Sunday, December 2, 2012

10 Reasons to Include a Video on Your Website


In today's web based business world, companies have become increasingly competitive in pushing for the most interactive and stimulating web experience they can achieve. Today's business owners are acutely aware that in order to set themselves apart from the competition they need a website that can capture the visitor's attention and educate them on the company's history, products and services. Web videos are one highly effective and inexpensive means of enhancing your website and ensuring that visitors stay on your site longer. By keeping visitors on your site longer, you will be improving your site's search engine ranking, thus drawing in more customers and producing more sales. In case you're still wondering what exactly web videos can do for you company, here are a list of the top ten reasons why you should add a video to your company's website.

1. Capture a Visitor's Short Attention Span

Studies show that a website has all of ten seconds to capture a visitor's attention before losing the viewer forever. A video which appears on the front page of your site can capture a visitor's attention right away and keep them on your site for a longer period of time.

2. Convey Information Quickly and Effectively

Like a television commercial, a properly executed web video is brief and concise, and can convey information in a quick and effective manner. In an increasingly web based world where more and more people are using the Internet for their entertainment, it is far easier and more profitable to make use of web videos than television commercials.

3. Help Visitors Navigate Your Website

Where some websites are complicated and can be a challenge to navigate, some visitors may become exasperated and leave the site out of frustration. This can be easily avoided by using a web video to help direct visitors to any information they may need.

4. Educate Visitors About Your Company

Using web videos gives you the opportunity to reach out in a more personal manner to potential customers and let them know who you are and what you are all about. Whether your company is trendy, stylish, and edgy, or straight-laced and strictly professional, you can convey these characteristics through your videos to let the viewer get to know you.

5. Achieve Viral Status

Word of mouth is one of the most highly effective means of promotion. By creating an exceedingly witty and entertaining video you will have created the potential for that video to go viral, being passed from person to person, and snowballing into more hits and potential customers than you could ever hope to reach through traditional marketing strategies.

6. Make Use of SEO

Just like traditional text content, through the use of video SEO, web videos can also be enhanced to allow search engines to locate your more easily. Making use of video SEO will allow your website to be ranked higher in search engine results, increasing your web exposure and drawing in new customers.

7. Keep Them Coming Back For More

A humorous and entertaining video alone can keep the viewer coming back to your website again and again, drawing them in and increasing your chance of sales.

8. Give Your Site a Professional Appearance

By making use of web videos you will be lending both a professional tone and appearance to your website which will impress upon viewers that you are a high quality organization. A professional appearance can greatly sway a potential customer to use your business over others.

9. Promote New Offers

Properly placed, web videos can be an excellent means of spreading information about new products and services, deals and promotions that your company has to offer.

10. Videos Can Make Your Site Interactive and Engaging

Perhaps the most important aspect a web video has to offer is that it gives an interactive component to your website. Most websites based solely on text content are so static and un-engaging that they simply cannot hold the viewer's attention. Using web videos can make your website more interactive and dynamic, raising the number of regular viewers and increasing sales.

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