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What Video Sharing Sites Generate More Website Traffic?

Expert Author MJ Schrader

Videos can help with traffic building on your website. People enjoy the media experience and video sharing sites add the benefit of social media to your videos. Viewers are also able to share your presentations, instructions, and other videos with others. There are many sites available and you can send videos to one or all. Actually sharing on more video sharing sites means more links back to your website.

YouTube

This is probably the most well known of the video sharing sites. YouTube has become a powerhouse allowing registered users to upload, share and view videos. Anyone can watch the wide range of visual recordings, put out by individuals, companies, even network media stations.

Break.com

Comedy is king on this video sharing site. You can upload funny videos or create a channel for regular viewing times. Traffic building on this site can be done by uploading your outtake reels or by having fun with your product or others in your business.

DailyMotion

Created at almost the same time as YouTube this site is also very popular. Maximum length of a video is limited to 20 minutes, which is twice as long as YouTube allows. Users can create groups allowing people to see people who may have related videos. This can be traffic building as someone familiar with one person in a group may come and see your videos.

HowCast

Short instructional, informative how to videos are what HowCast wants. The Emerging Filmmakers Program pays people in the program $50 for accepted videos and part of the revenue the video earns. Having fun while instructing or guiding viewers is the key to building traffic and gaining popularity at HowCast.

Metacafe

Community is very important on this video sharing site. The community selects, reviews, and rewards videos. What this means is the website takes the community reactions to determine the popularity of a clip. Most videos are short, just over a minute and a half. The audience here wants fun, amazing, inspiring videos.

Viddler

Brand yourself with this video sharing site. Add your logo and make the movie player match your website color scheme. You can have the player link back to your website even when it is elsewhere on the web. Viewers can add comments and tags. You can share your videos with RSS and iTunes.

Other video sharing sites

There are many more sites available to for video sharing. Each has slightly different rules as to what is accepted, what length is maximum and what formats are accepted. These differences can work to your advantage when your provide slightly different videos to each site to help your business and traffic building influences.

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