 How to create a YouTube channel a complete beginner's guide to expert success So you want to have a YouTube channel, right? Well, why wouldn't you want to everybody's got a YouTube channel nowadays and a lot of people are making a lot of money on them Now the reason for this is that YouTube is the second largest search engine in the world when people want to know something They come to YouTube. So why don't they come to you in this video? I want to show you how to set up a really good YouTube channel and help you avoid some of the pitfalls that I fell into So in this video, I'm going to show you how to set up your YouTube channel with all the correct settings So you can start off with success now in addition to this video I've put links to other videos below that show you how to set up your channel with thumbnails and a whole lot of other Things that you're going to need so don't forget to check that out after you watch this video now to have a YouTube channel You do have to have a Gmail account So if you don't have a Gmail account you need to get one okay because that's going to be how you're going to set up your Channel now getting a Gmail account is easy and simple all you have to do is put in your information and Start to get your address once you've gotten your address then you could use that to log in at YouTube Now if you've already got a YouTube channel Then all you have to do is add or manage. So let's go ahead and jump into that I'm going to go ahead and go into my account now and show you some of those settings Okay, I'm at YouTube right now Okay, so when you're on your channel page here all you have to do is click on your picture right here And then you're going to come down and you're going to look for settings right here click on settings And then you're going to come to this page here where it says account Now what you want to do is you want to go down here and you want to add or manage channel? Okay, so I'm going to go ahead and click here right now now Here's the channels I already have in here some of them are just dummy channels, but I'm going to click right here create a channel and Right here. I'm going to put I'll just put test channel Okay, so I'm going to put create And there we go. This channel doesn't have any content yet Okay, so once I've at this stage right here then I can start managing this particular channel so what I'm going to do is I'm going to Go up here I'm going to switch account and I'm going to go to test channel right here. Okay now. I'm a test channel now Test channel hasn't been customized yet. Nothing's been done It's not hooked up to TubeBuddy, which it won't be because I use that on another channel But why don't I go right here and I'm going to click customize channel And I'm gonna go ahead and X out of this So once I'm in here I have several things I can do you can create a channel trailer for people who haven't subscribed Let me close this and get this out of the way. You can do a featured video Okay, so that when they land on your channel, that'll happen And then you can do all your settings in here. So I've got my branding right here So for branding I can upload an image here. So let me go ahead and upload an image And I'll find something I've got Oh, what do I have here that would work Here's a banner I have I'm just gonna use that that's not gonna fit But I'm just gonna put something in there and I'll slide this over here. So I have that I'll click done And that's in there Banner image. I'll click right here and I'll grab one of those banners I had let's see here that will probably work This is really for an ad but I have to have something in there. So we're gonna use this So we'll just stick that in there and we'll click done Okay, so we've got that in there and then if I want to put a watermark on here I can certainly do that so you could put a watermark in here if you want to and then I could go ahead and click publish Now I've got this channel. Now something else I can do Is I can go over here and this is where I control my channel, okay? Now let's look at each one of these this is the dashboard now This will have no traffic because nobody's been here yet. I can upload videos here if I want, okay? That's something I could do I can go to content right here so I can see what videos I have in here I don't have any yet if I did have videos they would reside here This is playlist playlists are super important guys You want to make sure you have your videos organized and playlist because it gives you two Urls and it also keeps people watching. Here's my analytics right here of which I don't have any because nobody's into this channel yet Right here is where I manage my comments if somebody put a comment on here. I could do that Be careful with this one here comments. I haven't responded to Automatically populates the problem with this is if somebody puts a comment on there and you comment back on it And then they comment again. It will knock those out So I like to click off on this one here so I can see even the people who commented after I commented If I want to put subtitles in here, I could do that If I had any copyright issues, they would pop up right here if I was able to monetize I could do it here Customization I could do right here And let's go down here my audio library now If you wanted to have music and use music on your channel you click on audio library And it has all these different branded musics in here sound effects right here And you can also when you go to music you can click right here and you can filter it Attribution not required is probably what you want to do Otherwise, you're gonna have to say where you got the music from so I like to click that one right there And then I can pick the mood whatever I want. Okay, dar You know happy whatever the heck it is and I can do that The last part I want to show you right here is your settings Settings are super important first off. I have mine set to US dollar, which is good now Here's my channel settings right here now Basic info right here. So country of residence. I'm gonna put in here United States. Let me get this in here real quick All the way down at the bottom Where are we out there? We are