How to Use Youtube to Get Traffic to Your Website

Many people by now are familiar with youtube and that hundreds of millions of videos are being watched daily but did you know that many of those people found the youtube video through google keywords?

Take the keyword Guitar for instance. At the time of this writing if you type in Guitar in Google the #2 ranking website result is a youtube video with keyword Guitar plus something else. If you click on the google result you will be taken to the youtube video. Notice there are 36 million views of this video. This is why its in #2 position on Google for such a competitive keyword. There may be many videos on youtube that have the keyword Guitar in it however none of them have received anywhere near 36million views and hundreds of thousands of ratings or comments.

If this was a ecommerce intended video, on the right hand side there would be a url link to your website in which the user can click after he finished watching the video. Many youtube video producers also have the web address placed in the video itself either during , before or after the video for even greater effect.

Now obviously its very difficult to get 36million views to a youtube video however if you target much less targeted keywords to promote your website you don't need more then a few thousand views to reach a high google ranking for your youtube video. Keyword phrases that receive for instance only 100 searches per day or less can make it rather easy to rank your video high in google.

Using Social Networking Websites to Promote Your Blog

Promote your blog? Why would you want to do that? Honestly, if you have to ask yourself that question you probably shouldn't even have one. The whole purpose of a blog is to document your thoughts, views, and opinions on a particular topic, issue, or subject.

In addition to sharing your thoughts with the rest of the world, did you know that you could also make money from your blog?

You can signup for affiliate programs or other programs like Google Adsense. If you are using your blog to make money then you will defiantly want to promote it.

When it comes to promoting blogs, there are many blog owners who decide to let the search engine do the work for them. Search engines, such as Google, Yahoo, and MSN use special techniques that reads the content on your website. That content is then used to rank your website with particular keywords. This means that you run a blog on graduating from high school in New York, there is a good chance that your blog will appear in searches done on New York high schools.

Although many blogs are successfully ranked in search engines, not all are. That is why you are advised against relying solely on search engines, when it comes to promoting your blog.

As previously mentioned, if you love meeting with or talking to people online, there is a good chance that you belong to a social networking website or community. The individuals that you talk to and that are in your community are likely the individuals that you wish to target. Since most social networking websites work to connect Internet users who have the same goals and common interests, there is a good chance that your online friends will enjoy reading your blog. But, before they can read your blog, you have to let them know that it exists.

When it comes to promoting your blog on social networking websites, you have a number of different options. Your first option is to include a link to your blog in your community profile or profile page. This will allow other community members to checkout your blog, only if they wish to do so. The other way is to inform your online friends of your blog through private messages. Once you join a social networking website and create or join a network of friends, you should easily be able to communicate with those friends. Sending each of your friends a private message with information and a link to your blog tends to be more effective than just placing a link in your profile or on your profile page.