Yesterday Adam from Dead Good Undies alerted me to a handy dandy wee tool that I didn’t even know existed. I’ve not seen too much about it myself, so my apologies to those of you for whom this is old news.
LinkedTube is an almost painfully clever tool that will allow you to create links from YouTube videos. You can add a button with the URL of your choice plus 3 different bits of unique selling text to any YouTube video. Adam let me know about it as he’s aware I quite often use videos related to products to create content for my site. I think this is amazing as it gives me the ability to have more of a crack at monetising those pages with appropriate affiliate links and calls to action.
Allow Me To Demonstrate…
I’ve selected a beautiful video from the annals of the Affiliate Future trip to Barbados last year. Here you will see Jlil grooving away like the funkster he really is and entertaining his hordes of late night Karaoke buddies with his rendition of American Pie. As you can see, I’ve realised that his singing talents will inspire other would-be rock stars to buy some of their very own home equipment and created a nice link to the Argos site on there.
The only issue I had using this is that their HTML generator seemed to produce code twice which mucked up the page on the blog and I had to strip out the excess. Not sure why that’s happening! However, it is a very very interesting little tool and I can forsee it being of great use to me when I write video related content.
Whats that? Yes… you can all see quite clearly I was very jealous of all those who have just returned from Barbados! Pass the rum 
June 30th, 2009 at 9:07 am
nice post Kirsty, I knew youtube links could be done but never got round to working out how, so instead of catching up on work I will be playing now you wee minx
Great choice of tune
hope you get on next years trip
June 30th, 2009 at 2:57 pm
That is a neat trick indeed. Especially as youtube vids can be quite popular (I notice you can get ranked for keyword+YouTube fairly easily, often ahead of YT itself!)
June 30th, 2009 at 5:23 pm
[...] Discovered this over at Kirsty’s blog and she has an example to share. Quick Tips – LinkedTube – Add Affiliate Links To YouTube Vids [...]
June 30th, 2009 at 6:39 pm
Great discovery. I will begin using as well heavily.
I had the same issue of twice object embedding code usage. They should fix this because many bloggers will not every time spend time to clean the code.
July 1st, 2009 at 11:27 am
Kristy, quick question, you know youtue videos have that google adsense thing on them now, does this affect that at all?
July 1st, 2009 at 5:39 pm
This is great Kirsty! I’ve begun to use a lot of video on my site. Now this saves pointing to the links on camera!:)
July 3rd, 2009 at 1:26 am
Hi Ken, I’m not too sure of the effect on the Adsense just yet. Not had a chance to really play around with it properly.
July 9th, 2009 at 5:33 pm
I thought this would be perfect for me. I guess it really is, except I don’t know how to fix the double embedding issue. Pity. I’ll try to figure it out somehow!
July 10th, 2009 at 11:35 am
Had another dabble with LinkedTube today. Worked fine this time. Didn’t do anything different. Very happy it works now!