 Hell yeah, what's up guys? This is Chris Byte, and after it's come a big see I'm back again guys today We're talking about spam.tm or spam indicators. What's going on? Well, like I said in my last video YouTube and you know my extension networks I've had to crack down on channels that are doing spammy bad things now I'm gonna say like I said my last video I realized that you people watching this are not bad spam people because you wouldn't be watching this so You're not guilty However, there have been about 38 different indicators that YouTube and networks have to look at to try and determine if a channel is Following YouTube's best practices. There are a lot of things and here's the thing even if you're an established channel If you're not doing one or two of these things you might be sending the wrong signal to YouTube because you know what? They want they want to promote channels that get it right So we're gonna help you to get it right now one of the biggest things That they're looking at is channel art or particularly custom channel art channel art Channels that have the default channel art that come with it when you just start a channel are Actually treated differently and the way they're treated differently is when YouTube does a search through its API all the different channels channels that have the Default banner art that hasn't been adjusted or manipulated in any way come back with default Dot banner in the YouTube URL for that channel So I could have YouTube comm slash Curtis bike slash LX Y Z Z Z and then I'd have the same thing with default Dot banner in it that sends a signal to YouTube that this channel hasn't changed its channel art and may not be as Serious or could be a copycat bad spammy channel But may not be as serious as say a channel that has done that so with that mouth Below to the way I'm gonna show you how to change that and give you a few ideas and a few options on how we can do that All right, let's go. All right, even before I start that tutorial I'm gonna stay up front and make sure to understand this that the number one way to deal with this is really to create Your own channel art. You are the YouTube channel owner You're probably the channel manager and you're the creative you know better than anybody What you want to be on the front of your YouTube channel? So keep that in mind that is always the best practice whenever you can do that With that being said there are a lot of new channels or channels that aren't you know We're youtubers that aren't really all that great with you know photoshop or the various Graphical design graphical editors, or maybe you just forgot like I did well guys There is a quick fix for this that I'm gonna show you in a Camtasia Tutorial after this but always keep in mind guys that you want to go ahead and fix it yourself now a couple things I have a psd document linked in the channel in the description below pardon me where you can download it It has all of the different what has a link to the Google site that shows you where all the different Graphics are all the different parts of the of the YouTube channel banner very quickly the standard channel banner is 2,560 by 1440 pixels But you know what it shows up differently on all sorts of different devices what it looks like on a 27 inch Retina iMac is completely different than what it looks on a 4 inch iPhone for example and everything in between So you've got to really look at that and you know try and make sure that you follow the Grids and rulers because it's really not as straightforward as we would probably like it to be so that is also another reason Why a lot of people don't have uploaded channel order they got channel art It just doesn't look right. That's why Download that link go to that link below click on that and fixed it secondly guys like I said I've got a Camtasia tutorial that's going to show you how to very quickly Get some channel art like that that you can upload It's not going to be optimized according to the grids because this is just a way to show you how to deal with it right away As I said before guys take some time with this either create your own channel art according to the grids and guidelines or Alternatively, you know ask one of your buddies or a friend You know that creates channel art and maybe they'll create one for you for a video shout out I don't know how it's gonna go for you, but that's it guys. So please please please Watch the tutorial upload some custom channel art and get even in better into YouTube's good books This is big see check it out tutorial coming up Everyone walking to the tutorial section of the video guys in this one I'm gonna show you how to create some channel art free It's not gonna be Picasso level stuff But it's using a free tool which is really important normally you do it in Photoshop or Gimp or other photo editors Or graphical editors, but I'm just gonna assume that you don't have any right now So if you're a new channel or if you don't have the money for it or you're saving up whatever guys Here's a free tool will go through it using Canva comm like I said at the beginning though The best way to do it is to use a graphical editing tool like Photoshop so that you can do all the strict measurements and Get exactly what you're looking for But this is going to solve your problem