Our competitor, Gaiam.com is able to get links back from Youtube. How are they doing this?

[dahnyogaworks]

When I use Open Site Explorer to look at our competitor's link profile, I notice that Gaiam.com is getting lots of valuable links from their videos on Youtube. We have a lot of videos on Youtube as well and are not receiving links back. What is the secret? Our website address is fully shown in the profile and we seem to match them - what are we missing?

Thanks

[PartyTentenShop]

OK so who's willing to share this advice. Any kind "REAL" media publishers out there?

[Everett]

EGOL that's one link. You will notice that Gaiam has several keyword-specific links on their YT page under Gaiam Destinations http://www.youtube.com/gaiam

Since I'm the one who put those links there I don't think it's appropriate that I answer the question, but I'll say that it all has to do with which TYPE of YouTube account you have. Not all YouTube accounts are the same. REAL media publishers have some other options that you can play with under Settings.

[EGOL]

<a href="[http://www.dahnyoga.com](view-source:http://www.dahnyoga.com/)" rel="me" class="yt-uix-redirect-link url" title="http://www.dahnyoga.com">http://www.dahnyoga.coma>

Looks like a followed link to me. 

[dahnyogaworks]

We have this - http://www.youtube.com/user/dahnyoga

In our link profile, I'm not seeing any links from You Tube back to us.

[EGOL]

If you start a YouTube channel you can get a followed link in your profile.