Put Links in Your Videos…for Free
But now, just about everyone knows that search engines love videos. You Tube is now owned by Google, of course, and the search results from Google now include video links. The problem with promotion by video has been that if you wanted to place a clickable link to your web site in your video, you had to have a rather expensive piece of software to do it.
I just found a site that lets you place links in any video you’d like, then gives you the code to place that video on your web site. They actually host the video for you, which saves you on bandwidth and storage space. The best part is (right now at least), the service is free! The name of the site is BubblePLY. Here’s a video I saw on YouTube, which was obviously a homemade promotional video, so no copyright problems. I simply entered the YouTube code for it into the BubblePLY generator. I fast forwarded to where the promotional message started, near the end of the video, and with a couple of clicks of my mouse and a few of seconds spent typing, I entered a link that appears in the video, and can be clicked to go to the website being promoted. I clicked the DONE button, and in a few seconds I had the code, which I copied and pasted right below this. Quick, easy and free. Check out the video, and then check out the link below it to go to BubblePLY, and you can start tagging your own videos with your own links.
Enjoy and have fun.