Your Affiliate Link Embedded In YouTube Videos (No Excuses Not to)

If the thought of creating your own video seems too intimidating or hard for you, there are plenty of videos out there in the public domain that you can effortlessly insert in your website. For instance, if you are promoting a particular network marketing program, or a specific affiliate product it is simple to enhance the worth of your promotion by searching on YouTube for a video that someone has made to portray the benefits of that specific program or product.

Of course, the downside of embedding somebody else's video on your website is that whenever anybody clicks a video they will be taken to the video-maker's YouTube page where they will more than likely find that person's affiliate link and click on it instead of clicking on the links that are on your website. And when that happens, you cannot really complain because after all, you were making use of somebody else's content on your website, so from time to time it is good for that person to get something back.

However, there are a couple of techniques that you can use to increase your chances of getting the video viewers business. We are talking about embedding your affiliate links into or onto other people's YouTube videos when you post them on your site.

Embedding your affiliate links into YouTube videos can be done quickly and simply and best of all, you can do it completely free of charge.

Method 1: LinkedTube.com

This approach allows you to place a button at the top of a YouTube video. You can add some text to the button and also a number of hover text which will appear when the viewer hovers the cursor over the button. You can point the button to your affiliate link and when the button is pressed the viewer will be taken to your affiliate page.

The steps are very simple. Firstly locate the YouTube video you want to feature on your website and copy the video URL or ID code. (You will see this code in one of the fields to the right of the video on the YouTube page.)

Immediately go to LinkedTube.com and paste the ID code in the top field that you will see on the right of that page. Next insert  the text that you want to show on the button. Insert your affiliate link in the third field. In the remaining three fields you can define how long you desire the button to appear over the video, and you can enter some hover text.

As soon as you have completed that merely hit the "Update Preview" link and then if everything looks okay, hit the "Save & Get Code" button. This will generate your link code which you can observe by clicking the little arrow button to the right of the HQ button on the bar at the bottom of the video screen on the page.

Now merely copy and paste your YouTube embedded link code into your web page where you wish the video to show.

Method 2: BubblePly.com

With BubblePly you can embed your affiliate link in a bubble that appears "in" the video screen rather than in a button that appears "on" the screen. Also, you can choose from several styles of bubble, and you can decide its size and location on the screen.
The initial thing to do is to copy the YouTube video URL and paste it into the bubble URL field. Click the "Next" button and you will be taken to a screen where the video will begin playing. Click the pause button to stop the video next choose a bubble from the bubble menu. I suggest that you pick the plane bubble and extend it so that it is wide enough to cover the width of the video. Once you have done that you will be able to type in some text, then click a link button and add your affiliate link.

The subsequent thing to do is to set the amount of time that you wish your affiliate links to show while the video is playing. To do that all you have to do is slide the video tracking slider buttons at the base of the video screen to your preferred start and finish positions. Lastly, click the "Done" button. Now you will be able to copy the system-generated embed code and paste it into your HTML page anywhere you wish the video to show.

No matter which method you decide to use, merely by embedding your own affiliate link in or on the video you will have "leveled the playing field". Now you can take things further in your favour by inviting your readers and viewers to pass on the video. As long as they pass on the video that is on your page, they will be passing on the embedded affiliate links as well. If enough people pass it on, by e-mail, by posting it on their blogs, or by read tweeting it, you will suddenly have a viral video working for you.