10 of the Most Overlooked YouTube Settings for Beginners (Fix These Today!)

Kevin Whitsitt

10 of the Most Overlooked YouTube Settings for Beginners can make or break your channel's growth!   In this video, I’ll walk you through the 10 of the most overlooked YouTube settings that beginners often skip—settings that could be hurting your visibility, monetization, or engagement.  Whether you're just starting out or want to fine-tune your channel for better results, this guide will help you optimize like a pro.   Default upload settings to permissions—these small tweaks can lead to major improvements. Don’t miss these crucial YouTube tips every beginner should know!  ➡️ Learn how to:  Boost discoverability with the right default settings  Avoid common algorithm mistakes  Optimize your upload defaults, permissions, and more  Set up your channel for long-term success  🎯 Perfect for: New creators, small YouTubers, vloggers, and anyone looking to grow fast.  Click on the link below to discover how to make "a lot" of money with YouTube regardless of subscribers, even as a small channel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L27bVxjkxEM&t=412s  #YouTubeTips #SmallYouTuber #BeginnerYouTuber #YouTubeGrowth #CreatorHelp

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00:00If you're a new YouTuber, there's a very good chance you're skipping on these settings and

00:05it's hurting your growth, okay? Now YouTube is primarily made for people, right? You're making

00:11videos for people. However, YouTube's a machine, it's an algorithm, you know, so you also have to

00:15make videos for the machine as well and I like to think of like dummy proofing it and that's the

00:21SEO, the search engine optimization. So that way your videos get found, more people watch them,

00:26what you want to do, right? All right, so the main thing is your YouTube channel keywords, okay?

00:34And if you go to your studio and then settings and then you go to channel, basic info right here,

00:43these are your keywords. You don't want this to be blank. You want the keywords to best describe

00:48your channel or whatever niche you're into, okay? And if you're completely lost on what to put in here,

00:54I recommend you going over to chat GPT and then you type in, hey, give me, you know, 50 keywords

01:04about this channel and then put the topic of your channel in there and this AI will give you a whole

01:12bunch of ideas you can plug in there. So that's a, you know, chat GPT is amazing. Look at this. I'm

01:16having it come up with all these cool ideas for this title, this video I'm making right now. It's so

01:21helpful. Okay, so that's the main thing, okay? Next up is you want to customize your channel

01:27homepage and feature section, okay? Because for a long time I made the major mistake of thinking of

01:35YouTube as like blogging. It's all about keywords and, you know, you go out for keywords that have

01:40not a lot of competition and get a lot of traffic and that's part of it. However, what's interesting

01:45about YouTube is your videos can get found in a lot of other places like suggested views,

01:52your channel homepage, external websites, the browse features. So it's not as black and white

01:58as blogging. That's a good one, right? Ha ha. Ha ha. So anyways, so you want your homepage to look

02:07pretty good, okay? And mine is not perfect at all. I'm not saying it is. There's ways you can organize

02:13it. But the main thing is, is your channel description. And what I did is I kind of had

02:20chat GPT kind of help me with the description of what it is about, explain the channel. But at the

02:26end, I talk about a website that I have and the landing page. And I talk about the free gift that I'm

02:34giving away. And you can see here there's a link. So that's very important. So, and I also put the link to

02:41my landing page in my YouTube channel intro to get people off of YouTube and make money, okay?

02:49And, you know, it's, you can do better than me. These are my shorts, my videos, stuff like this. You

02:55can have playlists and categories and you can organize it much more than that. But that's something that

03:01you want to think about. But the main thing is you want to have a link to preferably a landing page

03:08on your profile. All right. Next up, you want to change your default upload settings in YouTube,

03:14okay? And this is a really cool nifty trick. And what you want to do is you want to go to channel,

03:20upload defaults. And then down here, every time you upload a video, these are automatically filled

03:27out. So you don't have to waste your time figuring out tags that are automatically in there. So it makes

03:33your job so much easier. And again, I recommend ChatGPT to come up with all these tags. And you

03:39can go even farther than me. You can see, you can even have a description already filled out

03:44with a call to action and stuff like that if you want to do that. But these tags will definitely save

03:50you some time. It's just going to stick the same tags in there over and over again. So that's a cool

03:54little tip. And I actually learned that recently from a class I went to about YouTube. All right.

03:59Next up is the advanced settings and how not to get in trouble with YouTube. And what you do is if you

04:05go down to channel and right here and you go to advanced settings, there's some options that you want

04:12to put in there. Like, no, this channel is not made for kids. And if it is made for kids, then that's a

04:17completely different topic. But what you also want to come down here is make sure this thing is clicked.

04:22This says automatic captions. Don't show inappropriate words. That way you don't get in trouble

04:28with YouTube. We're not actually showing bad words that can hurt your visibility with people. So

04:34that's a nice, that's a really cool tip there that could be hurt, uh, preventing your videos from

04:38being shown to more people. Okay. Uh, also clips, allow viewers to clip my content. This is amazing.

04:44Just like TikTok, you know, I recommend like this. Well, even with TikTok is have people stitch your

04:50videos, you know, make and all that stuff, just like with YouTube. So if you're going to get seen

04:56more, that's, that's a good thing. Okay. All right. Uh, well, next. Oh, uh, how to choose a video

05:03category for your videos and your channel. Uh, this is also a very important one as well because usually

05:08it's, it's people and blogs. That's the default one. And each video you can do that. You can change

05:15the category and what it's listed to, but you can also do it for your entire channel, which is one of the

05:20first things you want to do. So you go to upload default, defaults in advanced settings, right?

