How Embedding YouTube Videos Can Hurt Your Traffic | Ep. #936

<p class="p1">In episode #936, we discuss how embedding YouTube videos hurts your traffic. Tune in to hear how you can avoid this mistake.</p> <p class="p1">We have committed to throwing a FREE Marketing School Live Event in Los Angeles, once Marketing School reaches 1M downloads in a 30 day period. Take action: Rate, review, subscribe, and SHARE. Check the progress <a href= "http://marketingschool.io/stats/"><span class= "s1">here</span></a>!</p> <p class="p1"><strong>TIME-STAMPED SHOW NOTES:</strong></p> <ul class="ul1"> <li class="li1">[00:27] Today’s Topic: <em>How Embedding YouTube Videos Can Hurt Your Traffic</em></li> <li class="li1">[00:38] There used to be a way to turn of the feature where YouTube would suggest or autoplay related videos.</li> <li class="li1">[00:50] Now, you can’t turn it off, so you end up driving traffic to someone else’s channel.</li> <li class="li1">[01:10] If you add “rel=0” to the code, it will include videos from your channel instead of random ones.</li> <li class="li1">[01:33] YouTube tries to incentivize people to stay on their site.</li> <li class="li1">[02:15] Neil would attempt to keep people on his site instead of watching more videos.</li> <li class="li1">[02:32] It is getting harder and harder for him to do that when going up against YouTube.</li> <li class="li1">[03:05] To jack up his view count, Neil likes to send push notifications when he releases a new video.</li> <li class="li1">[03:15] When he drives people to his site, he gets a higher view count.</li> <li class="li1">[03:46] That’s it for today!</li> <li class="li1">[03:50] We hit our goal of 1 Million downloads! So, we will be throwing a <a href= "http://marketingschool.io/stats/"><span class="s1">free event</span></a> in Los Angeles. Check out our <a href= "https://marketingschool.io/"><span class="s1">website</span></a> and continue listening to our podcast for further details.</li> </ul> <p class="p1"><strong>Leave some feedback:</strong></p> <ul class="ul1"> <li class="li1"><strong>What should we talk about