G’day,
it's another YouTube tutorial today or another quick tutorial
and this time it come from another viewer question.
In fact the subscriber QubeUp says I have one for you.
How can we add link to Twitter, insta,
Snapchat, YouTube on channel art.
I'm glad you asked. Its a pretty simple process.
Today we're going to look at how to do that. I'm going to ask
the question “Do you really need to or should you?”
Well first thing we need to do right now is get over
to the computer so let's get on over there and check out how
it's done. As you can see I'm on my dumby account like I used
last time. And you can see that I've already got a couple of,
I've got my Twitter and Google Plus. See this is the thing
we're talking about. This is the banner and these are the
social links. How do we go about putting them on there?
First thing you need to do is come over and click Customize
channel,
which will open you up to the old method or what we
call the the Classic View and then what you need to do is come
up to… this little thing here Edit Links Edit Channel Art.
What you can do is click Edit Links and then you can see down
here,
there's a section here called Links, highlight that for you
right there. Here it says Custom Links. Says overlay
the first five custom links on the channel art.
But what you can see is that you can actually change
that to a different number. So you can actually have it set
so there's no channel links even though you have channel links in
place on your About page.
So what you can do is actually tell it a maximum of 5 or a
minimum of zero. Say I only want three on there and you can see
I've already got a Twitter in place and Google Plus link
has been added automatically because this is my prime
account. But if I wanted to add say another social,
I could click here — give it a name, say it's my say
I had an Instagram which I don't.
And then we can put in our Instagram link. Let me go about
and put something in that's going to be real for a second.
Go put a link in there and then what we're going to do.
If you have Google Plus, and you want to turn it off,
you can just take that little plus little box overlay the G
Plus page. I'm going to turn it off so you can see some
changes being made here and I'm going to click done, and there
we go. And as you can see we've done it successfully and use h t
t p s the secure one, you'll get the actual logo pop
up. So, we go back up to the top,
you can see now the first one in place will come up
with the full name Twitter or whatever I've put it down here
and in the subsequent ones will just be logos. So that's that.
If we go to the edit again, say we wanted to,
say it wasn't Twitter say we want to call it Doug’s Twitter
done,
and you can see up here it now says Doug’s Twitter there with a
clickable link. The logo, my Instagram logo’s there as
well. So that’s as simple as it is. Now the question
that I posed at the beginning of the video is, “should you use
social media links?” And the answer is It depends on the
size of your channel. If you're a new channel and say,
like on my dummy account here, you've got one subscriber.
Then is it beneficial to be taking people away from your
newly freshly minted channel and pushing them off YouTube to
another platform? And the answer is probably not.
You probably actually want to try and keep people
on platform you'll get favor with YouTube keeping people on
platform. If you send people away from YouTube,
YouTube won't favor you at all, won't favour your channel,
won't favour the fact that you're sending people away.
So what you want to do is is maybe just use one link
which would be like a Subscribe Link for your
channel rather than pushing people to Instagram, to Twitter,
to Facebook, to Pinterest, Snapchat wherever it
might be. So you know that’s is for you to decide whether
the risk of sending people platform outweighs the fact that
you want to promote those other platforms. Now if you're a big
Instagramer, and your YouTube is not your primary thing and
you want it want to build up your Instagram following,
then by all means go and push people off to Instagram.
There's food for thought and that's simply how it's done
today. Another quick simple tip tutorial for YouTube.
This is Doug from Doug Hewson YouTube, catch you later!