Another Pointless Blog

Yes, it is true that pictures and videos speak more than text does. A few pictures or still better, a short video can conveniently explain something that otherwise needs writing many pages of text to be conveyed effectively. We can see a large number of bloggers who embed videos in their blog posts. This is also the prime reason that the number of vlogs are increasing steeply ever since this concept of blogging through videos was introduced.

A video blog, sometimes shortened to vlog, is a blog whose medium is video.

This is purely my personal observation, and based on it, my personal opinion that not many bloggers are using videos on their blogs in the right way they should.

From a few recent blog reviews that I did at Inspirit, (like the blog reviews for Game Posts dot Net and for Poker Blog) I have seen that many bloggers tend to add videos to their blog posts without adding a textual description about them. I have stressed this point (particularly in the above 2 blog-reviews that I linked to) that its a healthy practice to add a small textual description about the contents of the video, in the blog post. This is just so useful for people who might be interested in your stuff but reside in areas that have broadband connections that are just too far from anything that can be called fast!

So, what I suggest you should do when adding a video to your blog post is:

• Introduce the subject of your video in a sentence or two.
• Embed the video.
• Add some details about what tools did you use in the video.
• Brief, what are you trying to convey in the video and why should the visitors watch it.

Also, adding a textual description gives you a chance to target specific keywords related to your blog post that might get you better ranking in Search Engines and thus increase your traffic and maybe subscribers also, if your content is worth it.

What is your view-point on this issue? Take a minute to drop a comment and share your opinions and ideas.

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