I want to talk about a simple YouTube channel link hack to gain subscribers. First off I call this a hack because that just gives the procedure a little more pizzazz. To be clear this is not a nefarious hack. Some of you may already know this and I share it because I am surprised by how many do not. For me, it was a Hallelujah moment.
The most challenging and important step to building your series is getting people to subscribe. If you are like me whenever you post on social media or release content you make sure to include a call to action. You simply say, “please subscribe” or you get inventive, “please subscribe, just click that link down there”. For me, it felt like it was undermining my posts. I’d have all this fun or interesting information and lose a lot of people at the end with my “please subscribe”. But you have to do it.
With blogs and websites, the email pop up as soon as you navigate to the site is a great solution to this. Wouldn’t that be great if you could do that with your youtube channel? You can! Its very simple, here’s how. Full disclosure I am using my sites as examples.
• Go to the Home Page of your YouTube Channel. We are going to add some simple code to the URL to create a link.
•Yours will look something like this, either a bunch of random numbers and letters or your custom channel name.
My Create sci-fi youtube channel is random it looks like this:
My Galactic Galaxy web series is a custom one it looks like this:
* If you have a custom URL that you made before Google plus was released it will still work yours will just say /user/ instead of /c/
•What we are going to do is copy the link from the browser and paste it into a text editing document, office, text edit, google docs, notepad… any text app will work.
•Copy the link from the browser, this is mine yours will be different :
•Add this text to the end :
It will look like this:
Here is a before and after.
Before:
Please check out my channel Create SciFi
After:
Please check out my channel Create SciFi
That is it. Now when you tell people to click on the link for your channel you won’t have to add a “please hit the subscribe button”. I hope you found this simple hack useful. Please subscribe to my Video Channel for some more filmmaking giddy-up.
