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Videos to Enhance your Search Engine Listings
By Jim Hedger, Editor, StepForth News, StepForth
Placement Inc., January 4, 2005
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In the coming months a small start-up in Texas called SiSTeR
Technologies hopes to introduce short video clips to search engine listings.
Folks used to say a picture was worth a thousand words. That of course
was in the days before video was an instantly accessible medium. Video advertising
can so be sophisticated; a two-minute ad can be a more powerful sales tool
than a million lines of print. Search engine listings tend to express a
fair amount of information about the site behind each link. SEOs and site
designers try to write strong descriptions and body text in order to generate
a good paragraph under their links to attract visitors to the site but in
the end, reference links often look very much alike. When competing for
clicks with several other web-documents, conventional wisdom says it is
smart to somehow stand out from the rest.
An interesting new tool from SiSTeR Technologies will allow advertisers
to create short video clips that would appear alongside regular organic
listings. They are currently speaking with a number of large players in
the search engine world and if talks go well we may see the products of
their labours very soon. Last week, SiSTeR Technologies CEO Israel Alpert
and Marketing Director, Tomer Alpert gave me a behind the scenes tour of
their products.
SiSTeR's plan is to allow search engine advertisers to produce short video
clips of up to 5-minutes that will appear to the left of your search listing.
The clips are very easy to produce using SiSTeR's "Pic-2-Vid" and "M-Plat" online
editing platforms that combine digital images or videos with voice-overs
recorded by telephone.
Tomer guided me through the seven or eight simple steps involved in creating
a video and within 90-seconds I had created a fifteen second clip. In less
than an hour I could easily create a credible 60-second commercial that
would appear beside my organic search listing, or perhaps as part of a paid-listing.
At the cost of one-cent per minute of broadcast, SiSTeR's pricing structure
is also simple. A one-minute clip that receives one thousand views would
cost the advertiser $10US. Stretched across thousands of advertisers, 365-days
and tens of millions of daily searchers, the lowest possible fees should
still provide a fair return for SiSTeR's efforts.
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