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YouTube - Backlinks May Not Work!

by robsterhews
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I have noticed lately that it has become much harder to get a YouTube video ranked. I am talking about both YouTube search as well as Google search.

In the past, it was quite easy, depending upon the keyword. If it was a medium competition keyword, it was quite easy to upload to YouTube (do your tags, title and desc correctly), buy some fivver backlink gigs, and wala - the top position would be yours.

Lately, I see backlinking doing very little (almost nothing for YouTube videos). EDU links, profile links, comments, wiki's with multiple keyword phrases, retweets, pins (video view exchanges) - etc.

I wonder if you might be experiencing the same thing and if you have found something that works well.... (I know - quality content will be shared - but that is not the answer I am looking for.)

Don't beat me up about fiverr, you know at times it can be a great place to go.
#backlinks #work #youtube
  • Profile picture of the author redtaksaka
    Personally, I don't have a conclusive answer for now. As for the last 2 month, my clients only gave me 3 Youtube videos to rank. They're all offline business videos. 2 of them move 2-3 spots after a week (already one page one), the last one not moving at all from its 6th spot. Same backlinking methods, almost the same number of backlinks.

    Would you mind to let me try to rank your video? TAT 7 days. Of course FOC. Just don't kick my ass if your video get slapped to oblivion
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  • Profile picture of the author Gama Seva
    It works for me on both youtube and google search, they even ranked higher than my main sites.

    Gama
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    • Profile picture of the author faysal969
      Originally Posted by Gama Seva View Post

      It works for me on both youtube and google search, they even ranked higher than my main sites.

      Gama
      How do you do that? Please share some information with us.
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  • Profile picture of the author Kurt
    Try getting more social "proof" from sites like Facebook and Twitter to add to your linking mix.
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    Ranking Youtube pages with links is still easy.

    I've got a video ranked 3rd on Google search for a 60k traffic per month keyword. According to Youtube analytics, that keyword delivers a little over 100 traffic/views per day average from Google SERPs.
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    • Profile picture of the author paulgl
      It not "links," though. Backlinks to a youtube video
      are not backlinks. They are links to a spot in
      cyberspace, hence the ?= in the url and a
      creating of the youtube page it is shown on
      is done on the fly. A "backlink" to a youtube
      video is really a backlink to youtube.

      Backlink to your youtube channel. Now that is
      a webpage. Backlink to a page that has your
      youtube video embedded.

      Getting people to click on a youtube link would
      be prudent.

      Better to slam a video in facebook.

      Anything to pump up the views.

      Paul
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      • Profile picture of the author yukon
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        Originally Posted by paulgl View Post

        It not "links," though. Backlinks to a youtube video
        are not backlinks. They are links to a spot in
        cyberspace, hence the ?= in the url and a
        creating of the youtube page it is shown on
        is done on the fly. A "backlink" to a youtube
        video is really a backlink to youtube.

        Backlink to your youtube channel. Now that is
        a webpage. Backlink to a page that has your
        youtube video embedded.

        Getting people to click on a youtube link would
        be prudent.

        Better to slam a video in facebook.

        Anything to pump up the views.

        Paul
        It doesn't matter that the Youtube video page is dynamic (created on the fly), they still have a Google Cache & Google still sees all the links/text on the Cache page.

        Example: Youtube/Google Cache Page

        I don't do any FB/Twitter promotions for my videos, or my brothers 500+ videos (4+ million video views), all we do is manually build relevant links directly on Youtube.

        We build Youtube internal links exactly like I do for my own silo sites, pick one video & point a link from all the other related videos to the video we want ranked.

        A video can be ranked in Google search without external links/traffic.
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        • Profile picture of the author Buyseech
          Originally Posted by yukon View Post


          We build Youtube internal links exactly like I do for my own silo sites, pick one video & point a link from all the other related videos to the video we want ranked.
          By this you mean, that you point them via the link in the description? Or in the clip itself? I presume you werent talking about the "video response" feature right?
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      • Profile picture of the author Dentist
        Originally Posted by paulgl View Post

        It not "links," though. Backlinks to a youtube video
        are not backlinks. They are links to a spot in
        cyberspace, hence the ?= in the url and a
        creating of the youtube page it is shown on
        is done on the fly. A "backlink" to a youtube
        video is really a backlink to youtube.

