Is your YouTube account verified and what the heck doesn't mean? And this is what caused me to wonder about that. I had a video pop up in my suggested videos today. That wasn't it right here. YouTube verified. Nope. And it says YouTube has unverified my account along with thousands of others. And with me being a small channel, I thought, well, I must have gotten unverified. And you're probably thinking the same thing. So I'm going to show you what I did to check to see if I was verified. And then I have instructions to help you get verified if you're not. And then I'll let you know what that means. First of all, go to www.youtube.com and slash verify. So www.youtube.com slash verify. And when I went there, this is what popped up. It had my logo pop up and right here, voila, it says verified. So if you've gotten to that point and your account is verified, then you don't need to go through the steps to get it verified. Let's say you've done that and you're like, well, how do I get verified? Well, let me explain what it is first for those of you that are already verified and you want to go. Being verified with YouTube means that you can start loading YouTube videos that are 15 minutes or longer. So if you're not verified and you've tried to load something 15 minutes or more, you're not going to be able to. And that's what this helps you to be able to do. So there you go. Now if you're not verified yet and you would like to be verified, let me show you what you need to do. You need to go. Let's go into my account. Okay, here's the YouTube page. Right here, I'm going to select my little channel icon and then you're going to go down and select the little gear, but the one for settings, not the one at the top. See this one here, the gear says YouTube studio, I want to go down to the gear that says, sorry about that. I want to go down to the YouTube, the gear that says settings. I want to go into my channel settings. So I'm going to select that. And then you're going to go under, well, it didn't go right just a moment. It's pause. I have to say I love the pause button for times like that when you hit something by accident. All right. So now I've hit the little gear that says settings under my channel and this is what popped up. And what you want to do, I'm already verified, but you're going to go to here where it says your account and it says view additional features. So you want to go in there. Now from here, you're just going to follow the steps. It's going to ask you to put in which country you're from and then it's going to ask you to put a phone number, usually your cell phone so that they can send you a code and then you're going to put the verification code in and select enter, next and you're all done and you're verified. Now I'm already verified so all of those steps did not pop up. So here's another thing. If you do not have a cell phone and you have no way to get a text message, then you can go to Google voice mail, just Google it and you can create a Google voice mail account and they will send you that text into your Gmail account. If you did not know that, that will help you as well. I live out in the country and we do not get cell phone service while we're home. So I use that feature whenever I'm trying to verify accounts or codes need to be sent to me and things like that. So just a little tip in case you're in the same situation, which probably most of you aren't. Hopefully that was helpful today. Get verified. Start putting longer videos on your page into your channel. It is been proven statistically that those videos that are 10 to 15 minutes long are the best time frame, but you might find that sometimes you go to 16, 17 minutes and you need that little bit of extra push. So make sure you get verified and you can start putting those videos on. Also I'm going to ask you today is just subscribe to my channel. I will keep you informed as I find things and teach you how to earn money, save time and find some balance in your life. Subscribe, give me a thumbs up and I'll see you on the next video.