How to Add YouTube Timestamp Links (YouTube Chapters Tutorial!)

Learn how to add YouTube timestamp links to your video description, fast & easy! Here’s how to use YouTube Chapters to automatically create timecode links in your video description.

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00:00 How to Add YouTube Timestamps
01:05 Where are YouTube Timestamps shown
02:30 How YouTube Timestamps are shown on Google
04:15 How to title YouTube timestamps
05:02 Is it worth adding YouTube Timestamps
06:40 How to add timestamps on YouTube videos
08:07 How to make YouTube timestamps work
08:50 How to use timestamps on YouTube videos
10:13 How to see YouTube chapters on Google search
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-- How to Add Chapters to Your Videos Using Timestamps --

YouTube’s Chapters feature allows you to easily create shortcut links to specific timecodes within your videos, not only improving the navigation experience for your viewers but also maximizing your video SEO and keywords on both YouTube and Google!

If you’ve seen timestamps in a YouTube video description before, chances are you’re already aware how they allow viewers to jump to specific topics or sections within your video at the click of a button… But did you know those timestamps are also indexed by Google, and presented in Google search results?

This provides an awesome opportunity to include specific keywords relating to the content at specific timecodes in your video, and potentially rank those timecodes in Google search results.

In this video, we’ll show you how to add YouTube chapters, and key things to keep in mind to maximize your video SEO while doing it!

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[wildgg]

The video that nobody asked for but everyone wanted

[rizwanabbas]

Youtube should keep this guy as CEO of Youtube. Thanks Justin.

[PianoforPleasure]

I’ve only started adding time stamps recently but didn’t realise it can optimise search results too. Fantastic! I’ll add timestamps for my older videos too!

[petergaston-danceandmore]

Thanks Justin - I find your videos have helped me improve the quality of my YouTube videos on Movies, Dance, Music and Art immeasurably! Your no nonsense tips on everything from lighting, sound, editing and equipment have been spot on! Thanks mate - keep up the great work.

[blakepace]

Now all I need is to learn how to make a mini-me crawl out of the frame and point to things out there!

Outstanding, Justin!

Thank You!

[wwpcast]

Thanks, Justin and PV team. This seems like an efficient way to do it. As a part time hobby podcaster, this is helpful for me AND it seems manageable. Thanks for all you do --Randy Mahoney, Jr., host of The Work With Purpose Podcast

[JeriBellini]

You make SO MUCH SENSE! I've watched a dozen videos that absolutely could not help me understand this! Thank You!

[rjansah]

This was super useful! I have recently been using chapters in my videos as I thought it would be helpful for viewers but didn’t know the impact it would have on keyword search also, so thank you!

[preciousgirlgaming]

Thank you so much! This is well explained it's important to put timestamps/chapters very helpful Justin!👍😄

[BoardRoomGamer]

Thanks so much for sharing this tutorial!! Learned a tonne while trying to get better at this YouTube thing.

[Hasank]

Bro your video of timestamps is the best!
The reason is- You have mentioned about the minimum time duration a single timestamp needs and minimum timestamps amount it needs to work properly!! And that was the only problem I had that one of my time stamp was lower than 10 seconds so it didn’t work, and other videos about timestamps did not mention anything about this 10 seconds duration or minimum amount of stamps. I thank you for mentioning this and now my timestamps are working as it is shown!! 🙂👍

[TBCreativeEntertainment]

Nope. Didn't work. I followed the instructions exactly and they show up correctly in the description, but no breaks show in the actual timeline. Now what?

[EarthrealmWarrior]

Any laptop suggestions for editing 1080p videos.
Also is there a feature in editing software that lets you split a video and audio layer at the same time ?

[garagefitnessgirl]

Great video Justin! Just added my first lot of time stamps and am excited to hear what my subscribers think. Alot of them preview my video before doing it, so i'm sure they'll be happy!

[ElevationEveryWeekend]

Awesome Justin, so helpful! Will definitely be adding these to some of my videos! Thanks!

[businessbootstrapper]

Yes!!! This is what you mentioned in CH! I want to make sure that I do this esp when the videos are over 5-10 minutes long. Thank you!

[jaymishag]

I’m loving your videos! It’s super insightful to someone who is inspiring to make videos! So happy to have come across it!

[robhurley]

I’ve watched two of your videos today and learned a lot! Thanks for your detailed explanations!

[tryxlrm]

Been a while Justin, nice to see another awesome video from you. Thanks!

[paulcomputer]

Now I understand the importance of adding chapter time stamps on video.
Thanks so much. it's because I'm gonna need it more often