Joint Venture Lightning

I posted my 16 year old son’s high school science project video online just for fun to see what would happen… and I was blown away at how fast it showed up on Google page one.

I uploaded the video at 8:30 pm and it was on page one by 11:00 pm that same day.

In fact, it not only showed up on page one but it totally dominates the page by getting the first four positions!

Here’s how I did it.

First, I chose keywords related to the topic of the video… maximizing methane production and renewable energy. Then I used those keywords in the title, description and tags. Then I uploaded the video to my free www.tubemogul.com account and clicked the Launch button.

Tubemogul then syndicates the video to about twelve of the top video hosting sites online including Google, YouTube, Revver,Veoh, BlipTV, and others.

That’s all there is to it. It took about 10 minutes. I checked back at 11:00 and there it was on page one!. Checked back again that same evening and it was in the first four positions.  And YES… according to Tubemogul video traffic stats his little video has had more than 100 views in the first day alone.

Now I wish my son had some kind of info product to sell so we can take advantage of the free organic traffic.

My 16 year old son Scott just completed his science project for the Roanoke Valley Governor’s School project forum that will be held tomorrow at the Patrick Henry High School.

Scott conducted an experiment demonstrating how to increase methane production for power generation by adding readily available organic waste materials like leaves, wood chips, saw dust, and old newspaper to the sludge at the Western Virginia Water Authority.

How To Increase Methane Production For Power Generation from Brian Duvall on Vimeo.

I’m conducting a short seven question survey of non-profits, chambers of commerce and associations to see if and how they are using video and how effective it is for them.

Click Here to take survey

The reason for the survey is to gauge how quickly these organizations are adopting this medium to achieve core missions. With the advent of web video, global syndication is now a reality… for FREE. It has been my experience that smaller organizations with limited resources tend to fall far behind in the adoption of new tools like social networking, bookmarking, RSS, SEO, web video, and syndication.

If you are a staff member, board member or volunteer for a non-profit, association or chamber of commerce then please take this short 2 minute survey. I’ll be happy to share the results when the project is completed.

Thanks.