The answer turned out to be a simple one, suggested by the young daughter of a friend of mine.
I had been helping them edit some videos sent in to them by satisfied clients who had used their Ag3derm age spot and skin blemish removal cream. (Ag3derm is pronounced Agederm)
The voice track had to be correct, as there was some talking directly to camera on two of the videos, and an audio time delay was not acceptable.
So after some unsuccessful uploading at first, the .mov file was tried, and the rest as they say is history.
Previously, I have been uploading to Youtube by first converting my finished videos to MP4 format as recommended by Youtube, but this has resulted in my videos having a delay of 10 to 14 seconds on the audio track.
Her suggestion was that instead of uploading a .MP4 file, I upload as a .mov file.
Success, all is now well in my little world.
See the proof at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwvU3v7IOAk
Thanks to all who have attempted to resolve this for me with their suggestions, but in the end, the problem was just a matter of changing the saved file to the .mov File instead of .MP4
I hope someone else can be helped by reading this, and thank you all.
Consider my way of press release distribution, get TEN TIMES the hits and more, and all for FREE!
So you write a press release and post it on the internet yourself or use a web site promotion services company to do your web site promotion marketing for you at great expense.
What happens next? Nothing usually, end of story.
Why not put your Press Releases, Site Promotion and Article Marketing ON STEROIDS and get backlinks by the bucketful by writing the same internet marketing articles but making a hub about them on HubPages.
HubPages also gives you the opportunity to earn money from your Press Releases, Site Promotion and Article Marketing by letting you add capsules for photos, video, news and tables, as well as promoting your own selection of items available for sale on Ebay and Amazon.
Include a link capsule in your hub, and promote all of your own work in all of your hubs.
Interaction with other Hubbers happens when they sign up as a fan of yours, and they will be automatically notified every time you make new hubs of your next Press Releases, Site Promotion and Article Marketing. How cool is that, a guaranteed readership to kick off your every campagne?
To put all your Press Releases, Site Promotion and Article Marketing onto STEROIDS using HubPages, just enrol for a free account and see the difference immediately.
Following my post of last week when I gave you my first list of my top free Internet tools, this week I thought some people may not know just how Google offers free tools.
Remember, none of these are affiliate links, and no sign-ups are required
So here are a just a few more tools, all of them from Google this week:
There’s no-one else like Google for knowing everything about the Internet. There are many ways you can use this tool for; it is so effective I’m surprised Google doesn’t charge for its use.
Enter any search term such as internet marketing or whatever, and this program will deliver lots of keywords related to internet marketing
Easily create and share a group website, no html knowledge needed, single click creation and customize to suit your own style and taste.
Keep tabs on all the sites you visit on a regular basis and be informed as soon as any site is updated, works just like an email program. Just subscribe, enter your sites and blogs, and get continuous feeds.
Check out long-term search trends with this tool, dating back to 2004. I haven’t used this much myself, but you may find it useful for your own research.
Similar to search, but this site gives you what’s hot right now, or just feed your own search terms in.
Check out all there is to know about the traffic to your website with this free tool. Analyze your traffic against each keyword and change your ads to reflect what your customers are searching for to get higher conversion results.
Google Alerts
Monitor any search term or name with an email alert as often as you wish. Just complete the boxes to your preference.
Convert more visitors – now! Website Optimizer, Google’s free website testing and optimization tool, allows you to increase the value of your existing websites and traffic without spending a cent. Using Website Optimizer to test and optimize site content and design, you can quickly and easily increase revenue and ROI whether you’re new to marketing or an expert.
Improve traffic with this resource for all webmasters. See how users are reaching your site
Make your site more search engine friendly, diagnose problems. View, classify, and download comprehensive data about internal and external links to your site with new link reporting tools. Find out which Google search queries drive traffic to your site, and see exactly how users arrive there.
Google AdWords: Traffic estimator
Get quick traffic estimates for new keywords.
Google Product Search helps shoppers find and buy products across the web. As a seller, you can submit your products to Google Product Search, allowing shoppers to quickly and easily find your site.
So, that’s another dozen free internet tools for you to check out, all compliments of Google. Watch out for more shortly by subscribing to my RSS feed above.
This made me realize that I should maybe share the free tools with you, my loyal reader, so here is the start of my list of 20 or 30 or more of the best free tools I use in my Internet marketing efforts.
None of these are affiliate links, and no sign-ups are required, so check them all out, what have you got to lose?
1 SEO Videos
If you are anything like me, I find it easier to watch a video presentation of anything I am interested in. Video SEObook gives free video presentations about SEO, keyword research, link building, Google AdWords and many more essential tools to help internet marketing efforts.
WordPress.tv is a free video training site for everything about WordPress.
The Twitter Handbook will show you what twitter is all about, all about messages, how to monetize your site, FAQ’s and lots more.
