How to post Videos to Wordpress Blog Automatically
If you are a blogger, you must be aware of the fact that you need to make time to create and post content on a regular basis on your blog. Creating and posting content on a regular basis is a real time consuming task. Sometimes it also becomes difficult to come up with a topic for the post. With tons of blogs out there you have to put really good content to ensure you get regular traffic & search engine love. If you do not post unique content on your blog on a regular basis, your blog starts to get less and less visitors and finally your blog goes down in the search ranking!
As a blogger, You must be aware that the search engines love Videos. If you post videos regularly on your blog, chances are your blog post is going to be indexed by Google quickly. The question is where do you get all the videos to post to your blog. Sites like Youtube and metacafe provide lot of video’s for you to use on your site. You just need to be careful in what videos you select. You do not want to promote someone else’s CPA offer without any benefit to you.
You may choose to create your own video or choose the videos already posted on Youtube and post it on your blog. Youtube provides the embed URL with every video. So you can just go to Youtube, enter your search keyword, find the video, copy embed URL & post it in your blog. The video should be immediately available on your blog without the user having to go to Youtube to view the video. What if you had something which would do the dirty work for you.
Well during my browsing sessions, I happened to find the WPVideoTube plug in for Wordpress. The plug in did attract my attention as it promised to post and drop feed videos on a regular frequency which would mean my blog would be updated continually without my intervention. The video posts on my blog would mean regular indexing & good ranking on search engine results.
What is WPVideoTube – is it a Wordpress Auto blogger?
The WP Video Tube is a wordpress plugin created by Neil Harvey which automates the task of searching, posting videos on your blog. With WPVideoTube, you activate the plugin, setup keywords for videos and get the traffic. The WPVideoTube can drip feed videos on your blog on a hourly or a daily basis. The plugin will not only post the videos but also post video description, tags associated with the video along with the user comments on the video. With the WPVideoTube plugin, its like stealing someone else’s traffic to your blog without any manual intervention.
Another interesting part of the plugin is that random times in a day which makes your blog posts appear to have posted by a human rather than a software.
What are the benefits of using WPVideoTube?
With WPVideoTube plugin, you get the following benefits:
- Regular fresh content for your blog thus ensuring regular indexing of your blog.
- Automatic video posts to your blog.
- Randomize the post time for videos.
- Post associated video content alongwith the video.
- Reduce the visitor bounce rate on your blog as the visitors spend time watching the videos.
- Significantly save your time & efforts on creating unique content for your site thus allowing you to spend time on other projects.
How much does the WPVideoTube plugin cost?
The WP Video Tube plugin is available in 5 different versions, namely: Free edition, Lite edition, Pro edition, Elite edition & the developer edition. With the free version, you can setup maximum 3 keywords for the video search and the videos are posted with a ‘powered by’ link. If you want to try the plugin, you can download the free version.
The Lite edition allows you to setup 20 keywords while the pro edition allows you to setup 50 keywords for video search. Only the elite & developer edition of the plugin does not have a ‘powered by’ link. The Elite edition is recommended since it allows unlimited keywords & costs much lesser than the developer edition. If you plan to create sites using this plugin & then sell them, you will have to purchase the developer edition of the plugin.
Is the WPVideoTube worth the cost?
If you are serious about your blog & are struggling to post fresh content to your blog, then this plugin is just for you. The plugin has helped me automate the task of posting videos to my blog & has definitely helped me with the ranking of my blogs on search engines. If you have time in your hand and can do the video posts manually, then this plugin may be a waste of money for you.
Pros & Cons for WPVideoTube!
Pro’s:
- Automatic posting of videos.
- Randomize video post time.
- Additional video information posted with the video thus providing additional content on your blog
- Free version of the plugin available. (This enables you to try the plugin and see if helps your blog.)
- Easy to use and comes with an easy to understand install & user guide.
- The plugin comes with a Bad Comments Filter and allows to you filter the bad words posted on the videos.
Con’s:
- As of writing this review, the plugin only supported Youtube.
- Cost of the plugin on a higher side.
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