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By Dominic Donaldson

 When looking at the best videos ever you have to take into account not only the blockbuster comic hits like, well anything starring Will Ferrell, but also the millions of fantastic home made clips that unsuspected cyber super stars have posted on hosting sites such as YouTube to be viewed by their peers. This includes news footage, stand up comic performers, basically anything weird and wonderful that has been captured on video.

There is some debate as would be expected, however the most popular hosting site YouTube publishes statistics annually on the most popular video based on how many millions of views it has received and how many times it has been shared, commented on or emailed. Whittling out the music videos which seem to be dominating the top clips leaves you with a selection of homemade masterpieces to remember.

When looking at the best videos of 2007 the top video was called Battle at Kruger and featured a showdown between a herd of bison and a pride of lions, oh and a crocodile. The amateur cameraman is shaking with disbelief as the epic saga unfurls. The bison unsuspectingly stumble upon a pride of lurking lions who tackle a calf into the nearby lake and try to drag it out only to be involved in a tug of war with the croc.

The lions eventually get it out of the water only to be faced by the bison backup in the form of about 50 of the rutting beasts. The bison do not take too kindly to the lions feeding off one of their young and absolutely decimate the lions, sending them scattering in all directions and amazingly enough the young calf actually gets up an falls back into the ranks of the herd, that calf will not be getting bullied around the waterhole.

This is not the most popular video of all time as it amassed 21 million views which is nowhere near the whopping 55.8 million views that Justin Laipply received for his trouser movingly funny video, The Evolution of Dance. This was released in 2006 and is a compilation of dance styles running from 1950 to 2000 as part of a comedy routine. The video was also favoured 252,082 times making it the number one favoured video of all time.

There have been other classics from the less funny, more tragic genre such as the 2007 Chris Crocker video entitled, Leave Britney Alone. Out of morbid curiosity this video was viewed over 14 million times as the Britney mad Crocker broke down and blubbed his camp appeal for the press to leave the southern belle beauty queen turned pop mega star be.

This medium provides unbelievable publicity opportunities which are exploited, however you have the other side which allows the amazing videos such as NORA: Practice Makes Purr-Fect, where a kitten plays the piano and the absolutely enthralling Battle at Kruger. This has to be the best video of all time due to the popularity combined with the precious footage that many wildlife photographers would never experience in a lifetime.

Dominic Donaldson is journalist covering the internet videos phenomenon and writes on all aspects of popular culture.

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Three Great Free Ways To Generate A Flood Of Targeted Traffic To Your Website
By Kim Aron

 As you might already know, the main key to having a successful online business is to have loads of targeted traffic. A lot of marketers, especially people who are new to marketing their products or offers on the Internet, often get confused when it comes to generating traffic. They simply struggle. But generating considerable amounts of traffic is actually not as hard as many marketers make it out to be. You simply have to know where to go, what to do and how to do it.

The best way to really benefit from traffic generation, is by no doubt to create multiple streams of traffic, all pointing towards your website. All to often, marketers solely focus on one or two main streams of traffic, and when these few traffic streams for whatever reason suddenly become less effective, their website is left in the dark spaces of the Internet, with few or no visitors.

To generate as much traffic to your website as possible, you need to take advantage of a lot of different traffic generation methods that all send targeted traffic to your website. This will increase your sales, simply because a larger amount of potential buyers is going to be exposed to your sales page.

I am now going to discuss three highly effective methods that you can utilize to effectively increase your traffic generation.

The first method is article marketing. This is a surprisingly simple, yet very efficient and proven traffic generating technique. All you actually need to do, is to write simple, informative and useful articles about whatever topic you choose, and then submit your article to different article directories. The main key within this method, is that when you submit your article, you are allowed to add a small resource box beneath your article. In this box you can add the link to your website. That is all, you are now generating floods of targeted traffic to your site.

If you wish to maximize your traffic through article marketing, the key is that you produce and submit several different articles on a continous basis, because this will create a higher number of links from different article directory sites, all leading to your particular website. If you do not like to write, or for whatever reason do not want to write your articles yourself, you have the possibility to outsource this task. There are lots of low cost services that offer professional written articles on your behalf.

The second method is forum marketing. This is the process of making posts and comments on online forums. As a forum member, you are allowed to add your website link in your forum signature tag, so each time you make a post, your link becomes visible to all the other forum members. A huge benefit here is that you can choose a forum that are already focusing on the specific topic that your website contains, so there is a really good chance that other forum members will click on your website link. This traffic is highly targeted, because your website visitors are most likely genuinely interested in your offer.

A really important aspect when it comes to forum marketing, is that you provide quality content in your posts and comments, and do not just start advertising your website. This will immediately be considered as spamming, and your forum account will be closed. Just reply honestly to existing posts and create new informative and helpful threads. Your forum signature will, as I explained earlier take care of generating traffic to your website.

The third and last traffic generating method that I will discuss, is blog marketing. Popular blogs generally generate massive amounts of traffic. What you can do, is to post comments on high traffic blogs within your topic or niche. Blogs allow you to add your website link when you make a comment, and the blog readers, who are already interested in your particular topic, are going to provide you with a lot of very targeted traffic. Again, it is important that you do not spam, just make good and helpful comments, and your website traffic is guaranteed.

These three traffic generating methods are easy, effective and completely free. They make it possible for you to tap into huge amounts of targeted traffic, simply because they constitute the main arenas for your target market, so you are making yourself and your website a big favour if you follow these methods, because it will get your message and link in front of the exact right crowd of potential customers.

Kim Aron is the owner of YourLeadBoost.com , a co-registration service that offers simple, effictive and cost efficient ways for online marketers to obtain new, fresh and active opt-in email leads.

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