Let's dive into our channel settings because there's a lot of cool things that we can do there to enable
some new features and to just improve our channel so go up into your icon and choose creator studio.
This will take you to your back and this is where you'll be uploading managing videos doing all kinds
of cool stuff that will be going over in future lessons.
If you click on channel this will take you to your channel status and features page you can see here
that my channel image is here.
I did a little green overlay again going with the money theme.
The first thing you should do is verify so click the verify button to verify that you are a person you
are not a robot.
That's basically what this means.
So you want to select the country that you're in and whether to call or text.
You will need a phone number that's how Google and YouTube verifies that you're a human.
So you will have to plug in your phone number.
So I'm going to go ahead and do that right now.
You can only verify two YouTube accounts per phone number.
So if you've created two accounts in the past year you'll have to find another person with a phone number
to verify your account.
Click Continue once you've been verified once you've been verified you'll notice that some of these
options are you're now eligible for.
So the next step would be to go through here and try to verify or enable all of these.
So the ones that I'm eligible for I'll just start enabling Soave live streaming on Nabl which is great
because YouTube live is really important now.
So just by doing clicking that enabled button we're in the world to do live streaming going to go back
to my channel for monetization.
This is another important thing if you want to build your YouTube channel and eventually make money
from it first you're going to have to choose your country location.
Not all countries I believe are eligible for monetization.
So I'm going to choose my country with it which is the United States.
And this actually brought us to another page the advanced page underneath our channel tab.
So let's stay here and let's add some of some more information.
Whenever you have the opportunity to add keywords to your description to your YouTube channel key words
to the tags of your videos it's important to figure out what your main keywords are.
You shouldn't just put it.
Make a list of hundreds of keywords.
Usually it's better to limit it to the more specific ones.
That again will match people's expectations.
So if someone searches for this keyword and they come upon your channel if you don't have videos about
that topic then they're going to click away and that's going to hurt and hurt your channel ranking.
So I'm going to include personal finance and the way that this works is that every word is its own key
word.
If you have a phrase for example early retirement put that in quotes you don't have to use commas between
words you can just put them there with spaces next you have the option to disallow advertisements from
playing alongside your videos or to disable interest based ads.
I would just leave these as the default settings by changing this.
This will decrease the amount of revenue you have potential the potential revenue you have making if
you don't have an ad words account.
You will have to sign up for an outwards account.
So go to add words dot Google dot com click sign in or start now follow the instructions for starting
your outwards account.
Again I know people have had issues in the past starting in AdWords account depending on the country.
Let us know if you have any issues.
Also you will have to link a bank account I believe to start your auditors account but you don't actually
have to pay anything to start and afterwards account you don't actually have to start purchasing ads.
You'll get your customer I.D. you pay that in this box.
Click next and then assign a name to this AdWords account.
I'll call this filles.
Finances.
Leave all of these checked and click Finish.
Now our ad words account is associated with this YouTube channel.
So if we want to do things like boost videos or create a YouTube ad we can do that in the future.
The next setting on this page is to associate a Web site.
This is a very important step because we'll now be able to do things like add YouTube cards that direct
people to our own Web site.
If you don't associate your web site you actually can't link to your own web site using things like
YouTube cards.
And so this is important.
Click the learn more button and then under step two there are settings for a sauteing associating your
site to your YouTube channel.
For example if I want to verify Phil Abitur dot com what I'll have to do is put in that you Arel then
click the verify button to associate this site to verify that I actually own this website.
There are different methods for verifying your Web site.
You'll have to follow these steps.
There's alternate methods.
If this recommended method doesn't work for you.
I know this can be a little bit confusing.
It's different for different Web site platforms.
So I can't I'm not going to spend a lot of time going through these different steps because it's going
to be different for each person watching the class.
If you're confused click learn more button or try using one of the alternate methods.
And then there's a couple other settings that you might want to check out channel recommendations if
you want to allow your channel to appear in other channels recommendations turn leave that on if for
some reason you don't you can turn that off but hey why not.
Because that's more people potentially clicking on to your channel and then subserve scriber account
you can display or not display it when you're starting out you might not want to display this because
if your channel doesn't have a lot of subscribers it might make people a little hesitant to subscribe
to your channel.
So when starting out I might just turn that off.
And then lastly we have a Google Analytics property tracking idea.
This allows you to see analytics for you YouTube channel with Google Analytics.
We don't necessarily need this because YouTube itself provides a lot of analytics and that's what we're
going to be covering in this part of the course.
So those are some of the main channel status features and advance settings in the next video will go
over some of these other options such as the defaults featured content and branding.