How Embedding YouTube Videos Can Hurt Your Traffic

[00:27] Today’s Topic: How Embedding YouTube Videos Can Hurt Your Traffic

[00:38] There used to be a way to turn of the feature where YouTube would suggest or autoplay related videos.

[00:50] Now, you can’t turn it off, so you end up driving traffic to someone else’s channel.

[01:10] If you add “rel=0” to the code, it will include videos from your channel instead of random ones.

[01:33] YouTube tries to incentivize people to stay on their site.

[02:15] Neil would attempt to keep people on his site instead of watching more videos.

[02:32] It is getting harder and harder for him to do that when going up against YouTube.

[03:05] To jack up his view count, Neil likes to send push notifications when he releases a new video.

[03:15] When he drives people to his site, he gets a higher view count.

[03:46] That’s it for today!

[03:50] We hit our goal of 1 Million downloads! So, we will be throwing a free event in Los Angeles. Check out our website and continue listening to our podcast for further details.

How Embedding YouTube Videos Can Hurt Your Traffic | Ep. #936