United States Right here keywords keyweeds are really important. So I may put finance I may put Make money Online and the reason this is important is if people are searching on YouTube and they're searching with some of these terms Your channel will come up. Everybody puts tags or not everybody But most people put tags on their videos, but they forget to put them on their channel. So I may put Shopify because I do some stuff and Shopify may put drop shipping Because I do some stuff there. I may put e-commerce Okay, so I would add all of these keywords that are going to pertain to my channel And it says inner comma separated values I don't have to put a comma all you do is hit enter and it seems to work fine for me So I don't have to worry about that now up here. You've got your advanced settings And you've got to choose this this is really important here if you are targeting kids You cannot monetize your channel with ads. So if that's what you're planning on doing you can't do it So I've got to either let me emphasize this. Yes, set this channel is made for kids I always upload content that's made for kids. I don't make any content for kids So I would say no set this channel. It's not made for kids I never upload content that's made for kids or this last one I want to review this setting for every video if you never make stuff for kids You want to select this one here? Otherwise, you're gonna have to click this for every single video you do If you wanted to link your Google ads account, you would click right here Auto-generated captions don't show potentially inappropriate words. You could click this if you wanted to I would probably click that because I don't want to get demonetized subscriber account some channels do not display the number of subscribers if you if you Uncheck this box. Nobody will be able to see your subscriber account. I don't care really so I go ahead and have it I say yeah, let them do it Advertisements if you select this option Personalized ads will not be shown on your videos or your channels such as ads based on viewers interest or remarketing You do not want to check this if you check this you're gonna have much lower ad revenue Because people can't target your channel. It only makes sense And let's see feature Eligibility when you start a new channel, you won't have any features available at all. Okay? You'll have your default features right here, which is video uploads playlist creation Collaborators add new videos to existing playlists You're also gonna have a choice when you set up your channel to have a personal one in business I always do business now. It didn't ask me because I'm adding a channel to my channel Okay, so it's not gonna ask me that if you set it for personal You're gonna have to give people access to your Gmail account, which I don't want to do So I set it up as business and I add them as a manager and they can use their own Gmail account Feature that require phone verifications right here videos over 15 minutes custom thumbnails live streaming and content appeals So you would have to have a phone verification right here And let me click on that real quick And then I can scroll through here verify phone number. So I'm gonna click this right here to verify my phone number and And I will put my phone number in here and I'm gonna click get code Now it's gonna send me a text So let me check for that right now and it did send that to me So I'm gonna go ahead and verify that now Now it's verified. So now that it's verified I can refresh this page right here And now it says features that require a phone. It's enabled. Okay, so now I can use all of these other things here Because I've verified my channel. You do want to verify it upload defaults Upload the defaults I would not put a title in there because that's gonna put a title on every single one of your videos And they have to change each time Description I would now in the description which you can put in here is any affiliate links You always have any other videos that you want people to click on maybe your contact information If you want to stick that in there So that's what would go in the description and that way every time you uploaded a video That would automatically go in the video and you don't have to set it for each one Visibility is always set to public. You can pick private or unlisted if you want I don't know why you'd want to do that. We should have a private channel. Then you got permissions here Manage permissions continue using your brand account or add or change permissions You can assign people to one of two roles including owner or manager This is what I was talking about here if you have a business Channel which is the best way to go you can add people here and give them permissions to actually Access your channel. I can manage positions right here by clicking this And as you can see I'm gonna have to put in my password But then I can add some people if I wanted to and I'm not gonna do that right now because I don't need to do that and then community Community is if I have moderators approve users hidden users blocked words blocked links You can put any of that stuff in there. And then right here is agreements All use of the service is subject to YouTube terms and service and you can click more if you want and I'm gonna go ahead and click save Okay, so that's the basic setup of your channel now, of course, you got to have good content You got to upload on a regular basis, but that's exactly how you're gonna set up your channel Now remember in the beginning I told you that I have links below that you need to watch because there are other things you're gonna need to Set up your channel like thumbnails and you know design and all that good stuff But you're gonna want to watch all of those videos and I put them in the description below I hope this helps you out and if it did give me a thumbs up. Don't forget to subscribe and Don't forget to what? Ring the bell ring the bell turn on all bell notifications So you're notified every single time I upload a video or if I go live now I have a $97 course down in the description you can grab. It's absolutely free. 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