If you haven’t embedded any YouTube videos in your site, it may be time to do so. One individual found that Google seems to greatly favor pages featuring these clips.
One individual’s observations do not an SEO rule make, of course. If you decide to embed clips, you’ll want to keep an eye on traffic statistics, and even if the numbers rise, users’ reactions should be taken into account, too.
That said, the case of “travelin cat” is quite interesting. Earlier this month, the WebmasterWorld Forum member wrote, “We looked at the urls that had the most hits and decided to find out why they have been more successful then other urls. . . . The only factor that we could find that boosted ranking was that 7 of the top 10 traffic urls had a youtube video embedded in them. These were just random videos related to the destination page and were not created by us.”
So there’s a small-scale example. This week, travelin cat posted again, writing, “Update: We added YouTube videos to 10 more random pages, none of which had good serp positioning. After 15 days, the average Google visit went up just over 200% compared to the previous 15 day period on those 10 pages.”
Barry Schwartz isn’t ready to believe in a cause and effect relationship, and this does seem a little overly simplistic. But if the presence of YouTube videos won’t in any way harm your site, embedding them could be worth a try.
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June 1st, 2008 at 9:00 am
But, I think With in Few Years No body in the world is putting any type of video on there website not even youtube because within few years there will be bandwidth problem in all the world.
June 2nd, 2008 at 10:41 am
Never really got into this.
June 2nd, 2008 at 6:08 pm
I’ve wondered this in the past, but I always thought I was just crazy. Maybe there’s actually something to it, though. I’ll have to run a few of my own experiments.
June 3rd, 2008 at 5:32 am
So this is a new trick to increase traffic?…Worth to try.
June 3rd, 2008 at 7:00 am
I think that it would be interesting to know why Google is giving more worth to those type of content
June 7th, 2008 at 11:04 pm
webistars, I hope there is no bandwidth problem in the near future. But I really have high hopes, that we will not have bandwidth problems.
June 10th, 2008 at 8:24 am
Thanks for this tip. I have always been reluctant of putting multimedia on my blog because I want it to load fast, but this tip has confirmed that I am loosing good traffic with that poor decision. Thanks fro sharing this.
June 17th, 2008 at 2:53 am
yes ! indeed it will , its an interesting note
June 17th, 2008 at 9:29 pm
yes , goggle does seem to like it when these videos are embedded , it is interesting, a bit peculiar
July 24th, 2008 at 6:35 pm
I had no idea that was the case. Lucky I do it quite often
August 13th, 2008 at 9:12 pm
good idea but nowadays some time there is error that the video is no longer available and we have to refresh the few time to watch the video on youtube.have you people also face this problem?