Should You Sell Ads on Your Website?

Many publishers reach a point where they wonder if they should sell ads on their own websites.

They often already make money by displaying ads from Google AdSense, Media.net and other vendors on their sites.

They might decide they are not making enough money and want to increase their total revenue.

These publishers often have tried other forms of easy advertising such as affiliate marketing and found that it doesn’t pay well.

Whether or not someone should try selling their own ads will depend on the answers to the following questions.

Should You Sell Ads on Your Website?

Is YouTube SEO Worth the Effort?

Using YouTube to promote a related Web site is often a good use of time. Using YouTube strictly for building that site's SEO is not.

For many years, YouTube publishers could add a link in the description that displays underneath the video, and the link would be do follow. A do follow link means that the landing page on the receiving end of the link receives benefit from search engines.

Google turned those links into no follow as part of a wide effort to eliminate "unnatural" link building.

The end result is videos with no follow links that provide sites with traffic if people click on the links. Otherwise, the receiving site no longer received any SEO benefit.

Some experts argue that it's OK to have some no follow links because a site's link profile should not consist only of do follow links. The search engines will become suspicious that the site is creating unnatural backlinking and may penalize it.

From that point of view, maintaining a no follow link in the video description remains a good thing.

So instead of focusing on a link for YouTube SEO, why not focus on maximizing the presence of links to generate more clicks?



Is YouTube SEO Worth the Effort?