EMBED LINKS IN YOUTUBE VIDEOS USING THE ANNOTATION FEATURE
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You can now
insert live hyperlinks to any of your external websites inside YouTube videos
with the help of video annotations.
Some good news
for YouTube publishers. You can now embed links in your YouTube videos using the
annotations feature of YouTube. These hyperlinks may either point to your
website’s homepage or to any other internal webpage of a site that is associated
with your YouTube account or channel.
Thus, if your
YouTube video explains how to blogging, you can insert an annotation linking to
your blog post where the steps are described in greater detail. Or if your
video contains a news footage, the annotation may point to the text version of
the new story hosted on your own website.
How to Add Links in your YouTube Videos
Before you can
embed links in your YouTube videos, you need to associate your websites with
your YouTube channel (in case you haven’t done it before).
Sign-in to your
Google Webmasters account and click the site name that you would like to
associate with YouTube. Then go to Configuration -> Associates -> Add New
User and enter the email address that is associate with your YouTube channel.
Now your website is linked to your YouTube account.
Link your
website(s) with your YouTube channel.
Next, go to
youtube.com/verify and associate your phone number with your YouTube channel.
Phone verification is essential for YouTube to enable extra features in your
account which includes videos URL annotations and the ability to upload videos
of unlimited length to YouTube.
Related: Add Logos to your YouTube Videos
Once the account
is verified, open any of YouTube videos and click the “Annotations” link to
create and edit annotations for that video. Here you’ll see a banner that says
“Enable your account for external annotation links” – click the “Enable” button
and you are all set to create annotations to external websites now.
While you are
inside the Annotations edition, click the Add annotation button to create a new
annotation and choose between Speech Bubbles, Notes, Spotlight or Label. Select
the “Link” checkbox, choose “Associated Website” from the drop-down and paste
the URL. Publish and you’re done.
One more thing.
While you can place annotations anywhere in the video player, it may be a good
idea to avoid the lower third as the area is often used to display ads.
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