Captain Squid Guest Posts with PotPieGirl
Mar.19, 2008 in
Site News, Squidoo Tips
I wrote a guest post for PotPieGirl yesterday exploring some new tricks I’ve learned about getting passive backlinks with YouTube modules.
I haven’t published that trick anywhere else, so it’s worth checking out. PotPieGirl runs a great marketing and SEO blog and talks a lot about actual implementation of theories you hear so much about.
Thanks for the chance to guest post PotPie Girl! If anyone else would like me to guest post, please feel free to contact me. It was a lot of fun and I’d definitely do guest posting again.
-The Captain
March 19th, 2008 at 6:14 am
While this is a cool trick that I’ve been using myself, there are a few flaws that you should be aware of:
1) If the video is already popular, then getting into the top 5 links will be hard to do. It is better to manually pick one video that has not had many views. However, this will turn it into a static module, and won’t appear fresh to search engines (which is why the Captain suggest using the pick by keyword feature).
2) The links from YouTube are tagged with ‘nofollow’, so they will not pass any PageRank back to your lens. There is some argument on whether or not Yahoo or Live will give these links some value, or not. Google won’t.
Yahoo certainly shows YouTube backlinks, but there’s no way of knowing what value it gives them.
March 19th, 2008 at 9:20 am
Captain -
THANK YOU for your visit to PotPieGirl.com! I loved the post and I know my readers did, too.
You’re welcome any time over at my place!
Jennifer
March 20th, 2008 at 10:35 am
great tip, joe. in trying this on one of my lenses that i thought could use a little juice i ran into trouble with the tagging. searching for rock and roll hall of fame, with and without “”, it returned 1300 videos. trying several different iterations of those keywords in the youtube module all came back with “no matching videos were found.” any ideas how i could tag this and get the result i want?
thanks
March 27th, 2008 at 11:57 am
Great tips, I have had a lot of success with backlinks when I choose the videos myself, but I’ll give your method a try on my next lens!