Have you noticed some new hashtags appearing on YouTube above the videos
title? what the heck do they mean, how can you
use them to make your videos more discoverable and how do you add them?
Keep watching to find out. My name is Herman Drost from drostdesigns.com if
you want to grow your audience on YouTube and generate traffic leads and
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icon so you'll be notified whenever I upload a new video. So what is a YouTube
hashtag? These have been used on Twitter and Instagram to find related content so
what a hashtag is used for when you add them to YouTube videos it's an easy way
to find videos on related topics for example if somebody clicks a hashtag
that I used for my channel it will show the related videos for my channel this will
result in longer watch time because people are staying longer on YouTube if
they stay longer on YouTube watching more on my videos then more of my videos
will appear in search and suggested videos that's a good thing here's a
couple of different ways to find videos using hashtags number one you can enter
the hashtag and the YouTube search box and related videos will pop up number
two click the hashtag in the video title
above the video title or in the description this will also give you a
page of related results with the hashtag how do you add hashtags to your
videos if you want to add hashtags to a single video go to your video manager
select the video that you wish to add hashtags to click Edit add the hashtags
to the bottom of your video description or you can also add them to your video
title but for right now I'd recommend just adding them to the video
description make sure you include an asterisk at the beginning and don't
include any spaces if you're joining two words together
according to YouTube the more tags you add to a video the less relevant they become
for users who are searching so if the video has more than 15 hashtags YouTube
will ignore all the hashtags on that video if you over tagged a video YouTube
will remove that video from your uploads or from search also make sure you don't
add hashtags that are not directly related to the video that you've
uploaded if your ad misleading or unrelated hashtags this will also result
in the removal of your video make sure you read the misleading
metadata policies on YouTube I'll include a link to this document in the
description below this video if you want to add hashtags to the description of
multiple YouTube videos go to your video manager you can check the box next to
actions to add hashtags to all 29 videos on the page or you can select all your
videos then just click the actions box click description add your hashtags in
the box append to end you also have the option to append to start set to or
remove. If you want to add hashtags to select videos and just check the boxes all the
videos that you wish to select click the actions box select description and put
the hashtags in the box and select append to end if you want to put it to the
end of the description after you've done that just click Submit to add them to
the description what if you want to add hashtags to all future videos that you
publish just click on channel click upload defaults then you just add them
in a title or in the description at the bottom after you've done that just click
Save and your hashtags will show up on all future videos that you publish if
you want to bulk edit all the descriptions on your YouTube channel
take the link in the card the video will show how to find or replace any content
that you've placed in description across all the videos on your channel so how do
you find relevant hashtags to use on your videos my recommendation is to use
your tail name in one of the hashtags if someone clicks on the hashtag all the
related videos of your channel will show up on the page experiment with popular
hashtags that occur on Instagram and Twitter to see if they work on YouTube
another idea is to use a specific hashtag that's just related to your
channel when someone clicks on that hashtag they'll discover the videos that
are related to the video that they've just watched this will result in more
watch time for your YouTube videos higher rankings and more traffic here
are three important things to keep in mind not one currently hashtags can only
be viewed via a web browser on your computer or through the Android app
hashtags don't appear on the iOS app this means you won't currently see them
on your iPad or iPhone number two only the first three hashtags in a video
description will appear above your video title number three you can add hashtags
in the description of previously uploaded videos. The hashtag will appear
above the video titles for those videos now you know how to get more views to your
YouTube videos using hashtags but what if you want to get even more views by
ranking your videos in YouTube search and YouTube suggestive videos? Click the
link in the card to find out how if you want to grow your audience on YouTube
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