Free Video Sharing Sites

Free video sharing sites are increasing almost daily as are the viewers visiting the sites. Most viewers just want to be entertained, some viewers are looking for videos to add to their niche site and some viewers are looking to be educated. Whatever the reason free video sharing sites have benefits and a downside as well.

Benefits

1 They host and serve your videos for free.

2 It is easy to add videos to your site. It only takes a few minutes to open an account, upload your movie, add the given code to your site and have the video appear when you refresh the page.

3 Increased traffic to your site from your videos being exposed to a wide
audience.

If you are running an online business then the above benefits might seem all that you need. If you are counting on these free services to host and serve your videos then you may be making a mistake. Take a look at the downside.

Downside

1 Poor quality video. Your videos are converted and compressed and in order to keep the bandwidth costs under control the videos are shrunk to the smallest acceptable size which obviously affects the quality.

2 Advertising. Sites will start, as YouTube are now doing, to place
advertisements on the videos distracting visitors and maybe linking them to other sites.

3 Free Advertising. Embedded videos on your site hosted by video sharing sites carry site branding which is actually free advertising for the host and might actually take your visitors away.

4 You have no control over the video and what happens once the video has finished.

5 Display Problems. As visitors increase then these sites struggle to keep up with demand resulting in slow or interupted display of the video.

No doubt that [tag-tec]free video sharing sites[/tag-tec] are important for your internet marketing as the traffic they receive is amazing so you should be submitting your videos to them regularly. But to maintain a level of quality, professionalism and control to your site then you should be looking towards the services of a paid web video service provider. More about this in another post.

Free Video Sharing Sites

Once you have produced your first video then share it by posting it to as many [tag-tec]video hosting[/tag-tec] or syndication sites as you can to drive traffic to your site. You may decide to use management system such as Traffic Geyser but more about that later.

There are many such video hosting sites, more than 200, and more are being added weekly in this expanding niche. Many of these sites have high Alexa rankings and receive loads of traffic. You should visit all the sites that you come across to see which ones are specific to your niche and where you video could well be viewed more.

Below is a list of sites to get you started, but by no means a comprehensive list. Sites marked * pay or are about to start paying for good content. Good content does not mean all content. One video at revver.com is reported to have earned $35000 for 3.8 million page views. Something to aim at!

Blip.tv *
Bolt.com
Break.com *
Dailymotion.com
DropShots.com
eVideoShare.com
Eyespot.com
GoFish.com
GUBA.com
IFilm.com
Jumpcut.com
Lulu.tv *
Metacafe.com *
Motionbox.com
Myspace.com
Netscape.com
Photobucket.com
Putfile.com
Revver.com *
Selfcasttv.com
Sharkle.com
Stickam.com
Video.google.com *
Video.yahoo.com
Video123.com
Vidilife.com
Vimeo.com
Vume.com *
vMix.com
vSocial.com
YouTube.com *
ZippyVideos.com

Great Free resource that analyzes 42 different video sharing and editing sites for easy of use and viewing quality.
The Ultimate Guide to Online Video.

There are a lot of new video sharing sites being added all the time. At some point there might well be as many as article directories. However it is said that the top 30 sites account for 99% of all videos viewed each day.

Submitting to these 30 sites means a massive amount of time spent uploading your videos individually. Unless you like uploading video for hours on end and can achieve this as well as getting all your marketing and other tasks done at the same time then you will need some help.

That help is in the form of a video syndication service. Right now there is only one such service and that is Traffic Geyser.

If you don’t think you will need it now you likely will in the future as you submit more and more videos. Uploading to just a handful of sites is a pain never mind to 30 sites.

Using Traffic Geyser is a small price to pay for the hours you’ll save each week uploading your videos to all those sites individually.