Comments on: You Shouldn’t Use YouTube For Building YouLinks

By: scott

scott — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 18:36:33 +0000

Wouldn’t it be easier to simply not include keywords or useful titles in videos? That should push your youtube video down on google, and your site up.

Like you said, users don’t search on youtube…so why bother using youtube keywords?

By: altinkum

altinkum — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:01:21 +0000

if we cant do anything with youtube then how should improve our wesites then

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By: Mae

Mae — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:42:05 +0000

Hi, Im relativley new to link building. After reading your article, it really made me think twice about using YouTube. Guess I’d better spend my time and effort elsewhere.
Thank you for the wonderful insight.

By: Dianna Lambert

Dianna Lambert — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:21:40 +0000

This is great information, I have spent the last five months teaching myself how to create and upload a website, learning about custom script, embedding etc. I now have my site uploaded, and I was going to implement youtube as a suggetion from a friend. Now after reading this, I have attached a couple of the videos on my website instead. I have paid for godaddy’s search engine-traffic blazer but it has taken me forever to figure it out. I still dont think I have it done right because even if you type in my actual business name it doesnt even come up. I will take your advice and begin submitting press releases etc. thanks again for the great information. Dianna

By: Steve Merrick - FirstFound

Steve Merrick - FirstFound — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:12:37 +0000

YouTube might drive some traffic, but what sort of traffic? I don’t imagine that conversions from YouTube are particularly high. That, combined with the fact that a YouTube channel can outrank you, suggests that it’s best to stay away.

By: Gerald Weber

Gerald Weber — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 02:47:53 +0000

Good point here. The issue is similar to content syndication. If you are not really an authority yet or as much of an authority. often times the content with the higher PR or authority outranks the original source in SERPs. This is not a good thing.

By: Debra

Debra — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:01:40 +0000

Thanks Jason. If you can’t get a page to rank and your YT video is all that will, by all means. But be sure that vid is doing everything it can to send ppl back to your site. And yes we’ve noticed some channel pages have clean links on them, we’re watching to see if they have an impact (if we can tell).

By: Jason Forthofer

Jason Forthofer — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:54:00 +0000

I disagree. Like you said, you tube results move regular listings down. SO…if we can’t control that, why not join in the exposure?

Plus, recently the youtube user channels pages now DO NOT have nofollow on your profile link. Check this out.

http://www.youtube.com/user/galaxybricks

You’ll see in the profile section that my url IS followed! I believe this is a new change.

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