Let me show you how to add chapters on your YouTube videos
so you can make it easier for your viewers to navigate your content.
Plus some tips on how to use timestamps
to increase your watch time and help your videos rank on Google.
Stay tuned.
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To add chapters, after you have uploaded your video, you want to go into the "Details"
section and specifically into the "Description" section.
Anywhere in the description, this is where we're going to add the timestamps.
And the first entry that you need to have is 00:00.
And this is necessary in order for timestamps to appear.
And then simply add either intro or
start, and then this tells YouTube that this is where your timestamps are.
So then go ahead and add the timestamps.
You will need to have at least three timestamps in the video,
and you need to order them from the earliest to the latest timestamp
in the correct order, otherwise, they're not going to appear.
And the timestamps also need to be
at least 10 seconds, otherwise, they're not going to actually work.
You want to avoid generic
chapter titles like tip 1 or tip 2, because these titles don't
really tell a viewer or YouTube, for that matter, what your content is about.
Really try to summarize
what's happening in that chapter, so it makes sense to anyone
who is reading the title if they haven't watched your entire video yet.
And once you've added all of the timestamps, you simply go ahead and save the video.
And then you'll be able to see on your
channel that they will appear in the chapter
section just when people click on this section underneath the video itself.
I copy the time stamps into a pinned post so that people, in case they don't click
on the description and see them, they can see them here as well.
So this just helps get more clicks to the actual content.
And now let's have a look at the magic of adding timestamps to your actual videos.
So within Google search for "Canva
tutorial", here's one of my YouTube videos and it's ranked in search.
Plus you can see here, what are these?
These are the timestamps. Woo hoo!
And so people who are searching for this
keyword, they may stumble across my video, scroll across and have a look
at the chapters and go directly from YouTube search.
So say they just want to add text
and it will take them to that section of the video itself.
And that's pretty cool.
And it will show them the rest of the time stamps here.
So you really want to
make use of chapters and time stamps in your video where possible.
Now you can enable automatic video chapters, but YouTube have said
that not all videos are eligible for automatic chapters.
So I'm not going to cover that in this tutorial.
I'm going to cover that in another video.
I hope this video was helpful for you.
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Or if you're struggling to come up with what to say in your own YouTube
videos, you definitely want my five swipeable YouTube scripts.
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Bye for now.