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Feb 07
by Neil Patel Strategy with 23 Comments
There are many ways webmasters are obtaining links these days such as submitting sites to directories. But with new media emerging why just stick to the conventional methods when you can get a little creative?
If you look at the picture above it shows that the site has incoming links from YouTube. The way this works is that if you are one of the
top 5 sites that drives the most traffic to a particular YouTube video, they link back. So the next time you embed YouTube videos into your website, check to see if you got a link back.
Do you know of any other creative ways to pick up a few links?
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All youtube links are marked with nofollow and therefore not worth much for SEO… Just as the commenty in this and many other blogs …
Clever…but the links are nofollow though…
Sverre
Yes No Follow … –>> No use.
Show us another method.
Says more about Yahoo’s linkdomain function
Question: are those links shown in Google’s Backlink function in the webmasters central app?
@mathieu:
I couldn’t comment on whether these links show in the webmaster app, but I have noticed that other nofollow links do. Obviously then putting nofollow on a link doesn’t just lead to complete ignorance of the link by Google, although I’d say it would not carry the full weight of a normal link.
Another creative link builder, although again it is nofollowed, but can drive some traffic, is to write a blog post that links to a post on Google’s blogspot blog. At the bottom of each post they link to the 5 most recent articles that link to that post, a lot like the YouTube idea in the original post.
Hey, this happend to me on one of the videos I embeded. I didn’t know how it happened until now.
Thanks for the explanation.
Regards,
Tyler
I’ve never even seen that Links area on the Youtube pages and with it being nofollowed and not easily found, I would not see it being too much of a valuable resource.
However, having a link available for users in case they do happen to see it is never a bad thing, so thanks for bringing this to light.
I know about the Nofollow, but it still helps you with certain search engines. Some don’t follow the nofollow rule.
You used to be able to get links from YouTube which aren’t NoFollow.
It meant being a Director and submitting video content. And then placing a link in the video description.
Great for online direct marketers.
I’m not sure if it still exists though – I did a quick whip around YouTube, and all the guys I knew who had used it weren’t using it anymore. Perhaps there was a change of policy and these links were removed.
@Alex
Matt Cutts recently said “Do not assume just because you see a backlink that itâs carrying weight. Iâm going to say that again: Do not assume just because you see a backlink that itâs carrying weight.”
Link: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/google-provides-backlink-tool-for-site-owners/
You kids need to stop worrying about “no follow”. Screw rankings! You’re looking for traffic, and links provide traffic. I’ll take a nofollowed link that brings me traffic versus a search ranking that doesn’t any day of the week. Yeesh!
Yahoo has followed nofollow links since they were implemented – sometime this comment will show up in site explorer too.
How much weighting they place on the link is the unknown factor
Google blogs on Blogspot either display links using nofollow or javascript
“ooh wow they are not using nofollow (no pink boxes) – bah they use javascript”
All link to youtube is good ever
interesting article and nice comments. I back linked this article to a leading seo italian forum
giorgiotave.it/forum
Good site….
Does anyone know how to put a url into the description on you tube. I have see it on the bbc’s video’s but cannot get it to work on my own.
I think Andy and Neil have a good point: other search engines DO FOLLOW.
That’s more than enough to me. And there is the discussion that still “some” link juice my pass through the nofollow.
Sorry, I meant “might” pass through the nofollow.
Yes, very clever but it’s probobly nofollow links
Too shame. But the method it’s good to see how this portal working – it’s very hard to get link from youtube- they’re grudging. If author get me permission – I’ll write about it at http://forums.digitalpoint.com/ Regards and thanks….
A link from youtube is a good link. No matter if it is a no follow or no.
Thankz!
Great idea
Great trick to get backlinks..but no follow….i got many backlinks from yahoo answers at pr6 but they were no follow.
But i think backlink at youtube can drive you some cool traffic.
Traffic should be pretty decent from such links but as mentioned above, no follow means no value ( page rank wise that is )