Youtube no follow now! =( Any good PR Replacements?

[iAnalyst.com]

Our youtube page was PR7 and passing on quite a bit of Pagerank to our site. I didn't think it turning nofollow would effect us much, but we've experienced a sitewide rankings drop on a newer ecommerce store.

Anyone familiar with the youtube trick know of another good site for building Pagerank?

[charles1]

Here's a list of do follow video sharing sites  Hope that helps.

I've haven't tried any of these, but I would stick with Youtube + a few of these other sites. You can still gain a lot of benefits from YouTube such as brand awareness/promotion and traffic referrals.

Have you tried using videos to rank for keywords your targeting? It's significantly easier to rank for keywords with a video than with a website.

[PhilNottingham]

Hey Erick,

The new YouTube profile structure is a pain in the ass - unfortunately it's now "nofollow" across the board, which comes as no surprise (as so many people were spamming it), but nonetheless prevents you from passing Pagerank off the back of a popular channel.

I'm afraid that I don't think there's an easy solution or alternative easy to game site that will provide the same value, so contrite as it is to say, I think we're back to the "build great content" manifesto in order to generate the same high quality followed links.

The list Charles gives away there is unfortunately redundant in the main, as it's from several years ago and most of those sites are now unrecognisably different. There are some video submission sites out there, but none of those are going to be a replacement for the YouTube profile link strategy, which was extremely easy to game and at huge scale.

However, there is a new thing you can do to get value out of  YouTube and that is getting "as seen on" attribution (which is a link to a blog where the video has been featured - visible in the bottom right of any video). Find videos with thousands/millions of views that currently don't have an "as seen on" attribution and embed them on a high authority blog with supporting text. You'll then get the "as seen on" attribution, which is a followed link through a 303 redirect - so probably doesn't pass any Pagerank - but is still a referring link, which can be valuable if you scale it up significantly.

Hope that's useful.

Cheers,

Phil