How to optimize your blog for video content

Ever wondered how to host your video files online? Well here is an article that will provide the answers to your questions: Lorelle on wordpress.

As Lorelle confirms “The visual and audible web is here today, and videos, podcasts, music, and all types of multimedia are flooding the Internet bands.” The aim of her blog is to inform bloggers worldwide about up and coming technologies as well as helping them understand how best to optimise their site…

Perhaps you could learn a trick or two about how to optimise your blog for video?! The article includes some great tools for filmmakers who might want to publish their show reel on their blog.

Lorette offers an extensive list of video WordPress Plugins for do-it-all video sources, self-hosted videos, off-site hosted videos, video galleries, and Flash video players.
For example:

- EmbedTheVideo Wordpress Plugin (This feature allows you to embed a variety of video formats including on-site and off-site hosted video files, and also provides you with a number of customisation options.)

- vPIP Wordpress Plugin (This feature enables pages to be loaded quickly as the embedded video loads after the link is clicked. If you host large video files, this might be an alternative to waiting for long page loads.)

She also highlights other interesting features such as how you can enable viewers to respond back to your videos with audio and video comments…

Check it out here!

And the winner in growth is… Blip.tv

With a whopping growth of +125%, Blip.tv has just been ranked as the fastest growing video sharing site by Comscore. An incredible achievement…

For those of you who have not used Blip.tv yet, it is a video sharing site which focuses on video blogs and podcasts.

Why I love Blip.tv? A simple and intuitive interface makes video uploads a breeze. Furthermore, with the possibility to cross-post your videos on various blogs, as well as associate tags to them, Blip.tv helps you take advantage of some of the nifty video SEO tricks out there today…

You can see their platform in action on Beet.tv and Rocketboom.

My congratulations to Mike Hudack (CEO) and his team for their achievements!! Perhaps we could meet some day for an interview? ;)