How I get google traffic from every youtube video I upload (not clickbait, its actually simple)
Been doing this for about 6 months and it's probably the single best thing I've done for my channel growth. every video I upload also becomes a blog post on my site, and those blog posts bring in google search traffic that feeds back to my youtube channel.
Here's the exact process:
- upload video to youtube like normal
- take the youtube url and run it through an ai tool that converts it into a blog post (i use cliptocontent but theres others too)
- spend 10-15 minutes editing the draft. add your own opinions, fix anything that sounds off, add links
- publish on your blog or wordpress site
Total time: about 15-20 minutes per video
Why this works: youtube and google search are two completely separate discovery channels. your video might not show up for certain search queries on youtube, but your blog post can rank for those same queries on google. and every blog post has an embedded link back to your video.
My results after 6 months:
- 40+ blog posts (one per video)
- ~2K organic visits per month to the blog
- about 15% of blog visitors click through to watch the video
- some posts rank for keywords my videos never appeared for on youtube
The big thing most people get wrong: dont just copy paste your transcript as a blog post. google doesnt like that and readers dont either. the blog version needs different structure, shorter paragraphs, proper headers. thats why i use an AI tool instead of just dumping the transcript.