How To Make A Link In Youtube Comment

YouTube comments is 1 of the most important "existent estates" in the YouTube ecosystem.

You tin:

add together links in the comments - either to your videos or chapter links
link your other videos and/or channels
add timestamps
pin comments, etc

Let's swoop into how to utilise links in YouTube comments for the best aims of your YouTube channel.

Information technology is allowed to add together links in YouTube comments. You can add together links either nether your ain videos or in videos from other channels.

To add together a link just enter your website in the comment - https://onlinehikes.com or just onlinehikes.com (without www or http). And YouTube volition automatically transform it to a clickable link.

If you added a link under your own video, you can pin it to the top of comments.

Click on 3 dots in the correct, click Pivot.

And your link will appear above all other comments.

You tin post all types of links in the comments (AFAIK):

to other websites
short links (eastward.1000. bit.ly)
chapter links
links to other YouTube channels or videos, etc

Also, recently YouTube rolled out a feature that changes the text of links to YouTube videos. When yous link to another YouTube video now, the link URL is automatically replaced with the target video's title .

For case, the original comment:

This music: https://world wide web.youtube.com/watch?v=R9yLJoD2hz8

becomes this automatically:

This music: A piece of magicmix

Recently, YouTube introduced a safety characteristic targeting comments with external links.

YouTube has added a characteristic that double-checks with users if they click on an external link shared in a annotate.

And then, now when users click on a link in YouTube annotate, they'll starting time run across a popup asking them to consider if the link is trustworthy, and if they're sure they want to follow it off YouTube.

This feature does not apply to any links shared by YouTube creators on their own channels. Links to your podcast, your videos, merch shop etc - will be without popup.

If you run a YouTube channel and are annoyed with many spam comments with links there is a solution. You tin block all comments with links on YouTube.

Go to studio.youtube.com (on desktop)

Become to Settings -> Community
Gyre downwards and bank check to block links.

If yous select this pick, new comments with hashtags and URLs volition exist held for review. Alive chat letters with URLs will be blocked. This setting doesn't use to you, moderators, or approved users.