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Nifty YouTube Marketing Tip: Secret URL for Automatic Channel-Subscription

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Nifty YouTube Marketing Tip: Secret URL for Automatic Channel Subscription

I'm not sure if you have made WillVideoForFood a daily read yet or not, but if you haven't then you're missing out.  Amongst the great marketing and video creation advice and the fun viral clips Nalts posts are some really great tips and nuggets that you just don't find anywhere else.  Case in point:  Nalts has discovered a secret URL format that lets people who click - automatically become subscribers of your YouTube channel.  Whoa.

So rather than linking to your Channel and hoping people click "Subscribe" when they get there—or even making their Channel link into a button that says Subscribe Please, which is all the rage lately—content creators can use the link Nalts found to speed up the process and allow for automated subscriptions.  Here's the link:

Automatic YouTube Channel Subscription Link

Here is how it works - Use the following URL convention - http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=nalts

Just replace "nalts" with your own username and you're done.  For example, click here for ReelSEO's YouTube channel ;-)

Any users who are logged into YouTube already need only to click that link and then confirm the subscription and they'll be added.  Sweet!

Man, I don't know how Nalts found this, or how much time he spent looking for it, but it's totally worth it.  Subscriptions are more important than ever now that YouTube has removed the Home Page Spotlight moderators and replaced them with an algorithm.  The algorithm measures how fast your subscriptions are rising, and if they're rising fast enough, you'll be considered for front-page feature status.

And whenever you can remove extra clicks between your target audience and your eventual conversion action, you will almost always see conversions rise.  So everyone… get out there and start using this link… and then come back here and let us know how it impacted your subscription rate.  Great find, Nalts!

Posted in Youtube Marketing
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  • http://www.learningdslrvideo.com/ Dugdale

    OK, that is pretty cool, I need to try that on my videos.

  • http://www.VideoLeadsOnline.com/ Ronnie Bincer

    I have found that adding the YouTube subscription widget to my site has really helped increase my subscription rate.

    It is a little piece of code you can add to your site so readers can sub to your channel without leaving your site. See it in action at www.usemydroid.com

    • http://www.reelseo.com/ Mark Robertson

      That is a great point and we should have mentioned it..... People can find do this with the following code:

  • http://twitter.com/nalts Kevin Nalts Nalty

    Yeyyyy Jeremy! Yeyyyy ReelSEO. Yeyyyy Mark.

  • iMPACT

    i dont get it

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000311661555 Jason Levin

    Thank you so much!

  • http://www.youtube.com/MassMostHaunted MassMostHaunted

    Yes, the link works, but it takes you to a confirmation page... I found a link once before that just automatically subscribes you without this confirmation page, but now I cannot find it... and it figures too since I just made Partner on YouTube for my paranormal channel and want to link the banners on my channel page... I guess this will have to do for now until I can find the other link....

    Mass Most Haunted
    YouTube Paranormal Partner
    http://www.youtube.com/MassMostHaunted

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