05:26And advanced settings. And this category right here is what you want to change. So the default

05:31is, uh, what is it? People and blogs. And that's pretty broad. So you want to dummy proof the machine

05:37so it gets seen to the right people and you could choose a category, you know, comedy, autos,

05:43entertainment, you know, whatever I chose education, but choose the category that the best fits your

05:49channel. So that way it's more targeted and the right people will see your videos. And that's

05:53another really cool tip. Um, all right. Next up is your channel branding on for your YouTube. Okay.

06:00And this has to do with your, uh, your dashboard and get out of here real quick and show you kind of

06:10mine. Where's it at? Well, anyways,

06:21I got lost on YouTube. I'm going to go back. Okay. So it's kind of like with this, uh, now there's the

06:30main thing that I kind of buy into is a picture of your face. Um, some people disagree and they

06:35can put a picture of your image, but people, we humans are drawn to people's faces. Okay.

06:41And it works with LinkedIn. You want a picture of your face. It makes you look more credible,

06:45not so sketchy and shady. Right. So I buy into that. And I think it's a good idea to put a picture

06:49of your face. And if you don't, you don't want to, you don't have to, you can put anything you want

06:53there. Um, but that's has to do with your branding and for your, this also has to do with up here as

07:00well. Like your, so what do you call that? I have no idea. I'm not a playful words, but what I did

07:09was I used Canva and I just put some words up there, uh, for your banner. That's what it's called

07:13banner, YouTube banner. And you can put anything you want there. And there's even templates in Canva

07:19that you can actually go with. And I can even just do it real quick for you. It's so fast. Canva is

07:24great. It's free, completely free. And you can kind of go over here. It's a free account.

07:30As soon as this thing loads, um, and they'll walk you through how to create a YouTube, uh,

07:36banner. Um, so yeah, you can search for YouTube banner here.

07:44And then boom, YouTube banner, you have a whole bunch of really cool templates that you can

07:49just, you just, you, you pick it up. You can stick your, like her, you picture, you can

07:53put your picture in there and use that. And, and it just plug and play. It's very, very

07:58simple. Okay. Um, so talking about your branding, right? And yeah, I mean, just your, your, you know,

08:07you can even put a watermark on your videos. I don't do this, but you can do that. And you can

08:11make it more brandable. So people recognize your videos and come back to them, I guess.

08:15I don't really do it because I don't think it's, you could, if you wanted to. All right. Oh,

08:20another thing too, is you can get a custom URL when eligible. So the cool thing about YouTube is when

08:25you pick a channel name, it's not creative at all. You can change it. Unlike some platforms

08:30like Fiverr or Reddit with Fiverr, if you, you pick a username, you have to, you can't change it

08:35with YouTube. You can, you can even, so, but here's the cool thing is when you have a hundred

08:40subscribers and the account must be at least 30 days old, you can have a custom URL. Yeah. So

08:47your channel can be youtube.com and then whatever you want to be. And the cool thing is, is you can

08:52change that. So it doesn't have to be a bunch of stupid letters and crap. Um, and this is really

08:56cool for, uh, make sure your video look more, your channel look more legit. It's easier to share.

09:00It's more brandable. Just looks better too. Um, so some people don't know that you can have this

09:07custom URL and then, yeah, your, your change or custom upload defaults in YouTube. Okay.

09:13So what you want to do is you don't want to go to settings. You want to go to upload defaults.

09:17And I choose mine public and, uh, but I've seen some creators say, don't do it, make it,

09:23uh, what do you call it? Like unlisted. That way you can go back and you could tweak with a thumbnail

09:28and your description. I don't recommend that, but here's why it, I'll give you a story. It reminds

09:34me of when I go surfing and I put my keys in my shoe and I hide it. And then when I'm done,

09:40I can't find my shoe. So it's kind of like if you put it on unlisted and you forget about it,

09:46nobody's going to watch the videos and you're going to be like, what the heck is going on?

09:49So I always put mine to public. So I know it's out there, but the cool thing is this,

09:55once you post a video, you can go back and change the thumbnails. You could change the description,

10:00but you don't want to forget about not posting and making it live. So that's my,

10:04that's my, you know, two cents, but you know, anyways, but you could change the default uploads.

10:09Um, if you want to, um, and there's also a really cool thing about permissions as well.

10:16Under here in permissions, you could, you can grant other people access to certain parts of your

10:22channel once your channel grows a lot. For example, you can hire people do editing if you want,

10:27and then you can give them permission to post it and stuff. Um, it's just very similar to WordPress.

10:32WordPress, like a blog does the same exact thing. Um, but anyways, so there's some of the,

10:37the settings, uh, that, you know, some people miss about when they create a YouTube channel and

10:41some of these settings I missed for a very, very long time. Hopefully this was helpful. And if you

10:46want more, um, I actually created a video on how to get the most, how to make the most amount of money

10:51with YouTube, even for a small channel. You don't even, uh, need to have ads to make really good

10:57money with YouTube. If you know what you're doing on the backend. Okay. That way, even if you don't

11:03get a lot of views, you're, you still make a lot of money. And I have a video dedicated on how to do

11:07this. And it's really cool. And it works guys. It really does. And if you want to check this video

11:12out, just click somewhere in this video, I'll put the link and I'll put it down in the description as

11:16well. You click on, it's a short video explains it. Hopefully it was helpful. All right. You have a

11:21wonderful rest of your day. Bye.

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