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ReelSEO Video Marketing: Video SEO Tip: Optimize your YouTube “click-to-action” link (part 2)

  • Rajiv Pandey · 1 year ago
    Nice post...
    I have learned many new stuffs about SEO...

    Thanks ..
    Please keep it...
  • Naomi · 1 year ago
    Interesting story but it looks like YouTube has now set ALL outgoing links to nofollow so this method will no longer work. Let me know if I am wrong.
  • Mark Robertson · 1 year ago
    Well, I dont believe that the author was referring to generating link juice. Youtube has always nofollowed the link but it is a good way to refer users back to your site..
  • Grant Crowell · 1 year ago
    Mark's correct. This is primarily a conversion tip, and not a direct means to improving link popularity in itself. It may be confusing for some expecting all of the tips here to be about Video SEO, but we try to feature as many opportunities with online video marketing beyond just SEO.
  • Ginger · 1 year ago
    This article was very informative and also shed light on one of the key reasons that sites miss out on the opportunity to take advantage of leading YouTube viewers back to their sites.
  • ady · 1 year ago
    Does this still work? I can't get the link to go live in the description. I've included the full path etc but it's not having it.
  • Mark Robertson · 1 year ago
    Yes absolutely - I actually just did this for a friend a few minutes ago. Make sure that you dont put code in there - rather, just put the full URL - for example

    Description: http://www.reelseo.com/ Here is my video blah blah blah blah.
  • Vivek · 1 year ago
    Hello Mark

    Good Stuff!

    Hey! I want to ask you something very important.

    I’ve seen a Youtube URL which is ranked 3rd in Google for a keyword that gets 50k searches per month. The video was submitted more than 3 months back.Now when I checked the views on it, it showed just 1400.Technically it should be way more than that. Do you think people has the tendency not to click the youtube links appearing in Google listings ?

    I think CTR is a serious problem when we’re promoting through video. Can you please give tips to improve that.
  • Mark Robertson · 1 year ago
    Vivek,

    Thanks for the email. Actually, I think that CTR from universal SERPS is higher than normal. To answer your question, I would need to know a bit more about the keyword searched and the resulting video. It may just be the thumbnail, or it may be that it just started to rank. When you say that it is 3rd, do you mean with a thumbnail, or without?
  • Kruti · 4 months ago
    Along with an optimized description and URL, one can also have a keyphrase-rich, catchy title for the video. Like webpages, let the title be at most 60 characters in length with minimal use of stopwords (words like ‘the’, ‘and’, ‘is’ etc.). The file-name, description and tags for the video should also be keyphrase-rich.