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ReelSEO Video Marketing: YouTube annotations review – the good, the bad, and “Tube tips”

  • Jason · 1 month ago
    I'm looking for a way to add a clickable link in a video that will take a visitor to one of my domains. So far, I've only found services that charge for this and it's a bit pricey. Is there any way to do this??? It seems to be that the only way to do this is to have annotations that link to the actual youtube channel, that then directs the visitor to my site with the clickable text links.

    Possibly the best way to do this would be with having an annotation that refers the viewer to the clickable link in the description?

    Any advice appreciated and will subscribe to follow-up comments via email.

    Thanks,

    Jason
  • Mark Robertson · 1 month ago
    Hey there Jason. Pretty soon, veeple is going to have a plugin for the jwplayer that will allow you to do this for free. Right now, as for YouTube, the ideas you mentioned are good ones. If you want to add an overlay that gets users to your site from YouTube, you can do that with promoted videos if you are in the US or in Canada (I dont think they have opened it up elsewhere). If you look at this video, Ive made a clickable overlay.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3IClPnVoZ8 Does that help?
  • Jason · 1 month ago
    Hey Mark - That's great and I think that's going to work out with veeple once they have it up and rolling. For right now, I think I'm just going to use a Camtasia plugin that works with Power Point - will use graphics to refer people to the link in the video description. I'm a stickler for driving every visitor that I can:)

    Thanks man - I appreciate the response.

    Jason