        Backlink to your youtube channel. Now that is
        a webpage. Backlink to a page that has your
        youtube video embedded.

        Getting people to click on a youtube link would
        be prudent.

        Better to slam a video in facebook.

        Anything to pump up the views.

        Paul
        To me, a YouTube video is like a blog post, except it is better with higher initial PR assigned, so I treat the video exactly as I treat the blog post meaning:
        - Right on-page
        - Internal links
        - External links
        BTW, the same as a blog post, I do rank each video for one keyword (sometimes more than one) and the channel has the same role as the website dedicated to one category of videos each representing a keyword.
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        • Profile picture of the author alloviroid
          According me its a good way to promote your business. That helps to get traffic. You need not to have a rich content and its also easy and simple way.
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      • Profile picture of the author Oranges
        Originally Posted by paulgl View Post

        It not "links," though. Backlinks to a youtube video
        are not backlinks. They are links to a spot in
        cyberspace, hence the ?= in the url and a
        creating of the youtube page it is shown on
        is done on the fly. A "backlink" to a youtube
        video is really a backlink to youtube.

        Backlink to your youtube channel. Now that is
        a webpage. Backlink to a page that has your
        youtube video embedded.

        Getting people to click on a youtube link would
        be prudent.

        Better to slam a video in facebook.

        Anything to pump up the views.

        Paul
        That is pure BS.:rolleyes:
        Every Youtube video have its own unique URL that is indexed and cached in Google and linking that video URL will rank you in Google.

        @ OP - You don't need fiver blast to rank youtube vids, some good enough blogposts links juice will be enough to rank your vids.
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        • Profile picture of the author QWE
          Google looks for link velocity and IP growth. This is where most SEO guys miss. You can blast links using Fiverr but the problem is Google will detect a pattern in momentum as well.
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  • Profile picture of the author Danny Cutts
    maybe the fiverr links were crappy?

    Lots of variables available
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  • Profile picture of the author GodMode52
    Add quality views - likes - social bookmarks - social sharing > rank.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jeff Lenney
    You can also buy GOOD comments or youtube 'thumbs ups' on fiverr too - this helps it not only LOOK popular to users, but youtube as well moves it's rankings up a bit - combine THIS with a few backlinks and you're unstoppable

    I just put up 3 new youtube channels over the weekend to experiment with, got some page 1's already
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  • Profile picture of the author xxxJamesxxx
    I'm finding more easier than ever to rank them.

    James Scholes
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  • Profile picture of the author centarec
    While we are on the topic, what exactly do you do to get your videos ranked? What type of links to you get?

    Also, another thing I have been always interested in and I see here in this thread a lot of people with youtube experience, so I can ask it. Besides search traffic the most traffic comes from related videos. How can actually make a video which will be related to some TOP viewed videos. Is it in the keywords, description, title?

    And finally, a small tip. Using Market Samurai I have noticed when ranking my videos it shows that the keyword is not in the description. The problem is that it was. So, I set the keyword in the first 2 lines of the description(which are generally always visable) and Market Samurai showed that now keyword in the description. When I checked immediately the ranking of the video in Youtube, it actually jumped 2 places up after I have set the keyword in the first 2 lines.
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  • Profile picture of the author dreamtech
    For me It always works on both youtube and google search, they even ranked higher than my main sites.
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  • Profile picture of the author rowanman28
    I haven't had much luck ranking videos in my niche, because it obviously has a lot of competition, but I would suggest if you have the money, pay people to tweet and share it on Facebook, get likes, views, channel subscribers maybe, and publish videos regularly. I can help you with all of that if you want.
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  • Profile picture of the author PaulV
    Backlink on YouTube works very well. Trust me I've been ranking highly competitive keywords and have been killing it this month!

    However, the links you have listed such as Edu profiles and Wiki backlinks are not necessarily the best when it comes to ranking your video.

    One of the link types I've found to work very well are social bookmarks in mass quantity.

    Blast about 500-2000 bookmarks to you video and then you'll see it move.
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