How to use other people's Content to Drive Traffic to your Site

How to drive traffic with other people's content

Whether your an affiliate marketer, a blogger, or involved in e-commerce, you need to be able to drive traffic in order to make money. Writing content can sometimes be very time consuming and at times you may even struggle finding ideas for content to write about.

A great shortcut and way to monetize other people's content legally is to embed Youtube videos into your blog post.

Now from an SEO or Search Engine Optimization standpoint, search engines cannot pickup or rank video content so a video in itself will not necessarily drive traffic. The video however is the basis for your content.

Oftentimes, when I'm struggling for idea for a blog post, or if I just don't have the time to make a post, I'll often embed a Youtube video into a post and add 300 to 500 words of content describing and summarizing the video as well as adding your opinion and a bit of commentary. This is what adds the SEO value to the post while the video itself will keep your audience engaged.f

Now keep in mind the downside of this is your promoting someone else's content. This isn't necessarily a bad thing as this can sometimes be seen by the person who's video your posting. They may like their content being shared and it could lead to some reciprical blog posting or vlogging.

The reason I say it's not as good to drive traffic to other people's content is say you have your own Youtube Channel. You may as well be driving traffic to your own content to get your own video views and minutes watched increased as well as increasing awareness of your brand.

Below's video isn't relevant to this post but is just an example of what I mean by embedding video into a blog post.