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12/11/2010

How to Promote Your Cooking Or Recipe Video

Are you one of the people who have great knowledge of different recipes and want to share some of your most favorite recipes through various recipe videos? Or do you have some of your favorite homemade cookery videos highlighting more about the cooking process of various recipes, but don't know how to promote it? Well, if your answer is yes then in today's world, there are ample of options that can help you overcome each of these problems. Creating a recipe video highlighting more about the cooking process of various recipes and submitting it to online video websites is just one of few solutions. The important point to note is that creating and submitting a cooking or recipe video to any of the online video websites is not always effective in a long run. Like every online website needs traffic, your online cooking video clip also requires traffic. Adding to this, it is also important that your video gets noticed.

Today on the web, there are almost million videos related to subject like cooking that your audience can easily choose and select. If you think high quality video can result in an increase of web traffic or promote your cooking video then it's time to wake up from that illusion. These are several ways that help you make your presence felt, and in turn promoting your video as well. Here are some of the easiest and feasible yet most efficient ways that can effectively promote your cooking video-

1. Submit your cooking video to different video promotion websites. Nevertheless, the important point to remember in this approach is that these websites offer the facility to submit your videos totally free of cost.

2. Always make sure you tag and describe your videos. It doesn't matter, whether the duration of your video is 10 or more than 10 minutes. What matters more is the placement of the keywords that describe your video. Therefore, ensure you describe your video in the associated tags and description that in turn help search engines know what your video is all about.

3. Submit your recipe video to regular social bookmarking sites like digg.com, stumbleupon.com, etc. The key advantage of submitting your video to social bookmarking websites is that that these sites generally link to videos, and if it is really worth watching it repeatedly, online visitors might vote for it, which in turn may further help you can get many other visitors as well.

4. You can also post your cooking video in different cooking related discussion boards and forums as well. However, the key point to note here is that always ensure you read their rules first and never spam. Make sure that you choose the busiest forums to post in and your post is relevant to the forum.

5. Always try to participate in different video competitions. These days there are many video competitions out there, so the best thing you can do is always try...

6. Create or choose your video clip thumbnail properly. This is because, generally it has been found that visitors get more influenced to those videos that have thumbnail. Consequently, make sure you can choose the thumbnail do so and make it sharp, eye catching and relevant to your cooking video.

7. You can also email video blogs and websites to tell them more about your recipe video.

Apart from all these steps, the simplest approach that you can follow is that you may even send an email to all your contacts with your video link. Each video has its own distinctive link, which makes it easy to copy, paste and send in emails. Now, as the receiver clicks on the link it generates the traffic, which ultimately results in the promotion of video.

Today even though you are one of the renowned restaurant owner or chefs and have different cooking or recipe videos, but to make your way in the online field is not easy. You must be aware of various tricks of promoting cooking or recipe videos. Using some of the above mentioned tips can effectively help you grab deserving attention. These days, there are many chefs or individuals involved in restaurant business who are using these tips to promote their cooking clips.

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