This is totally doable, right? -- "Home made" (fake) PURLs for video links...

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If I can set up links (within emails) so that the link (in blue) shows up in the email as any word(ing) I want -- which is of course already doable -- then what's stopping me from doing this?...

I have a link to a page on my site that I have custom personalized for a particular prospective client. I want to make a hotlink to that page and put it in an email to the prospect. I'm thinking that link would be WAY MORE enticing if the wording of the link was (SAID / SHOWED UP AS)...
http://youtube.com/JoesPizzaShop

---- Even though the link really leads to something like mydomain.com/JoesPizzaShop.

So the link "jacks" the trust of youtube AND adds the irresistible quality of a PURL (THEIR company name) -- even though the link doesn't REALLY lead to youtube -- it leads to a page on my site (that DOES actually have a personalized YT video as PART of the page, so they really DO end up seeing what was "promised" -- the personalized video, that IS "on YT," but they're seeing it while it's embedded, on a page on my site).

Note: There are other advantages of NOT directing the potential client simply to YT proper. (ie: on my site, *I* control the surrounding environment).

And besides, even if you DO lead them directly to (the real) YT, to see the vid, seems like it would be way better for them to see a *link* like
http://youtube.com/JoesPizzaShop
instead of a link like

http://youtube.com/DxcuTswMAziQ -- no?

Has anyone else tried this?

Just wondering.

-- TW

PS: Before you jump on me for the "fake" aspect of all this, keep in mind they ARE
getting what the link "promises." A personalized/customized video that is "on youtube"
(published *to* YT) -- and the PURL aspect of it is real, in that the page on my site would
have that same PURL ( /JoesPizzaShop ).
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