On Monday, we’re starting a three part series, “YouTube SEO Secrets for Affiliate Marketers.” In this series we’re going to reveal three YouTube SEO secrets.

One of the most effective advertising tools that you as an affiliate marketer have at your disposal today is posting videos on YouTube. It’s free, and the search engines are “in love” with videos. Why? Because users demand them!

YouTube is big and keeps getting bigger. More than 100 million videos are watched on YouTube every single day. If you could manage to get just a small fraction of that traffic, imagine the volume of the potential traffic you’d drive to your website.

Remember, no matter how informative, cute, cool, or funny the video is that you post, your objective when you post a video on YouTube is to drive traffic to your website. The search engines have to return links to your YouTube video in search results for your video to be an effective marketing tool.

The effectiveness of your YouTube video is determined by the effectiveness of your SEO.

In part one of “YouTube SEO Secrets for Affiliate Marketers,” you’ll find out how to avoid missing out on a golden SEO opportunity.

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