The Power Of Search Syntax - Archive Secrets

You have already heard about using online video as one of many ways to attract visitors to your website. Unless you've been living in a cave for the last 296 years, you know about "YouTube" and the massive amount of viewers who hang out over there.

What are they doing? They are watching, commenting, reviewing and sharing videos with their friends. Millions of viewers are there, doing all of that, every day!

For obvious reasons, you want to get some attention from them. But you don't have any videos to publish right? Wrong! Well, you don't have any yet... but you can download free videos, remix them and redistribute them thanks to videos that are licensed with one of the many Creative Commons licenses.

The best place to find free online videos is the Internet Archive. 

Go to the advanced search, and find the search form for "Advanced XML Search (for Admins and Curators)". It's a bit tricky though, you need to know some strange search syntax like: AND OR * metadata...

...but here's a search query I made just for you, simply add your keywords at the end:

(mediatype:movies OR mediatype:MovingImages) AND (/metadata/licenseurl:http*by/* OR /metadata/licenseurl:http*publicdomain*) AND

Here is an example:

(mediatype:movies OR mediatype:MovingImages) AND (/metadata/licenseurl:http*by/* OR /metadata/licenseurl:http*publicdomain*) AND chimpanzees

The search results will only contain videos which you are free to remix and redistribute. Remember to check the license again when you have selected a video, just to make sure.

Good luck!

ps. here are my two cheezy movies over at YouTube (warning: contains irony) :

The Truth About Online Marketing

Behind The Scenes - Making The Thruth About Online Marketing