Linking YouTube With Social Media Sites

Are posting videos on YouTube and then you have to copy and paste it to your other social media sites because you want to do the right thing and promote it properly? Do you wish there was a better way to promote them and get them online without taking all this time? Well, thankfully for you there is a better way.

You can always link your YouTube account to other social media sites so that when you upload your videos, they are automatically posted to them too. This takes the time and work out of promoting your videos and it is not very difficult to do. The following are some tips for linking your YouTube account with your social media sites.

Linking Social Media to YouTube

If you want to link your social media to your YouTube account you have to go to your channel while logged in. Go the section marked edit and click on it and you will see a text document that has links to all of your social media accounts. Select ever social media site you wish to link to by using the ctrl A keys and copy this into the page in the about me section.

Make sure you always save your changes. Once you have done this, your social media sites are now added to your YouTube channel and when you upload videos, you can choose to have them shared on the sites you selected.

Use the Correct Format

First and foremost, you have to have the correct format if you want the videos to show up properly on your other social media sites. While you can certainly just copy and paste the URL as it is shown in your browser to post the videos, this can actually be detrimental to your ability to gain views and likes on your videos.

You are wasting the post because you have no link equity that transfers to YouTube or to Google for SEO purposes. One thing you can do is to ensure that you always have the word user in between YouTube and the name of your business in the URL. For instance, if your company name is Fine Dining then your URL would look like this sample:  youtube.com/user/finedining. The word “user” has to be in the URL in order for the views to count towards your SEO strategies.

You Still Have to Promote Your Videos

Even though you are set up to automatically share your videos, if you do not choose the selection and allow this it won’t happen. You also want to promote your videos on other avenues such as your website and blogs.

It is vital that you get views for your videos and if you are just not reaching the numbers you want, you may have to simply buy some from a company that sells views and likes for YouTube videos. This can also help you with your promotion because the more likes and views you have, the more people will want to watch your videos. Just make sure that you are not sitting on videos without promoting them in some way.

If you want to save time and still promote your YouTube videos you can always link your social media accounts to the site!

  Tim Lynch

About the Author:

Tim Lynch has been blogging in regards to social media networking for two years.