Yesterday I noticed fellow Freedom Crusader Mike Hobbs do something different with his YouTube video.
Rather than post the video on his blog and send his list there, he sent us straight to the video on his YouTube channel which I thought was cool.
It was a good way for me to consume his content and I realized, the more people that see that video from his list, the better his search engine results for traffic on YouTube all across his channel will be, so that’s a great benefit.
I’ve been uploading my videos to a private hosting and sending my list traffic to that video.
The benefit of that is that if my channel ever gets shut down – I won’t lose all my video content.
The downsides are – it takes a bit more time for that extra step and like I mentioned above, the views from my list don’t help my Channel results
Definitely, something to consider.
(What do you think is a better choice? As a subscriber, do you prefer to see video content on a blog post or right on YouTube?)
One other benefit to sending them to a video on your blog post – is they will have a chance to see all of your banner ads to the sides of your post, and also click on the pages at the top of your blog to consume more of your blog content.
If you do choose to send people straight to your YouTube video – here’s a tip.
The other day I learned that if you grab the video link from a playlist (vs. the direct video link) – they will see only your videos after your first video is done playing versus random other YouTube videos from other channels.
That’s definitely something to consider when sending people to your videos if you want them to continue watching videos from your channel after the first one is done playing.
People finding your videos on search is a different story.
When the video is done playing – they will start seeing videos from other channels.
It would be cool if there were a way make to so after each of your videos were done playing – YouTube would then only show them more of your videos.
Do you know if there is a way to do this?
If so, please share.
That is an awesome tip Paul something I never thought of before. Taking advantage of You Tube playlists is a great idea.
WAHOO! Glad you got some value from it Sotiris! Thanks!