Yes you can waste a lot of time on YouTube watching videos with little to no commercial appeal. However, many filmmakers, cinematographers, etc. are using YouTube and other online hosting sites to promote themselves and their work. The goal is to get as many views as possible and to drive people to your site. Now you have the option to embed a link directly into the video. You can do this through a site called Linked Tube. Here’s how it works: When you go to Linked In, you will see a sample YouTube clip on the left and a series of blank fields on the right. Here’s what you need to do to embed a link into your own YouTube clip:
- Open up your YouTube video and grab the designated YouTube ID. Enter that series of letters and numbers into the first field.
- Enter the text for the link into the second field.
- Enter the URL of the website to which the video should link.
- Enter the “hover title.” This is a brief description of the website that will appear when a user’s mouse hovers over the link.
- Click “Save & Get Code.”
- Copy and paste this code into the video when you embed the video onto other sites.
The great thing about this widget is that whenever someone embeds the video to their site and shares it with others, the link you have embedded goes with it.
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