most important elements of your video. When you add key words, you can add them as individual words, or as keyword phrases. To add a keyword phrase, you need to have the phrase in quotations before you hit enter. YouTube no longer displays tags in the video description, but they still allow you to add them, and many experts agree that YouTube looks at these and they do affect your SEO.

6. Thumbnails

YouTube will give you a choice of thumbnails, which are small images that represent your video. Select the most colorful or attention getting thumbnails.

If the three thumbnails that YouTube gives you to choose from are not suitable, you can design your own thumbnail that looks more attractive, although not all users have this feature yet.

7. Sharing

Make sure you take advantage of YouTube’s sharing capabilities so that others can send links to your videos in emails and post them on websites and social networks.

Also, try to educate your church members and / or staff about how important it is to share these links in their other social networks like Facebook and Twitter.

These tips explain how to get seen on YouTube, how to get found on YouTube and how to increase higher visibility in YouTube’s search engine.

How to Set up USPS Shipping for WP E-commerce

Webinator — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 12:32:45 +0000

In this video I help you understand how to install USPS shipping to your WP E-Commerce Shopping Cart. I know this article is not for all of our readers, but I have had some questions about this so here it is.

Watch the video or follow along with the step by step screen shots below.

Step 1

- Go to the dashboard

- click on plugins

- Make sure your WP e- commerce plug in is installed and activated

Step 2

- Go to settings

- Click on store

- Click on the shipping tab

- Make sure shipping is turned on

- Enter your town and zipcode

- Check the USPS box

- Click on edit

- Enter your USPS ID

o If you do not have a USPS ID click on the “click here” link to get one.

o Fill out the USPS API form and click submit.

o A letter will be sent to you by e-mail with your username and password.

- Go to the United States Postal service website and go to Developmental guides. Read these pages.

- Return to the WP-Ecommerce Plugin settings Page and check the box “use test server”

- Click on update.

Step 3

- Call The United States Postal Service at 1-800-344-7799 and talk to a representative. They are very helpful and they will validate the services. You MUST do this step to use the USPS Shipping API

- Refresh your settings by clicking on update

Step 4

- Go to Edit product

- At the “Shipping” tab enter your dimensions.

Step 5

- Go to USPS_20.php that is found in your plugins folder

- Go to search and find the word “media”

- Delete the comments

- Click save.

- Upload it back to your server and refresh your settings.

TIP: Save a copy of your settings in a folder.
- Go back to your store settings, check the media mail box.

- Click on update.

You have now start using the USPS shipping API with your WP E-Commerce Store!

Add Thumbnail Image to WordPress Blog using Gravatar

Webinator — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 12:50:05 +0000

I was commenting on a blog today and it inspired me for today’s quick tip. Its Gravatar, your globally recognized avatar. It is more than just a thumbnail Image that is next to your name everywhere you leave a comment online.

I’m here to tell you that if you’re serious about branding yourself online, you absolutely must have gravatar. But it is not enough to have gravatar, you have to use it to its fullest so I am going to show you five things that you need to do.

The Number one reason why you absolutely have to have Gravatar and use it to its fullest is because Gravatar is your globally recognized avatar.
It follows you everywhere, every blog you go to and comment with the same email address it will import not only your image but your information and everything you have filled out on your gravatar. Think of it as an online business card.
Gravatar is automatically installed on WordPress.com, and WordPress.org. In the video, I am looking at Paul Steinbrueck’s blog for Empire Avenue as an example. So how important is it? How many people are using WordPress? I just want you to look at this real quickly.
There are currently over 55 million blogs running on WordPress.com. That is over 340million people, 2.5billion pages and 500 thousand new posts, 400 thousand new comments each day. I mean with all of this traffic you have to set up your free Gravatar account.

Once it is set up, you can easily go to blog, leave comments and its like dropping your business card everywhere you go.
It is the most powerful branding / business card tool online.
I know there are many others like About.me, Xeeme.com, and TwentyTen, but none are as popular as Gravatar.

Look at TED Blog for example. I went over there and I looked at the first post that had comments. I found one person with an image, and one person without. Of course the one with the image was significantly more engaging. It entices you to click on thumbnail, or wave your mouse over to see the flyout business card. You can add your URL, short Bio and photo, and more.

This is one of the most golden opportunities to get your URL out there. Don’t expect link juice in terms of SEO, but again, it is a free place to go and start dropping your business cards. Imagine just commenting all over the web and you have just left your business card there and somebody happens to wave over it, they like your comment and they are going to go and check you out.
It is very simple and easy.
In the end it just looks really cool

At the time this article was written, I compared my Gravatar to Paul’s. Now I am not picking on Paul, I just want to use this to illustrate and encourage people, look at your email, contact info, phone number, Twitter, and Facebook. There is a lot of information you can add.

