WEBVTT 00:00.180 --> 00:06.600 Let's dive into our channel settings because there's a lot of cool things that we can do there to enable 00:06.600 --> 00:15.690 some new features and to just improve our channel so go up into your icon and choose creator studio. 00:15.720 --> 00:21.480 This will take you to your back and this is where you'll be uploading managing videos doing all kinds 00:21.480 --> 00:25.320 of cool stuff that will be going over in future lessons. 00:25.680 --> 00:30.870 If you click on channel this will take you to your channel status and features page you can see here 00:30.870 --> 00:32.490 that my channel image is here. 00:32.490 --> 00:36.370 I did a little green overlay again going with the money theme. 00:36.420 --> 00:43.170 The first thing you should do is verify so click the verify button to verify that you are a person you 00:43.170 --> 00:44.660 are not a robot. 00:44.670 --> 00:46.620 That's basically what this means. 00:46.620 --> 00:51.510 So you want to select the country that you're in and whether to call or text. 00:51.720 --> 00:57.060 You will need a phone number that's how Google and YouTube verifies that you're a human. 00:57.060 --> 00:59.070 So you will have to plug in your phone number. 00:59.070 --> 01:01.160 So I'm going to go ahead and do that right now. 01:01.170 --> 01:05.190 You can only verify two YouTube accounts per phone number. 01:05.190 --> 01:11.100 So if you've created two accounts in the past year you'll have to find another person with a phone number 01:11.100 --> 01:12.520 to verify your account. 01:12.840 --> 01:17.430 Click Continue once you've been verified once you've been verified you'll notice that some of these 01:17.520 --> 01:20.910 options are you're now eligible for. 01:21.090 --> 01:25.370 So the next step would be to go through here and try to verify or enable all of these. 01:25.380 --> 01:32.130 So the ones that I'm eligible for I'll just start enabling Soave live streaming on Nabl which is great 01:32.130 --> 01:35.340 because YouTube live is really important now. 01:35.490 --> 01:42.540 So just by doing clicking that enabled button we're in the world to do live streaming going to go back 01:42.540 --> 01:45.430 to my channel for monetization. 01:45.430 --> 01:49.720 This is another important thing if you want to build your YouTube channel and eventually make money 01:49.720 --> 01:53.890 from it first you're going to have to choose your country location. 01:53.950 --> 01:59.400 Not all countries I believe are eligible for monetization. 01:59.680 --> 02:03.220 So I'm going to choose my country with it which is the United States. 02:03.730 --> 02:09.780 And this actually brought us to another page the advanced page underneath our channel tab. 02:09.850 --> 02:13.850 So let's stay here and let's add some of some more information. 02:13.900 --> 02:21.310 Whenever you have the opportunity to add keywords to your description to your YouTube channel key words 02:21.640 --> 02:26.850 to the tags of your videos it's important to figure out what your main keywords are. 02:26.860 --> 02:28.270 You shouldn't just put it. 02:28.540 --> 02:30.580 Make a list of hundreds of keywords. 02:30.580 --> 02:34.720 Usually it's better to limit it to the more specific ones. 02:34.810 --> 02:38.380 That again will match people's expectations. 02:38.380 --> 02:43.960 So if someone searches for this keyword and they come upon your channel if you don't have videos about 02:43.960 --> 02:49.410 that topic then they're going to click away and that's going to hurt and hurt your channel ranking. 02:49.450 --> 02:56.260 So I'm going to include personal finance and the way that this works is that every word is its own key 02:56.260 --> 02:56.710 word. 02:56.710 --> 03:03.100 If you have a phrase for example early retirement put that in quotes you don't have to use commas between 03:03.100 --> 03:11.210 words you can just put them there with spaces next you have the option to disallow advertisements from 03:11.210 --> 03:15.900 playing alongside your videos or to disable interest based ads. 03:15.920 --> 03:19.010 I would just leave these as the default settings by changing this. 03:19.010 --> 03:24.500 This will decrease the amount of revenue you have potential the potential revenue you have making if 03:24.500 --> 03:25.850 you don't have an ad words account. 