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Hey guys it's Ileane from basic blog tips dot com
and today we're going to continue our series about
getting more views on YouTube using
Annotations. If you didn't see the first video
we talked about InVideo programming now today we're going to get into
putting annotations on individual videos
there's a few benefits of adding annotations to videos
so let's go over those real quickly one would be to get more subscribers on your
channel
the other would be to get people to watch more of your videos
you know YouTube likes when we keep people on YouTube
so if you have videos that are related you want to get people to check out the
other videos on your channel
and more importantly for bloggers
and website owners we want to get people to come back
to our website so let's
see how we can set up annotations to do those three things
Go into your Video Manager and
next to each one of your videos you'll see Edit and you can add your annotations
that way
another way we can access the annotations
is right from the watch page of a specific video and the annotations
are indicated by this little icon right here
here's an example
of an annotation that I set up on this video
I put an overlay of the cover of this
YouTube Report I did, and when people click that link
they go to a page where I have a sign up form
for people to get the report and sign up for my email list
and come to think of it by the way if you want that report
just go to http://basicblogtips.com/getyoutubereport
Now let's go into YouTube
and setup an annotation
the annotations interface is pretty simple. You come over here if you wanna
add an annotation
here's the different options you have speech bubble,
note, title, spotlight and label. Now most of the time you're going to want to use one
of these
that will link back to something so I recommend the
spotlight or the note but you can experiment with
all these to see which ones work best with your video and your content
so let's keep it simple and add a note: now
what you'll see here is the timeline and this
is the indication for where you want to place the annotation the video
now keep in mind
as I showed you in the previous video about InVideo programming
you don't wanna have too many calls to action
at one specific spot in the video so since
I know that my InVideo programming is
in the last 30 seconds of the video
then I wanna keep any other annotations
towards the beginning or the middle of the video
so you'll type in your message
you have choice of
four different font sizes
the color of the text
and I would always just try to make it contrasting
it could be black or white but remember
to not use black text
on a black background or white on a white - so use any of these other contrasting
colors
that will make the annotation standout
then once you've done that
this is where you get the choice to link to
a video - one of your video playlists, that's also an excellent idea -
your YouTube channel - you can also link to your Google Plus profile -
get people to subscribe to your channel -
if you have a fundraising project -
or an associate website - and also merchandise
In this case we're gonna link to an Associated website
and just so you know the "Association" has to be set up
in your YouTube settings before you can use
your website link. In my case
I already have my blog "Basic Blog Tips" setup
as my associated website - Real quickly in order to get that associated
website
Just go into your channel settings under the
advanced tab
associated website's right here - You add in
your name of your website and then
you'll get success it will give you an option to
approve that. and once you've had
annotations in place on a few videos give it a few weeks
and then come over to your analytics go down to
annotations of course this is in beta and see how your annotations
are performing.
For ones that are doing well for you
like I mentioned before - the spotlight and the notes do well for me
so therefore I go back and I add more of those
but you just continue to test until you find out
the ones that are helping you reach your goals
that's it for today and I wanna see you succeed on YouTube
please subscribe to my channel and keep following me
for all these tips I have lots of them
on my website as well and I'll see you
in the next video