Using YouTube videos for Backlinks

As you know YouTube is hugely popular and attracts millions of people daily.  Just recently YouTube released Wide Screen view and Live videos.

With any popular website someone is always trying to work out a way to get backlinks from it.

If you embed a YouTube video on your site you get a backlink added to the YouTube video. The backlink is a no-follow one so it won’t be indexed (stay tuned for a detailed post on no-follow links).  If you’ve targeted the right video some video watchers might check out the backlinks and then visit your site.

A better technique is to create your own video that targets your keyword search goals and in the description of the video put your website address. Make sure you put your keywords everywhere on your video. Of course it is important that you video is interesting and gives value to it’s viewers so that they take interest and might click on your links to see your website.

Google made sure that these tactics won’t improve your Page Rank. Can you imagine the spam it would have created on YouTube if it could?

There are a few products out there that claim they can automated YouTube backlinks - but I’d imagine overall this is going to have a very negative affect on your Page Rankings eventually.

If you’ve had success with this type of linking please leave a comment.

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