Two nights ago, a silly YouTube video I made was mentioned on a super-popular website (Alexa <5,000), and I've had about 12,000 views of my video since then.

This got me wondering how to convert all that traffic into website visitors. I discovered that YouTube lets you "annotate" videos - you can drop little text boxes anywhere in the video for any length of time you choose. I just used that feature to add two blurbs asking viewers to visit my main website; will see whether many of them do.

(The website that referred them to my video is aimed at teenagers, so I'm not expecting a lot of business prospects, but it won't hurt to get more site views by actual people.)

P.S. The wave of video views has already started slowing, but I've enjoyed my 15 minutes of fame!