Research your keywords before writing blogs, web pages and articles to gain maximum effects.
This is a free open-source, online service which makes screenshots of your web design in different browsers. The index page presents you with a large list of different browsers, all with a check box. For a quick result, I suggest if you are using windows only, you uncheck all under Linux, Mac OS and BSD and under Windows, check only Chrome 3.0, Firefox 3.5, Opera 9.64, Safari 4.0 and SeaMonkey 2.0.
To demonstrate the effectiveness of this, check out my hub at http://hubpages.com/_lilli/hub/Free-Family-Fun-in-Orlando-Florida where you will notice in the Firefox browser that each segment in the right column is lower than the left column.
In Explorer, both columns line up in each segment. I wouldn’t have known this without checking at http://browsershots.org/
So, that’s my first 5 free internet tools for you to check out. I think that may be enough to get you started, and next time I will try and give you a few more than this to crank up your Internet marketing efforts.
I welcome your input, as there are so many free resources out there, so if you have a favorite, let me know.
To make sure you don’t miss what’s next on my list, please subscribe to my RSS feed above.
Do not fall for these, I’m about to show you a way at no cost whatsoever, and best of all, you don’t need to know anything about FTP,HTTP or any other programming knowledge.
Just nine months ago I discovered Hub Pages, and this is what I want to make you aware of.
To help you better understand what I’m talking about and to get the maximum help from this post, why not take a quick peek at two of my Hub Page blogs. This is my highest ranked blog, and this is my lowest ranked blog.
Take a good look around each site, and hopefully you will notice there is lots going on here. It may look impressive with how the page is laid out, but Hub Pages automates most of the layout and links for you following your selection of which modules to include in your hub.
Choose modules for text, adding YouTube video, Newscasts, comments, eBay, Amazon, photos, and rss feeds. You can also add a poll module and a comments box. You can omit any module you wish, and duplicate any of the modules several times if required.
Let me clarify that by directing you back to my highest ranked blog where you will see the text is broken up into five separate text modules, three Amazon modules, I’ve added five videos, there’s a photo slide show, a news rss feed and a comments box. I could have added eBay modules too, but its best not to over-commercialise I think, and besides, you need to balance the page to make it pleasing to the eye.
Every module can be positioned where you want it on the page by dragging and dropping from the box on the right when you are in edit mode, then clicking on the re-order box.
This is maybe a good time to explain how money is made from your hub.
In the site, you need to enrol as an affiliate of Google ad-sense, Amazon, eBay, Kontera and Analytics. You are given an affiliate code for each of them which you enter into the box for affiliate settings. You only need to do this once then forget about it as Hub Pages takes care of it now.
So working from the top and across the page of my hub page on Blue Springs, Orlando, Florida, you will see a number. This is an assessment by Hub Pages of the relevance of the article. Compare this to a percentage mark you may get for an essay at school. The more interesting the hub and the more pleasing the layout, the higher the mark.
Immediately under the title will be some Google ads if you have opted in to these. The position of these ads appears to be fixed by default. (A word of warning here, never ever click on Google ads on your own pages. You will be severely punished!)
Under this panel of ads will be your opening paragraph. Keep this to about five lines, outlining what your hub is about, including your main keywords.
To the right of your opening text will be a light blue panel with your membership details, the RSS feed, a link to join your fan club and your avatar or photo if you uploaded one. In the corner of this box is a number which reflects your good standing on Hub Pages.
Now you can consider adding either an Amazon or eBay capsule to compliment the wording of your opening paragraph. You have the choice of adding from 1 to 6 links in eBay, these are automatically selected by eBay from the wording you place in the capsule. Amazon lets you add from 1 to 10 links, and you are given the choice here either to let Amazon choose the links dependent like eBay on your keywords, or choose the products to offer yourself by placing the ASIN number in each line.
In my example hub Blue Springs Orlando Florida, I have placed an Amazon box with just 3 products of my own choosing. To the right of the Amazon capsule I’ve added my own video of Blue Springs, but you can add any suitable YouTube video you can find.
Below these 2 capsules are another 2 Google ads, but your visitor can search for more ads by using the < > arrows.
I’ve repeated this format for the rest of the page, and I hope you can agree that the page is well balanced. The boxes on the right are positioned there by default, and include more Google ads, related hubs by others, related questions and answers, then a list of all of the keywords you have chosen and added to describe your hub.
If you have added a news hub, I always think this is best placed near to the bottom above your comment box. You have the choice of the number of news articles to list here, and these are selected and added automatically for you dependant on the keywords you choose to include.
The page is finished off with more Google ads.
There is much more to Hub Pages than what I’ve mentioned here, but I hope by now you will be on information overload with what I’ve already listed above.
