Hi … Is it allowed to put your YouTube channel link in your shop or here on the forum?
I do not like or use facebook or instagram, so it is the only place we’re I do little videos of what I have in my shop.
Don’t want to break any rules, so could someone let me know please?
Much appreciated
I asked if we could have a button like the fb etc ones but got told no. There was a reason but cannot remember what it was. It would be better if we had videos on here but a long way off from that happening. Videos are the way forward and as part of a design team, always post a video. Helps no end with selling.
Thanks for answering 
. It’s a pity
Have a great weekend 
I don’t see that there could be an objection to putting the link in, say, the Instagram link box in the Shop Appearance section of Shop Settings. Ok it would appear with the Instagram logo, but would go to the right place. I don’t have a Blog so have used the Blog box to link to my website.
I can see why why you wouldn’t want buyers to disappear onto another site from an individual listing, but those links are there at the shop level, so that seems reasonable to me.
Sure @folksyadmin will tell me if I’m breaking the rules!
Helen the rules are you must not promote another site even your own from Folksy. Several have recently been removed having a link in the blog box.
I also asked about putting a link to YouTube and was categorically told no.
@Gracie22 As long as you don’t sell from YouTube just put the link under the ‘blog’ section (go to your dashboard and the ‘shop appearance’ page to find where to add it).
@Caroleecrafts Sorry if you thought our support team meant you couldn’t link to YouTube at all! I just checked the messages and can’t find anywhere that we said you couldn’t, what was said was that we would prefer sellers to be able to upload videos to Folksy itself.
This is because you asked about a specific YouTube button being added, rather than whether you could use the existing spaces to put a YouTube link. As a specific space would require time from our engineer, it’s not something we’d be able to prioritise at the moment (and if we had the time available, would prefer to develop something onsite…).
Sellers are allowed to link to their own websites that are purely informational or a gallery of work, and the blog section is the best place to do this. We do not allow sellers to link to websites that they directly sell from (and this includes websites with widgets that go to alternative selling platforms, as this is a much bigger push to buy from another site than a simple link).
However if the website does have a specific blog section, we allow the blog link to point there.
Okay so I can add YouTube to the blog link. I do add a link to my Folksy shop on YouTube for the item made. I read that it is okay to do that.
If a website directs back to Folksy shop, ie do not sell from that site but use as a gallery with F links that is okay too?
All links must only come back to Folksy, not any other selling site!
Oh no! I have got links in my biography box, is that not allowed? If not I will remove them now. Thanks.
Your links are fine. You are basically not allowed a link which goes direct to another sales platform. Yours don’t and in fact you are very good and have links to your shop from both your IG and your FB pages which many sellers here do not do you get 5 
Is this still in the pipeline? When are you going to get moving forwards with a video facility on here?
Thank you so much, I love that 
@Caroleecrafts If a website is used as a gallery and directs back to Folksy, that is fine.
If a website is used as a gallery and also has a simple link to an alternative selling site (such as a bit saying “I sell on Folksy (link), other site (link) and other site (link)”, that is also fine.
What we don’t allow is things like widgets that link to alternative selling sites (so when there’s a display of individual items that each have a link to the specific item page on an alternative selling site), as this is a much larger push to buy elsewhere, and can feel more like having a shop on the site, even though the sales aren’t actually processed on site.
@frutejuce It’s fine to have links in other areas such as the about section or shop announcement (as long as they’re not to alternative selling platforms), but only the ones in the links section will be clickable, so it’ll take a little more work for visitors to use links in an announcement as they have to copy and paste the address to a browser.
@VioletFlameGlassArt Although it’s still on the big list of things we’d like to do, I’m afraid I don’t have any information on when it might get looked at.