Youtube is a great placed to promote your website. If Youtube was it's own search engine it would command about 15% of all search traffic. That makes it the second biggest search engine next to Google. There's more traffic to be had from Youtube than Yahoo and Bing combined. So how can you get traffic from Youtube? The best way to is to get subscribers. When someone subscribes to your Youtube channel they'll be notified when you create new content. That keeps people engaged with your videos and your website top of mind. Here are three ways you can get more Youtube subscribers.

1. Ask people to subscribe in your videos.

If you've watched a lot of popular Youtube videos you'll see at the end the person speaking will usually ask their viewers to subscribe. When asking them to subscribe make sure you tell them how to subscribe and give them a good reason why to do it. For example_ by subscribing to our WebStarts channel you're the first to find out when we launch a new product or feature.

2. Use annotations.

Annotations are those little boxes that sometimes appear in Youtube videos that contain little messages about the video. You can create specific annotations that subscribe people to your Youtube videos when they're clicked. You can find the annotations option under the video settings. Be sure to say something like "Click here to subscribe" in your annotations to maximize your efforts.

3. Add a Youtube subscribe widget to your website.

Youtube provides a little subscribe widget you can add to your website. All you do is generate the embed code for your channel and then copy and paste that into the code of your website. With WebStarts you can do this by clicking on Insert> HTML and pasting the code in the area provided.

By gaining subscribers with Youtube you're sure to drive more traffic to your website. If you don't already have a website be sure to create a free website with WebStarts.com. It's fast, fun, and easy.