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How to Upload Videos to YouTube
Hey everyone in today's YouTube video, I want to show you how to upload videos to YouTube and I want to show you how to do it the right way. So it could actually get found in search on YouTube and on Google and it doesn't matter if you've never uploaded a video to YouTube. I'll walk you through it step-by-step.
Now, this video is going to happen on the computer. So we'll upload using youtube.com. But you can upload using the mobile app too and I have a separate video about that, that put in the description right below this video. You could click and watch that after this video, and I've uploaded nearly a thousand videos on this channel and hundreds of those videos ranked number one on YouTube for the search term and also on Google.
So I'm going to show you everything I do in the upload process talking about the title, talking about description keywords. All the different tools I use. I'll put all those resources in the description as we go through it and if you don't have a YouTube channel just yet watched a video on how to create a YouTube channel, you as a user of YouTube, you need a YouTube channel before you could upload a video.
So that's the very first step. If you've never made a channel, it's really easy, you could do a right on youtube.com with a Google Gmail account that you could sign up on google.com as well. Let's jump on the computer here and properly upload a YouTube video. So the first thing you want to do is you want to go to youtube.com and sign in to your channel.
That will be over here. I've already signed in, and if you don't have a channel, you will see an option here to add a channel it's pretty straightforward, but you do need a Google account and if you don't have one, YouTube is going to walk you through creating a YouTube account first. To create a YouTube account and Google accounts make a channel and now we're going to upload our video. To do that. I'm going to press the create option right here and I'm going to press add a video. You won't have this too buddy icon here. I'll explain this in a second. Let's go ahead and upload our video and here you could drag a video and drop it right here from your computer, or you could select the file.
I'll select my file. And here's my file. I have it on a hard drive here. You could have it anywhere on your computer. Just double click and select it and let's go, step-by-step on what you actually have to fill out here. The title is required. In my case, he pulled the title from my video file. So my video file was already labeled this, but I don't have to keep it.
I could press delete and type on my own title, but this is required. That's why it pulls it from the file name of however you save that video file and you have up to a hundred characters here. I recommended. Going from as many characters as you like up to 70 and no longer because it will look correct on mobile.
So's the first step is your title. Also below this video, I do have a full checklist to walk you through step-by-step on every single item and how to do it correctly, to rank these videos in search, and get a lot more views on YouTube. So download that free checklist. So you could walk through this process every time you upload a video.
Next, we'll talk about our description. Now you have 5,000 characters over here, and if you see this green icon, I installed Grammarly, which is a free plugin. Again, this is one of the resources in the description below this video and this basically does a spell check and grammar check for you. So your description is properly formatted for grammar and spelling and I'm going to just paste mine here and you could see pooled a lot of different issues with it, with Grammarly, so I'm going to go ahead and fix those just by clicking on each one. That's the Grammarly plugin. That is not part of YouTube. So we took care of that next or going to upload a thumbnail. Now I have different videos on creating a thumbnail, but just to show you an example, here's the thumbnail for the video that we are going to author right now and I created this in a program called Photoshop. So, if you want to learn how to do that, watch the video on how to create effective thumbnails in Photoshop and you could get a free trial link that I have below to Photoshop too. So you can make your first thumbnail. So let me go ahead and upload that and the video this whole time, time is uploading. So you could see the progress bar up here. It says 84% uploaded and how much time is left and as you wait longer and longer if you have a high, higher resolution video like HD or 4k is going to start. Processing those over here. Let's keep going. Next. You have a playlist.
So I typically click this and press new playlist here and add it to a playlist. If I have a playlist already here, I would select that as you could see, I make a lot of videos. So I already have a lot of playlists and I could add this to one of those and I could search on top here. I'll add it to the website playlist here.
Let's keep going. This is very important because is your video made for kids or not? This is a recent update from YouTube, but you have to tell you too, if your video is made for kids or not made for kids. If it's made for kids and adults, you still have to say made for kids. This is specifically not made for kids.
So I'm going to say no and you also have an advanced option of age restriction, which I usually leave on. No, you don't have to be 18 to watch it. So that's an option you have here. Then this is very important because under more options you have a whole bunch of different options. That we're going to talk about right now.
Do you have a paid promotion on your video? You know, you typically don't have to worry about this, but if someone's paying you to talk about their product, you do have to check the sun and it just gives a little disclaimer on your video. Now, this is very important. A lot of people skip the section, but it's called tags and you have to tag your video if you want it to rank in search.