The important thing now is to sign up and just get on with it, learning as you go, always experimenting with better ways to display your hub, and keep coming back to it to add more relevant text. Hopefully, this will result in your hub mark rising, as well as your income.
Another warning, income from each hub might take upwards of 4 to 6 months to start, but if you add new hubs as often as you can, join the forums and write well enough to interest other hubbers to join your fan club, you can only grow to become a respected Hubber.
If you cannot think of something significant to write a hub about, draw on your life’s experiences with occupations, hobbies and sports you are knowledgable about. You will see from my profile page the variety of subjects I’ve written hubs about, and below the list of links you will see all of my hubs itemised with links to every one, and below these is a list of the hubs by other hubbers I have subscribed to. By subscribing to these, I get notified automatically every time these hubbers publish a new hub.
I hope this helps you along the way to start to receive income from blogging, and if you care to comment or need to ask a question to clarify anything, I promise I will always give you a response.
If you take this on, why not include a friend or group of friends to join you, then you are accountable to someone, and you can spur each other on to make more and better hubs. There’s room for everyone, so this idea is worthy of serious consideration. Why not forward this post on to others now, and get a quick start along your own road to riches?
So I will try and give some pointers here how I finally succeeded.
The first program I must give credit to is Quick Media Converter. Best of all, it’s a free download.
You can find it here: http://quick-media-converter.en.softonic.com/
Quote”Quick Media Converter is a flexible and comprehensive solution for converting video and audio with an eye on simplicity, usability and speed.”
It’s a matter of having your video file completed, and simply drag and drop.
Select the type of file you need your video converting to, such as flv for the web, quicktime, windows,DivX, XviD, DVD, VCD,mobile phone format, iPhone and all the popular games consoles.
I needed a conversion to upload to YouTube, so I selected Quicktime MP4, dragged my file into the box, and after a few seconds the conversion starts. Be aware that it will take a while, maybe an hour if your original file is large.
After the conversion, a new file will be placed on your desktop, and if you click on properties, you will see that the file is now only about 10% of the original file.
Once logged into YouTube, click on “upload video” and brows to the file to upload. Click OK, wait another half an hour or so, and your file will be uploaded to Youtube. While you are waiting, add a few notes in the boxes, add some keywords, and you’re ready to go.
Be sure to make a note of the Youtube address of your masterpiece from the right hand box near the top of the page.
If you need to see my results, visit my blog on Blue Springs Orlando Florida.
They are both about wildlife you might see if you get out into the state parks and waterways of Orlando Florida.
I’m happy to help with any questions you may have, but please remember I’m a novice at this too.
Good luck.
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We saw someone riding a Segway, and met Dale, the owner of Segway Orlando in the Disney area, and learned that he gives private tours around the town of Celebration.
We knew that Disney Florida offered Segway tours, but ruled this out because of the high cost. So imagine our delight when we learned that Dale offers Segway tours for less than half of what others might charge.
We signed up straight away, and were given a tour around the lake at the end of Main Street, Celebration. To say we enjoyed it immensely is an understatement, the thrill of zooming along paved pathways in total silence, all without effort other than leaning forward to accelerate, and standing up straight to slow down or stop, made the tour so enjoyable and allowed us to take in the great views of wildlife and the varied scenery.
The tour came to an end all too soon, so we decided we would return for the 90 minute tour which was on offer, at a later date.
We thought we had been on most of the Orlando attractions, but of all of them this was the greatest and one of the cheapest fun things to do in the Orlando Fl area.
So, there we were, just a week later, back for more fun on the Segway.
With a party of 5, we toured many small lakes, mostly on paved walkways, with Dale pointing out all the wildlife, the many great multi-million $ homes, taking us from one lake to another over a series of raised boardwalks through wooded areas over swampland.
The Segway is just so easy to ride that we were free to appreciate all the beauty which the area has. Dale is so knowledgeable about the area, giving you a great insight into the best that Celebration has to offer.
Alas, 90 minutes passed by all too quickly, and we were back at the lake at the bottom of Main Street.
All I can say to anyone who visits Orlando in the Celebration area is to seek Dale out from his website www.zetours.com and book up for a unique thrill of your life.
Watch a video of the Segway x2 Golf Cart
We made a video of our trip through the Dora Canal, Orlando Florida which you can view here on Youtube.
In the course of setting up my hub on Childrens toys, games and christmas best sellers, I’ve had the very good fortune to read the blog of one of the top bloggers in Australia called Lissie. It just so happens that we both use Hub Pages, an excellent platform for bloging.
SEO Google explains how to, is the link to download the official Google PDF on the subject. I used the information from Lissie and the Google PDF extensively while creating my hub, and do you know, not only does it work, but it returns instant results in the form of hits to your page, which it should be all about. So, a big thank you to Lissie, and to Google for such a helpful document on SEO.
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