So get started to day, Edit your profile and there is tons of stuff out of the box. You can connect all kind of services, blogger, flickr. I only choice my top 5, I think it speaks for itself.

Market Samurai: The road to SEO and Online Marketing

Webinator — Thu, 31 May 2012 15:45:18 +0000

All of us know how important SEO and online marketing is for a website or blog visibility. Maximizing SEO generates higher chances of website rankings and traffic.

I’ve discovered this new software called Market Samurai. It helps save an enormous amount of time and money when it comes to SEO for your website. With this tools it’s finally easy to find effective key phrases and titles which can be used side by side to ensure maximum benefit in SEO. And when you use this and WordPress SEO Plugin by Yoast, you will see amazing results in your ranking.

No guarantees, because every niche is totally different and has it s own set of unique keyword challenges. But as long as you are not trying to rank for keywords like “Facebook” or “Justin Bieber”, this tool gives you an incredible advantage in your market.

Especially for the beginner, SEO can be very frustrating and hard to grasp. Market Samurai (aff link) has short, simple training videos that will teach you very quickly how to become skilled in SEO at a competitive level, and the software does all the research for you.

Market Samurai is part of Samurai’s group of software, along with Domain Samurai and Article Samurai.

Market Samurai is packed with tools to help you rise above your competetiors:

Rank Tracker: This tool will check the ranking of the keywords you have entered, and suggest the best keywords to use.

Keyword Research. Once you have tracked the ranking of your keywords, this tool helps you research other possible keywords you can use so you don’t stuff your post with the same keyword.

SEO Competition: This tool will help you look at the top competitors around you and see what holes you need to fill on your post. Are you ranked on Yahoo? Alexa? And more importantly, is your competitor?

Promotions. This tool will suggest some blogs and websites where you can post backlinks to your site. This is GOLDEN! I’m serious. it is so easy now to find places where you can post articles and links to qualified sites that will help improve your page rank and overall SEO. This alone is worth downloading the free version of Market Samurai.

Domains. This tool searches new or expired domains if you are into building niche sites centered around specific keywords.

Monetization. This tool helps you convert traffic and helps you find other products to promote.

Find Content. When you need to find new and popular topics, this tool can do the job for you.

Publish Content. With this handy tool you can publish your content straight to your blogs.

Available on Market Samurai’s Website is Dojo, an online university that teaches and helps you with lessons on Market Samurai. The good thing about it, it’s totally FREE!

I’m telling you, Market Samurai is the best software for SEO. Don’t hesitate to download the free version and check this out! The amount of time you will spend to just look at it will pay off in the quick tips you will receive. Market Samurai can help save you a lot of money over time while boosting your website visibility.

Market Samurai is now available free on trial and also available for full software download. Check out www.marketsamurai.com (aff link) for more information.

Does this help you with your SEO and online marketing strategy?

Disclaimer: We receive an affiliate credit if you follow our links to Market Samurai, but we stand behind this review. If you dont follow our link, be sure to go there and check it out for yourself for free!

How to Install WAMP for WordPress on local host – Part 3

Webinator — Thu, 10 May 2012 23:28:32 +0000

How to Install WAMP for WordPress on local host – Part 3

Step 1

- Open a notepad editor. (I highly recommend Notepad++)

- Change the language to HTML.

- Create a test page.

- Save file as index.html in the client folder (if you are continuing from Step 2, this folder is located in C:/wamp/www/new_client_folder).

- Close the folder.

Step 2

- Left click on WAMP and restart all services.

- Left click on WAMP and click on the localhost tab.

- It will then open your default browser and you will see your test page.

Now you know that your httpd.config file has been set up correctly and you can begin to install WordPress on your localhost

Move onto Part 4

How to Install WAMP for WordPress httpd.conf – Part 2

Webinator — Thu, 10 May 2012 23:14:12 +0000

How to Install WAMP for WordPress on local host – Part 2

Step 1

- Go to your WAMP folder.

- Open wamp folder.

- open the “www” folder.

- Make a new folder inside the “www” folder and name whatever you want. Most likely your new client or “new_client_folder”

- Close the folder

- At the bottom right of your screen in the taskbar, right click on WAMP icon

- Click refresh.

- Now, Left click on WAMP again, and in the flyout menu, look for Apache and click on it.

