SIMPLE Tip Using Youtube To Increase SEO Traffic

Posted by SEO Info | Posted in SEO Tips, Web Design | Posted on 09-03-2010

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Ok, so check this out…

One way to get natural search traffic to your website is to place a video on the page. Since the most widely used search engine is Google, then we want to start there. YouTube happens to be owned by google, so it will help your rankings by using them to host your video.

  • Get an account on YouTube, make sure you place your website links in the videos as well as on your channel.
  • Upload the video, the one you want on your website, into your YouTube account.
  • After it is done uploading and is processed, take the embed code and send it to your webmaster. If you do it yourself, put it on the page where you want it viewed.

Every time a visitor watches the video on your page, you also get a view on YouTube, cool right? So the more popular your video is, the more weight it carries in the search engines. But what if they don’t click play, you ask? Then make the video auto-start!

Typically if it is a landing page and the first thing your viewer sees is your video, then you want the video to play automatically. ESPECIALLY if its an important message, you don’t want to take the chance of them not playing the video! (This will also help with your bounce rate)

So here’s what you do:

  1. Take your embed code and look for the URL, its in there twice and usually looks something like this – “http://www.youtube.com/v/FjTcA7i0f32pP0&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0″
  2. Take this little snippet of code – &autoplay=1  and place it right before the first & symbol (in this case its &hl)
  3. Make sure you also place it on the other URL

So you set your video to play automatically, now every time someone visits your page, you get a view on YouTube also!

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