Will backlinks to my youtube video have any effect?

14 years ago

It should give it more relevance to Google's search engine, but I'm not sure what it does to YouTube's ranking of it.

The other factor, backlinking will give you one more thing, added traffic to the video from the links. If the video is good and is converting people into your buying funnel, I'd include it in your normal routine of backlinking any other type of content. At least to the level of social bookmarking it.

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TheChimp 14 years ago

I dont think backlinks help you organic YouTube ranking what so ever.

Keep in mind that when people dont neccessarily need to go to youtube to find your youtube video. In this case backlinks will definately help you.

Always just ensure that you have keyword rich headings and descriptions and you can't go wrong!
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VoiceOfTruth

14 years ago

Digg and mixx work well for youtube

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xxxJamesxxx

14 years ago

Yes it'll really help your Youtubes video help climb the search engines

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paulgl

14 years ago

Remember that there is no content in a video.

If you are backlinking to the url of the video on youtube,
try something else.

If you are backlinking to a website that has the youtube
video embedded, that's a better story.

Remember, people searching for (youtube) videos in most cases do it
on youtube.com, not in google.com. In this case, backlinks to
the youtube url would make no difference.

Paul

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dburk

14 years ago

Originally Posted by paulgl

Remember, people searching for (youtube) videos in most cases do it
on youtube.com, not in google.com. In this case, backlinks to
the youtube url would make no difference.

Paul

Hi Paul,

While I agree that many folks do their searching for youtube videos on youtube, but according to Google there are 923 million searches per month that include youtube in the keyword phrase.

Personally, I always do my initial search for youtube videos on Google, it works quite well and obviously there are many other folks doing the same thing. According to Google data they have over 1.1 billion searches each month on the search network that they return youtube video listings in the results. Thats billion with a "B" and that's monthly as in 30 days. Seems like too big a number to simply dismiss, at least for me, I guess your business model can't waste time on such paltry search volume numbers.

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pdrs

13 years ago

Originally Posted by paulgl

Remember that there is no content in a video.

If you are backlinking to the url of the video on youtube,
try something else.

If you are backlinking to a website that has the youtube
video embedded, that's a better story.

Remember, people searching for (youtube) videos in most cases do it
on youtube.com, not in google.com. In this case, backlinks to
the youtube url would make no difference.

Paul

This simply isn't true I'm afraid.

I'm ranked #2 in youtube and #1 on google for a term that receives 30,000 monthly (exact) in youtube keyword tool.

All I did was backlink the URL, the vid had less than 500 views when i started doing this and 1 or 2 embeds.

I've been keeping it to myself but I think it's fairly common knowledge these days, I've seen it in a few different WSO's etc...

For someone who talks of the "science" of SEO you sure say a lot of stuff with authority that isn't backed up by any fact.

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Groovystar

14 years ago

Can be useful though if people who do watch your video have a high CTR to your site. Then if you up the video's google visibility it can indirectly help your sales.

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P.Sharma

14 years ago

I have experienced it and it defintely gets you higher SE rankings.

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Niche

14 years ago

Backlinks help your videos in the search engines but not in you tube. SO if you have a video that you want to appear in The SERPs of google for a certain keyword, then apart from writing an appropriate title, etc, backlinks do help

But on you tube itself it still remains relevance and number of views that counts

Now how youtube determines relevance, I honestly don't know. I have a few videos in you tube that are doing well but I honestly cannot take any credit for that

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ktmakwana

13 years ago

From personal experience, I agree with comments made below by Niche.

Originally Posted by Niche

Backlinks help your videos in the search engines but not in you tube. SO if you have a video that you want to appear in The SERPs of google for a certain keyword, then apart from writing an appropriate title, etc, backlinks do help

But on you tube itself it still remains relevance and number of views that counts

Now how youtube determines relevance, I honestly don't know. I have a few videos in you tube that are doing well but I honestly cannot take any credit for that

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pdrs 13 years ago

Originally Posted by ktmakwana

From personal experience, I agree with comments made below by Niche.

Again, from personal experience and currently having vids that rank #1-2 in youtube for pretty great terms, I have to disagree.
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vision2003

14 years ago

If you want better ranking at Youtube itself, you'll have to get some views, comments and rankings for your video. You can by the way buy all of the above or do it yourself.

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akp88 13 years ago

backlink do really have an effect on your youtube videos. But apart from social bookmarking, i don't know how to get that backlinks. Top 1 videos in my niche has approximately 300 backlinks. Can someone help me here?
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Francine

13 years ago

I think those backlinks really improve on your traffic to the site,so i cant rule them oout altogether in case of youtubes as some have suggested!

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david87

13 years ago

I don't think it ll effect on your you tube video ranking.You can say in case of you tube,you need more views and reviews from visitors and that ll help your you tube video to get high rank in SE.To get more number of views and reviews you need to promote your you tube video in a proper manner.
Please have a try and see results!

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Chris Sorrell 13 years ago

Yes, it definitely helps. You can use it to get you keyword related video to the first page of google pretty easily. I just blast a load of social bookmarking links from magic submitter at the video url and make the vid title and description contain the keywords I'm targetting and it works every time.

You set up a simple animoto presentation which simply leads the customer somewhere else such as your money site or a squeeze page for instance.
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sanamuskan

Banned 13 years ago

It have a very strong effect because it give you a powerful link.

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AlexSafie

13 years ago

In my experience backlinks do help YouTube videos rank better in Google and in YouTube.

