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Increasing traffic to websites recently became easier with the entrance of video submission sites such as YouTube.com. Advertising has changed in recent years, making it challenging to keep up with. Businesses benefit the most from video submission. Similar to article submission sites, at least for business marketing, video submission sites contain vast libraries of videos about many subjects. Joining one is typically free.

You must be getting excited. You wanted to use video advertising, but your budget has no room for the hefty price required by television stations and networks. Finding out you can often submit your marketing videos for free opens up a whole new world for your business.

When you get ready to submit, you have several options to consider. Some marketing experts suggest manual submission rather than the automated processes offered by some professional distribution service companies. In a nutshell, that means you may get a better response if you submit the videos yourself. Just make sure to categorize your video descriptions and meta-tags properly so that the search engines can find them.

One challenge facing videographers is the large file size of video submissions. It is very important that you check out the website before you complete submission to ensure their library can handle your video. Video quality is another area of concern. Amateur submissions make it more difficult for high-quality videos to make it to the stage.

So where can you submit your marketing videos? First on the list of recommended video sites is the most famous — YouTube.com. Obviously, this is the premier name among them all. Everybody has some knowledge of YouTube. Once you post on YouTube, millions will have access to your company information.

Yahoo is the next name in video. Like YouTube, this site is widely viewed, offering good exposure opportunities for your video marketing campaign.

Photobucket.com, a venture started in 2003, reached number one on the web photo popularity list. Like our first two services, this site offers free submission. In 2005, Photobucket was acquired by Fox Interactive Media, a part of the News Corp. family of businesses.

Dailymotion.com ranks 65th top website in the world and is the world’s largest independent video entertainment site. With traffic like that lining up to see videos, yours is more likely to be noticed.

Metacafé.com has 25 million unique visitors each month. One difference between this site and other video submission services is that videos are typically 90 seconds in length. This modality works well for video marketing, and makes it more likely that Internet surfers with short attention spans will watch your video in its entirety.

Modern marketing methods change faster than Windows versions. Businesses like yours must keep up or become a bad cliché. Now you have one more exciting tool to add to your bag of marketing tricks.