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We all know Youtube is a frequent videosharing site, but I wonder how often do you actually use YouTube to promote your services and products? Has it actually helped refer visitors to your site? Has it helped you get new business?

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This thread raises a useful question originally posed by . The most practical answer today: YouTube can drive meaningful traffic and leads, but only when videos are created and measured as part of a conversion flow rather than as isolated uploads.

Echoing on relevance, a simple, repeatable workflow many teams use is: create a short, benefit-first trailer that states the problem and outcome in the first 10 seconds; pair that with a long-form resource (demo, case study, webinar) kept on a dedicated landing page or hosted where lead capture is possible; and add explicit, trackable CTAs so views can be tied to business results. Following ’s experience with older creative formats, note that Flash is now obsolete—use modern MP4/HTML5 files and mobile-friendly delivery.

For measurement and improvement, focus on engagement metrics that predict value: average view duration, audience retention curve, thumbnail CTR, and clicks to external links. As implied, presentation matters—test thumbnails and the opening 15 seconds, iterate formats that keep attention, and use captions/transcripts to improve accessibility and to repurpose content into blog posts or email copy. When brought up link-attribute concerns, a practical response is to prioritize referral traffic and conversions over raw SEO signals; tag outbound links with UTMs and verify lead sources in the analytics stack.

A short checklist for implementation: choose one customer question per video, produce a 30–90s discovery clip plus a longer resource, enable clear CTAs with tracking, test thumbnails/intros, and map video performance to pipeline metrics.

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Member Avatar for hireaprogrammer

Yeah , a lots website use for it .we also use for few campaign for video sharing website. it works nice ...

Member Avatar for ArvindSharma

I have used it for my own website ..i have posted almost all the flash advertisement and flash creatives..

It will provide you a fair number of traffic you need to put a proper title and description to all your video and then submit the link to other video sharing websites..

Member Avatar for mackone

Have tried and learnt few things like the people want to watch what interests them. Relevant content is what keeps people watching and coming back. Usually no one wants to watch a video that's nothing but an ad!Make videos which are informative or funny enough to make people want to watch them and come back for more.

Member Avatar for Joe55555

I am pretty sure that YouTub is NO Follow!!

Member Avatar for Joe55555

I have used it for my own website ..i have posted almost all the flash advertisement and flash creatives..

It will provide you a fair number of traffic you need to put a proper title and description to all your video and then submit the link to other video sharing websites..

But i think it is a good use of Youtube. But basically, it is videos sharing website. And people come there for videos, and if u wanna more traffic, you need to have targeted content I guess.:):)

Member Avatar for bobchrist

^ You need to create a good presentation about your products or service and optimize it for video search for specific keywords, people can find your content through youtube video search.

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So I wonder would it help the business if the business decides to include informational snippets on youtube and then the entire video on their corporate site. What do you think?

Member Avatar for Angela12

Youtube is a goodway to promote anything because it is the topmost video site and it is far better than google I think.

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I also believe that the video needs to be optimized as well with relevant keywords so potential customers can find your video.

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