You can use RSS and social bookmarking to build backlinks to your video.

Hope this helps

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krjewellers

13 years ago

I will usually watch a video that comes up in the Google search results.
Especially, if it's a how to video or review video. I link to my videos and
have had them rank in Google.

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Dianawilliams 13 years ago

Yes it helps in SEO
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shuvo

13 years ago

Well it is a good and exceptional question from you.So thanks for that.What I personally think that it should give a good position in search engines.

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sweetamber

13 years ago

I don't think that this kind of backlinks will help you in SERP. But, defenetly if the video is good enough it will bring traffic to your site.

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Torreylee

13 years ago

I've never experienced any success ranking a youtube video in the SERPs by backlinking.

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Underground

13 years ago

Originally Posted by SEO Sage

You want to tie your youtube account to your other social web 2.0 accounts like twitter and facebook and then backlink ALL of them!

Could you elaborate on how? I've made around 180 vids. Am trying to get them ranked in Google. Have been trying to submit the urls for the individual pages to rss directories to get back links. Don't know if I'm wasting my time. Could do with trying out that method.

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PhilJenkins 13 years ago

Do you have keywords in your title, description and tags. This is a very basic part that most youtube videos lack.
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PhilJenkins

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Underground

Could you elaborate on how? I've made around 180 vids. Am trying to get them ranked in Google. Have been trying to submit the urls for the individual pages to rss directories to get back links. Don't know if I'm wasting my time. Could do with trying out that method.

While this does not directly answer your question, do you have keywords in your title, description and tags? This is a very basic part that most youtube videos lack. Then backlink them.

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bjoern57

13 years ago

I dont think backlinks help you any more in organic YouTube ranking what so ever.

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Dr Livingston

13 years ago

Backlinks DO help get you ranked higher in you tube AND google.
I've taken a video, a very crappy video, and drove backlinks to it. In less than 2 months, I was ranked on the 1st page of google AND youtube for 3 keywords that had hundreds of thousands of views each month. Not 1, but 3. I purposely was optimizing for these 3 keywords in my backlinking.

The social media idea was awesome. Google is adding their 1+ component which will factor social media into the algorithm. A combination of all of these will be essential as well as different types of backlinks, not just rss directories. But press releases, article marketing, profile linking, video sites, bookmarking, blog commenting, etc. You get the point :-)

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carlajoyce

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Dr Livingston

Backlinks DO help get you ranked higher in you tube AND google.
I've taken a video, a very crappy video, and drove backlinks to it. In less than 2 months, I was ranked on the 1st page of google AND youtube for 3 keywords that had hundreds of thousands of views each month. Not 1, but 3. I purposely was optimizing for these 3 keywords in my backlinking.

The social media idea was awesome. Google is adding their 1+ component which will factor social media into the algorithm. A combination of all of these will be essential as well as different types of backlinks, not just rss directories. But press releases, article marketing, profile linking, video sites, bookmarking, blog commenting, etc. You get the point :-)

Definately agree, i always backlink my YouTube videos using SenukeXCR and i am to date getting great results in Google SERPS.
I currently have videos in competitive health niches that receive enormous amounts of traffic ALL through backlinking - when you do keyword research use 'ahrefs.com' and then just beat the top video with backlinks, views, comments etc. and you are set to take that #1 spot.

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Backlinko

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Dr Livingston

Backlinks DO help get you ranked higher in you tube AND google.
I've taken a video, a very crappy video, and drove backlinks to it. In less than 2 months, I was ranked on the 1st page of google AND youtube for 3 keywords that had hundreds of thousands of views each month. Not 1, but 3. I purposely was optimizing for these 3 keywords in my backlinking.

The social media idea was awesome. Google is adding their 1+ component which will factor social media into the algorithm. A combination of all of these will be essential as well as different types of backlinks, not just rss directories. But press releases, article marketing, profile linking, video sites, bookmarking, blog commenting, etc. You get the point :-)

Yup. I've found the same.

Links help rank videos in Google like any other page...although not sure what effect that has within YT.

In my experience on-video metrics such as likes, viewing time etc. have more of an influence for YT search.

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SFM Champ

11 years ago

Can you just blast the vids with tons of links or does link velocity and mix play a part like with any other page/site?

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paulgl 11 years ago

How did this old thing get dug up? Backlinks to a youtube video
are technically backlinks to youtube. They don't need them.

As I have said many, many, many times, backlink to your
channel. That IS A REAL webpage. Videos are just things in
the cloud, hence the ?= in the url. Comment on other videos,
instant backlink to your channel.

You should put your video on a webpage, in the niche, and
backlink to THAT webpage.

I'm not quite sure if/how google "counts" embeds. That's a whole
different ballgame than a link to a video. The page it's embedded
on would seem to send the signals.

You wouldn't build backlinks to your images so google can
find your images.

Paul
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Michael Ten

11 years ago

It will help you. Just make sure that you keep it white hat.

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Noyes

11 years ago

This is interesting. I've got a video on youtube which ranks #1 where it's fairly hard competition. I have checked my competitors backlinks to their vids and some of them have 20-30 links. My video however has no backlinks. The reason why I think my video ranks higher than theirs is because I have 50 % more views than most videos and have far more youtube likes.

Conclusion: views & likes is what makes a video rank high, not backlinks.

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Yassine Labouch

10 years ago

You can rank youtube video very easy as talking

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