Youtube dofollow link to web site
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Is there still a dofollow link back from a youtube channel to your web site? I filled in the site url in the profile, which in my understanding used to be the single dofollow link back to your web site. However, when I view the page source for the youtube channel it shows up as a nofollow link. Also, in OSE the link does not appear.
Has this changed or am I just not doing this correctly?
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Thank you for your information
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I tried to add a link to my website in the video channel description and it just came out as text, did not seem possible to add html.
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You're correct. These links definitely used to be dofollow. It appears YouTube may have changed the links to nofollow when they redesigned the YouTube Channel pages in the last couple of months.
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I think there are different types of channels and some do have links without the nofollow attribute, but those channels aren't available for the regular person that just has two videos up.
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I certainly agree with your comments on video and youtube in general. My understand, which apparently was incorrect, was that the url in the profile was a dofollow link. Has it always been a nofollow link? Lots of misinformation about this...
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YouTube links in the video and Channel to your site are all nofollow. I'm not sure if they were ever dofollow, but regardless, it's not a bad link to get to round out a natural looking link profile (plus the links can generate traffic). If your video has a good chance of getting shared outside of YouTube, make sure to put your domain name and/or brand in the video itself so you get attribution and traffic.
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