Traffic Geyser User News and Updates

“What format should I upload my videos in to get the best quality from YouTube and other sites?”

I get this question ALL THE TIME.

Follow these guidelines and you should have great results.

1. YouTube (newest) recommended settings are:

• MPEG4
• 640 x 480 resolution
• 64k Mono or 128k Stereo MP3 audio
• 30 frames per second

2. I upload the videos in these formats (listed in order of preference from high to low):

• MPEG4
• QuickTime
• AVI
• WMV
• DivX
• MPEG2
• RealMedia
• Flash

4. Keep an aspect ratio of 4:3 (640 x 480, 480 x 360, 800 x 600, etc.), otherwise the quality of your video will be degraded.

5. YouTube now has a Hi-Res Mode. This means YouTube creates 2 new copies of your video to suit high and low speed connections:

• 448 x 336 pixels, Flash 7 video @ 900Kbps. Audio @ 44.1KHz Mono.
• 480 x 360 pixels, H.264 video @ 512Kbps. Audio @ 44.1KHz Stereo.

Most of the other sites follow a similar formula. 

Just remember YouTube limits the length of a video to 10 minutes. That’s a good rule of thumb anyway – keep them shorter than that!

Sites such as Viddler supports long videos and large uploads. I get EXCELLENT results from Viddler if I want to embed a video from that program on a page.

First, get the software here:

http://www.erightsoft.com/Superdc.html

This software will take any video format and “transcode” from one format into another.

Why should you care or what would you use this for?

Well, if you would ever wish to take a video you have and submit it again (multiple times) in order to gain a search engine result with different keywords, you’ll need to convert the video first.

So in other words, if your original video is AVI, you can covert into MP4, WMV and QuickTime formats to achieve your goal.

Most of the video search engines won’t let you submit the same video multiple times. This will effectively create a “new” video. The search engines can’t tell one video from another if you supply it in a different format.

Note: some people may call this video “spamming” or a “gray hat” technique.

Our stance at Traffic Geyser is this – make sure if you use this technique, you don’t submit the same video to podcast directories multiple times. This will probably get you banned from their directory.

Secondly, if you use this technique, we recommend you wait a few hours or days between submissions. Some sites that manually check videos may spot a visual duplicate and not allow it.

To the best of our knowledge, we don’t know of any problems so far OUTSIDE of podcast directories.

For more details on this, make sure you watch the “Video Spam Slap” webinar replay.

We’re releasing some REALLY COOL new features in Traffic Geyser in the next two weeks.

In the meantime, we REALLY want to get your feedback, comments, features suggestions and ideas on how we can make Traffic Geyser more useful and valuable for you.

Frank Sousa and I are meeting this week in Las Vegas at the Carl Galletti conference to nail down new features and capabilities for the summer  so now is the time to tell us what you really want to see in the next update!

Go here to take the survey:

http://www.kickstartmedia.com/recommends/tgsurvey

And to get things rolling, the first 25 survey-takers will win this fancy (and fashionable) Traffic Geyser T-Shirt!

Did you know that Spamvertising could threaten online video promotion and could get you PERMANANTLY BANNED from video sites, podcast directories, social bookmarking sites and search engines if you don’t follow the rules?

Join Mike Koenigs for an eye-opening video as he reveals how  search engines might start weeding out video spam and how to  avoid the “Video Spam Slap” before it happens to you.

More importantly, learn how to create magnetic, money-getting content for any business that viewers LOVE to watch, listen to and come to your site ready to register and BUY and is easy, fast, cheap and fun to make.

In this 60 minute session, you’ll learn:

• What SPAMvertising is and how it threatens the effectiveness of online video promotion
• A fast, 1-2-3 system for content creation that won’t get you banned
• The TOP things you MUST avoid when making search engine-grabbing promotional videos
• Three stealthy content-creation formulas you can start using immediately
• What podcast directories HATE and will BAN you if you don’t pay attention
• FIVE content-creation RULES you need to know before you make promotional videos

Note: Click here to download the printed notes and scripts.