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How To Properly Upload Videos to YouTube Video Transcript

Derral Eves: Okay, I just had a request that someone was wondering how to upload a YouTube video. Now, many of you that are my subscribers or are watching this video probably are saying, "I've uploaded a ton of videos and I think this video is going to be pointless." But my question to you is, "Are you doing it right? Are your videos actually being found and watched?" If not, this video's for you. I will show you how to properly upload a video to YouTube plus I will show you what YouTube deems as important. Let's take a look.

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Derral Eves: Okay to upload that video, the first thing that you need to do is to sign into YouTube. Go up here and click on sign in and log in. Now that we're logged in, on every page right at the top, you're going to actually see an upload button here and all you need to do is click on the upload button. Now what it's going to bring you up is to this screen right here and you can either drag and drop your files here and it will start to upload. Or you can click on it. I'll go ahead and click on this and select your file here from your desktop or wherever you have it located. And now, what it is, it's going to basically bring in to this screen while it's uploading, this is where you need to put in all your information of how basically people are going to find you.

Now, the title is the most important thing. You want to do a lot of research on it. See what people are actually searching for. I'm going to go ahead and give this my title here. I've already done the prep work on it. Outside of the title, the next two sentences of your description are the most important thing. I'm going to go ahead and put the next two sentences in there and we'll make sure that it's done right. We have a call to action. That's something that most of you can improve on, I can tell you I've seen a lot of descriptions and a lot of your descriptions are weak. I'd spend a little bit more time with your descriptions there. You can go through your descriptions a little bit. Okay.

Another thing is tags. Tags are extremely important. You want to make sure that you use the tags properly. This is so important. You got do some research. I'll have a video actually coming out on tags and how to actually do tags. From this screen, I like to do a couple other things. Keep in the privacy setting. I like to keep it private for right now until I have all my tweaking done. You want to make sure you keep the same category. Always keep the same category. You want your channel to be an authority in a specific category.

There's another thing that you probably don't know that's on this screen. Right here. This add to, if you click down this you can actually add it to a playlist. If you don't know what a playlist is, I got a video coming out on that as well. So you can do that really quick. For monetization, you can add ads to this as well. I don't want to add ads to this one. You can add a video location, so we'll go ahead and put in my location. Utah. Okay. And recording date as of today.

Now a process is through and it actually picked up my thumbnail, so you can go ahead and select a thumbnail or if you have custom thumbnails enabled you can actually upload a custom thumbnail.

Okay. Last step. All you need to do is double check your work and change your privacy setting from private to public and hit save.

Okay, now I know some of you are probably wondering how long does it actually take to upload this YouTube video? Now it really depends on how big your video file size is and how fast your internet connection. It might be awhile to upload this video.

For me, what I do when I wait for my videos is I practice my magic tricks. Now check this out. Isn't that cool? That's awesome. Now for my latest trick, I hope I really have this down. It's a really cool trick. All you need to do is look at this YouTube logo on my shirt. You are getting sleepy. When I click my fingers, you're going to wake up and subscribe to my YouTube channel and watch all my YouTube videos.

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