Yep, exactly. Search Engines rank sites on link popularity (links going to your website), and when a site has no-follow links, it means there's a tag within the coding of the link that basically says "we don't want to give them link credibility". Example: <a ref="nofollow" href="http://www.google.com/">Google's Websites</a> Sites like Youtube may want to use "nofollow" to prevent people spamming website addresses for link building. Also in some cases if a site is to provide follow links it can negatively affect their ranking.
You can still use YouTube to bring direct traffic to your site. If you have a viral marketing video, then it would be great.
You can tear up local serp listings with YouTube. The hardest thing is finding the right videos. I'm in the car business, so we have plenty of cars and customers to keep it iively: http://www.youtube.com/user/UsedCarsTampa We do very well with YouTube. Although the links on each video are no follow, people do click them. Plus, you get a dofollow link on your YouTube Channel Page
Yep! Youtube can definitely be helpful. It's especially awesome how videos can become viral so fast. I also love how videos are searchable minutes after uploading the video, so you can play around with the whole youtube optimization. However, I don't think you're correct in that Youtube uses dofollow in your Channel Page. Here is the source for the link on your channel to the website "www.parkautomall.com": href=\"http:\/\/www.parkautomall.com\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"http:\/\/www.parkautomall.com\" rel=\"nofollow\" HTML:
Youtube is a great way to market your website even if it is no-follow. But just because its nofollow doesnt mean you shouldnt put your link there. A nofollow link is better then no link!
It means all that have been said above, so i suggest writing articles instead of doing video marketing. This would affect in the positive meaning your SEO.
Ahh, I'm not sure. Could be right, I haven't really looked into it too much or even used Youtube too too much. But the href on that coding you provided isn't even pointing to your domain. It's pointing to the path '/redirect' on Youtube's servers. Although it does make reference to your domain within that href, it's only passing the information to the next redirect script using GET. For example it shows q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.parkautomall.com, so on the next page/script $_GET["q"] will contain your domain name and they could do some type of redirect with or without following. But again I'm not 100% sure but I've had the understanding of Youtube having nofollow and it would make sense not to have it as they would be giving SEO credit to all of the linked websites along with the fact that a lot more spammers would be generated to try and up their pagerank because Youtube is a PR10 website. But anyways, regardless it's a great way to get traffic on Youtube
Hmm.. I'm not seeing nofollow either. Awkward... And my point on this is like mentioned above, it doesn't give weight -- although it might, but it gives traffic. Those visitors might actually convert into clients
It doesn't help you for google SEO but it might still help you for bing or yahoo. Why are you doing SEO? Because you want more traffic. So if you generate traffic through your youtube videos, then you will still achieve the same.
it means, no link juice will pass through... for me no follow is just for PR and doesn't affect in SERP.