- I'm gonna show you a handful of things
that you might be doing wrong on your YouTube channel.
And we're starting right now.
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Okay, because of the type of services
that I have built into my YouTube channel,
my review services, my consulting services, and all that,
it allows me the opportunity to look under the hood
of a lot of YouTube channels.
That gives me a lot of really cool data
on things that work, things that don't work,
things that people are experimenting with
that work and don't work, and so on.
But what I'm gonna share with you today is
some very important things that people often overlook
that either make your job more difficult as a YouTuber,
or that actually hurt the growth of your channel.
For this, we are going to have to go to the computer,
because we are going to go into the Creator Studio.
So if you wanna follow along
to make sure that you're not doing these things,
or to go ahead and make the adjusts if you are,
go ahead and get your Creator Studio open in another window
so that you can follow along
and make any adjustments necessary
and while you're doing that,
I will head to the computer.
Okay, now that we're at the computer,
and we're in your Creator Studio,
the very first thing you wanna do
is you wanna go to your Channel,
and then you wanna go down to Advanced.
Once you're on this page right here, you wanna scroll down,
and you're gonna see this little area down
here called Channel Recommendations.
Now, through the review service that I do,
a lot of people for some reason
have Do not allow my channel to appear
in other's recommendations selected.
You wanna make sure that you have yours selected
to allow yours to appear in other channels' recommendations.
The reason for this, is if you go to another channel
and you are looking over in the right side bar,
what you are going to see
after you get past the Featured Channels,
is you're gonna see something called Related Channels.
Now if you do not have that option selected,
you're not going to appear on any channels
in this particular section right here.
So it's extremely important,
because if you've been watching my channel
for any amount of time,
you know that we're about creating
those advantages for yourself,
instead of the disadvantages
that are gonna hinder your channel from growing.
The next thing you wanna do is you wanna go to Channel
and then down to Branding.
And you wanna make sure that you're using
some type of branding watermark.
I personally use a subscribe button.
I recommend everybody use a subscribe button.
I have these available on TuberTools.com
if you're interested in getting on.
But at the very least, if you don't get one of those,
use something.
And the reason for that is, if you're watching a video,
anything that you put there is going to create a
little graphic down here in the bottom right of the screen.
When somebody hovers over that, as you can see right here,
it gives them the option to subscribe to the channel.
So it's really important, again,
that you're creating that advantage for yourself.
Because if you don't have that,
then you're basically losing your opportunity
to give people another chance to
subscribe to your YouTube channel.
For this one, you wanna go into your Upload Defaults.
Now, there's gonna be a couple things that we're gonna
go over here that I often see people not doing correctly,
so I'm gonna show you what those things are right now.
The first thing that I recommend on your Upload Defaults
is that you change your privacy settings,
a lot of people have these as public,
go ahead and change it to private here.
This way whenever you upload a video,
you don't have to manually do that
every single time on the upload page,
because it's already set to upload directly to private
so you can add your titles, tags, all that stuff,
without having to actually set it to private
in the first place.
That actually limits your ability
to make a mistake on that particular thing
when you're uploading a video.
The next thing that I've commonly see people do is,
right here where mine says Standard YouTube License,
I've seen a lot of channels where they have
Creative Commons - Attribution selected.
Now, if you're a music channel
and you wanna give people the permission
to use your content, that's perfectly okay.
Keep in mind though, once you make it available
for Creative Commons, then that gives people
the opportunity to use it for good.
You can't turn around on that.
You can't go back in time and fix that.
So what you wanna do, is you wanna make sure that
unless you want people,
regardless of the type of content you make,
you wanna make sure that unless you
are giving people the rights to use your content,
as long as they give you credit,
you wanna make sure that you have this set to
Standard YouTube license.
As you scroll down the page,
another thing that you wanna make sure that you do is
have the allow viewers to contribute translated titles,
descriptions, and subtitles/CC selected.
The reason for that is this allows people
that speak other languages to translate
your content so that you can reach a broader audience.
So that you can rank in search in those particular areas
without having to do anything on your end.
This allows your community to contribute
the titles, descriptions, and subtitles on your behalf.
Now keep in mind, if you do have this selected,
from time to time it doesn't happen automatically,
so what's gonna happen is you're gonna have to
go to your Translations & Transcriptions area
over here in your navigation,
and you're gonna have to approve those as they come in.
So from time to time, add it to your workflow
to go ahead and check this area right here.
Okay, the next that you wanna do
is you wanna go into your Community Settings.
To find this, you go to Community
and then you go down to Community Settings.
Now if you scroll down the page on this one,
what you're gonna find is
you're gonna find blocked words list.
I highly recommend that you use that.
But more importantly, I want you to select the
block links thing right here.
Basically it's going to block new comments
with hashtags and URLs and they'll be held for review.
So this is gonna help you out in live chat
if you're doing live streams.
This is also going to prevent people
from posting links in your comments.
Or links or hashtags unless they're a moderator
inside of your live streams as well.
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Thank you so much for watching.
I'll see you next time.