Video blogging can be a great promotional tool to sell your products, services or as teaching or learning tool but also creating videos and submitting them to for example video.google.com and youtube.com helps you to rank your sites higher in the search engines in the same way that articles do - a proven fact and not just a made up story.

Google has video centres all over the world, so once you submit a video to video.google.com you then have the possibility to receive many - not just one or two, a lot of strong back links which will help improve your websites rankings in the search engines - if your videos are good of course.

If the video community gives your video a thumbs up and it gets top rankings, you can get really high PR ranking links pointing back to your websites in next to no time, which dramatically increases your sites ranking potential.

Using video software - this can be the free camtasia software from www.camstudio.org, Video Spin from www.videospin.com, window movie maker at (http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/updates/moviemaker2.mspx) or Jing at www.jingproject.com with any one of these software package you can make good, professional looking videos with content that people are looking for and that will drive traffic to your website.

Watch sites like news.google.com or news.yahoo.com for breaking news and create relevant videos to fit the theme of that news.

You can use the free software programs to create videos from still images, by adding pictures and audio. Compile it to an .avi or .wmv and upload it to video.google.com, youtube.com etc. This does take a little time to do, but is well worth the effort.

Uploading videos to each video site can take a while, but Tubemogul (www.tubemogul.com) takes the pain out of this: Upload all your videos to TubeMogul and let their Universal Upload tool do the rest and distribute to all the video sites. Tubemogul also provides statistics on your viewership across online video sites all in one place - so what could be better.

With your videos on more sites with no extra effort, your opportunity to gain viewers multiplies a lot! Some users of the Universal Upload have witnessed up to 3 times more views per video and you can even see what’s working for your counterparts and competition and compare and contrast viewership trends with your own.

Upload all of your videos in one go and track them - it’s really that simple. See the video to the right of your screen to see how simple it is to upload and distribute your videos using Tubemogul. Cool stuff and free too.