Youtube etc, for SEO

15 years ago

I think you should concentrate more on generating targeted traffic from youtube rather than getting backlinks. Backlinks on youtube are nofollow, so you won't get any real SEO benefits. Rather, you should focus on producing videos that people will enjoy, bookmark, and lead them to click through to your site.

The whole point of SEO is to ultimately get targeted traffic right? So why not get some now while you're on your way?

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Elion Makkink

15 years ago

Youtube can be used for getting a #1 Google ranking. However, your video will be displayed on page 1, not your site. So don't use youtube for backlinks, use them for informative material about your website.

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MikeFriedman

15 years ago

Yes YouTube can be useful for getting a site ranked. You can get a backlink from the video or work on getting a video itself ranked that drives traffic to your site.

Don't worry about the link being nofollow. Nofollow links are still useful for SEO. I don't care what anyone else says.

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123akshay

15 years ago

Youtube is good for seo, as it send a dofollow backlink and also it has page rank 9, so it is the best thing for SEO

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chasnsx

15 years ago

Okay, let's clarify some things about Youtube. The link from your channel page is a nofollow. Links from your video descriptions are dofollow. Something else to consider -- each video has its own pagerank, and this is what the link from the video is assigned, not Youtube's pagerank of 9. So if you have a video that is getting few or no views, it will be a PR0. If you have a video with 100K views in a year, it might be a PR3 or 4.

You can also embed links within the video using the video annotation system.

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MickeyMil

15 years ago

Originally Posted by chasnsx

Okay, let's clarify some things about Youtube. The link from your channel page is a nofollow. Links from your video descriptions are dofollow. Something else to consider -- each video has its own pagerank, and this is what the link from the video is assigned, not Youtube's pagerank of 9. So if you have a video that is getting few or no views, it will be a PR0. If you have a video with 100K views in a year, it might be a PR3 or 4.

You can also embed links within the video using the video annotation system.

Unless you know something I don't, the links in YouTube video descriptions are nofollow.

YouTube is great for sending direct traffic to your site though and despite the whole debate surrounding the issue of nofollow links, a nofollow link from YouTube can't hurt you.

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IM Lover

15 years ago

Originally Posted by MickeyMil

Unless you know something I don't, the links in YouTube video descriptions are nofollow.

YouTube is great for sending direct traffic to your site though and despite the whole debate surrounding the issue of nofollow links, a nofollow link from YouTube can't hurt you.

100% with you on that one, because I get plenty of traffic from my videos.

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chasnsx

15 years ago

Originally Posted by MickeyMil

Unless you know something I don't, the links in YouTube video descriptions are nofollow.

YouTube is great for sending direct traffic to your site though and despite the whole debate surrounding the issue of nofollow links, a nofollow link from YouTube can't hurt you.

Sorry, I forgot. If you are a Youtube partner, they are dofollow. If you aren't, they are nofollow.

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IM Lover

15 years ago

Hi There

YouTube is very good indeed for SEO I use some tools which allows me to add Likes, Comments, to my videos as well, however the best tools to use for getting your video up there in the ranking are these.

1. Enhance Views > Enhance Views - Free Video Views, Subscribers, and More
2. YT box > YT-Box
3. Viewet> Viewet - Free, Fast and Easy YouTube Views

I use all three of these and heres an example I added one of my new business videos about 2 weeks ago, right now it has 5,685 views.

I simply add my link and some basic description on there and sit back and watch the traffic roll in.

Lee

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davidbatchelor

14 years ago

Hey Lee,

Given other people will be doing the same as you 'sit back and watch the traffic roll in.' so no one is actually watching your videos right, so how will that help?

I mean are those views making your video rank higher on Google or what?

~ David

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Originally Posted by Lee Martin

Hi There

YouTube is very good indeed for SEO I use some tools which allows me to add Likes, Comments, to my videos as well, however the best tools to use for getting your video up there in the ranking are these.

1. Enhance Views > Enhance Views - Free Video Views, Subscribers, and More
2. YT box > YT-Box
3. Viewet> Viewet - Free, Fast and Easy YouTube Views

I use all three of these and heres an example I added one of my new business videos about 2 weeks ago, right now it has 5,685 views.

I simply add my link and some basic description on there and sit back and watch the traffic roll in.

Lee

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IM Lover

14 years ago

Originally Posted by davidbatchelor

Hey Lee,

Given other people will be doing the same as you 'sit back and watch the traffic roll in.' so no one is actually watching your videos right, so how will that help?

I mean are those views making your video rank higher on Google or what?

~ David

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David

When you add views you are in fact getting a better ranking as well, so by boosting your views/comments/likes you have a better chance of showing up for the keyword you optimize your video for.

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davidbatchelor

14 years ago

Hey Lee,

I heard that likes, comments and subscribers are more important then views, is that not the case?

~ David

Originally Posted by Lee Martin

David

When you add views you are in fact getting a better ranking as well, so by boosting your views/comments/likes you have a better chance of showing up for the keyword you optimize your video for.

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IM Lover

14 years ago

Originally Posted by davidbatchelor

Hey Lee,

I heard that likes, comments and subscribers are more important then views, is that not the case?

~ David

They all help the process along David, adding views is never a bad thing trust me, just be sure to optimize the video with your main keyword and make sentences without looking generic.

