Lots of youtube videos, but no links.
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Hi,
I have more than 100 videos on youtube with thousands of visits. This videos are often inserted in other websites, but I don't get links from them. How to take advantage of it?
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There's really no way to force people who embed your video to link to your website. The best you can do is encourage them to do so within the content of the video itself.
Maybe it would be beneficial to play around with how you present your website in your videos. Pay attention to what works and keep improving on that.
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Thanks Scott
I already put a comment with the URL of my website in all the videos (image and text comment).
The question is that there are many video compilation websites, where people gather and share they favorite videos. But embeding my videos in those websites do not generate links to my website.
So my videos are shared, I get traffic (I guess) but I do not improve my inbound links.
I have to think about how to promote the forum. It's a good idea.
Thanks again!
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Consider mentioning your website or a page on your website within your videos.
"Check out www.mywebsite.com/something-people-like.htm For More Awesome Content"
The idea is that if you have a page on your website that provides value to your viewers - and they know about it - they will naturally link to it when they embed your video. The trick is figuring out exactly what people will find valuable (more valuable than your YouTube Channel) and effectively communicating that to your viewers.
It might be a good idea to promote your forum within your videos. I'm sure many people have questions and it doesn't apear to be very clear where to go.
Another idea would be to promote a like to your courses within your videos.
Hope that helps,
Scott
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Thanks Rasmus.
I have a website (in spanish) related to electric guitar for beginners.
http://www.rockandrollparamunones.com/guitarra
I have lots of videos in youtube. My channel name is "ociosu"
This could be a sample video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlTq_eeq5kY
These videos are linked from my website, where I also have a forum and theory.
The fact is that if I look for "rockandrollparamunones.com" or "rock & roll para muñones" in google, I can find hundreds of links to webs that embed my videos, but my website only have few incoming links.
I have no idea of SEO. Just beginning. I didn't know link building was so important!
So I would like to know if I can take advantage of that to get links to my website.
Thanks again!
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Can you post an example of a video here, I think that would help a lot to narrow down the search for a solution.
Do you have a website to which you want to drive traffic from these Youtube videos or are you looking toward getting as much trafic on your youtube videos as possible?
I've found this blog here on SEOmoz, which i thought was rather inisightful:
http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/seo-benefits-from-googleyoutubes-automatic-captions
Best regards,
Rasmus
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