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Add channel links and website URL

20-30 min Impact: medium Effort: low

Adding channel links and your website URL connects your YouTube presence to your real owned properties, giving engaged viewers a genuine path beyond the platform.

This closes the loop between your YouTube audience and your actual website and other real properties.

The full picture

Channel links and your website URL provide direct, explicit connection points from your YouTube presence back to your other genuinely owned properties, closing a real gap that otherwise leaves engaged viewers with no easy path to learn more about your business beyond your video content alone.

This connective work is easy to overlook precisely because it's simple, but its absence creates genuine, unnecessary friction — a viewer genuinely interested in learning more about your business after watching your content, but unable to easily find your website link, represents real lost opportunity from a gap requiring minimal effort to close.

Including genuinely relevant additional links beyond your primary website — social profiles or other real, relevant properties — extends this connective value further, though genuine relevance and restraint matter here, since an overwhelming list of links can dilute rather than clarify the clearest, most important path you want engaged viewers to follow.

This foundational connection, once genuinely established, requires minimal ongoing maintenance while continuously providing value to every viewer who explores your channel's About section looking for ways to learn more or connect with your business beyond the video content itself.

How to do it

  1. 1
    Add your real website URL
    In the channel's about section and customization links.
  2. 2
    Add other genuine relevant links
    Social profiles or other real properties worth connecting.

Common mistakes

How you'll know it's done

Real channel links and website URL are added to your channel.

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