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Are you struggling to understand how to title and tag your YouTube videos to get more views?
In today's video I'll be sharing with you how to do YouTube SEO so that you find the
best YouTube tags for views.
If you've been wondering how to tag YouTube videos to rank higher, stay tuned until the
end of this video to learn how to properly tag your YouTube videos with these popular
YouTube tags so that your YouTube videos get more views and rank higher in search, and
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With that said let's go ahead and jump right in.
The purpose of YouTube tags is to tell YouTube what your video is about, so that it can suggest
your content when viewers search for a particular term.
A few things many people do wrong when tagging YouTube videos is to add their channel name
as the first tag, use popular YouTube tags that are trending but that have nothing to
do with the subject matter of their video, and just use single words for the sake of
adding something to the tag section, but that again, are not related to what your video
is about.
However, if you include single words that are broad categories, such as 'YouTube', 'video'
or 'tags' as your tags, and your video is on that general topic, such as this video
on 'how to tag YouTube videos to rank higher' that will provide more information to YouTube
on what your video is about.
Regarding your channel name, you should totally add that as one of your tags, but have that
be your last tag rather than the first few ones.
This will help your videos appear in the 'suggested videos' section since they have something
in common with each other.
Think of the tags you add to your YouTube videos the same way as you think about the
keywords you add to your blog posts.
As I mentioned in my last video on the 'YouTube algorithm as a small YouTuber', if you haven't
watched that yet, I'll leave the link to it in the description box below, your YouTube
video needs to target one main keyword, and if you're a new YouTuber, it's best if that
keyword is a long tail one.
Not only should that keyword appear at the beginning of your YouTube video's title, and
as the first thing you add in your video's description box, but also, when tagging your
YouTube video, make sure that that keyword is the very first one you add to your tags.
This is because YouTube places more weight on the tags that appear first compared to
the other tags that you add.
So if you want your YouTube video to rank higher for a particular search term, add that
as your very first tag.
If you take a look at my video's tags, by using a Chrome extension such as VidIQ, you'll
notice that my first tag is always the same as the first few words I add to my title,
which in turn is the keyword that I want that video to rank for.
For this specific video, it's the entire title.
You can add up to 500 characters in your YouTube tag section, so after you've added your first
YouTube tag which is the main keyword you want to target, make sure you add as many
tags as possible to fill up that space.
These tags should complement your first keyword or tag, and provide YouTube with more information
of what your video is about.
When trying to figure out which are the best YouTube tags for views, search for the keyword
you want to target in the YouTube search bar.
Taking a look at the insights VidIQ provides, the Chrome extension I mentioned, I can see
that 'how to tag YouTube videos to rank higher' has a high overall score since it has a medium
search volume and very low competition.
Under this 'top related keywords' section, it provides me with these three top related
keywords, that I should definitely add to my YouTube tags section for this video: YouTube
SEO, how to tag YouTube videos and YouTube tags.
In order to properly tag your YouTube videos, you should also add to your tag section keywords
that describe your video in an alternate way.
For example, when I start typing 'how to tag YouTube videos to rank higher' in the YouTube
search bar, I see that a few related search terms are 'how to tag YouTube videos to get
more views' and 'how to tag YouTube channel'.
These are different ways of saying the same thing, and as such are good tags for my YouTube
video to rank higher.
Although 'how to tag YouTube videos in Tamil' is a related search term, it wouldn't be a
good tag since my video is in English and not in Tamil.
Lastly, with the VidIQ extension again, you can see which tags the videos that are ranking
for the keyword you want to target are using, and that are helping them be found in search.
For instance, if we take a look at this video by Hey Jessica on 'how to tag YouTube videos
to rank higher', a few of the YouTube tags that are helping her rank higher are 'how
to tag YouTube videos to rank higher', which is her title and the keyword she wants to
target, 'how to tag YouTube videos 2018', which is the year in which she posted this
YouTube video, and 'how to tag your videos on YouTube', which is an alternate way to
say her main keyword.
Now you know how to tag YouTube videos to rank higher in search and to get more views
on YouTube.
As promised, to download a FREE cheat sheet with 9 brilliant tools that you can use in
your online business to save time and boost your productivity, just click on the link
in the description box below.
So which tag will you be using in your next YouTube video?
I'd love to hear your answer and start a conversation in the comments below, and remember to click
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