4 Simple Ways to Direct People to Your Website from YouTube
If you want to get traffic to your website, YouTube is a great resource because almost
everyone goes there to watch videos and if you create videos, you definitely have a chance
of being discovered – and if you can create something amazing or awesome you might
have a chance of going viral. But how do you direct people to your website from YouTube?
Here are four ways that you can do that while still providing great video content people.
Number one,
you can put your website URL directly in the description of the video. Of course, not everyone
reads the description of a video but if you make a good video, and they can tell that there is
something written there, they may click and see your URL. From there, you need to be
enticing and give them a reason to click on that URL. The description boxes are there
for exactly that; share information to your site that makes a good impression.
Second,
you can put the same information in the video annotations. The annotations are clickable
so you can put your URL there and people may follow the annotation to your website.
Again, you need to give them a reason to click on it which means that you’ll have to
put some text around it that will make it enticing enough for the viewer to want more.
Third
thing you can do to get people to come to your website from your YouTube video is to
simply ask them to. If you are the one speaking in the video, just ask them to visit your
site, directly, right into the camera. A personal invitation like this can be hard to resist,
and if you do it right you get a lot of people looking at your website.
Fourth
thing that you can do is use the on-screen graphics to direct people to your website.
You don’t say anything at all if you don’t want to. Instead, simply put your website URL
in the on-screen graphics, and again give them a reason to type that URL into a new
tab. Remember, this may not be clickable (although you can make it clickable by
adding an invisible box) so you’re going to have to really sell them on the idea of
visiting your website. If you can come up with a really great reason you’ll have
traffic in no time.
