In 2-5 years, will the only files you find on the top pages of the search engines, be videos, and not websites?

If SEO can no longer get your web site to the top of Google, what's the point of doing it? To move your website from position 324,432 to 486?

Silly? Possibly. But my experience is proving this to be true.

Businesses nowadays have a potential to DOMINATE their keyword listings, particularly for local search. Imagine someone doing a search for your product or services...and 6 out of the first 10 organic listings ARE ALL YOURS! Crazy? I've done it. I have some listings where ALL 10 of the organic listings are my videos.

For a recent client, I was able to get 7 out of the ten organic listings for his business concern with one video..and the first three all had thumbnails!

Do you suppose that might attract someone's attention?

By now, everyone's acquainted with YouTube. In Jan 2009, YouTube registered 100 Million unique visitors. These visitors watched an average of 63 videos each. That's over 6.3 Billion videos..in one month. And that's just You Tube. There are scores of video sharing sites, and more being added every day.

It's not hard to see the effect of video on the Net. Computers are now fast enough to display videos and movies, just like a Television. After 50 years of television, we are almost 'programmed' to watch videos. I recall, as a kid, sitting in the living room, with a TV tray in front of me, eating my Swanson TV Dinner (remember those aluminum trays!), and watching "Invaders from Mars". Salisbury steak was one of my favorite dinners. (I just watched "IFM'

again..after almost 45 years. They colorized it now, so the Martians appeared to be wearing green Velour jumpsuits...with a zipper up the back!)

We are a visually oriented people. Flat screen TVs are everywhere. At my local library, there is a flatscreen TV at the entrance, tuned to CNN. I always

peek at it, just to see if anything engrossing is happening. In the retail shops, tell me you don't stop to look at the TVs. Heck, they've even got them in

checkout lines. Videos attract our attention.

Which is why video is becoming so important to online business marketing. However, businesses have been slow to exploit it yet; there are very few business organizations that have realized the possible to 'lock up' their keyword phrases on Google.

Jim Farnsworth has been marketing with videos for the last year, and has specialized in keyword domination, using online videos. His website is

http://akroncontentmarketing.com