Links On YouTube Won’t Help Your Google Rankings & SEO

An SEO requested if hyperlinks on YouTube movies will assist together with your Google SEO. Then somebody stated that it will assist get your content material listed quicker. Both are false and myths as a result of YouTube hyperlinks have nofollow attributes on them, so Google doesn’t depend them.

John Mueller from Google even replied that hyperlinks on YouTube video pages don’t assist get your content material listed quicker.

Nope

— John Mueller is generally not right here 🐀 (@JohnMu) December 28, 2022

And right here is the unique tweet the place I replied exhibiting the nofollow attribute on hyperlinks on YouTube movies:

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— Barry Schwartz (@rustybrick) December 27, 2022

Here is that screenshot:

So no, hyperlinks on YouTube movies will actually not make it easier to with Google’s rating algorithm or to get your content material listed any quicker. Also, embedding YouTube videos will not make it easier to rank higher and Google’s John Mueller stated up to now Google doesn’t use YouTune links.

Forum dialogue at Twitter.