03:25.850 --> 03:27.920 You will have to sign up for an outwards account. 03:27.920 --> 03:35.060 So go to add words dot Google dot com click sign in or start now follow the instructions for starting 03:35.060 --> 03:36.410 your outwards account. 03:36.650 --> 03:42.330 Again I know people have had issues in the past starting in AdWords account depending on the country. 03:42.350 --> 03:44.090 Let us know if you have any issues. 03:44.090 --> 03:50.540 Also you will have to link a bank account I believe to start your auditors account but you don't actually 03:50.540 --> 03:57.050 have to pay anything to start and afterwards account you don't actually have to start purchasing ads. 03:57.350 --> 04:00.950 You'll get your customer I.D. you pay that in this box. 04:00.950 --> 04:03.980 Click next and then assign a name to this AdWords account. 04:04.130 --> 04:05.290 I'll call this filles. 04:05.300 --> 04:06.690 Finances. 04:07.580 --> 04:10.410 Leave all of these checked and click Finish. 04:10.520 --> 04:14.720 Now our ad words account is associated with this YouTube channel. 04:14.720 --> 04:19.720 So if we want to do things like boost videos or create a YouTube ad we can do that in the future. 04:20.500 --> 04:24.190 The next setting on this page is to associate a Web site. 04:24.220 --> 04:30.490 This is a very important step because we'll now be able to do things like add YouTube cards that direct 04:30.490 --> 04:32.720 people to our own Web site. 04:32.860 --> 04:38.020 If you don't associate your web site you actually can't link to your own web site using things like 04:38.020 --> 04:39.220 YouTube cards. 04:39.480 --> 04:40.850 And so this is important. 04:40.870 --> 04:47.260 Click the learn more button and then under step two there are settings for a sauteing associating your 04:47.260 --> 04:49.840 site to your YouTube channel. 04:49.840 --> 04:55.870 For example if I want to verify Phil Abitur dot com what I'll have to do is put in that you Arel then 04:55.870 --> 05:02.190 click the verify button to associate this site to verify that I actually own this website. 05:02.200 --> 05:05.600 There are different methods for verifying your Web site. 05:05.620 --> 05:07.810 You'll have to follow these steps. 05:07.810 --> 05:08.960 There's alternate methods. 05:08.980 --> 05:11.580 If this recommended method doesn't work for you. 05:11.770 --> 05:14.760 I know this can be a little bit confusing. 05:14.770 --> 05:17.700 It's different for different Web site platforms. 05:17.830 --> 05:23.050 So I can't I'm not going to spend a lot of time going through these different steps because it's going 05:23.050 --> 05:26.010 to be different for each person watching the class. 05:26.080 --> 05:31.950 If you're confused click learn more button or try using one of the alternate methods. 05:32.080 --> 05:37.300 And then there's a couple other settings that you might want to check out channel recommendations if 05:37.300 --> 05:43.030 you want to allow your channel to appear in other channels recommendations turn leave that on if for 05:43.030 --> 05:45.820 some reason you don't you can turn that off but hey why not. 05:45.820 --> 05:51.080 Because that's more people potentially clicking on to your channel and then subserve scriber account 05:51.460 --> 05:56.260 you can display or not display it when you're starting out you might not want to display this because 05:56.620 --> 06:02.680 if your channel doesn't have a lot of subscribers it might make people a little hesitant to subscribe 06:02.680 --> 06:03.760 to your channel. 06:03.790 --> 06:07.010 So when starting out I might just turn that off. 06:07.030 --> 06:10.410 And then lastly we have a Google Analytics property tracking idea. 06:10.420 --> 06:15.730 This allows you to see analytics for you YouTube channel with Google Analytics. 06:15.760 --> 06:21.340 We don't necessarily need this because YouTube itself provides a lot of analytics and that's what we're 06:21.340 --> 06:24.300 going to be covering in this part of the course. 06:24.310 --> 06:30.220 So those are some of the main channel status features and advance settings in the next video will go 06:30.220 --> 06:34.710 over some of these other options such as the defaults featured content and branding.