www.PirateLifestyle.com Quickie for the Pirate Lifestyle TV Show. Why design a custom thumbnail that represents your video? Creator Playbook www.youtube.com Themost excellent way to be supportin’ Capt Rob and Pirate Lifestyle TV is ta LIKE & FAVORITE & THUMBS UP this video an’ be sharin’ it wit’ ye friends on Facebook an’ Twitter. A humble pirate “thank you” fer doin’ this. Arrrrr. YouTube: www.youtube.com Subscribe: www.youtube.com *** Don’t be missin’ a show. Sail Around the Web-O-Sphere wit’ Capt Rob! Website: www.piratelifestyle.com Facebook www.facebook.com Twitter: twitter.com Google+: Gplus.to Ahoy, I’m Capt Rob Lee and welcome to Pirate Lifestyle TV! Arrr In this video, we are going to talk about custom thumbnails, so you can see exactly what YouTube wants you to do, and show you how you can improve your YouTube videos to get more views. YouTube feels so strongly about great custom thumbnails, they have a section discussing this in the Creator Playbook. There’s a lot of confusion about custom thumbnails. Particularly what is allowed versus what makes a thumbnail misleading? So here’s the deal. YouTube says, “Thumbnails act as mini marketing posters for your content on YouTube. You should always create custom poster frames. Thumbnails are very important for search, related video traffic, and page optimization.” Where the confusion occurs is the thumbnail should, “accurately represent the content.” Let me repeat, accurately represent the content. It doesn’t say or …

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