Linking to other peoples you tube videos related to our "How to do " articles on our website. Is there Best practices ?

[PeteC12]

Hi All,

We are currently writing some "How to do" articles on our tool hire website and as there is alot of DIY related you tube videos out there, we thought It would be good to link to some of these at the bottom of our articles.

From an SEO perspective, is there any do's and don'ts with regards how we should implement this.

We are unable to do our videos so linking to others would be our preferred option.

Does anyone know if this would give an SEO ranking benefit even though it's an outbound link to someone's video etc.

thanks

Pete

[PatrickDelehanty]

Hi there

No, there isn't an issue here, since the videos are on topic with the content and going to trustworthy domains (YouTube).

I would read through these external links best practices from Moz and make sure that you don't go too crazy. But other than that, no, this is not an issue - if you can't create these videos yourself, by linking to relevant videos you're providing value for your users.

You could also look into embedding the videos on your page, giving the proper video owner credit as well.

Hope this helps! Good luck!

[PeteC12]

Hi Patrick,

Many thanks . I will look at the article and what you suggest.

Many thanks

Pete