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Hi This video is about YouTube exernal links in annotations
How to link your video to an external website Herman Drost DrostDesigns.com
Do you want to redirect visitors from your YouTube video to an external website?
If you don't want to lose viewers after they've watched your video you need to add "associated
website annotations." These are links that you can add to any YouTube
video you've uploaded. Here are the steps to get started
First make sure that you have YouTube partner status.
You check this by logging into your YouTube account go to video manager, channel settings
and you can see here that I'm already a YouTube partner and I have been verified
If you don't have YouTube partner status then visit the video at the end of this video
Now to verify your account I've swtiched to a different account which hasn't been verified
and I'm going to click verify and then it says here checked "call me with
an automated voice message" so you enter your phone number here and then click "submit"
Next you've got to add your website as an associate website in webmaster tools
this confirms that you own the site before you link to it in your YouTube account
So you login to webmaster tools Click "add a site" then put in your URL
Click continue then follow the steps that's shown on the page
Now go to your advanced settings and scroll down to associated website and enter the URL
that you added to webmaster tools After you've done that you'll see the success
sign If this is the first time you're using external
annotations, at the top of the menu you'll see a banner that says "Enable your account
for external annotation links." Click the Enable button and accept the Terms
and Conditions. Now you can add external website annotations
to your video To do this go to your video manager and then
select one of the videos you want to put annotations to and click this drop down box
select annotations so you click "add annotation" in this case we'll do a note then add your
text "click here for more info" As you can see you've got your annotation
there you can also stretch it out then you can click the link here
you can add a video or any of these but we're going to "associated website" so here we're
going to put in our website that we want to link it to
then after you've done that click "publish" To check that it is actually working go back
to your video manager click on the video and you can see here it goes right directly to
your particular blog post. And now I'd like to invite you to subscribe
to my free ecourse "21 ways to generate free traffic from YouTube
Click the box above or visit the link in the description below this video
Thanks for watching