Embedded YouTube Videos – How To Keep Your Visitors

How do you keep your visitors on your website, instead of deciding to go to Youtube? You know what I mean; you have an embedded Youtube video on your webpage. It could be one of your own or some quality info that you have seen and want to display.

When a visitor clicks on the video it will play through. That’s good but if they click on it a second time, Youtube opens in another window and that’s where they go to. Read the rest of this article to see how to keep them on your site.

It is possible to stop visitors from doing this. One challenge for online marketers is when you embed a video within the website, it will be either your own or some good quality content, placed on your own blogpage, your opt-in site or lead capture page. You don’t really want people to do this and click on that video and leave your site by actually going and visiting Youtube instead.

You do get some advantages that you might want to think about when this does happen though. Your visitors will view your other videos and get to know you better that way and it would also iboost the number of views that your Youtube videos will receive.

So what if your aim is to keep your visitors on your website and retain them there for as long as you can then what do you do? It is easy to get distracted by other things. When you’re on your own working online at home, it is easily done.

You get your visitor to look at a video on your website. Before you know it they have gone through to Youtube, watched a related upload, visited that other page and then your prospect has gone on to something else and might not come back. It’s probably nothing to do with your own video. It was a high quality video with good content. Being distracted by other Youtube videos, they went somewhere else.

So we all know about this problem. How do you stop it? I have always been advised to not use Youtube to embed videos because of this very reason. People like Youtube though. It is the most popular video sharing site out there. In fact did you know it is the second most popular search tool with Google being first?

The way to stop it is by changing the embed code. First off copy the embed code from Youtube and paste it either straight to your site or into a text document first. Don’t worry, you don’t need to know anything technical. All it takes is to change two small parts of the code.

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