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Effective Youtube Descriptions

Posted21 June 2020
Updated9 March 2021

Here is the help page for Youtube video descriptions: https://creatoracademy.youtube.com/page/lesson/descriptions#strategies-zippy-link-1

Here is a Monks in the Morning video with minimal description:

Note:

  • Links are not clickable
  • No timestamps
  • No link to the podcast episode website.

To get links to be clickable you must put https:// at the beginning. It’s ugly, but that is the only way they work.

Here is a more complete description. First with “Show More”:

Even with this, it has the link to the episode on the webpage and one timestamp. Here is the whole description:

It takes a little more time, but please:

  • Put our emoji in the title ? (type WinKey + ; and type sunrise to get it)
  • Put the link to the episode page at the top
  • Next put the Contents and Reading (times will be automatically turned into links)
  • If there are links, please paste the full URL
  • Then paste the description text, including the contact info
  • Add https:// to the links in the contact info.
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