Hey, Derral here with derraleves.com.
Now you really want to have a successful YouTube channel, right?
Well you need to understand the importance of YouTube sections.
Now I know a lot of you right now are saying, "Hey Derral, what in the heck is YouTube sections."
Well in this video I'm going to explain what a section is and I'm also going to show you
how to add a section to your YouTube channel.
Plus at the end of the video, you want to watch the whole thing, I'm going to share
my five top things in remembering when creating a section for your YouTube channel to get
you more video views and also really to get you more subscribers.
Let's take a look!
Now to add those sections to your YouTube channel first thing you need to do is go all
the way down to the bottom and click on this button here that says, "add a section".
Now the great thing is that YouTube gives you all this content that can be displayed
on your YouTube channel.
And you can kind of pick it from the different categories that are from here.
Ok, so we can do recent uploads, liked videos, posted videos, if you're also doing live events
or hangouts on air you can do live now, upcoming events, and completed events which is really
cool.
You can also bring in playlists, so if I wanted a single playlist right here, I can actually
find the playlist.
So if I want "advanced YouTube Training" and you can display the playlist from here.
You can do it in a horizontal view or you can do it in a vertical view, see how it changes
there.
And also let me show you a really cool feature here.
Under "others" do "recent activities, recent posts, channels, or tag.
Ok the tag is really cool guys, it's really cool.
You can actually have a specific tag in your videos and if I want to display all of them,
so if I wanted all the mobile marketing or let's do the YouTube Tips.
It's going to pull in all the different videos that's using the tag YouTube tips.
And we can go ahead and change the layout to horizontal and hit done.
Now once it's done maybe I want this to be up a little higher, so you can go ahead and
click this up arrow and you can reposition it and you know what, I might say, "You know
what, this would be better here" let's go ahead and hit the edit button, the pencil
here, "to be a vertical list."
And go ahead and hit save and you can see how you're able to modify that.
Now so adding sections to your YouTube channel seems relatively simple, right?
Well let me tell you, let me give you some great ideas to make your sections and channels
more attractive to get more video views and ultimately more subscribers.
So here's my five top things to remember: Number one your channel should resemble an
online store, now don't overthink this one, guys.
Think really simple, think Amazon.com.
They spent millions of dollars trying to get the solution for you guys to buy things, so
just keep it simple.
Number two identify common themes across your video catalog.
Now this is a great way to get viewers to truly just subscribe and also regular viewers
to come back over and over and watching more videos back-to-back, very important for watch
time.
Now number three.
Use descriptive titles and thumbnails to catch the viewers' attention; now this is really,
really important I can't overemphasize this, this is very important.
Now number four.
You want to keep that section fresh by adding new content, making sure your good content
is in a good visible place that people can see, so they ultimately will subscribe.
Now number five.
Less is more, now even though you can have ten sections on your channel that doesn't
mean you should do it.
You should really think about people's attention spans and really target them in to watching
your videos.
Alright, those are five great things to remember in creating those sections on YouTube.
Now wait, before you go I'd love to hear the comments below, what sections would be important
to you and your channel?
Now this is going to be very interesting and insightful because there's all different types
of channels out there with different strategies.
Now if you really like this video I have a ton of other videos just like this one and
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