How to use YouTube for the AdSense business

I can not find it out

[jetteroheller]

What I found until now, there is only one link possible to the own site at the profile.

But I did not find a possibility to link from the video to the page on my site where is more information about the video

[cmendla]

jh

I never did find any direct way to link Youtube videos to my sites. I have four of them up so far for four different sites.

I've gotten over 12,000 views for the four sites since about april 07. Now, the question is, how worthwhile is this? I would have to think that after 12,000 views, I got at least some type in traffic. Branding isn't a factor because I'm too small of a fish in too large of a pond. Since there are no links, there is no way to really monitor how much traffic the videos generated. Some day I'll have to try to do a statistical analyis to see if there is any correlation between a youtube video and increased type in traffic. It will be tough to do since there are a lot of variables involved.

What I do is:

1. Watermark the entire video [edit] with your URL [/edit]- (I think that it is better to keep the watermark to the lower left because if people embed it, the youtube watermark is in the lower right - however, you should check that out on your own). Check out the videos in both embedded and linked to see where the youtube watermark lies.

2. Put a title slide at the beginning and end with your url listed as clearly as possible.

3. At the end do a voice-over something like "for more information visit our wonderful, excellent, bodacious, easy to use site at www.mysite.com"

A couple of other thoughts on the youtube stuff

- You have to check in regularly to get rid of the spam comments and ban the spammers in your youtube account. I try to do it once a week.

- You can embed your own videos on your site. Google eats the bandwidth. Of course, you risk losing traffic from people following the youtube links.

- The software and hardware today allows you to produce a fairly decent video at a reasonable cost.

- Since we have too many lawyers and not enough chum, you might want to put a disclaimer at the end such as 'user assumes all risk regarding this video'. ie if you have a video on how to use a widget to refinish furniture and some genius ends up sanding their fingers off.

- pay attention when building your youtube descriptions as these help people find you during searches.

Anway, hope this rambling helps

cg

[cmendla]

One thing I forgot... I put 'for more info visit www.mysite.com' or something similar in the description. It's not a clickable link but it's better than nothing

cg

[ftwb05]

The links in my youtube descriptions are clickable.... did you include the http?

[cmendla]

The links in my youtube descriptions are clickable.

Thanks for pointing that out. I didn't realize that. I changed the descriptions around to start off with 'from [mysite.com'....] Now the link to the site shows up on the video page without clicking the 'more' link.

I also found out that they added a map feature so I updated the locations since my subject matter is location dependant

[Paris]

Another tip is to put the http link at the START of the description. That way it's visible and clickable from the video page itself (without having to click on the MORE INFO link to read more and see it).