Would you be able to understand your video based on tags alone? If so, you probably have an awesome set of tags on your hands. Add Long Tail Keywords: If you have room, add long tail variations of your target keywords as tags.
These suggestions are perfect long tail variations of your keyword to use as tags. Some people also use the name of a celebrity as a tag for the same reason. According to YouTube , misleading tags can get your video taken down. They also help you rank as a Suggested Video. Specifically, if your tags match the tags of a popular video, you can show up next to it.
YouTube Tags. What Are YouTube Tags? Why are Tags Important? Next Audience Engagement Signals. Previous Video Description. Is it true that YT pushes a particular video to more people, based on how frequently people are viewing that video? Great question. That is one factor for sure.
This is why you see that in your Dashboard when you log in stats for latest video vs last 10, stats for last 48 hours. Can I copy all the tags of my competitor and paste them in my video? Even if he writes his channel name in his tags? You can use the same tags as your competitor, if you wish.
It might be better to use your channel name or hashtag as a tag in all your videos. That way, the videos from your channel may appear in the Suggested Videos sidebar instead of your competitor. Hi, how are you? Can you suggest to me how to make a new YouTube channel successful?
I uploaded two videos, but there are no views yet. The first 48 hours after you publish your video are very important to how the YouTube algorithm will push the video for the lifetime of the video. So, the more engagement you can get in the first 48 hours of the video, the better That means comments, thumbs up, shares, and people watching as much of the video as possible.
Always have a custom thumbnail for the video. Create a graphic for the thumbnail. Make that graphic interesting, so more people click on it. Prepare yourself for a long haul with videos. With an earlier YouTube channel I had, we had to upload several hundred videos to get traction. Once you get above subscribers and subscribers, YouTube seems to push your videos more. Post your videos on a regular schedule.
If you are going to post one day a week, make it the same day each week. If you post videos two days a week, make it the same two days a week. Think of your YouTube channel as a TV show: people expect to see new videos on the same day on a regular schedule.
One final piece of advice, the video quality is important, but the audio is extremely important. Invest in a good microphone and make sure the sound is good, and for video, make sure you have good lighting. It makes a positive difference. The first two results show different tags. Is this a thing? Should I be looking at the second one? The second and third instances are copies of one another.
One looks like JSON. The other is markup, but the same keywords — these two are the actual tags for the video. These are both the same, but coded differently. Very super helpful tips on YouTube techniques and getting your videos visible. Thank you for this. Hey John- valuable tips, mate. Please I am struggling with one particular thing for my fresh new Movie Review channel therefore it has less than 10 subs and views. Thanks heaps and take care! Cheers, Marcos. I would use compound-word phrases in your tags.
Hi John, Was just doing some research on youtube keywords. I had a look at a popular video on a major, well-know broadcasters channel — did a view source and looked at their keywords. For example, like this:. Can you shed some light on why its been done like this?
It could be they are just throwing random keywords in as tags. If this wee me, I would keep the keywords more in one topic.
They may have success despite this keyword tagging, not because of it. Love to see the valuable information you are providing in your articles as well as in the comments. I have a question that I am researching for some time to find a good niche for me to start a YouTube channel and find a niche it is in the gadgets industry, my question is would it help me to put word gadget or something related in the channel name?
You can name your channel whatever you want, but I would make it something catchy and easy to remember.
The bigger thing to focus on is making each video useful, and fitting into a larger collection of discussing technology and gadgets. YouTube looks for engagement on videos, and also likes videos that keep people on YouTube longer so they can serve more ads. Engagement is adding a video to a playlist, sharing on social, thumbs up or down, leaving a comment.
Channel subscribers are important too. They want to push channels that have an active audience, that publish regularly, and grow an audience, because this leads to users spending more time watching videos and spending more time on the platform. Things that seem to help with videos: eye-catching well-designed thumbnails, good audio more important than 4k video quality , good editing, deliver value and give people what they came for. Thanks for the tag idea. It really worked for me and I used this with all my video on YouTube.
Now I am better satisfied with the Video…. YouTube seems to push a video forever towards people who like similar videos, if it does well in the first 48 hours after upload.
I would do whatever you can to hype up new video releases for a while before they drop. Get as many views and as much engagement as possible in those first two days. Many people release videos on a schedule.
If you have an album dropping, consider dropping the main videos first, after hyping the release date and building anticipation — during a weekday in regular business hours seems to be best. Release the other tracks after that, perhaps every second or third day, and try to drive views and engagement.
Last part I would say is focus on making high quality thumbnails that have good artwork, capture a cool frame from the video, or show the artist in a cool promotional shot.
Having a good thumbnail can be the difference between people clicking and not clicking on a suggested video in their feed. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Please subscribe me to the Lockedown Design email newsletter.
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YouTube is looking at other things with higher value: Is there a lot of engagement on this video? Are people watching most of this video? Do the views on this video look like real people and not spam? Are people subscribing to the channel after watching this video? Does the average watch time for this video exceed the average watch time of other videos with the same length?
After watching this video, do people have a longer session time stay on YouTube for a long period of time? Is this video leading to more views of other videos on this channel? Even easier yet is to use the VidIQ extension for Chrome.
I appreciate you writing in. Thanks, John. Thanks a lot. Hi Yash: If you get a lot of engagement and people seem to watch most of your video in the first 48 hours after you publish a video, that seems to help.
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