How to Build Backlinks to Your YouTube Video
Build backlinks to a YouTube video to increase the video's ranking in Google video searches. Your video receives a backlink whenever someone embeds the video in his blog or even links his readers to it. Most videos receive a certain number of backlinks regardless of what you do or don't do, but getting large numbers of backlinks requires initiative on your part. Avoid paying for backlinks, which is not only a waste of money but may result in your video being blacklisted in Google searches.
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Optimize your video for YouTube searches. Include a concise description that includes words describing the video, a description that explains the video in greater detail and tags that address keywords YouTube users searching for the video might use. If large numbers of users find your video through YouTube itself, it is easy for them backlink to it.
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Send out bulletins to your YouTube subscribers whenever you upload a new video. Click your username in the top right corner of YouTube, select "Channel" and then "Post Bulletin." Inform your subscribes that you've posted a video, and include a description of the content and why it's important for them to click.
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Post the video to other social networking sites, such as Facebook and Twitter. In addition to exposing the video to people that might not be part of your YouTube network, placing a link to the video on one of these sites increases the chances of it going "viral," or being rapidly passed from person to person.
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Contact owners of blogs and sites that pertain to your video's content to ask them to link to your video -- but don't beg or demand. Rather, send short, cordial emails emphasizing how your video bolsters the site's content and would appeal to readers of the site.
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