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Promotion Strategies – Part 2: How To
Embed Your Affiliate Links Into YouTube Videos
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©
by John
Baril
There
are a lot
of videos in the public domain
that you can easily embed in your website if you think the idea of
making your
own YouTube marketing videos seems too daunting or difficult. For
instance, if
you are promoting a particular network marketing program or affiliate
product,
you can enhance the value of your promotion by looking on YouTube for a
video
that someone else has made that describes the benefits of that
particular
program or product.
However,
embedding someone else's video on your
website is not the best option because if someone watches the video and
then
goes to the video maker's YouTube page, they will quite likely find
that
person's affiliate link and click on it instead of yours. When that
happens, it
is only fair as you were making use of somebody else's content on your
website.
To get
around
this, there are some ways to embed
your affiliate links into other people’s YouTube videos.
Embedding your
affiliate links into YouTube marketing videos
can be done quickly and easily, and it
can be done entirely free
of charge.
Method
1:
LinkedTube.com
LinkedTube.com
allows you to place a button at
the top of a YouTube video. You can add your own text to the button and
also
some hover text that will appear when the viewer moves the cursor over
the
button. You can have the button point to your affiliate link, so when
someone
clicks the button they are taken to your affiliate page.
The
steps
required to do this are very simple.
First you will have to find the YouTube marketing video you want to use
on your
website and then copy the video URL or video ID code. (This code will
be in one
of the fields to the right of the video on the YouTube page.)
Then, go
to
LinkedTube.com and paste the ID code
or URL in the top field that you will see on the right of that page.
Next, add
the button text that you want to appear. Enter your affiliate link in
the third
field. In the other fields, define how long you want the button to
appear over
the video and also add your hover text.
Once you
have
completed those steps, just hit
the "Update Preview" link, and if everything looks okay, hit the
"Save & Get Code" button. Your link code will then be generated
which you can see by clicking the little arrow button to the right of
the HQ
button on the bar at the bottom of the video screen on the page.
Simply
copy and
paste your YouTube embedded link
code into your web page where you want the video to appear, and that is
it.
Method
2:
BubblePly.com
With
BubblePly.com you can embed your affiliate
link in a bubble that appears "in" the video screen rather than in a
button that appears "on" the screen. Also, you can choose from
several styles of bubble, and you can decide its size and location on
the
screen.
The
first thing
to do is copy the YouTube
marketing video URL and paste it into the bubble URL field. Click the
"Next" button, and you will be taken to a screen where the video will
start playing. Click the “Pause” button to stop the
video, then select a bubble
from the bubble menu. I suggest that you choose the bubble and stretch
it so
that it is wide enough to cover the width of the video. Once you have
done that
you will be able to type in some text, then click a link button and
insert your
affiliate link.
The next
thing
to do is set the amount of time
that you want your affiliate links to show while the video is playing.
To do
that, slide the video tracking slider buttons at the bottom of the
video screen
to your preferred start and finish positions. Finally, click the
"Done" button. Now you will be able to copy the system-generated
embed code and paste it into your HTML page where you want the video to
show.
No
matter which
method you decide to use,
embedding your own affiliate link in or on the video will help you
"level
the playing field." Now you can take things further in your favor by
inviting your readers and viewers to pass on the video. As long as they
pass on
the video that is on your page, they will be passing on the embedded
affiliate
links as well. If enough people pass it on, by e-mail, by posting it on
their
blogs, or by re-tweeting it, you will suddenly have a viral video
working for
you that is embedded with your affiliate links.
Now
there
really is no excuse for not having
YouTube marketing videos working for you on your website.
I
wish you the best of success,
John Baril
Copyright © John Baril
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