for the spam indicator if you don't have channel art And you don't know how to use Photoshop, or you can't afford it yet done We've got this all right canva.com hit enter you'll get this screen Well, let's go ahead and hit enter and I'll show you what you're gonna get You're gonna get this screen from this screen You want to move over to the right side and click on more as I do that You will notice that over here that all of these are pre-built Pre-measured things for the different types of stuff that you could be doing doing pardon me So if you like to do Facebook posts, well, there's something for a Facebook post They've already measured it out just click on that and go nuts But anyways as I go down through here. I'm looking for social media and email editors here You're gonna see something that says YouTube channel art bingo That's what we want click on that and it's gonna open up a blank canvas with white now This is what you're going to see as I scroll down here You are gonna see that there are a lot of pre-built Or pre-designed things that you could use normally I would say don't do it But there's one or two that are free that might be worth a look if this is for example If you want that you might want to left-click on that and it will load But we'll do that in a second what I normally do is I start and I want to work on my background I am going to go down here and I am going to pick a background color now These are all free colors including the you know the color wheel up here So for you know keeping this simple. I'm gonna make a little red background. Awesome. We're rolling the next step I want to have some text on us. I'm gonna left-click on the text button and then here are some free headings that you can use So if you wanted to you know, you want to get all fancy with some pre-designed stuff This looks like the New York Times. I don't know this. These are all kind of cool-looking. I know this one's medieval That's all right, but anyways, I'm just gonna go ahead and add in what do you think about this Frisco Paddington Oh, wow, he has some real stuff here. How about that? Okay, we've got a pre-built design already in there now when I double-click on it You're gonna see that I can go in there and start making changes all sorts of changes So I was established. I don't know. Let's say it started in 2007 and Paddington we're gonna change Paddington to Curtis Pike because that's my name and then handcrafted because I was handcrafted Of course, I was I don't know guys go nuts I'll delete that we'll start off with like a simpler one add a heading click on that and then you're gonna say welcome to Curtis Pike YouTube channel Exclamation mark There you go. All right, and then I'm gonna hit down or I'm gonna click off it I'm gonna hold down control. Maybe I'll center that here. You're gonna see that the grids come up when it's in the center All right, it doesn't have the other center It doesn't have it doesn't have double center grid, but it has this center grid, which is a start So, you know what there we go now. We've got it in the center. Okay, there's a simple graphic I got that download and then I would just click image for web and it will download It'll be 2560 by 1440 guaranteed So it is good to go to upload and you're not gonna get all that funny-looking stuff But you know what that was a really simple example guys I could delete that and you can go like nuts like here's where it gets really cool Like let's just delete that the trash can maybe I want to upload a picture of my friggin dog Or my buddy's dogs because you know what I like dogs. Here's my dog Kingston Drag and drop that in done. There's Kingston. Here's where what we got here. We got my other buddy Baxter or whatever the hell his name is gonna make that a little bigger drop that big doggy on man I mean look this is what happens, right? Maybe I want some text in the middle and I want it to be in medieval because you know, whatever Drag that bad boy on maybe it's too big. You want to resize it? I don't know guys go nuts It has a lot of stuff Curtis Curtis is and then on the bottom. I'm gonna have I don't know dogs Exclamation mark super simple guys go nuts if you don't like that background Maybe you want a different color background click on that one that one's free. This one's free Hey, that looks a little different, but you don't want the book. You don't want it to be white font You want it to black font? I don't know you see where I'm going with this guys, right? All I'm trying to do here We're gonna get that exclamation mark Let's do black all of it's got to be black. All right there There are my dogs this when you download this this is channel art It's done again guys You don't want to go ahead and you probably want to get somebody else to do it professionally But if you just mess around for a few minutes, you can create some simple channel art upload it get rid of that YouTube API Get your own custom link when they do out these searches and Solve that problem while you wait for yourself to either design it in Photoshop or have someone else do it guys That's all there is to this tool. I hope this helps I will do a tutorial in Photoshop because you can get a little bit more precise obviously But I hope this helps and I'll be back soon with some more tutorials talk to you soon