Here are 5 ways to promote or drive traffic to your sites with social video sharing websites:

1. First step is to create a video that is relevant to your target market group. Its getting really easy to produce video content these days. You can either use a WebCam and record a video directly from YouTube’s site or use free software like CamStudio to record your desktop computer screen while you talk over the recording.
2. Write a detailed description and keyword tags about your video and how your video is useful to others. Think in terms of your viewers. What kind of description will be inviting for the reader to visit your site?
3. Add your affiliate link/ website address into the description bar. To make the link clickable in Youtube, make sure you include the “http://”. For example add “http://yourdomain.com” in your description. Alternatively, you can add a URL link as a text title on your video. This can be done easily with Windows Movie Maker (free with Windows) or Apple iMovie (free with Macs).
4. Search for and add friends with similar interest (do not SPAM others). Join groups with common video topic interests and genuinely interact with others.
5. Encourage others to view your video. Embed in on your blog, invite others to view and rate. The more people who view your video, the higher it gets ranked by the video sharing service. You can even try and rank higher by encouraging video comments and other awards/ ranking systems given by the video sharing service. (e.g. most viewed, most commented, most favorited, most linked..etc)

Here’s a massive list of social video sharing sites ranked by Alexa Ranking and includes Google Page Rank information:

Popularity: 100% [?]

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Here are 5 ways to promote or drive traffic to your sites with social bookmarking websites:

1. First step is to create a bookmark with your affiliate link. You can safely assume that each bookmark you create will be seen by at least 10 to 100 people initially. So do the math, creating 50 bookmarks on the sites below could get you 500 to 5,000 links/ visitors and beyond for free!
2. Write a detailed description about how your site is useful to others. Think in terms of your viewers. What kind of description will be inviting for the reader to visit your site?
3. Search for and add friends with similar interest (do not SPAM others). Join groups with common bookmarking interests and genuinely interact with others.
4. Use many and yet relevant “tags” for each post. Other people using the bookmarking site will search for content based on tags, titles and description
5. Encourage others to bookmark your link. The more people bookmark or rank your link, the higher it gets ranked by the bookmarking service.

Here’s a massive list of social networking sites ranked by Alexa Ranking and includes Google Page Rank information:

Popularity: 35% [?]

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Web 2.0 marketing is here to stay and one of the best ways to get targeted free traffic to your site is through social networking sites. Here are 5 ways to promote or drive traffic to your sites with social networking:

1. Create groups around your niche market and keyword and let people find you
2. Search and add people within your niche market (but please do NOT spam)
3. Keep an extensive profile so that others will add you to their friend list
4. Add your text links, banners and blog posts on your profile page
5. Use specific applications within the social network e.g. bulletins, wall posts, videos, widgets..etc. that allow links back to your site

Here’s a massive list of social networking sites ranked by Alexa Ranking:

Popularity: 38% [?]

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Here’s a Massive List of Over 200 Video Sharing Sites

It’s hard to ignore the power of video when you market online. With more and more free video sharing services popping up each day, I decided to compile a list of the ones I like here. One of my favorite sites to use is www.veoh.com as it automatically syndicates your video to YouTube, MySpace, and Google Video. You can even charge viewers on a pay-per-view basis to view your videos. Check out the rest - there are some other very innovative services popping up in the ever growing list of video website!

http://video.google.com
http://www.youtube.com
http://photobucket.com
http://video.aol.com
http://www.webshots.com
http://www.collegehumor.com
http://www.brightcove.com
http://www.blip.tv