Hey how's it going everyone?
This is your lively and faithful YouTube expert, Derral Eves.
So you're looking to build a solid community of loyal subscribers?
Well you might want to start replying to comments left on your videos.
Engaging on comments is really one of the most important things that you can do to build
a solid community of loyal subscribers.
Now, this is extremely important.
And if you're like me you might have a few comments to reply to everyday.
But guess what?
YouTube's launched a new comment management system to make it easier to engage viewers.
So do you know what?
I thought this would be a great opportunity to show you how to reply and manage all your
comments on your YouTube videos and channel, plus give you a few great tips.
Let's take a look!
Now what I'm going to do is show you several ways that you could reply to comments and
how YouTube actually set up a commenting system to make our job a little bit easier.
Now the first thing that we need to do is mouse up to the top, click on the gear here,
and come down to video manager.
Once we're here you're able to see all the different videos that you actually have on
your channel.
The first way is if you want to just make comments on a specific video instead of clicking
the video and watching it and scroll down through you can click over here on all comments
and go ahead and click that.
And once you're able to do it, it doesn't play the video or anything it just basically
just shows you your top comments.
You can actually leave a comment here or reply to comments.
So what I usually do is click here and do newest first.
And then I also, you know, I can just hit thumbs up or reply or what have you.
And so basically I'm going to reply right here and I'll go ahead and just do a quick
reply, so just do a quick reply here.
Right here, this is going to be public so it's actually going to be published across
the board on G+ and so on, but this is a very simple form.
Now the next way is to basically come back to the video manager and this is actually
a very powerful system that YouTube has set up.
You go ahead and click on community and under the community tab you're actually going to
see a couple things.
The first thing that you're actually going to go to is your comments.
Now this is all the comments that are on all the different videos and also on the channel
description.
So basically what we're doing now is you can just kind of reply from here.
This is still a little buggy with YouTube, but it does speed up the process or actually
communicating back with your subscribers and those that are actually leaving comments.
A couple of notes that you can do some thumbs up here, you can also report from spam but
you also can also set a setting that you can review all comments, this is going to be great
for businesses with brands that don't necessarily want to have these trolls and stuff like that
. And then there's also a tab here as well for a likely spam if you want to go through.
And you can kind of see a common theme between all of them like people are posting links
and saying hey sub4sub for rub-a-dub-dub.
Whatever it is, basically what you need to do is keep your comments clean, direct, to
the point and also make sure that you engage for that as well.
Now there is one other setting right here, it's called comment settings and also you
can approve users, these users will always be approved, will never be sent to spam so
that these users can actually do links and other things in your comments and these are
trusted individuals.
You can also set up some banned users, I have a couple banned users here, and the reason
why they're banned is because they are very vulgar and I don't necessarily want to see
that or have my subscribers see it.
You can also create a blacklist of different words.
Now I don't necessarily censor any of the words here, but this gives you the ability
to do that.
And ultimately down to the bottom on your new videos you can hold for review or disable
comments or also hold all comments for reviews on your channel.
So these are basically the ways that you could actually communicate with your fan base and
I would encourage you to get more actively involved in commenting.
As you comment you actually create a community and that community will help grow your channel
and as people know that you're more engaged you're going to get more video views.
When YouTube's new comment management page you now see, respond, and moderate to all
your comments in one place, it's really nice.
but to be honest with you there's still a lot of glitches.
And it just drives me batty!
Like when you try to call out someone and tag them but you know what?
You have a hard time finding that person and it can get really frustrating.
Ok, now my question to you is do you actually leave comments on your YouTube videos, now
put it in the comments below, ok wait wait wait... that's really dumb because if you
put no in the comments that actually means yes because you're actually leaving a comment.
Ok that's, sorry, that's not going to work, let me rephrase that.
Do you actually leave comments on a YouTube video on a common basis, that's better.
Now I can't wait to read the comments on this one.
They'll be great, they'll be great.
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