The description under your videos, your channel banner, and your community posts all fight for the same 24 characters. A dedicated link in bio for YouTube lets you send viewers to the latest upload, your merch store, community tab, memberships, and sponsor page from one tap at bayl.ink/yourname.
Use a Hero or Video panel to feature your newest YouTube upload. First-time visitors from Shorts, community tabs, or comment CTAs land on fresh content and are more likely to subscribe. Update it after each drop, or embed a playlist so it auto-refreshes.
Viewers who came from a Short want different content than viewers who came from a 20-minute video essay. Group them with Header panels: 'Watch Shorts', 'Deep dives', 'Playlists'. This beats a generic 'YouTube' link because visitors self-select.
YouTube's merch shelf is easy to miss. Add a Product panel with images of your top three items and a link to your Shopify, Fourthwall, or Spring store. Creators typically see 3-5x higher click-through vs a plain text link.
Point superfans to your YouTube community tab, Discord, or Patreon community as a socials row. These are your highest-intent viewers and worth their own panel.
YouTube keeps 30% of memberships and Super Thanks. Turn on Linkbay Tips (Stripe direct or platform payout, 10% fee) and paid DMs so supporters can send $1 to $100 without leaving your bio. Great for smaller channels that don't qualify for YPP yet.
The algorithm can drop you overnight. Embed your Beehiiv, Substack, or ConvertKit form so every YouTube visitor becomes a subscriber you actually own.
Add an FAQ panel answering rate, turnaround, and past sponsor questions, then link Calendly. Brand emails stop clogging your DMs and you look more professional to media buyers.
Upgrade to a $5/mo custom domain like yourname.com or watch.yourchannel.com so your YouTube 'about' link matches your brand instead of pointing to another platform.
Yes. Paste bayl.ink/yourname (or your custom domain) into your channel's "Links" section and the first line of every video description.
Embed a YouTube playlist that starts with "uploads from" your channel, or paste a video URL and swap it after each drop. Full RSS-based auto-refresh is on the roadmap.
Shorts viewers convert differently. Group them under their own header so you don't send a mobile-first, 15-second audience into a 20-minute video and lose them.
Claim your handle and put every YouTube link in one place.
Create your Linkbay