- To the side you’ll see the httpd.conf file, click on that.

- Look for Document Root “C:/wamp/www/”

- After www/ enter the name of your client folder so it now looks like this ”C:/wamp/www/new_client_folder”

- Look for Directory and change the root file name the same way, so it too will read “”C:/wamp/www/new_client_folder”".

- Click on file and Save.

- Close the folder.
- Left click on WAMP icon in the lower right service tray
- Click on restart all services.

Now you have established which folder will be your local host.

Move onto Part 3

How to Install WAMP for WordPress on Local Host – Part 1

Webinator — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 21:02:11 +0000

How to Install WAMP for WordPress on local host – Part 1

Step 1

- Download WAMP.
- Click on the Icon.

- Click Run

- Click Next.

- Read the License Agreement and click accept.

- Allocate a space for WAMP to be installed and click next.

- Choose your icon preferences and click next.

- Double check the installation settings and click Install.

- Click Finish.

Now you have WAMP installed to your pc

Move onto Part 2

Using RSS Feeds and How to make RSS Feeds

Webinator — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 07:19:37 +0000

How to make RSS Feeds?

A feed is simply your blog. Your post becomes your blog roll or feed.
Using RSS feeds allows you to see your blog in a Feed Reader like iGoogle.

RSS Feeds with iGoogle

Step 1 – How to make RSS Feeds

- Go to your website and click on RSS feeds.
- Copy or Ctrl+ C the URL.

Step 2

- Go back to your iGoogle and click on “Add gadgets.”

- On the right side click on “For feed owners.”

- Choose RSS -> Choose one -> Choose a Google button design

- Enter your feed URL

- Click on “Generate HTML”.

- Click on the Try it out “Google button.”

Now you know how to make RSS Feeds with iGoogle.

RSS Feeds with Feed burner

1. On your website click on RSS Feeds

2. It will now direct you to feed burner. Click on your preferred reader.

3. And at it to your reader.

Now you know how to burn your RSS Feeds with Feed Burner.

How to Share Google Calendar Settings Free / Busy Public

Webinator — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 14:04:48 +0000

Today’s quick tip

How to Share Google Calendar Settings Free/ Busy Public

Here are the steps to Share Google Calendar Settings Free / Busy Public

Step 1

Log into Google Apps.

Go to the settings tab.
Change that button into “Share all information, but outsiders cannot change calendars” (or outsiders can change calendars).

Hit save changes.
Settings take time to change. Wait at least 5 Minutes, (but it can take as much as thirty).

Step 2

Hit refresh on your browser or hit f5 on your keyboard.
Go to Google Calendar settings.

Go to Calendar -> Shared settings.

Now you will see a drop down that will say “see all event details.”

Select it and click Save.
Click yes on the prompted warning.

Go back to the main site and hit refresh.
Now you know how to share Google Calendar Settings Free / Busy Public.

10 Reasons to avoid Gplus.to for your Google plus vanity URL

Webinator — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 16:57:04 +0000

Google has made mention that they’ll be releasing vanity URLs soon, but until then we are stuck with the long string of numbers; or are we? There are 2 very simple ways to create a Google plus vanity URL.

The first is the best. Just create an empty folder on your website and do a 301 redirect to your Google plus page like this webinationstation.com/Gplus

The Second way involves a 3rd party app like Gplus.to. They’re essentially doing the same thing for you, but to their advantage, not yours. Here’s 10 reasons you should avoid Gplus.to for your Google plus vanity URL solution

There’s no privacy policy in place. Unless you consider their claim “Gplus.to does not want your personal information in any way.” To be a privacy policy.
Nothing prevents these 302 redirects going through botnets or malware or any 3^rd party they choose to reroute your traffic through on its way to your Google+.
They own your URL not you.
Spammers can impersonate anyone. Imagine the effect of this on teenage relationships gone bad. The offended party could easily create a URL “pay back” by creating the URL to their G+ with gplus.to/TotalJerk
Gplus.to gets the initial traffic, not you.
The Google juice, if any, will stay on Gplus.to instead of yourdomain.com
They are not affiliated with Google.
What if the service goes down? So does your Vanity URL. Now your frantically chasing links down to get your G+ connections back in order.
I’m really disgusted that I’m forced to go and brand myself here before someone else does, if branding is important to you.
It’s owned by a company inTurkey. Nothing personal against Turkey as a country or the people of Turkey. I just don’t want my business connected there in light of all the political instability.

So you decide for your self. If you need help setting up a redirect, just leave your question in the comments below. We will try to help.