Is it Wise to Invest Any Money
Into YouTube.com Accounts
For SEO?

The latest publication on our blog (read YouTube backlinks post here) has feedbacked with lots of great questions. And one of the most common was the one asking…

As YouTube.com accounts can have some SEO value in terms of direct backlinks,
Is it wise to invest any money into purchasing
Established, Old YouTube accounts with high PR?

I will start with my personal point of view and then will give the general “pros and cons” on this SEO strategy.

Personal Opinion – Not Wise.

I wouldn’t invest my own money into established YouTube.com accounts for one reason – THEY are the boss. Not you. They are the owners of each and every page on YouTube.com site. And your account page is also their ownership. I am not a lawyer, but I think a good one might go through their Terms of Service and – most likely – will find more details on the ownership of account pages.

Still, my personal assumption is that THEY are the owners.

And investing any money into something which will never really belong to you is not wise.

For example here – on Buy Web Site page – where people get ownership of established sites with traffic – you can see WHO is the owner, WHO is the person behind the site. And once you have purchased the site – you are its owner and no YouTube.com or Google.com or anyone else can close you. This is important for the long term investors.

And the issue with vague ownership of YouTube.com accounts will, most likely, become a long lasting issue.

Advantages of this strategy.

The SEO advantages are obvious. Just think that for a quite flat fee you can get into your hands the account with PR7. Wow! This is a bargain, real SEO bargain!

Maybe the previous owner of the account is simply tired of the thing, and you are ready to “inherit” it for money. Why not? Even one backlink from a PR7 page on YouTube.com – this is really cool in terms of SEO!!

NOTE: for those of you who do not know how to legally get backlinks from YouTube.com – please read YouTube backlinks blog post for all details.

So, this makes sense. Surely it is all about the price – but if you are ready to risk a little, always remembering that YouTube.com may cut this account down, then surely this strategy is worth trying.

P.S. For safety reasons we would recommend you to use the help of Escrow.com to manage the process of money-and-rights transfer properly. They take a fee for their escrow services and it is ~ 10%, but safety is worth the fee.

YouTube.com Backlinks:
Do You Know that NOT ALL
Outgoing Backlinks from YouTube.com are
‘No Follow’?

Everybody knows that outgoing backlinks from YouTube.com are ‘no follow’ and thus have no SEO value which makes YouTube.com pretty useless in terms of building one way backlinks to any web pages outside YouTube.com

(note: those of you who do not know what is that ‘no follow’ stuff and how to check whether a backlink that you got is ‘no follow’ – please read this video blog post about No Follow Checking)

There is a big and heated debate in SEO world about whether ‘no follow’ backlinks actually count for SEO or not. I would recommend to watch this video from Matt Cutts – the “official talking head” from Google web spam team (this team is also taking care of all SEO stuff in Google) about the SEO value of ‘no follow’ backlinks.

And my personal subjective point of view is similar to Google’s official point of view – it was pointless for Google to introduce all this ‘no follow’ stuff and then, for some reason, stop playing into this game and start counting ‘no follow’ backlinks as the ones that transfer SEO juice. But this is my personal point of view and I respect the right of other people to have other opinions on this tricky SEO issue.

But in any case, I have definitely great news for all backlink lovers, because …

NOT ALL YouTube.com Backlinks are ‘No Follow’;
Actually a Full-Force SEO Backlink
is Waiting for You on YouTube.com
RIGHT HERE…

It is waiting for you inside the user profile section of YouTube.com channel. For example, if you go to our Free Traffic System video channel and scroll the page a little to see the Profile section, and inside this section you will notice a backlink. And this is a real SEO backlink, no ‘no follow’ stuff, 100% full force SEO backlink – please check the screenshot below to see where exactly it is located in the Profile section.

And, by the way,
This is a backlink from PR4 page!!

Surely I am not trying to say that all YouTube.com channel pages have high Google PR – lots of them have PR0. But in any case, this is a backlink. Check it and you will see – it has no ‘no follow’ in the HTML code of the page.

There is one disadvantage about this backlink in profile section – you don’t have any freedom with anchor text of this backlink. All you can do is simply put a URL, and no fancy games with anchor text and keyword hunting here. And yes, this is a disadvantage. But at the same moment – getting at least one full-force SEO backlink from YouTube.com is not bad :)

Is It the Only Spot
On YouTube.com
Where the Backlink Comes
Without ‘No Follow’?

Well, I have done a vast research, and can say in all other places the outgoing backlinks have ‘no follow’. But I don’t pretend to be the source of ultimate truth here. And one of the reasons of writing this post is the following – you can help all Free Traffic System users by double checking this info.

Do you own research.

Dig through the whole structure of different YouTube pages (channel pages, tag pages, comments – everything).

Maybe you will find another page/section where the ‘no follow’ rule on YouTube.com is broken – for the glory of SEO geeks round the globe.

So, if you find any other examples of breaking ‘no follow’ rule on YouTube.com – submit a comment below. We will give publicity for those who are ready to bring up useful information regarding this topic.