Hello and welcome to the computer lab vids YouTube channel so today we are
looking at how to create a subscribe button on your YouTube channel so if you
have a youtube channel that you are trying to grow and looking for
subscribers the best way to try and help things along is to make it as easy as
possible for people to subscribe to your channel so I know several ways of doing
this but if you look at the top banner which we're going to look at in a second
in the top right hand corner there are multiple options that you can set on
your YouTube channel and like I said the one that we're looking at today is the
SUBSCRIBE one but before you do anything else you have to find out your channel
ID so if you have created a YouTube channel and I've been growing it for a
while you might have a name after that particular YouTube channel might be just
a random set of letters either / or the way I'm going to
show you how to find the brand ID or your YouTube ID is the first stage of
setting up the subscribe button obviously once you've set up this
subscribe button for YouTube you can also add this same link down in your
description of your videos which again makes it easier if people are watching
your videos and reading the description they can then click on the link to
subscribe immediately to your channel so we'll have a look first to find the
brand ID or YouTube ID so first thing you need to do is open your YouTube page
up so once you've got onto your this is just YouTube I'm not showing any account
details at the moment so this is the standard youtube.com home
page so we need to go up to the top right hand corner this is where all your
brand's sit I'm currently signed in to my gaming youtube channel so click on
the link and this is where you can pick multiple different things from your
account in here so click on the link that brings up a setting menu and go to
my channel this straightaway shows you that the channel so this will be your
logged in to your current YouTube path you're trying to find out your channel
ID you can find it out in the top bar up in this section here but I will just
show you where it exactly tells you sort of come in no mistake you don't
subscribe into a different page and yours you can check this at the end but
we'll have a look at the channel ID so once you're on the YouTube homepage you
then just need to go up to the top right hand corner where your logo is that
tells you which channel you are signed into I'm currently signed into crafty
doctor which is my other YouTube channel my gaming channel and this is the one
that we're going to create a link in because I don't have a channel ID a
subscribe button linked on my home page yet so click on the icon these are the
menus that you've probably used to seeing here we just need to just go
down to settings ok so now we're in settings we can then it just go across
to the Advanced section here or to make sure you're in the account that you want
to create the particular subscribe button for YouTube on so click on
advanced and then this is your channel ID here which is the one what we need to
be looking at so best thing that I found when working with other people and
creating their YouTube and brand ID and subscribe buttons is to like I say yours
might they say a name in there but it is to just copy this out and put it onto
maybe notepad or something like that so I'll just open a Pages document up which
if you're not used to mac it's just the same as word so I'll just open pages and
we'll create a blank page so you can see what's going on so I'll just swing this
across to the right and we shall open a new blank document or the swing that
across to this side here ok so this is the YouTube ID the channel ID that we
need so right click copy right-click again and just paste it into a section
that's worth keeping this somewhere that you possibly going to use like say if
you've got a brand name it might actually should be a name in there so
now we need to link that to the subscribe button so once you have the
channel ID copied across then you need to type a little bit of text
before this particular channel ID so the text that you need to type I'll just
copy and paste it just to make things a bit easier I won't just make things so
we can see it the same as that one ok so this is the first section that we
need youtube.com/channel and then we need to put immediately after that we
need to put our channel ID so this section here then needs to go straight
after so once you've got this first section in the channel which is the just
the standard bit of text and then your channel ID which is this section here
where then it need to paste or type in a separate bit of text so I will just put
the text up on there so it's question mark sub underscore confirmation equals
1 (?sub_confirmation=1) and that needs to sit directly after the text that you have just put in so
the link if I just make it a bit smaller so fits on one page you can see how it
all should look so that is exactly the bit of text that we need that will
confirm people to subscribe to your channel through a clickable subscribe
link so once you've built up your actual
subscribe button alright so so this section here I'm just going to put how
yours might look so yours might look like this and yours might have something like that
after it so if yours is just a name after the that you have reserved on
YouTube then obviously you will put that in there so it won't be the gobbeldy de gook
numbers and letters and then you need to put the sub confirmation in directly
after that so then you need to have it saying question mark sub underscore
conformation equals one (?sub_confirmation=1) so yours might look something like that but my channel
this gaming one it doesn't have a brand name as yet so we are literally going to
use this bit of text okay so now we have the details off the old view we now need
to put it into our YouTube channel so we'll then need to just go back onto the
main YouTube channel make sure that you're logged into the account that
we've just got the brand ID for if you've got several accounts and then we
need to go to my channel click on my channel so I'll just drag this over this
a second so you can see exactly so this is my current channel layout for a crafty doctor
and just working on a new banner at the moment but you'll notice in the top
corner of this here you can now edit we need to edit this section here so I can
change my picture but this is a bit where we're going to put the subscribe
button for this particular channel so we need to customize the channel so open up
the channel, got to customize channel so this is where things can get a little
bit confusing just digging your way into the menus so the first thing you need to
do is click on the little pencil icon click on the little pencil and then we
need to go to edit links and this will allow us to put the YouTube subscribe
link into our top banner so I'll click on edit links so this bit here is a bit
little bit taken off a bit because you can these are the sections that we want
to edit for some reason that way they've done soon as you go in here you can't
click on them see now you're in the Edit link and now need to go to customize
channel again and now we have the option where we have these different links so
you can see the subscribe button there which is already on I'm going to change
that one round and put another one in because of the moment it's showing a
website but really I want to be pushing people to subscribe to the channel and
it's hidden at the far right so I shall get rid of this sub I'm going to get rid
of that we'll just delete it there so we've got
this one out and now I want to add another one so I'm going to get rid of
the top one and put it as my top so this one will show on the far left now as I
create this one so whatever text you think that will generate somebody to have
a look and subscribe so please subscribe
here and that could be any text that you want okay so that's the first section
that's what people are going to read the next thing we need to copy a little bit
of confirmation YouTube subscribe confirmation text out so copy that put
it into the URL paste it in I'll just leave it like for now I'll
not put the others in it and just click done so at the moment it's going to show two different
buttons because your Twitter and it's going to show please subscribe here so
I'll click done so you see while the buttons going a look it's going to stand
out like that and we'll leave everything else and we'll just go back to the main
channel so this is how it's going to look the subscribe button please
subscribe here and you can see please subscribe here and a little Twitter Icon
because I have put their Twitter as well in there as well so now we just need to
go back to our homepage and then now we can see the subscribe button and to see
if that's working you need to be in, well you don't need to be in but Google Chrome
works best with this because if you open if I try and click on that now it will
say obviously don't need to subscribe to your own to yourself the way to check it
is to hover over the link right click I am in Google Chrome at the moment so I
want to open link in incognito window click on that it will open a new window
up and you can see straight away confirm subscription that here so really easy to
do once you've got that in you can then save it and then allows people to just
click on that link that we've taken straight to there and they can click on
subscribe obviously its showing me this at the moment
because I am in Incognito mode and it doesn't show or tell YouTube who I
am so that's it that's how to create a
subscribe link within your YouTube channel
worth noting that the text that you have put in at this section here and just
get rid of it all this bit that typed in worth not in this section it's worth
saving this document somewhere because this text then you can actually put into
a description of a video so if you have a video on your channel and let's just
say this unboxing one and I won't play it but this section here you can
actually put subscribe button in here that exactly so people would click on it
and hopefully subscribe to your channel so that's it that's how to create a
subscribe button on your YouTube home page and how to find out your brand ID
hope you enjoyed the video I hope that it has helped if it has please do
subscribe I am desperate for subscribers from now on as you need a thousand
subscribers to monetize any videos on YouTube so thank you very much for
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