Don't over use the keywords either I only use 3-5 myself, in the title always start it with the main keyword. Add 10-20 likes and comments and make sure to comment on one of them, then add 20 likes to the comment you commented on.

Add about 200-300 views only nothing else is needed, if you add to much it can look spammy so just follow what I mentioned.

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davidbatchelor

14 years ago

OK, so now after clicking on your link and going to Buy YouTube Views | Buy Twitter Followers | Buy Facebook Fans it appears the minimum number of views I can buy is 1,000 and not 300.

What should I do?

~ David

Originally Posted by Lee Martin

They all help the process along David, adding views is never a bad thing trust me, just be sure to optimize the video with your main keyword and make sentences without looking generic.

Don't over use the keywords either I only use 3-5 myself, in the title always start it with the main keyword. Add 10-20 likes and comments and make sure to comment on one of them, then add 20 likes to the comment you commented on.

Add about 200-300 views only nothing else is needed, if you add to much it can look spammy so just follow what I mentioned.

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IM Lover

14 years ago

Originally Posted by davidbatchelor

OK, so now after clicking on your link and going to Buy YouTube Views | Buy Twitter Followers | Buy Facebook Fans it appears the minimum number of views I can buy is 1,000 and not 300.

What should I do?

~ David

You should not be buying anything so not sure why you assume that, you just need to download the free software and leave it running, you then watch peoples video and in turn build up points.

When you build the points up you can spend them as you please. I never buy anything because it's all 100% free just leave it to run and spend as you please.

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davidbatchelor

14 years ago

Also, how do I add 20 likes to the comment I comment on?

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~ David

Originally Posted by Lee Martin

They all help the process along David, adding views is never a bad thing trust me, just be sure to optimize the video with your main keyword and make sentences without looking generic.

Don't over use the keywords either I only use 3-5 myself, in the title always start it with the main keyword. Add 10-20 likes and comments and make sure to comment on one of them, then add 20 likes to the comment you commented on.

Add about 200-300 views only nothing else is needed, if you add to much it can look spammy so just follow what I mentioned.

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IM Lover 14 years ago

Originally Posted by davidbatchelor

Also, how do I add 20 likes to the comment I comment on?

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~ David

Right, I can see that Viewet have since decided to charge now then, just use: vagex.com and Enhance Views - Free YouTube Views, Comments, Favorites, Likes, and Subscribers

Google how they work or just look on YouTube, as mentioned you leave the software to run and build up the credits.
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yukon

Banned 15 years ago

Video sites like youtube are good for promoting your sites, this isn't my video (don't want to give up my keyword here), but I've done similar videos.

Think geico insurance commercials, it draws traffic!

YouTube - Talking Monkey

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IM Lover

15 years ago

Originally Posted by yukon

Video sites like youtube are good for promoting your sites, this isn't my video (don't want to give up my keyword here), but I've done similar videos.

Think geico insurance commercials, it draws traffic!

YouTube - Talking Monkey

Lol thats a cool idea to get attention, where could I create something llike this would be usful to know.

Lee

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yukon

Banned 15 years ago

Originally Posted by Lee789

Lol thats a cool idea to get attention, where could I create something llike this would be usful to know.

Lee

Actually my brother creates my videos, I just tell him what I want, like the script for the video, monkey talking, etc... He does professional tv commercials, also a few of those late night infomercials.

I know one of the softwares he runs is Adobe Premiere, it's not easy to use. He runs circles around me when I try to make videos, so I just let him make them now, lol.

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IM Lover

15 years ago

Originally Posted by yukon

Actually my brother creates my videos, I just tell him what I want, like the script for the video, monkey talking, etc... He does professional tv commercials, also a few of those late night infomercials.

I know one of the softwares he runs is Adobe Premiere, it's not easy to use. He runs circles around me when I try to make videos, so I just let him make them now, lol.

Lol I had a feeling it might be pretty difficult to create them, I understand where you are coming from because my brother is a IT expert, makes me feel like a amatuer when talking computers.

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mosthost

14 years ago

I use YouTube to display 'TV-Style Ads' direct to potential clients, not for SEO. You're underestimating the power of video while be enthralled by the 'Google rankings.'

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IM Lover

14 years ago

Originally Posted by mosthost

I use YouTube to display 'TV-Style Ads' direct to potential clients, not for SEO. You're underestimating the power of video while be enthralled by the 'Google rankings.'

Everyone uses it for different reasons, I'm not underestimating anything what so ever because I use the videos for my niches, I optimize the videos for "My" needs so it works very well for me. If you need to use it for your own needs that's fine.

If I needed it for 'TV-Style Ads' I would implement that, however I use YT videos to direct traffic at my blogs and it makes me decent cash.

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powerofschool

14 years ago

Even you are creating your video using free tool animoto.

Try to present your product impressively using those animated characters and

expressions. You can do lot of thing in animoto.

And if you optimize your youtube url with haveing any video ( for ex: real or animoto videos ) you will get good ranking in google.

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davidbatchelor

14 years ago

Hey Lee,

How do I add 20 likes to the comment I comment on?

I appreciate your help.

~ David

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John Williamson

14 years ago

A video strictly for SEO purposes doesn't necessarily require a 'good' video if you're only uploading it for the link, but I would suggest spending a little more time on the quality of the video to possibly generate some traffic from the video to your landing page and to get real human views, increasing the 'rank' of your video inside Youtube and other video sites. Also be sure to put your targeted keyword in the video title and description.