How to Get Backlinks on YouTube
Backlinks are links to your site from other site. They can be a crucial part of improving your ranking on search result pages. Each quality site pointing to yours via a link is a vote of confidence for your site in the eyes of the search engines. If you are working on your site's Search Engine Optimization, the video sharing website YouTube can be a powerful source of backlinks for your site. There are several ways to get backlinks on YouTube.
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Instructions
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Include a link to your website or blog when uploading a video to YouTube. Paste your URL into the description section directly below the video.
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Fill in the "Website" section of your YouTube profile with your site's URL.
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Comment on a YouTube video and include your site URL as part of your comment. Many users include it as part of their signature. For example, you might type something like, "John, http://www.abcmarketing.com."
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Copy the embed code for a video posted on YouTube and embed the video on your site. YouTube often displays the URLs of the different websites linking to a particular video, thereby creating a backlink to your site.
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Tips & Warnings
Use the referring sites report of your web analytics software to track how many visitors arrive at your site by clicking on your YouTube backlinks.
