How To Make YouTube Videos Clickable

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You probably know that making videos is the way to go these days. You may have even come across a few videos with clickable links and wondered, “Gee, how did they make YouTube videos clickable like that?”

Wonder no more, I’m gonna ‘splain it to you Lucy!

While you are creating your video using what ever video software you use. (I use windows movie maker and audacity – two free programs, though the choice is pretty broad when it comes to making videos) We aren’t going to get into the actual way to make a video, but if you have joined SunFrog Shirts as an affiliate and gone through their school, you will see that they have an interesting way of making videos from existing videos.

In the demo video they make at the end is a tee shirt slide. They really missed the boat, in my opinion, by not showing you how to make the link IN THE VIDEO clickable.

There are a couple of steps to make YouTube videos clickable.

First you need to have your own wordpress site that is verified with your YouTube account.
Next you need to install a plugin called “PrettyLink” – the light version is just fine. (read that free)
Step three is to make a pretty link to your offer, in this case we are going to do a tee shirt collection. I have a collection for dog lovers the SunFrog link is https://www.sunfrog.com/Jill/Pampered-Puppy-Boutique my pretty link is http://jillehart.com/dogtees. See how the pretty link looks like it is a page from my WordPress site? This is important because YouTube looks at it that way too.
Step Four is to have some places in your video or slides that you can make “clickable”. Here is a picture of the slide I added to the video I’m using for this demo:

See the yellow spot that says click here? That will get you to the collection. It works the say way in this video:

I love the dog tease video. I downloaded a copy of it using Vdownloader (also free) then I plopped it into window movie maker, added a slide (read that picture) for the intro and added the last side (pictured above) and then cut part of the end of the video that I downloaded off (because it had other advertising on it).

Youtube does recognize this a a copyrighted piece and adds advertising to the video that goes to the producer of the video. So you shouldn’t feel guilty about doing this, it actually helps the maker make money.

Once you have the video all uploaded to YouTube then you will want to go add an annotation to the video. I use spotlight or label. Move the little box over where you want to make your YouTube video clickable and then add your link from pretty link.

[yellowbox]A word of caution: Don’t do this with amazon products. Amazon does not like it when you cloak their links. You could however make pretty links to a webpage that has Amazon buy buttons on it so that it is very clear that you are sending them to Amazon.[/yellowbox]

That is it. All there is to the magic of how to make YouTube videos Clickable. You might want to check out the post I did on What The Heck Are ICards to further enhance your video marketing fun.

Don’t forget to check out what James Knight has to say about creating videos…