How-to · Updated September 9, 2026
How to add a link in bio on YouTube
Short answer: open YouTube Studio, go to Customization, then Basic info, and add links under the Links section. YouTube gives you room for several links rather than one bio field, but the banner only shows the first couple as small icons, so most creators still lead with a single page that covers everything else.
1. Where channel links live on YouTube
Sign in to YouTube Studio at studio.youtube.com, open Customization in the left sidebar, then select the Basic info tab. Scroll to Links, click Add link, enter a title and the full address, then click Publish. On the mobile app, the same setting sits inside your channel's Edit channel screen. Once saved, the links appear as small icons under your channel banner and as a plain list on the About tab of your channel page.
2. Why a row of icons is not the same as a page
Each link shows as a small favicon or a generic globe icon, with no room to explain what is behind it. On mobile, only a couple of icons are visible before a viewer has to tap through to see more, and plenty of people scrolling a channel page never open the About tab at all. A row of icons tells a visitor that links exist. It does not tell them which one to tap.
3. Lead the list with a single page
Instead of listing five separate destinations as five separate icons, put one Fullink page first and rename that entry something plain, such as Start here. Move your other destinations, a shop, a booking form, another platform, a newsletter, inside the Fullink page itself, where each one gets a real label instead of a tiny icon. Channels built around music or a recurring show often route viewers this way; see how it fits for musicians and podcasters.
4. Update it without opening YouTube Studio again
Once your Fullink address sits first in the Links section, you only return to Studio if you want to change the order of the icons themselves, which is rare. Every other change, adding a new episode link, retiring an old offer, relabeling something, happens on the Fullink dashboard and appears on the page right away. That keeps the one setting most viewers actually see, the top link under your banner, stable while everything behind it stays current.
5. A short checklist before you publish
- Each link uses https and opens correctly from the YouTube mobile app
- Your Fullink page name and photo match your channel branding
- The link you want people to click most sits first in the list
- You have opened your own channel page on a phone to check it
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