It’s easy to get addicted to You Tube. You can surf for hours through the home videos other people have made. Some of them are so good at it they even have subscribers. I can enjoy my favorites, leave comments, and otherwise spend far too much time there when I should be doing something else. So do a lot of other people, and this is where your blog comes into the picture.

You can make videos of your own and put them on YouTube. If they become popular, you can use them to drive traffic to your site. Now, the basics are pretty simple.

Make a video. You’re promoting your own commercial interests when you drive traffic to your site with this video, so it should be original. Using other people’s clips, music, or artwork for commercial purposes without their permission is a giant no-no and can get you into trouble.

• Put your site’s URL at the end of the video, then allow people to post or embed it on their own sites. You’ll get traffic from YouTube, but you could get more if someone uses it on their site if the link is in the video.

• Plus, to drive traffic straight from YouTube, put your link in the comment section that comes with every video there.

• This can result in a traffic spike, and if you have some means of traffic capture like RSS, opt-ins, sales, or subscription sign-ups, you can put that traffic to use.
• Don’t forget to use the appropriate Tags to be easily found!