how to link your associated website to your YouTube channel

1. YOUTUBE- ASSOCIATED
WEBSITE LINKING
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Ashik Appanna
Sahana S
Sushmitha N

2. What are YouTube cards?
• YouTube cards are the interactive cards you see in YouTube
videos (usually at the end) that let creators share clickable links
to relevant content throughout a video.
• To do this, you have to Associate Your Website (so that you
can’t just link out to any website… only to websites you own)
• You can add up to five cards to each video and you can use
cards in any video .

3. Why YouTube cards?
• Promote a related video content
• Promote your YouTube channel
• Sponsored cards
• Direct people to a verified off-site location like a specific landing
page(associated website linking)
• Ask viewers to donate to a US-based charity (only US-based creators
can do this at the moment)

5. Sponsored YouTube cards
• Sponsored cards display content that may be relevant to your
video, such as products featured/used in the video.
• Viewers will see a teaser for the card for a few seconds. They
can also click the icon in the top right corner of the video to
browse the cards.
• YouTube will automatically enable sponsored cards on all your
monetized videos. So once advertisers start to promote their
products via sponsored cards, you’ll start earning ad income.

6. Sponsored YouTube card's format

7. Why associated website linking?
• Associated Website can enhance your website marketing by
adding a link to your website.
• It enhances the search engine visibility of both the website and
your youtube channel when relevent keyword is searched by
the customer.

8. How to do associated website linking in
YouTube?
STEP1:
Go to your Video Manager by clicking your account icon > Creator Studio > Video
Manager.

9. STEP 2:
Scroll down to the Associated Website section. Under “Associated website,” select your
website’s URL from the Select site drop-down menu OR manually enter the website's url.
(If the URL is already linked to your google account, YouTube will automatically detect that you
have a valid website)

10. STEP 3:
In the "Associated website" section, enter your website's URL. It will show as
"pending," unless you've verified the site before. Under the URL box, click Verify if you
own the website or Request approval to have the website's owner approve it.

11. STEP 4:
To verify your ownership, download the HTML verification file then upload it to the
root directory of your website. To download the file, simply click on the blue link “this
HTML verification file“.

12. STEP 5:
Login to your website Cpanel then clicks on the File Manager

13. STEP 6:
Upload the HTML verification file on the Root directory of your website. To upload the
file, simply click on the Upload button at upper left-hand side. Choose the HTML
Verification File then open it. It will upload very soon. It may take around 2 or 3
seconds.

14. STEP 7:
You have Successfully linked your website to your YouTube channel if it shows the
status as success.