Welcome back. So, we're talking about how to set up a YouTube channel. We're going to
talk about the defaults that you have. You've got a YouTube channel that you
used to upload a project here. So, it's brand new. Really just getting into the
gear of creating daily content. I thought this would be a good time to dive in
behind the scenes at the settings and show you how to set it up and make sure
everything's set up the right way. We're actually going to come in here to
YouTube studio. It's still in beta but... So, they still have the Creator
studio classic. It's just the older version of the analytics security. Since
you're not familiar with that, I would just leave it right here. On channel, you
can have some keywords that are just default for your whole channel. Like, you
know, I might put in wellness. It's just what words represent your whole
channel. I admit. I don't know how important these are anymore. It's still a
feature in there and so you might as well use it. If you wanted to select
United States or Colombia, you can only pick one. So, what do you choose?
Will do United States. Okay, well come over here to advance. You know, right
now, your channel only has 4 subscribers. So, some people are
embarrassed by that. They might want to turn it off.
I say whatever. You know, if you have a reason. I don't have any reason of
turning off an interest-based ads or whatnot. So, I might leave that unchecked.
And then one thing to note for the future is you can add a watermark. So, in
the bottom right of every video, when it plays, it's a little bit transparent. So,
you could have your logo. AAnd since the channel is going to be your name --Karin Farfan,
maybe you have a cool signature with with a K. You know, squiggle that's just
always down at the bottom corner. So, this is where you'd come and do that. You
would just upload an image right here and it tells you the dimensions. And so,
that's kind of a cool branding feature that you can use within YouTube. Upload
defaults is actually pretty important. Every title of your video is going to be
different so I recommend leaving this blank. The description, half of its going to
be blank but you might have some things that are templated. Like if you want a
link to your book in every video, you could just put it right here so you
don't have to type it in every single time. Visibility, we never want to have to
public. So right now, if you upload a video to YoTtube, it goes instantly right
when it uploads. Which is not a good idea especially if you film 20 episodes at a
time. So, you either want it to be private or unlisted. I'll change it to private.
-What's the difference between private and unlisted? -So, if you have it on unlisted, then it's
still not seen by the public. It's not going to be searchable or you know
published anywhere. But if I send a link out to somebody, they'll be able to view
it. Versus private. They'd have to have password access or be a manager on my
channel. So, either way just depending on how you're wanting to do that. They
function pretty much the same. If people start spreading a link around that's on
than anyone who has a link can view it. The reason that you don't want it to be
public because you can actually, can actually hurt your channel. So, let's say
you uploaded 5 episodes today, planning on having one launched tomorrow
you know for the next 5 days. But if you uploaded them right now and they all
went public, even if you change them to private and then schedule them to
release one per day, 5 days from now on one of those episodes goes live, it'll
show the original upload date. So, I'll say, "Hey, this video has been live for
5 days and doesn't have any views." -Right. -And so, it can kind of hurt your
your stats. By default, if it uploads as private then you don't have
to worry about that issue. Does that make sense? Let's see under extras. If
there's certain tags I mean I might put in your name kind of a default tag for
each video. Because when people are searching on YouTube, you want them to
find your videos and it's unique enough. Each video is going to have unique keyword
tags. The titles that we found you can put that in as a tag. YouTube admits that
they don't pay attention that much to tags anymore. People would abuse them. It
would be a video about puppies and they would put Barack Obama in the subject
line just to try and get more traction. So, they don't pay attention to that much
anymore than what they really pay attention to is they'll actually
automatically transcribe your video and they'll know what you talked about in
your video. So, they don't need to use the keyword text anymore. But I like to put
in the name and stuff. And under advancers, there are several different
things. Like we can choose a category. Let's see
if there's anything in here that matches what you're doing like wellness.
There's how-to in style might might work -Yeah. -You can change it and I really
don't know how important it is either. You can turn off if you want people to
contribute or not. But I like this down here. Allow all comments or hold
potentially inappropriate comments for review. I like to select that one. -Yeah.
-Because you can you can get pretty harsh spammy or trolling type comments. I like
to leave this checked. So if some people give you a thumbs up, some people give
you a thumbs down. You can actually turn it off so people can't see that but I
don't know why you'd want to turn that off. Just understand if people give you a
thumbs down, it's okay. Because most people are going to give you a problem.
You can come over here to community. Some of these things I don't use so much. I do
use the blocked words. But let me talk about these first. So, you can add
moderators and if you want to know what they are you just talk over the question
mark. But you can have people come on that can actually help manage your
channel for you and moderate comments. You can approve users. And this is
actually pretty cool. If you're ever reviewing some of the comments and you
just think, "Man, this person is always so rude." You can just block them. You
clicked the dot-dot-dot and then choose block. And their name... Their user name
will appear here. So, if you ever then decide "Alright he's decided to be nice
now, I'll unblock him." But that's how that works. Now, blocked words... Grant
Thompson, we were at an event it was Kris, Grant and I were putting on an
event teaching about YouTube. And he told everybody, "Alright, I'm going to email you
my comprehensive list of swear words." And any swear word you can think of anything
foul or vulgar or offensive or rude, he made this big huge list and the
reason to emailed it to everybody is so that we could copy and paste it into
this field right here so that anytime somebody types a comment and uses one of
those words, there's just don't show up. So when somebody hits submit they think
that they've commented but it just won't show up. Would you like me to add those
swear words? I could probably find that list of swear words. Alright. I'll email you
Gran'ts list of swear words. And then this right here, I do recommend turning it on.
Because most of the time if people put a link in the comments. They're trying to
advertise their website or their service or something. So, if you it just won't
allow people to put links if you turn that on. This is actually in 2
different places. So, we've already allowed comments and we've already
checked that. And so this is just in 2 places. Now, this other settings.
Surprisingly, there's nothing here yet. So, in the future, I guess they're going to
put more features and controls there. So, that's how you set up the defaults for
your YouTube channel. I'll hit save on that. And now you are all official. Once
you have your YouTube channel set up and you're ready to upload, we're going to talk
about thumbnails. Because thumbnails can make a really big difference in how many
people click on it and watch your video.