Adding Video-Effective Means of Generating Quality Links?

[Kingalan1]

Is adding video to URLs create a higher quantity/quality of incoming links than adding new text?

Our firm operates a commercial real estate web site (www.metro-manhattan.com) in New York City. This niche is highly competitive. Our link profile is pretty weak. We have about 30-40 neighborhood pages among many others. These neighborhood based pages are text based. Would adding a video clip with pertinent information about these neighborhoods attract links? Basically the question is if video is effective link bait.

Thanks, Alan

[DmitriiK]

Hi there.

Well, just adding a video on a page will not attract any links. It's the same as building super cool looking office. It will make people feel better when they go in, and they might spend a little more time there, but that's it. Internet Marketing is much more than just adding a video, especially link building. If you have like a channel and you are adding videos all the time and they are awesome, you start building audience, following, brand etc., plus add awesome UX&UI, relevant text and image content, also do other types of internet marketing like social media marketing - maybe only then just putting up a video on a website will attract links (but most of them gonna be from current followers anyway).

Now, I'd like to say that adding a video is not a bad idea at all, just it don't expect any backlinks by just doing so.

Hope this helps.