Manage Advanced Channel Settings

If you’re the channel’s manager, you can associate your official website with the YouTube Channel. This lets you incorporate signals from your website’s page rank on www.google.com into YouTube’s search algorithm.

To associate a website with your YouTube channel:

1. Enter the URL in the Associated website field.
2. Click Add.
3. Confirm the association in Google Search Console by following the instructions on how to choose a verification method.

You can have the shortened version of your custom URL redirect your audience to another channel. Just put the URL you’d like to have your shortened URL redirect to in the Redirect URL field.

For example, if your URL is www.youtube.com/c/YouTubeCreators, you can have your shortened URL (www.youtube.com/YouTubeCreators) send viewers to the YouTube Nation channel by enteringwww.youtube.com/user/youtubenation or www.youtube.com/channel/UCUD4yDVyM54QpfqGJX4S7ngin the Redirect URL field.

You can redirect people who are visiting your channel to another channel based on their language, location, age, or gender.

Important: Conditional redirects are only available to partners and advertisers who’ve had this feature enabled by their partner manager or sales representative.

For each row, you can add a rule to set the conditional redirect. Rules are matched from top to bottom and the first rule that matches a user is applied. Here are the rules you can apply:

• Language and location: Specified by full or partial locales (en_us, en_, or _us).
• Ages: Specified by a comparison (<, <=, >, >=) and a number.
• Gender: Specified with m or f.
• Destination: Either a channel name or _block. Users that match the _block destination will be redirected to/Channels.

Example conditional redirects

Example redirect	Redirect result
en_,Channelname	Keeps all English speakers on this channel.
,Channelname	Keeps all users on this channel.
_us,<21,_block	Blocks all users who in the United States and under the age of 21 from visiting this channel.
_us,>=21,f,Channelname,_block	Keeps all users who are in the United states, 21 years old or older, and female on this channel and blocks all other users.

YouTube analytics is a powerful tool that can help you understand video viewership and audience engagement. If you’d like to get a better understanding of visits to your actual channel page, integrating your channel with Google Analytics can help you access this information.

Here’s how to set it up:

1. Sign in to your Google Analytics account.
2. Copy your property’s tracking ID. If you don’t have a one set up, learn how to set up a property in Google Analytics.
3. In YouTube’s Advanced Settings menu, go to the Google Analytics property tracking ID field toward the bottom of the page.
4. Paste your tracking ID into this field
5. Click Save.

You can collect statistics on views of your channel. If you have a unique tracking image URL, just add it in the field for Tracking image URL. For example, a tracking URL might look like this: http://www.googleadservices.com/image123.gifNote: If you’re a channel owner and you want employ a remarketing pixel, you can only use the AdWords Remarketing pixel.