So this is very useful, but it's hard to know what tanks to use. That's why I recommend this YouTube plugin called Tube Buddy. As you could see it analyzed my video and told me what tags to use. All I have to do now, come down here and press the plus next to those tags and I have the premium version.
There's a free version that gives you three or four tags. I have the paid version that gives me all these tags, but if you're gonna use YouTube time on trying to get more subscribers and views and even make money on YouTube, it's really a must-have tool is the paid version of Tube Buddy. I have a link in the description that they gave me that you could use to get Tube Buddy.
So I'm going to go ahead and add all the different ones that I want over here and again, you have up to 500 characters in this box and I fill out just about 400 of those in each video that I make. You can click here and type your own here as well and Tube Buddy also gives you what's called a keyword Explorer.
So you could select this box type in the keyword and then press explore and get some options over here and you could select any of these and add them as well and he also tells you. While your chances are for ranking for that keyword on YouTube. So that's Tube Buddy. Let me keep going. Then you could have your language settings, which I usually have it set to English here.
These, I usually leave alone, but just so you could get an idea, this is what I have going on. I let people embed these. I have a category selected already, and I usually hold potentially inappropriate comments. Because I don't want that to show up on my channel and you could deactivate likes and dislikes.
I usually leave this on as well. Now you could see HD is processing, but the standard version is ready. So I could technically publish this video right now. If I want it to in standard definition, let's go ahead and press next. Now on a new channel, you won't have this page because you can monetize just yet to monetize on YouTube.
You have to join the partner's program, which requires 4,000 hours of watch time and 1000 subscribers on any channel. So I have this already, so I'm going to go ahead and turn it off for my channel and decide where toads go. I'm going to go to next, add suitability. You may not have this as well. This took me some time to get, but I could decide if any of my content is going to have any of these categories, like adult content violence, shocking content, or on the bottom.
I could say none of these and this is self-certification here. Again. This takes a little while to get if you have it on your channel. So typically you go from detail all the way to video element and you'll skip these two. If you're not monetized yet, so I'll press next. Here is called an end screen and cards.
I typically add end screens and sometimes I add cards, but let me show you to add end screen. You could just press add here and you have all these different templates of what they look like, but basically what end screens are or around the 22nd Mark at the end of your video. These will pop up to recommend people, watch similar videos on your channel, to what they're watching right now.
It's a great way to keep people on your channel here. So I recommend you add those. I have a different in-screen video as well, and there's a subscription icon here too, but you have different end screens you could choose from and go ahead and press save. I do usually just apply-templates using the Tube Buddy plugin.
Again, if you don't have to buddy, you won't see this option. But just about everything I do in uploading videos to YouTube, I just use Tube Buddy to make it easier. Same thing with adding cards. You could add cards no up on this corner here, and then you could promote other videos or your channel over there.
Go ahead and press next to go to the final page and here you could publish your video right now. That's if you go to the public and just press publish it, we'll publish the video and people could see it. But typically if you monetize your videos, it's recommended you leave it unlisted and I always leave it on, on listed on any channel because I want the HD version of it to process.
You could see down here, HD still processing. I don't want people to watch the standard definition. It doesn't look great. So you could do that or you could press schedule down here for a later schedule, keeping a private, makes it only available to use. So no, one's going to be able to see that. The members-only, you won't have that.
I have the membership access turned on on this channel. So that's why I have that and if you go to the public, you also have set as the instant premiere. You could actually watch the instant premier with your subscribers and respond to comments. In real-time. I do this one from time to time, but typically you would leave it on unlisted and then go back and turn it to the public.
Or if you just want to post your video right now, just put it on public and then press publish. I'll just publish as unlisted here and all your uploads are going to show up under your videos tab. This is called YouTube creator studio. All your videos when they were published are all going to IPO over here.
Anytime you could just come back to this page and check this and then turn it to public and press publish and the video will be live on YouTube. If you made any mistakes, there's a couple of options here. Again, the Tube Buddies tab is available. If you want to use that, or you could press the three dots here and edit your title and description, or go ahead and view this on YouTube to make sure everything's okay before you go live and this lets you delete it and download it for safekeeping outside of YouTube as well.
But with my checklist and with Tube Buddy, this process becomes a lot easier if you're uploading videos to YouTube more than just this one time. Thanks so much for watching this video again, make sure you check out all the resources. As we talked about that are below in the description of this video to make you successful on YouTube, including the checklist that walks you through step by step on properly, uploading a video to YouTube.
Thanks again for watching and I'll see you next time.