Simple tips for adding links on your YouTube channel
Your YouTube channel isn’t only for presenting video content. It is another extension of your brand and should be designed to send traffic to your website. The great thing about YouTube is that it’s formatted to allow savvy operators to drive traffic, if you are paying attention to it.
If you are active on YouTube, offering a lot of video content, YouTube should be a source of website traffic for you. And if your YouTube channel is filled with content and underachieving, consider adding links to your website in these locations:
-In each video description, which resides underneath the video. This example shows that the description begins with a link to the web page that the video is associated with. 
[text_ad use_post=”15794″]
-On the right side of your YouTube channel’s homepage. This location is directly next to the video on your homepage, so it’s clearly seen by viewers. 
-In video content. Before posting a video on YouTube, edit it so you can input a link to your homepage in the bottom right corner of the screen. Viewers watching the video content will be exposed to the link.
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Very interesting article. Any other suggestions for video publishing other than You Tube?