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Being able to add an annotation to your YouTube video directly to your website is a very valuable addition to YouTube. You used to only be able to place links to other YouTube videos and channels. This allows you to put direct call to action in your videos to ask people to visit your website or landing page. Here is how you enable your YouTube account for external annotation links.
Here is a video where I show you how I enabled one of my accounts for external links. I made a few mistakes as you will see. With this tutorial you should just fly right through the process.
It may take a few minutes for your YouTube account to update. You then should be able to add an annotation to an external link on your YouTube account. It is possible to make the above changes and still have the youtube associated website not showing or the youtube associated website valid url not being valid. Sometimes you just have to wait for YouTube to digest your changes. Or maybe there is one last step to complete as in step 19. In the video above I make several mistakes so you can see the potential problems and how I solve them.
Here are several more articles on adding links to your website on YouTube videos:
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