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Hi, If you've enabled external annotations on your YouTube channel, but still don't see
them on the annotations dropdown, stay tuned and I'll help you try and solve this problem.
Hi there, David Walsh here again, from DavidWalshOnLine.com and in this video I'm going to try and help
you get those external annotations on your videos even if you've enabled them on your
YouTube channel. I've been getting a lot of questions recently,
from YouTubers who have enabled external annotations on their channel but still can't find it on
the annotations dropdown. One person in particular, is Karen Skeel and
she asks "I've the green button denoting that my associated website is a success in my advanced
settings. However, there is no option in the annotations to add an associated website.
Do you know why this might be." Well Karen, this seems to be a common problem
with many people who have set up their associated website and enabled external annotations.
In my experience, the main reason why your external annotations isn't showing up in the
dropdown, is because the big blue button wasn't clicked at the top of the page when you set
up your associated website. Now, what I found, is that every time I go
into a video to add annotations, if I haven't clicked it, that the button won't show up
until I have. So, that's what you can do, is go into a video set up annotations and
it should appear at the top. Now, if you have clicked the button, all you
need to do is to go out of that particular video and then go back into it and then external
annotations should be available on the dropdown. That's what I found when I set up external
annotations on my own channels. So, make sure to click the blue button at
the top of your page when you set up your associated website and also, just click out
and go back into that particular video once you have that blue button clicked.
Now, if you have a question about this or about any topic on YouTube, feel free to just
stick it in the comments bellow and I'll do what I can to help you get that problem solved.
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Again, I am David Walsh and I thank you for watching this video and I really look forward
to seeing you on another one, very soon.