Help – Templates
When it comes to preparing your Title, Description, and Keywords the final upload to YouTube, it’s important that you maintain a consistency across all of your videos. If you’re like most other creators, you keep your vital data in digital notes, documents and spreadsheets. Heck, many creators just wing it and throw in whatever is on their mind in the moment. TubeItUp Templates helps you manage this essential element in preparing your videos.
In this article we’ll discuss:
- Text Templates
- Description Templates
- Keyword Templates
- Links
- TubeItUp Shortcodes
- Adding Templates to your Ideas, Projects and Published Videos
Text Templates
(Silver and above)
Text Templates are a great way to include common video description footer information. These can include creator bios, disclaimers, common URLs, and copyright information. By default, TubeItUp provides two Text Templates, Footer and Copyright. These are empty when you first create your account.
To create or edit your template, follow these steps:
- To create a new template, click the ‘+New’ link in the Text Templates table header.
- To Edit a template, click the ‘Edit’ link next to the template you desire to edit.
- Enter a template Name (hint: make it short but understandable).
- Enter a one-word shortcode. It can have no special characters. Shortcodes are discussed below.
- Enter the text you wish to include in your template.
| Text Templates work great for adding your social media links, links to your website, and other information you intend to place into every video description. |
Inserting TBIU Links
You can insert TBIU Links into your templates.
This will ensure that any TBIU Links that are associated with the project are automatically included in your video description once you insert the template.
Previewing Your Template
Once you save your template, you can preview it on screen to visualize how the template will look in the Description on your Project.
Description Templates
(Gold and above)
Description Templates are a great way to pre-format different video descriptions that may contain different text templates. You can add multiple Text Templates, plain text, emojis, and TBIU Links. For example, you can have one style for a How To video, and another style for an Unboxing video. These are empty when you first create your account.
Caution: Inserting a Description Template will overwrite ALL contents of your current description. We recommend that you only use this at the beginning of the project unless you are really trying to throw everything away and start fresh with your template.
To create or edit your template, follow these steps:
- To create a new template, click the ‘+New’ link in the Description Templates table header.
- To Edit a template, click the ‘Edit’ link next to the template you desire to edit.
- Enter a template Name (hint: make it short but understandable).
- Enter a one-word shortcode. It can have no special characters. Shortcodes are discussed below.
- Enter the text you wish to include in your template.
| Description Templates work great for organizing Text Templates and Links, and can be used to create different content styles for different video styles. |
Inserting TBIU Links
You can insert TBIU Links into your templates.
This will ensure that any TBIU Links that are associated with the project are automatically included in your video description once you insert the template.
Inserting Text Templates
You can also insert Text Templates into your templates.
This will ensure that any Text Templates that are associated with the project are automatically included in your video description once you insert the Description Template.
Previewing Your Template
Once you save your template, you can preview it on screen to visualize how the template will look in the Description on your Project.
Keyword Templates
(Gold and above)
Keyword Templates allow you to keep various lists of commonly used keywords so that they can be later applied to a project.
To create or edit your template, follow these steps:
- To create a new template, click the ‘+New’ link in the Keyword Templates table header.
- To Edit a template, click the ‘Edit’ link next to the template you desire to edit.
- Enter a template Name (hint: make it short but understandable).
- Enter a one-word shortcode. It can have no special characters. Shortcodes are discussed below.
- Enter the keywords you wish to include in your template.
| Keyword Templates are a great way to organize the primary keywords associated with your channel, or those keywords that you prefer to being with at the beginning of every video project. |
Hint: On a blank project, create a Title that would describe your channel. Next, apply one of your optimized Text Templates. Then, optimize the keywords for the Title and Description. Use the Keywords Table – Copy to Clipboard button to grab those keywords. Paste those into a Keywords Template and save. You now have a list of keywords that are optimized to description text that can be applied to future projects.
TubeItUp (TBIU) Shortcodes
(Gold and above)
TBIU Links (described here) are a great way to track who is clicking your links, and in which videos. They have a use beyond just videos however. Once you’ve built the links for a project, they can be inserted into a Text or Description Template using the menus at the top of the template entry area.
Selecting a menu items will place the shortcode into the template and will look like this [%links%]. You can also insert each Link Type group individually if you want to change the order. For example, if you wanted change the order, don’t add the All Links option, rather, insert each Link Type individually. Your results should look something like this.
[%links:products%]
[%links:videos%]
[%links:websites%]
[%links:attributions%]
[%links:notes%]
Using this method will insert the appropriate links into the project, and the links will be unique to each video they are inserted into. We highly recommend that you read the Links Help article to understand this better.
Hint: You can insert a single link (not a group of links) by using the singular ‘link’ shortcode and the last eight characters of the TBIU link ( https://tbiu.io/JJ6blou9 ). The final result should look like this:
[%link:jj6blou9%] – Note: The word ‘link’ is the singular form, not the plural as is used for the menu driven shortcodes.
Note: Inserting single links with this method will track the link clicks but does not track the video in which they were inserted. If you want the video tracking for links, you will need to insert them through a group.
| Inserting single link shortcodes is a great way to insert social media links into your description footer. |
Adding Templates to your Ideas, Projects and Published Videos
(Text Templates: Silver and above, Description & Keyword Templates: Gold and above)
When you’re ready to create your next Idea or Project, here’s how you quickly insert your templates.
Description and Text Templates
From a Project or Published Video, select the appropriate template from the menu in the Description Builder.
Save your work and then view the results in the Description preview box (below the Description Builder).
Keyword Templates
From an Idea, Project or Published video, select the appropriate Keyword Template from the menu in the in the Keyword Entry area.
Save your work and then view the results on the Keyword Table.
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