Optimize Your Hubs: Put A Metacafe Video For Entertainment & Value

Optimizing your Hubs with entertaining, amazing and inspiring videos is one sure way to add great content to your creative work. And HubPages gives you four options to add videos to your Hubs: YouTube, Google Video, Revver and Metacafe.

In my previous Hubs, I have already covered how you can add YouTube, Google Video and Revver videos to your Hubs. Now, I will focus on Metacafe and how it can optimize you Hub's content and make it more entertaining, amazing and inspiring for your visitors.

Results from a survey conducted by comScore Media Metrix put Metacafe as one of the world's largest independent online video entertainment sites with more than 25 million viewers each month.

Metacafe has three ingredients that make it unique:

1. specializes in short videos (averages less than 90 seconds long),
2. focuses on entertainment that amaze, inspire and make viewers laugh, and
3. operates entirely by the community that is user-generated, user-selected, user-reviewed and user-rewarded.

A community review panel of more than 80,000 registered users volunteer to take a first look at each of the thousands of videos submitted to the site every day and give their verdicts. Videos must meet the certain criteria to be accepted.

And they also have a reward program called "The Metacafe Producer Rewards" which pays video creators for their best original work as determined by the viewers. It pays $5 per 1,000 views – you receive your first payment for $100 after crossing the 20,000 views mark and being accepted into the program.

So, if you are a video buff, get yourself enrolled as a free member. Show off your stuff and make some extra money. 

Adding a video to your Hubs is very easy and fun. First, you need to go to Metacafe.com to search for your video. When you are happy with what you have found, get the video's URL or Embed Code, copy it and go back to your Hub's video capsule.

The second part is simple because HubPages makes it so easy with its unique video capsule setup. You can actually complete loading the video to your Hub in 4 easy steps:

1. Insert the URL or Embed code in the given box in your Hub's video capsule
2. Press Preview Video to ensure the link is okay (the selected video is displayed)
3. Add an interesting subtitle to your video (optional) and
4. Click Save to load the video to your Hub.

When you are at Metacafe, don't get distracted by the Embeddable Player or the "Advance" button. You don't need to upload these gadgets to your Hubs as HubPages has taken care of all these details. Just search for the video you want, get the URL or Embed Code and get back to your Hub to edit your video capsule. 

That's it! You can now confidently put a Metacafe video to your Hub. It's totally free!