How to put your link in bio on YouTube.

• A channel can show up to 14 links. The first sits near the Subscribe button, and the rest are behind a line that opens them.[1]
• Links in Shorts descriptions and Shorts comments stopped being clickable from 31 August 2023.[2]
• YouTube’s help still says links in Shorts descriptions and comments can’t be tapped.[3]
• A Short can send viewers to another of your videos with a related video link, which needs your channel’s advanced features.[4]
• Links in the descriptions and comments of longer videos need advanced features turned on too.[3]
• Every link has to follow YouTube’s external links policy.[5]

Checked on 21 October 2026. Apps change their rules, so open the sources if something on your screen looks different.

Sources

1. YouTube Help, adding links to your channel: support.google.com/youtube/answer/2657964?hl=en
2. TeamYouTube, changes to links on YouTube (10 August 2023): support.google.com/youtube/thread/229722002
3. YouTube Help, links in descriptions, comments and Shorts: support.google.com/youtube/answer/13748639?hl=en
4. YouTube Help, related video links in Shorts: support.google.com/youtube/answer/14075157?hl=en
5. YouTube Help, external links policy: support.google.com/youtube/answer/9054257

1. 1Publish your Portage page, then copy its address. In the editor, Share links has it ready with ?via=yt on the end.
2. 2In YouTube Studio, open Customization, then Profile.
3. 3Under Links, choose Add link, give it a title and paste your address.
4. 4Drag it to the top of the list so it’s the one near Subscribe, then Publish.

• In the editor, open Share links. Once YouTube is one of the profiles on your page, there’s a button that copies this address for you.
• For a second spot on the same app, type your own word in the “Somewhere else” box, like one word for each video or post, and each shows up on its own line.
• The word only names where a visit came from. Nobody’s identity is in it, and Portage counts visits without cookies.

How the numbers work

1. 1Check the address you pasted.Open it yourself in a private window. A typo, an extra space or a shortened link in front of it can trip a warning, so use your page’s own portage.camp address with nothing in front of it.
2. 2Look at every link on your page.A warning can come from what your page links to, not just from your page. Open each link and take out or replace any that goes somewhere you don’t trust, or that now goes somewhere new.
3. 3Look up the address with Google.Search for Google’s “Safe Browsing site status” and paste in your page’s address. It says whether Google lists the address as unsafe, which rules one common list in or out.
4. 4Read YouTube’s external links policy.It lists the kinds of sites a channel can’t link to. If your page links to one of them, take that link off and add your Portage page again.
5. 5Tell us.If the warning is about portage.camp itself, report it as a bug from the link at the foot of any Portage page, with the app’s name and what it said. We’ll look into it and take it up with the app.