Pro's & Con's
• A YouTube Logo on your website may imply that you cannot afford or you don’t know how to host a video on your website, especially if you are a small organization.
• You cannot change the player and are stuck with what YouTube provides. You can't create coloured players to match the look and feel of your website.
• There is no way to auto start or do a URL redirect to your sales page.
• You cannot put in your video in membership sites as content is public and not protected.
• There is no way to do tracking links so you can track from where your visitors are coming.
• YouTube puts search boxes in the video that take your visitor away from your website. These can be links to related videos who may be your competitors.
• In a YouTube video there can be clickable links in the lower 3rd of the screen - Google Ads - that take your visitors to other websites, possibly your competitors.
• You may have a particularly sensitive audience through gender, age, race religion or a specific requirement or problem and YouTube can run commercials or promos alongside your video that are offensive or insulting to your audience.
• You basically have no control over the video you produced.
Tip: To improve the search rankings and number of site impressions you receive, it's preferable to host videos on your own site instead of external locations like YouTube. That way any links and traffic the video inspires will be directed to your domain, boosting your rankings.
Regardless of the size of your business or who your target market is – If you want your website to grab your visitors attention and keep them for longer, WEBSTREAM allows you to speak directly to your audiences in a more convincing format, Video. – After all Broadband was not created to enable us to READ faster!
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