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This is a guest post by Adam Snyder from DormRoomCash.com

Are you currently using Youtube as a traffic source? Are you have much luck with it?

Lots of people use Youtube, however, they are leaving most of the traffic on the site because they don’t know the best ways to increase the click through rate to their site. This is what I am going to help you with.

The biggest problem that I have seen lately is not that bloggers are not creating great videos, because most people are doing that right. The biggest problem that I have seen lately is that the blogger isn’t using all the tools they have at their disposal.

In the list below you will see 5 ways to increase your blog traffic from Youtube videos. All of these are easy to implement and they will increase the amount of traffic you get quite a bit in a short amount of time. One recommendation that I have is that you continue to create great Youtube videos and apply the tips below, so that you get your fair share of Youtube traffic.

1. Use Multiple Links

One of the first things you should do in order to increase the amount of traffic you get is to use multiple links. By this I am talking about placing links in the beginning of the video description as well as in the middle and at the end of it. What a lot of bloggers do is place one link to their homepage but what you should do is use several different links so that the person watching the video has an assortment of things they can look at next. Just keep the link count to a maximum of 3 because too many links will just overwhelm the person watching the video.

2. Provide Clickable In Video Links

Did you know that you can place clickable links inside your Youtube videos? This is something new that most people don’t realize. The nice part about having a clickable link is that the person watching the video will see it no matter what. Clickable links work great because you can link to several pages within your blog and you can also ask the person watching the video to click a subscribe button that you place in the video as well.

3. Get More Subscribers

You probably already know this, however, I am going to tell you once more – you need to get more subscribers. The more subscribers that you can get, the more people you will have to see your video right when you post it. Subscribers are the key to lots of views, which will help your video get higher and higher on Youtube’s search engine.

4. Target Long Tail Keywords

My personal recommendation is to target long tail keywords. By targeting long tail keywords you avoid all the competition and shoot to the top of Youtube’s search engine. This is one strategy that I have used countless time for my niche sites and it works great. The only thing you need to remember is that you don’t want to use the same keywords that you are targeting on your site because you don’t want your Youtube video to outrank you.

5. Write Article Along With Video

This is something that I have been doing recently on a few of my niche Youtube channels and it works great. When you write an article and submit it in the description of the video you will rank for many long tail keywords. Another benefit of doing this is that now Google will be able to tell what your video is all about.

As you can see, getting more traffic from Youtube is not impossible. Follow the tricks above and continue to publish new videos and you are bound to get more traffic because of it.

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About The Author

Adam Snyder runs DormRoomCash.com where he teaches his readers many different ideas on how to make money. One of the things that Adam is very good at doing is coming up with a bunch of low investment business ideas that you can start in a short amount of time.

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And while these videos are fun to watch I think there’s something we can learn about traffic generation.

REELSEO has done a quick analysis of this year’s most popular videos and included a list of what the most popular keyword was for each month.

Check out:  The Year’s Most-Watched YouTube Videos & Viral Clips:
http://www.reelseo.com/2010-most-watched-youtube/

There’s been news floating around that YouTube is allowing people to upload longer videos and will eventually remove the time limit altogether.

But I don’t really care about the time limits.

Use YouTube to get traffic

I use YouTube as a method of getting traffic to my website and I know that short videos (3 minutes or less) work the best at getting people’s attention and keeping their attention while you explain one key principle or interesting idea.

At the end of my videos I display an image with my site and URL. Below is a copy of the image that I use:

If people don’t make it to the end of the video they never see the image and I get less traffic. So it’s in my best interest to keep my videos short and to the point.

So you can see why I don’t really care about YouTube raising the time limits from 10 minutes to 15 minutes. It just doesn’t matter to me.

Did the change in time limits matter to you?

Recording videos and posting them online is a great way to build your brand and get traffic to your website.

But which distribution service should you use? i.e. YouTube, Viddler, Vimeo, etc. There are pros and cons to each service.

Read full story: Video Distribution: Where Should You Upload Your Videos? Online Video Marketing Basics Part 5

Are you getting all the views you possibly can on YouTube?

You can get a lot more views by having lots of tags for you videos.

Part 1

Part 2

I’ve been working with Don “The Workbook Guy” and have a new YouTube Traffic Workbook that I’m giving away for free to anyone that grabs a copy of Video Marketer Pro.

Video Marketer Pro shows you step-by-step how to get traffic from YouTube and other video websites.

Once you have your copy of Video Marketer Pro send me an e-mail (nickstraffictricks@gmail.com) and I will send you a free copy of my YouTube Traffic Workbook.

So go check out Video Marketer Pro because it will show you how to get traffic from YouTube and get your free YouTube Traffic Workbook.

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Here’s my video response

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Getting traffic from YouTube is not that hard. All you need to do is create some high quality videos and direct people back to your site at the end of the video.