How To Create a YouTube Channel For Your Business
Creating your own Google Account will allow you to view videos and subscribe to channels. However, without a YouTube channel, you have no public presence on YouTube and it is this that can be key for businesses.
Even if you have a Google Account, you need to create a YouTube channel to upload videos, comment or make playlists. You can use a computer or the YouTube mobile site to create a new channel.
How To Create a Personal YouTube Channel
The instructions below will allow you to create a new YouTube channel that can be managed via your Google Account.
- Sign in to YouTube on a computer or using the mobile site.
- Try any action that requires a channel, such as uploading a video, posting a comment or creating a playlist.
- If you don’t yet have a channel, you’ll see a prompt to create a channel.
- Check the details (with your Google Account name and photo) and confirm to create your new channel.
How To Create a Channel With A Business or Alternative Name
You can connect your channel to a Brand Account if you want to use a different name on YouTube than your Google Account.
- Sign in to YouTube on a computer or the mobile site.
- Go to your channel list.
- Choose to create a new channel or use an existing Brand Account:
- Create a channel by clicking Create a new channel.
- Create a YouTube channel for a Brand Account that you already manage by choosing the Brand Account from the list. If this Brand Account already has a channel, you can’t create a new one. When you select the Brand Account from the list, you’ll be switched over to that channel.
- Fill in the details to name your new channel. Then, click Create. This will create a new Brand Account.
- To add a channel manager, follow the instructions to change channel owners and managers.
Learn more about using a channel with a business or other name on YouTube.
How To Link YouTube To a Branded Account
If you want to use a name or photo on YouTube that’s different from what you have for your Google Account, connect your channel to a Brand Account. You can do this to support your business or brand identity on YouTube without showing a connection with your personal Google Account.
- Your Google Account is an owner/manager of the Brand Account connected with the YouTube channel. This lets you access the YouTube channel from your Google Account.
- There’s no public association between your Google Account and the Brand Account, so viewers won’t see your name or email address (unless you publicly link them yourself).
- You can manage multiple channels from one Google Account. This helps if you have more than one YouTube channel.
- You can add other managers and owners to your Brand Account. You and any teammates or collaborators can manage the channel without having to share passwords.
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Don’t Forget These Key SEO Areas
Whilst there are lots of theories about the factors that Google uses to create its rankings, the truth is that no one truly knows absolutely every single, one. However, experience has taught us that a variety of techniques can help us to ensure that our clients get a push up the rankings.
Are You Overlooking These?
Below we have outlined a few aspects of web design and SEO which can often be overlooked but can play a critical in any SEO campaign.
These include but aren’t limited to:
- Is Your Website Using HTTPS?– Google confirmed that it uses HTTPS as a ranking factor. This can be important because any site that uses HTTPS will ensure that all users’ date is encrypted. Therefore improving both the safety and experience of the user.
- Addition of Fresh Content – It is commonly believed that Google loves the addition of fresh pages to a website. Don’t panic though, whilst it is always a good idea to keep your website fresh and up to date, old pages are very unlikely to be disregarded.
- Make Sure Your Website Has a Sitemap– Linking your website to a sitemap and then submitting it to Google will let Google know precisely which pages are on your website.
- Is Your Website The Hare or the Tortoise?– We live in an impatient world! If your website does not load quickly, there is every chance that users will head elsewhere. Google is widely believed to prioritise websites that load quickly, particularly with mobile searches.
- Keep URLs Short & Sweet– Whilst internet users can be impatient, so can Google! If your long-tail URL contains more than 5 words, Google may start to disregard it. Short and to the point is the order of the day!
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How To Give Admin Access To Your Google My Business Account
In a very similar fashion to Google Analytics properties, owners of Business Profiles can invite additional users to become owners and managers. Each person can have their own access without sharing sign-in information. Owners and managers have different levels of access to the profile.
- Only owners can add or remove users.
- Managers can remove themselves from a profile.
- Google Groups can’t be added as managers or owners.
- Only the primary owner can transfer primary ownership.
Add owners & managers
- On your Android phone or tablet, open the Google My Business app.
- If you have multiple locations, open the location that you’d like to manage.
- Tap Menu
Manage users. - In the top right, tap Add user .
- Enter the name or email address of the user that you’d like to add.
Note: To add an agency to your location, you need to add the agency’s location group ID here. (You may need to contact the agency and ask for this ID.) - To select the user’s role, choose Owner or Manager.
- Confirm the email address, then tap Send.
.This page displays all active users, as well as people who are invited to become users. To cancel pending invitations, next to the invitation that you want to remove, tap More 
Remove 
.
When an invitation is accepted, the owners of the profile are notified by email. All users in the account can view the names and email addresses of the owners and managers of the profile.
Tip: If you want to transfer ownership of your profile to someone else, you can learn how to transfer ownership of a profile.
Remove owners and managers
- On your Android phone or tablet, open the Google My Business app.
- If you have multiple locations, open the location that you’d like to manage.
- On the left, tap Users.
- Next to the person that you’d like to remove, tap More Remove .
When a user is removed, they’re notified by email.They will no longer be able to edit business information or take any administrative actions for the profile. But all their past responses to reviews, posts, comments and other actions will remain.
