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Thanks for the reply.

I understand that the vido sitemap is key for Vseo but are you saying its crucial for link building as well?

Has anybody had results with link building with video content? Do we know for a fact that is someone embeds a video that resides on your site that you get a backlink? And what would the ancor text be?

I am looking into buying Easy Video Play - looks like is has all the features I am looking for (you can embed sign up forms in the video itself) and it uses Amazon F3 to host the videos and there is no monthly cost. I messaged them about sitemaps and you have to do it manually but it doesn't look do hard - if any one has used EVP before I would be really keen to hear ho you got on before I commit??

Regards,

Graham

I have not tested this yet and but I cant find anything useful on it searching online.

My theory is that if you host a video on one of your own webpages and have the embed code of that video right under it then isnt everyone that grabs that embed code and sticks it on their site/blog giving you a backlink? When you click on an embed YouTube video it takes you straight to YT so surely someone embeds one of your videos that is hosted on your site it must give you a backlink?

If this is the case then what would the ancor text be if any? and how would you change it? What's the value of this think over a pure text link from the same page?

If this the above is correct then surely video is an incredible link building tool? The challenge still lies with making cost effective, quality video content but if you can get the hang of that then your on to a winner right? YouTube may get millions of hits and 'be the second biggest search engine' but having own branded, self hosted, killer-link-bait videos on your site must be the way forward?

Adding a video site map will help tell Google the video is there and it should get indexed in video searches. Also if it gets visibility in universal search you get visitors coming straight to you site....