YouTube Annotations: new possibilities

Posted June 5th, 2008 in explained, Video by Bas van den Beld

With YouTube you can go in many directions when it comes to Internet marketing. Today, YouTube launched a new feature that you can help you even more: Annotations. This allows you to add written text to videos. Baloons, mouse overs, you name it. You can ‘pimp’ your video even more with additional information. The video below explains what and how you do it. On a special YouTube page you can find even more information.

The only bummer is that you can only post ‘internal links to YouTube pages. So no links (yet?) to, for example, your own website.

 

Another way of explaining Linkbuilding…

Posted May 29th, 2008 in explained by Bas van den Beld

Explaing Linkbuilding is not always easy. You have to know who you explain it to. This guy has got a specific group in mind when he’s explaining…

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Twitter in plain English

Posted May 25th, 2008 in explained, Video by Bas van den Beld

Twitter in plain EnglishI have placed videos of Common Craft before on this blog. These creative people each time know how to make a ‘complicated’ process on the Internet look easy by making a movie on a whiteboard. Very clever how they manage to do that every time.

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Rethinking Search: no keywords but keyphrases

Posted May 20th, 2008 in explained, Video by Bas van den Beld

keyword phrasesAvinash Kaushik is one of the frontrunners in the search industry. He focuses on search and analytics and works for Google. In this video Kaushik talks with Ralhp Wilson about the Long Tail of Search. It is no longer about keywords, but key phrases. So from now on: phrases it is. Optimizing is no longer a one-time ‘SEO-action’ but an ongoing process. An interesting interview to make you think about the possibilities of search.

Web 1.0 and Web 2.0

Posted May 19th, 2008 in explained by Bas van den Beld

The nice thing about Twitter is that you sometimes get links to websites that may have an added value, in any way possible. Today I was drawn to the X-Prime weblog. This weblog shows a very simple image which explains the difference between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0. The nice thing is that no matter how hi-tech the innovations are, mankind continues to give the best explanation through simple drawings. Below the explanation of the difference between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0. Continue Reading »