Leavitt: Putting app links in first two description lines hurts YouTube CTR
Ben Leavitt · I Make $17K/Month With One Strategy · Mar 19, 2026 · at 10:22
Ben Leavitt, founder of Follow Buddy, details his YouTube SEO framework for acquiring SaaS customers through organic search.
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“When people are searching on YouTube, they see the title of the thumbnail, but they can also see the first two sentences of the description. So a lot of people will just put their app link there. And that's a missed opportunity because anything that I have on someone's screen to increase the chances of them clicking my video over someone else's, I want to take full advantage of.”
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